The Human Library is a unique opportunity to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. By attending, you will have the opportunity to engage in open, honest, and respectful conversation with Human Books and learn about the life experience of others.

Translators [are] the jazz musicians of the literary world. They are there because they love the music and because they like playing together and improvising.

— Maureen Freely

11am - 12pm, Tue, 21 Jan '20

Location: Creative Learning Centre at Warwick Arts Centre

14^th November, 7pm-9pm in the Writers’ Room, Millburn House

Free to attend – but please RSVP to L.Brydon@warwick.ac.uk

If you would like some work reviewed please email L.brydon@Warwick.ac.uk with the subject 'Toby FH Masterclass' in the subject heading.

Six titles have been shortlisted for the third annual award of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The 2019 prize is once again being judged by

· Amanda Hopkinson, Co-Director of Warwick Translates Summer School

· Boyd Tonkin, Special Adviser to the Man Booker International Prize, 2016-19

· Susan Bassnett, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick

The £1000 prize was established by the University of Warwick in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership. Last year the prize was awarded to the novel Belladonna (Maclehose Press), written by the late Daša Drndić and translated from Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth. The inaugural prize was awarded to Memoirs of a Polar Bear (Portobello Books, 2017), written by Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada and translated from German by Susan Bernofsky.

Among the shortlistees this year is Olga Tokarczuk, who was recently announced as the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Tokarczuk is on the shortlist with literary crime novel Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Translator Lloyd-Jones appears on the longlist for the third year running.