Georgia de Chamberet is occasionally asked to write about subjects, or books, or authors she feels strongly about, and is happy to do so. Her interests invariably reflect the underlying ethos of BookBlast!
3am REGULARS | Paris is burning 1 | Beauty Victims et le trash littéraire | Paquita Paquin, Francois Jonquet, Frédéric Beigbeder, Alain Pacadis | One side of the London-New York-Paris 'golden triangle' has been overlooked. Between artists there is always a cross-fertilisation of ideas, and the effect of the Parisian underground remains influential.read more »
3am REGULARS | Paris is burning 2 | Close Encounters of a European Kind | The writer Gael Elton Mayo covered England with Henri Cartier-Bresson, for Robert Capa's brainchild, Generation X. read more »
3am REGULARS | Paris is burning 3 | Montmartre and Montparnasse | Where the artists and intellectuals go, the gentrifiers and developers follow | Find out about the last of the great eccentrics: François Jonquet, Jenny Bel’Air, Daniel Emilfork, best known for his appearances in Federico Fellini’s Casanova, and Jacques Lacan...read more »
THE INDEPENDENT | June 2002 | Georgia de Chamberet discovers young and mixed-up France through its fresh literary talents read more »
THE LADY | 23 March 2010 | Paris in the Spring. Travel to Paris on Eurostar, then take to your feet. Whether you're after romance, art or food, the best way to find them is at a walking pace. read more »
Are there words without borders? Find out in Georgia's blog archive —
2008 London Calling
2007 Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
2007 Blogging With Attitude
2006 The Literary Chattervine
2005 Reading Your Rights
BANIPAL MAGAZINE | Summer 2009 | Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Prix Goncourt and many other awards) talks about writing in French, immigration, exile, language and fighting injustice as his novel Leaving Tangier is published in English translation by Arcadia Books. read more »
PROSPECT MAGAZINE | May 2008 | Duncan Fallowell. The novelist, travel writer and Prospect contributor on his writing strategies, how he met Warhol, and why he is the first travel writer who is not a wanker. read more »
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT | April 24, 2009 | French Fiction | Tristan Garcia, La meilleure part des hommes. Tristan Garcia's provocative first novel is set in Paris in the 1980s and 90s. The author (who was born in 1981) has recreated the Mitterrand years from a gay perspective. He evokes the euphoria when the Socialists came to power in May 1981 after nearly three decades of right-wing government... read more »
BOOKTRUST.ORG.UK | The Past by Argentine novelist Alan Pauls | published by Vintage | is about obsessive love and self-destruction, and is a strange, unsettling read. Tristan Garcia's provocative first novel is set in Paris in the 1980s and 90s. The author (who was born in 1981) has recreated the Mitterrand years from a gay perspective. He evokes the euphoria when the Socialists came to power in May 1981 after nearly three decades of right-wing government... read more »
The A to Z of Literary Translation was posted in instalments on the words without borders blog and was circulated at the masters class in translation studies which Alane Mason (W.W. Norton) and Dedi Felman (Simon & Schuster) team taught in at Columbia University in the City of New York in 2008.
ANTHEA BELL — An excellent A to Z. It's great.
A to C : Beyond words into the mystery of language... read »
D to F : Ego is necessary for self-preservation... read »
G to I: Humour, slang and puns can cause a translator an attack of linguistic hiccups. read »
J to L: Love of learning and language read »
M to O: Market share of world literature... read »
P to R: Publishers in the independent sector are fundamental read »
S to V: Uniqueness in storytelling and style are hallmarks of foreign fiction read »
W, X, Y & Z: Xenophobia feeds off ignorance and prejudice read »
SWEDISH BOOK REVIEW | 1997:2 | Random thoughts from an offshore island read more »
