While we all know the physical and mental benefits of reading, there is a new secret to enhancing your reading experience further, and that’s choosing to read mindfully. No matter how much you love reading, it can be hard to make time for it. We often find ourselves...
As humans, we often write poetry to help process and make sense of the world around us. Back in the 1800s during the Romantic era, we wrote a lot about how sublime the world was. William Wordworth’s The Prelude is basically a love letter to Earth and nature. However,...
Time Shelter, written by Georgi Gospodinov and translated by Angela Rodel, has won the International Booker Prize 2023, making it the first novel originally published in Bulgarian to win. The winner was announced last night at a ceremony at Sky Garden in London, with...
Warning: This article mentions suicide and sexual assault. According to Mind, 1 in 4 people experience a mental health problem each year in England, so it’s more important than ever that representations within the media are accurate. Good or bad, mental illness...
Ahead of the International Booker Prize winner announcement tomorrow, BLOT Magazine sat down with Julia Sanches, translator of the shortlisted book Boulder, to talk about all things translation. Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish,...
