Offshore and Aloof By Eric Dickens ELM 2/2005 ••• I read somewhere recently that between 2% and 3% of books published in the UK are translations. Whatever the exact statistic, this compares...
Treading Air. A tragicomedy in 40 acts By Eric Dickens ELM 1/2003 ••• Jaan Kross’ 1998 novel Paigallend will soon be appearing in English under the title of Treading Air which is an approximation to the origi...
The old Barny By Andrus Kivirähk ELM 1/2002 ••• November 1stJust before noon, the sun put in a brief appearance. For several weeks now, such a miracle had not taken place; since the begin...
Old Barny - or, is humour translatable? By Eric Dickens ELM 1/2002 ••• Humour doesn’t always travel well. So, let me be frank, I am not on the same wavelength as Rehepapp (title translated variously as Old Barn...