Ekaterina Petrova's guest appearances

Ekaterina Petrova

The Writing Life

Alain De Botton

Mark Dawson

John Dee

Megan Abbott

Peter James

Will Harris

Anthony Horowitz

Elif Shafak

John Boyne

Ian Rankin

Joanna Penn

Jackie Kay

Mohsin Hamid

Bernardine Evaristo

Ali Smith

OwlTail

On the pod today we have literary translator and non-fiction writer Ekaterina Petrova. Ekaterina is from Bulgaria, and was our visiting resident for 10 days thanks to support from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.A big part of the conversation is about the challenge of making a living from being a literary translator - which, as you can imagine, is even harder than making a living from being a writer.Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.Find out more about our work: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.ukRead a translated extract by Ekaterina: http://www.eurolitnetwork.com/from-traveling-in-the-direction-of-the-shadow-by-iana-boukova-translated-by-ekaterina-petrova/Don't miss Ekaterina's contribution to the Walking Norwich collection: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/walking-norwich/stranger-on-a-walk/Music by Bennet Maples.

On the pod today we have literary translator and non-fiction writer Ekaterina Petrova. Ekaterina is from Bulgaria, and was our visiting resident for 10 days thanks to support from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. A big part of the conversation is about the challenge of making a living from being a literary translator - which, as you can imagine, is even harder than making a living from being a writer. Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna. Find out more about our work: <a href="https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk</a> Read a translated extract by Ekaterina: <a href="http://www.eurolitnetwork.com/from-traveling-in-the-direction-of-the-shadow-by-iana-boukova-translated-by-ekaterina-petrova/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.eurolitnetwork.com/from-traveling-in-the-direction-of-the-shadow-by-iana-boukova-translated-by-ekaterina-petrova/</a> Don't miss Ekaterina's contribution to the Walking Norwich collection: <a href="https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/walking-norwich/stranger-on-a-walk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/walking-norwich/stranger-on-a-walk/</a> Music by Bennet Maples.

Making a living as a literary translator with Ekaterina Petrova