“In her first book translated into English, Hildur Knútsdóttir draws on female experience to create a chilling feminist horror that cuts dangerously close to the bone.” 🙏😘
#RivetingReviews: Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews THE NIGHT GUEST by Hildur Knutsdottir | European Literature Network
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September 30, 2024 at 7:29 PM
“In her first book translated into English, Hildur Knútsdóttir draws on female experience to create a chilling feminist horror that cuts dangerously close to the bone.” 🙏😘
Good to see Maria Stepanova's 'powerful book' Holy Winter 20/21 (translated by @sashadugdale.bsky.social) reviewed by Jean Garforth in European Literature Network's #RivetingReviews feature for March 2025.
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April 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Good to see Maria Stepanova's 'powerful book' Holy Winter 20/21 (translated by @sashadugdale.bsky.social) reviewed by Jean Garforth in European Literature Network's #RivetingReviews feature for March 2025.
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
I wrote about Leylâ Erbil’s What Remains. www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: Jennifer Sarha reviews WHAT REMAINS by Leylâ Erbil, translated by Alev Ersan, Amy Marie Spangler and Mark David Wyers – European Literature Network
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September 26, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I wrote about Leylâ Erbil’s What Remains. www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
My review of THE DARKEST WINTER by Carlo Lucarelli for European Literature Network
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Open Borders Press @orendabooks.bsky.social
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Open Borders Press @orendabooks.bsky.social
#RivetingReviews: Paul Burke reviews THE DARKEST WINTER by Carlo Lucarelli | European Literature Network
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March 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My review of THE DARKEST WINTER by Carlo Lucarelli for European Literature Network
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Open Borders Press @orendabooks.bsky.social
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Open Borders Press @orendabooks.bsky.social
Reviews come and go but a novel like this stays with you forever. Love, After All by Ewald Arenz tr. from German by @racheltranslates.bsky.social It left me feeling broken but also uplifted @orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social
#RivetingReviews
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#RivetingReviews
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#RivetingReviews: Ewa Sherman reviews LOVE, AFTER ALL by Ewald Arenz, translated by Rachel Ward – European Literature Network
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July 31, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Reviews come and go but a novel like this stays with you forever. Love, After All by Ewald Arenz tr. from German by @racheltranslates.bsky.social It left me feeling broken but also uplifted @orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social
#RivetingReviews
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#RivetingReviews
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The first review of "The Sun Script" is here! Courtesy of the European Literature Newtwork. "The Sun Script manages to draw us deeply into its philosophical and linguistic investigations, while at the same time wearing them wonderfully lightly." ☀️
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... #BookSky
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... #BookSky
#RivetingReviews: West Camel reviews THE SUN SCRIPT by Rein Raud, translated by Christopher Moseley – European Literature Network
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March 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The first review of "The Sun Script" is here! Courtesy of the European Literature Newtwork. "The Sun Script manages to draw us deeply into its philosophical and linguistic investigations, while at the same time wearing them wonderfully lightly." ☀️
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... #BookSky
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... #BookSky
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... It’s such a joy to discover a new author who, be it noted, has been writing for many years but only now has his first book available in English, in a first class translation by Ian Giles.
My review of #IntoThinAir by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson #Norway 🇳🇴
My review of #IntoThinAir by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson #Norway 🇳🇴
#RivetingReviews: Ewa Sherman reviews INTO THIN AIR by Ørjan N. Karlsson | European Literature Network
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December 21, 2024 at 11:41 AM
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... It’s such a joy to discover a new author who, be it noted, has been writing for many years but only now has his first book available in English, in a first class translation by Ian Giles.
My review of #IntoThinAir by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson #Norway 🇳🇴
My review of #IntoThinAir by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson #Norway 🇳🇴
Very happy to share this latest #RivetingReview of 'What Remains' by @braislamela.bsky.social (tr. Jacob Rogers), reviewed by Mandy Wight for eurolitnetwork.com 📚
Read the full review in the link below.
Read the full review in the link below.
#RivetingReviews: Mandy Wight reviews WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela, translated by Jacob Rogers – European Literature Network
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December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Very happy to share this latest #RivetingReview of 'What Remains' by @braislamela.bsky.social (tr. Jacob Rogers), reviewed by Mandy Wight for eurolitnetwork.com 📚
Read the full review in the link below.
