Christopher MacLehose's guest appearances

Christopher MacLehose

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Sue Nelson

Hillary Clinton

Mark McGurl

Mitch Albom

Amir Khan

Richard Davies

Jess Phillips

Cory Doctorow

Louis de Bernières

Sebastian Faulks

Viv Groskop

Howard Jacobson

Elif Shafak

Robert Harris

Michael Morpurgo

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David Lan

The Walk is a travelling festival of art and cross-border collaboration, at the heart of which is Amal, the giant 3.5 metre-tall puppet, which this year has walked 8,000km in support of refugees. Now, the story of Amal has been put into book form, in the official companion ‘The Long Walk with Little Amal’. Georgina Godwin spoke with David Lan, one of the producers of ‘The Walk’, and Christopher MacLehose, publisher at Mountain Leopard Press.

Monocle Reads: David Lan & Christopher MacLehose

Anuradha Roy

Georgina Godwin meets publisher Christopher MacLehose and acclaimed Indian author Anuradha Roy. MacLehose, a leader in translated literature in the UK, is reported to have brought works into English from 34 languages. He recently launched Mountain Leopard Press, which focuses on translation as well as contemporary literature. One of its lead titles is ‘The Earthspinner’, the fifth novel by Anuradha Roy.

Monocle Reads: Anuradha Roy and Christopher MacLehose

Christopher MacLehose brought WG Sebald, José Saramago, Haruki Murakami, Claudio Magris, Javier Marías, Jin Yong and many others to English-language readers. He is credited as having launched the bestselling genre of crime fiction in translation now known as “Nordic Noir”. In 1984 you published Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg, followed by Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander’s series in the 1990s a.k.a. “the father of Nordic noir”, Jo Nesbo in the 2000s, and Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Why do Scandinavians write such great crime fiction?   As a consistently passionate advocate of fine literature in translation throughout your career, what in your view makes a good translation, and what makes it last? Tune in to find out more . . . Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Rupert Such  

Christopher MacLehose brought WG Sebald, José Saramago, Haruki Murakami, Claudio Magris, Javier Marías, Jin Yong and many others to English-language readers. He is credited as having launched the bestselling genre of crime fiction in translation now known as “Nordic Noir”. In 1984 you published Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg, followed by Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander’s series in the 1990s a.k.a. “the father of Nordic noir”, Jo Nesbo in the 2000s, and Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Why do Scandinavians write such great crime fiction?   As a consistently passionate advocate of fine literature in translation throughout your career, what in your view makes a good translation, and what makes it last? Tune in to find out more . . . Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Rupert Such

Bridging the Divide #9 Guest interview | Christopher MacLehose, founder of  MacLehose Press