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Ellie Steel

The Influx Press Podcast returns for a new series: 'What we talk about'. Jacques Testard, publisher at Fitzcarraldo Editions and Ellie Steel from Harvill Secker join Gary and Kit to discuss all things translation. 

The Influx Press Podcast returns for a new series: 'What we talk about'. Jacques Testard, publisher at Fitzcarraldo Editions and Ellie Steel from Harvill Secker join Gary and Kit to discuss all things translation.

What we talk about when we talk about: Translation – with Jacques Testard and Ellie Steel

Founded in only 2014, Fitzcarraldo Editions specialising in contemporary fiction and long-form essays. In only five years they have won the International Booker Prize for Olga Tokarczuk's Flights and two of their authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Svetlana Alexievich in 2015 and Olga Tokarczuk in 2018.Jacques Testard, their founder and publisher, joined me to discuss starting the press from scratch, taking inspiration from classic French publishers and his belief of publishing authors for their whole career rather than specific books.‘Fitzcarraldo Editions is probably the most exciting publishing house in the UK right now.’— Stuart Evers, New Statesman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Founded in only 2014, Fitzcarraldo Editions specialising in contemporary fiction and long-form essays. In only five years they have won the International Booker Prize for Olga Tokarczuk's Flights and two of their authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Svetlana Alexievich in 2015 and Olga Tokarczuk in 2018.Jacques Testard, their founder and publisher, joined me to discuss starting the press from scratch, taking inspiration from classic French publishers and his belief of publishing authors for their whole career rather than specific books.‘Fitzcarraldo Editions is probably the most exciting publishing house in the UK right now.’— Stuart Evers, New Statesman Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Fitzcarraldo Editions - Jacques Testard

Colin Marshall sits down in Knightsbridge, London with Jacques Testard, founding editor of the quarterly arts journal The White Review. They discuss the re-issue of Nairn's Towns featuring past guest Owen Hatherley; London's surprisingly small literary culture and what, before founding The White Review, he didn't see getting published; the "deeply stereotypical Williamsburg existence" he once lived in New York (in an apartment called "Magicland", no less); his path from his hometown of Paris to London, and what those cities throw into contrast about each other; the conversations he's had with his also-bilingual brother about the differences between reading and speaking English and French, and the fact that they can take both languages "on their own terms"; the lack of genre distinctions in the French literary market; the amount of material The White Review publishes in translation; how a 21st-century magazine must, above all else, avoid disposability; the interviews they run, with Will Self and others; a "good writer's" ability to transcend subject matter; the engagement and/or existence strategies that apply in New York versus those that apply in London; class in Britain as tied to education, and class in America as tied to money; his experience at the Jaipur Literary Festival; and what to expect in The White Review's current issue.

Colin Marshall sits down in Knightsbridge, London with Jacques Testard, founding editor of the quarterly arts journal The White Review. They discuss the re-issue of Nairn's Towns featuring past guest <a href="http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=2186" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Owen Hatherley</a>; London's surprisingly small literary culture and what, before founding The White Review, he didn't see getting published; the "deeply stereotypical Williamsburg existence" he once lived in New York (in an apartment called "Magicland", no less); his path from his hometown of Paris to London, and what those cities throw into contrast about each other; the conversations he's had with his also-bilingual brother about the differences between reading and speaking English and French, and the fact that they can take both languages "on their own terms"; the lack of genre distinctions in the French literary market; the amount of material The White Review publishes in translation; how a 21st-century magazine must, above all else, avoid disposability; the interviews they run, with <a href="http://www.thewhitereview.org/interviews/interview-with-will-self/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Will Self</a> and others; a "good writer's" ability to transcend subject matter; the engagement and/or existence strategies that apply in New York versus those that apply in London; class in Britain as tied to education, and class in America as tied to money; his experience at the <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/02/09/a-week-in-culture-jacques-testard-editor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jaipur Literary Festival</a>; and what to expect in The White Review's <a href="http://www.thewhitereview.org/current-issue/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">current issue</a>.

S4E33: Avoiding Disposability with Jacques Testard