Read the full review in the link below.
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... first review of this fantastic book! #booksintranslation
#RivetingReviews: Aneesa Abbas Higgins reviews THE EDGES by Angelo Tijssens | European Literature Network
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December 24, 2024 at 8:23 AM
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... first review of this fantastic book! #booksintranslation
My review of THE BISHOP'S VILLA by Sacha Naspini www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
@europaeditions.bsky.social
@europaeditions.bsky.social
#RivetingReviews: Paul Burke reviews THE BISHOP’S VILLA by Sacha Naspini | European Literature Network
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March 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My review of THE BISHOP'S VILLA by Sacha Naspini www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
@europaeditions.bsky.social
@europaeditions.bsky.social
@braislamela.bsky.social
#RivetingReviews #EuroLitNetwork #GalicianLiterature #LiteratureInTransalation #BookReview
#RivetingReviews #EuroLitNetwork #GalicianLiterature #LiteratureInTransalation #BookReview
December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Such a privilege, to review @anna-blasiak.bsky.social's superb, moving, inventive #poetry collection, DELIVERANCE (@hollandhousebooks.bsky.social) for the European Literature Network's latest Riveting Reviews. Take a look at the article... and read the book! www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: Valeria Vescina reviews DELIVERANCE by Anna Blasiak | European Literature Network
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June 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Such a privilege, to review @anna-blasiak.bsky.social's superb, moving, inventive #poetry collection, DELIVERANCE (@hollandhousebooks.bsky.social) for the European Literature Network's latest Riveting Reviews. Take a look at the article... and read the book! www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
If you are familiar with Antti Tuomainen’s writing and dark humour then you will accept that danger never sleeps and may find its way into the most ordinary places, even where you go to chill out #Finland 🇫🇮
@orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social
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@orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social
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#RivetingReviews: Ewa Sherman reviews THE BURNING STONES by Antti Tuomainen | European Literature Network
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January 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If you are familiar with Antti Tuomainen’s writing and dark humour then you will accept that danger never sleeps and may find its way into the most ordinary places, even where you go to chill out #Finland 🇫🇮
@orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
@orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social
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Special feature by Clarissa Botsford in the latest issue of Riveting Reviews from the European Literature Network on Marosia Castaldi's Hunger of Women.
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: THE HUNGER OF WOMEN by Mariosa Castaldi – Jamie Richards in conversation with Clarissa Botsford | European Literature Network
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December 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Special feature by Clarissa Botsford in the latest issue of Riveting Reviews from the European Literature Network on Marosia Castaldi's Hunger of Women.
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
“Bajani’s style is bare boned with little direct dialogue. Instead, events unfold entirely through the narrator’s perspective.”
In the European Literature Network, Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Andrea Bajani’s newly translated novel, “The Anniversary” - www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
In the European Literature Network, Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Andrea Bajani’s newly translated novel, “The Anniversary” - www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews THE ANNIVERSARY by Andrea Bajani, translated by Geoffrey Brock – European Literature Network
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September 26, 2026 at 1:08 PM
“Bajani’s style is bare boned with little direct dialogue. Instead, events unfold entirely through the narrator’s perspective.”
In the European Literature Network, Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Andrea Bajani’s newly translated novel, “The Anniversary” - www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
In the European Literature Network, Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Andrea Bajani’s newly translated novel, “The Anniversary” - www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
I missed this gorgeous review by @westcamel.bsky.social back in Dec of Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) for European Literary Network: 'A major piece of work that deserves repeated rereading to unpack each of its mythic items.' www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: West Camel reviews THE OLD FIRE by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins – European Literature Network
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January 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
I missed this gorgeous review by @westcamel.bsky.social back in Dec of Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) for European Literary Network: 'A major piece of work that deserves repeated rereading to unpack each of its mythic items.' www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
A huge thank you to #TheEuropeanLiteratureNetwork & Ewa Sherman for this review of the stunning #LoveAfterAll💛 by Ewald Arenz (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social) in their #RivetingReviews!
The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3s5apntd
👇️Order your copy of Love, After👇️
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The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3s5apntd
👇️Order your copy of Love, After👇️
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June 30, 2026 at 12:41 PM
A huge thank you to #TheEuropeanLiteratureNetwork & Ewa Sherman for this review of the stunning #LoveAfterAll💛 by Ewald Arenz (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social) in their #RivetingReviews!
