BookBlast® Podcast

Jan 06 2025 33 ep. 36 mins 3
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The BookBlast® Podcast is for writers, translators and curious readers who want a behind-the-scenes snapshot of the world of literature and translation. BookBlast® Diary launched in 2015 to celebrate independent thinking and international literature. BookBlast® is a registered trademark. Find us on twitter @bookblast instagram @bookblastofficial

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A Dictator Calls, Ismail Kadare, Translation Book Club

Jan 06 2025 33 mins  
Book Club discussion at Hatchards Piccadilly about A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare based oround Stalin’s alleged three-minute telephone call to Boris Pasternak

Clara Reads Proust, Stephane Carlier, Translation Book Club

Jan 02 2025 34 mins  
Book Club discussion at Hatchards Piccadilly about Clara Reads Proust by Stephane Carlier revealing how Proust can change your life

Warsaw Tales, BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards Piccadilly

Nov 03 2024 35 mins  
Hear our special guest at the October BookBlast Translation Book Club, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, co-editor and translator of Warsaw Tales (OUP 2024).

Georgia de Chamberet en conversation avec Simon Bentolila de Lire Magazine (in French)

Jul 21 2024 32 mins  
Pour célébrer la parution du livre ’Une femme, deux hommes Lesley Blanch, Théodore Kommissarzhevsky et Romain Gary’ à la Maison de Balzac, Paris, le Mercredi 5 Juin 2024, Simon Bentolila de Lire Magazine a discuté avec Georgia de Chamberet, de la vie et des amours de Lesley Blanch (1904-2007).

Sian Williams in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet

Jul 17 2024 13 mins  
Georgia de Chamberet at BookBlast® is delighted to interview Sian Williams, the visionary founder of the Children’s Bookshow. Discover how this much loved and hugely popular national tour of writers and illustrators of children’s literature first began and who will be on tour this autumn. Michael Rosen: “The Children’s Bookshow takes children’s authors to meet tens of th

Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet

Apr 03 2023 35 mins  
Abdourahman Waberi discusses his most autobiographical work to date. Essential listening for readers of Francophone literature!

Found in Translation | Fatima Daas discusses literary sensation, The Last One (French & English)

Apr 04 2022 26 mins  
An autobiographical first novel, The Last One tells the story of Fatima and her family. The confusing polarities between different worlds and cultures that are portrayed sparked an intense Media debate in France. Although based on true events and experiences, Fatima Daas changed certain aspects in order to be free to write what she wanted, and convey her feelings about specific eve

Found in Translation | Faïza Guène (author) & Sarah Ardizzone (translator) on Men Don’t Cry

Sep 23 2021 49 mins  
Faïza Guène writes about normal people living in urban tower block estates surrounding cities like Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. Her first novel, Kiffe kiffe demain, published in England under the title Just Like Tomorrow, sold over 400,000 copies when it came out and has been translated into 26 different languages. She was just nineteen. Tune in to hear her lively conversation wit

Interview with Natasha Lehrer, translator of Consent by Vanessa Springora

Apr 09 2021 30 mins  
Vanessa Springora’s memoir, Consent, became an instant, international literary sensation when it was published in France in January 2020. Her beautifully written, intimate and powerful description of her relationship in the mid-1980s with the French author Gabriel Matzneff, when she was fourteen and he fifty, is a beautifully written universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation,

Bridging the Divide #15 | Georgian author Beka Adamashvili & Tamar Japaridze on literary satire

Nov 05 2020 39 mins  
Beka Adamashvili's Bestseller pokes fun at literary pretentiousness, humbug and bookish aspirations with wit and verve. Hear him, his translator and Georgia de Chamberet discuss satire and Georgian culture.