Our monthly top 5 books roundup brings together five strong voices in translation, each tracking the art of survival across vastly different landscapes. Whether navigating the external terrors of a regime or the internal wilderness of obsession and 'otherness', these books map the geography of our deepest, private battles. Mayfly Season by Matthias Jugler Tr. Jo Heinrich  An exploration of a dark chapter of East German history: state-sanctioned forced adoptions.

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains why

Beautiful, exact, timely translation from German and French into English

Subtitling has long been a central part of the Swedish television experience, but with the rapid development of AI and machine translation, the subtitling industry has undergone a significant change. ...

Our annual online translation conference returns this year from the 19th-21st February. Manchester in Translation celebrates the city's language diversity along with all things literary translation wi...