Emma Ramadan

Nov 14, 2024 | arablit.org | Emma Ramadan |Lamia Ziade

Interviews Bye Bye Babylon, Emma Ramadan, Lamia Ziadé, My Great Arab Melancholy, My Port of Beirut By Tugrul MendeMy Great Arab Melancholy, written by Lamia Ziadé, was recently published in Emma Ramadan’s English translation by Pluto Press.

Aug 7, 2024 | booksaremagic.squarespace.com | Emma Ramadan

This episode, we're celebrating women in translation month with translator + debut novelist Jennifer Croft, whose book The Extinction of Irena Rey came out this past March!– Amali AmaliOkay, today in honor of Women in Translation Month, I am joined by Jennifer Croft, long time translator of Olga Tokarczuk, with whom she won the International Booker Prize for the novel Flights. JenniferDefinitely.

Jul 3, 2024 | saveur.com | Emma Ramadan

Marseille: It’s east and it’s west, a city with awe-inspiring force shrouded in mystery. It’s hard to pin down. It must be teased out, won over through discovery. And then suddenly, it’s yours! When you arrive in Marseille from the airport highway, the tracking shot is spectacular. The sea. The islands in the distance. The buildings straight ahead. And the long footbridge crossing that’s like an artery into the city. Marseille feels cinematic. The air is sweet even when the cold mistral wind is blowing.

Aug 12, 2023 | straitstimes.com | Maud Ventura |Emma Ramadan |Elijah Wong

My HusbandBy Maud Ventura, translated by Emma RamadanThriller/HarperVia/Hardcover/272 pages/$28.99/Amazon SG (amzn.to/442QSP6)4 starsMaud Ventura’s 2021 debut novel My Husband begins with a statement that is often a harbinger of trouble in paradise: “We need to find a moment to talk.”Those dreaded words from her husband send the unnamed narrator, a 40-year-old Frenchwoman who works part-time as an English teacher and English-French translator, into a spiral.

Jul 14, 2023 | shelf-awareness.com | Paul G Tremblay |Andrew Ridker |Maud Ventura |Emma Ramadan

Does a commitment to doing good deeds entitle a person to some ethical leeway? The question is teased in Hope, Andrew Ridker's loving and hilarious satire of liberal pieties, starring the Greenspans of Brookline, Mass., who--despite seeming to have it all--make choices that risk it all for that elusive American-branded commodity: happiness. Scott Greenspan has a successful cardiology practice.