I’m very pleased to say that today, after almost two years, I’ve had a French story translation published! “The Portrait in the Louvre” by Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, originally “Le Portrait du Louvre” first published in 1886, is now available in English in the online literary journal Bewildering Stories. It’s about a lonely, poorly educated man…
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The online literary journal, Bewildering Stories, has today published another of my translated short stories, ‘The Time of Serfdom’. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé originally wrote it as part of his collection Cœurs russes (Russian Hearts), published in 1894. The journal’s editor has introduced my translation with a mini-blurb: How did the legend begin that a post-medieval…
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Since I made the book trailer for my translation, Stories to Read by Candlelight, I’ve realised I have translated other books that might suit this form of promotion. One is Winter Tales (Histoires d’hiver) by Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, a small collection extracted from a larger one, Russian Hearts (Coeurs russes). Again I used the video…
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My translated story ‘Joseph Olenin’s Coat’ has been selected for a Mariner Award by the editors of Bewildering Stories. The Mariner Awards are named after one of the first successful interplanetary missions. I like the contrast between the spacecraft shooting powerfully up into the atmosphere, and the powerful troika in the 1886 illustration from the…
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When a journal publishes your work, it’s very encouraging, it’s a fuel injection that powers a writer onwards and upwards. But when a journal re-publishes your work in its anthology it’s a reward that’s almost as good as being paid. I’ve recently had two journals choose my translated stories to publish for the second time…
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My translation of Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé’s story ‘Le Manteau de Joseph Olénine’ – Joseph Olenin’s Coat – has been republished today by Bewildering Stories. Back in 2016 it was published in a print journal, The Cossack Review, which unfortunately is now defunct. I’m very grateful to the editor of Bewildering Stories for giving it a…
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Back in 2016 I had a translated story published by The Cossack Review. I’ve just learnt that this journal exists no more, it has gone the way of a good percentage of literary journals. The story is ‘Joseph Olenin’s Coat’ by Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, a quirky tale about a lonely man in an isolated wintry…
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For the past eight years I’ve been translating the writings of a small handful of French authors, and I’ve come to know them quite well. On my ‘Translated Short Stories’ page (see above) there’s a list of titles mostly from 19th-century metropolitan France, with a few from 21st-century New Caledonia. I took a look at…
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