The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3s5apntd
👇️Order your copy of Love, After👇️
🔗https://geni.us/6SL6WT
The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3s5apntd
👇️Order your copy of Love, After👇️
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not long until @angelotijssens.bsky.social's THE EDGES (tr @michehut.bsky.social) is out. beautiful review by Aneesa Abbas Higgins for the European Literature Network 'haunting'; 'bittersweet longing'; 'cinematic intensity'; 'poetic and tinged with melancholy': www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: Aneesa Abbas Higgins reviews THE EDGES by Angelo Tijssens | European Literature Network
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January 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
not long until @angelotijssens.bsky.social's THE EDGES (tr @michehut.bsky.social) is out. beautiful review by Aneesa Abbas Higgins for the European Literature Network 'haunting'; 'bittersweet longing'; 'cinematic intensity'; 'poetic and tinged with melancholy': www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
European Literature Network runs book reviews of translated literature of all kinds from Europe four times a year. Here's their latest children's book reviews for #WorldKidLitMonth! www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#translatedkidlit #translation #booksky #edusky #worldkidlit #readeurope
#translatedkidlit #translation #booksky #edusky #worldkidlit #readeurope
#RivetingReviews: Picture books from Europe for World Kid Lit Month – European Literature Network
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September 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
European Literature Network runs book reviews of translated literature of all kinds from Europe four times a year. Here's their latest children's book reviews for #WorldKidLitMonth! www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#translatedkidlit #translation #booksky #edusky #worldkidlit #readeurope
#translatedkidlit #translation #booksky #edusky #worldkidlit #readeurope
One I've recommended a thousand times and that always seems to go down well is The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves. Unlike anything you've read before!
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#ReadEurope #WorldkidLit
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#ReadEurope #WorldkidLit
#RivetingReviews: Claire Storey reviews THE MURDERER’S APE and THE FALSE ROSE by Jakob Wegelius – European Literature Network
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September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
One I've recommended a thousand times and that always seems to go down well is The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves. Unlike anything you've read before!
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#ReadEurope #WorldkidLit
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#ReadEurope #WorldkidLit
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... here’s a thing I wrote.
#RivetingReviews: Jennifer Sarha reviews BEASTS OF THE SEA by Iida Turpeinen, translated by David Hackston – European Literature Network
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December 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi... here’s a thing I wrote.
My review of GINSTER Siegfried Kracauer on European Literature Network, check out other reviews too www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
RivetingReviews: Paul Burke reviews GINSTER by Siegfried Kracauer | European Literature Network
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June 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM
My review of GINSTER Siegfried Kracauer on European Literature Network, check out other reviews too www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
Another huge thank you to #TheEuropeanLiteratureNetwork & Paul Burke for this INCREDIBLE review of the wonderful #StopDead💙 by Katrín Júlíusdóttir (t. by Larissa Kyzer) in their #RivetingReviews!
The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3cuwk52k
And order Stop Dead now!
🔗https://geni.us/n72xhz
The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3cuwk52k
And order Stop Dead now!
🔗https://geni.us/n72xhz
June 30, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Another huge thank you to #TheEuropeanLiteratureNetwork & Paul Burke for this INCREDIBLE review of the wonderful #StopDead💙 by Katrín Júlíusdóttir (t. by Larissa Kyzer) in their #RivetingReviews!
The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3cuwk52k
And order Stop Dead now!
🔗https://geni.us/n72xhz
The full review: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3cuwk52k
And order Stop Dead now!
🔗https://geni.us/n72xhz
"For me this is one of the best reads of 2026."
Praise indeed for Joseph Incardona's new novel!
Out on 23rd April in the UK, and on 26th May in the US.
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
Praise indeed for Joseph Incardona's new novel!
Out on 23rd April in the UK, and on 26th May in the US.
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: Max Easterman reviews HOLY F*CK by Joseph Incardona, translated by Sam Taylor – European Literature Network
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April 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM
"For me this is one of the best reads of 2026."
Praise indeed for Joseph Incardona's new novel!
Out on 23rd April in the UK, and on 26th May in the US.
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
Praise indeed for Joseph Incardona's new novel!
Out on 23rd April in the UK, and on 26th May in the US.
www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...