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Book Recommendations

Winter Break Novel Recommendation: CREECA assistant director Sarah Linkert reviews The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated from Russian by Carol Apollonio

Posted on December 9, 2020

Looking to round out your reading list for winter break? CREECA has a “novel” recommendation just in time for the holiday season, and assistant director and outreach coordinator Sarah Linkert has reviewed The Mountain and …

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged Book Recommendations

August Book Recommendations From CREECA Outreach Coordinator

Posted on August 27, 2020

August is “Women in Translation Month,” and reading Nobel Prize Winner Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a perfect way to mark the occasion. Antonia Lloyd-Jones has superbly translated …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Book Recommendations, REECAS News

Summer Book Recommendations from CREECA Outreach Coordinator

Posted on June 10, 2020

Bygone Days: O’tkan Kunlar by Abdullah Qodiriy (tr. Mark Reese) Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1925 novel, translated by Mark Reese, is an excellent doorway into Central Asian literature for English-language readers. Qodiriy was a 20th-century author, playwright, …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Book Recommendations

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