Blog

These blog posts offer an insight into some of the projects that we’ve supported and how the British Council works with literature, including interviews with writers, diaries from international visits, and reflections on completed or on-going projects. The opinions expressed in the blog are those of the authors.

What We're Reading: April

| by Literature Team

Find out what the book-ish team here at the British Council have been reading this month!

First Monday Blog: Translation in the Margins

| by Deborah Smith

Translator Deborah Smith writes about founding a not-for-profit press on a mission to shake up contemporary international literature and makes the case for tilting the axis of world literature from the centre to the margins.

Outriders

Announcing a new project, Outriders, developed by Edinburgh International Book Festival with the support of the British Council. Five writers from Scotland undertake five extraordinary journeys across the Americas.

Reportage from Ewa Winnicka

| by Ewa Winnicka

An excerpt from Polish writer Ewa Winnicka's book of reportage published in 2014 in Poland about the people she met travelling in the UK over the course of 3 years.