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Publish and Perish: The arts in Glasgow today

Scottish PEN Trustee Dave Manderson writes on the threat to the arts in Glasgow

December 2, 2024

Jean Rafferty: Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh

Jean Rafferty describes the Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh event held in Glasgow’s Clutha Bar.

February 4, 2016
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Jean Rafferty & Bernardo Otaola: Day of the Dead

Mexican Journalism student Bernardo Otaola Valdes delivered a testimony about writing in his home country at our Day of the Dead event.

November 9, 2015
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“I Heaved the Weight of Five Thousand Years to Meet You”: Translation Slam at the Dundee Literary Festival

by Madeleine Campbell. This article was originally posted here on the Translation Studies @ Glasgow blog and is being reprinted with permission. — Our guest writer Madeleine Campbell attended a ‘literary duel’ between two translators of a poem by Chiew-Siah Tei. Starting with the titles, the English renditions of the Chinese work were dissected line by line to reveal challenges […]

March 16, 2015

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