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Booktrade - Book2Book, March 2, 2013
...the Albanian by John Hodgson (Canongate) The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (Peirene Press) The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize ran previously between 1990 and 1995 and the Prize was revived with the...
The Independent, March 1, 2013
...MacLehose Press Pawel Huelle: Cold Sea Stories (Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Polish), Comma Press Pia Juul: The Murder of Halland (Martin Aitken; Danish), Peirene Press Ismail Kadare: The Fall of the Stone City (John Hodgson; Albanian), Canongate Khaled...
Copenhagen Post, February 11, 2013
...− at times over the top − twists and characters. Inquiring minds will be pleased to know that Martin Aitken’s translation of the novel with its humour and jokes has won him much praise. In a major leap, I cannot help but recommend Yellow Birds...
New York Times, January 18, 2013
...their power is deflated by Mankells boorish, navel-gazing Swedes. THE ELEPHANT KEEPERS CHILDREN By Peter Hoeg. Translated by Martin Aitken. Other Press, $27.95. It cant be easy growing up exceptional in an unexceptional village on an island in...
New Zealand Herald, December 16, 2012
...Sinbad Al-Blabblab. Subtle, this ain't - though I'll detour to say it seems superbly translated by Martin Aitken. Everything is a performance: exuberant, gymnastic, flamboyant. You may find it irresistible. You may find it irritating. There are times...
Guardian.co.uk, October 5, 2012
...delightful novel even for readers who have limited tolerance of surrealism. Jokes are not easy to translate and Martin Aitken is to be congratulated. But, as one would expect from Høeg, this a book with ambitions beyond entertainment. The title comes...
Telegraph, August 2, 2012
...fearsome local truth-teller and vice versa. Think you know Danish crime fiction? The Murder of Halland (2012, trans Martin Aitken) by Pia Juul is cooler and more calculated than any old Killing, and wrong-foots till it reveals the real mystery. The...
New York Times, January 18, 2013
...their power is deflated by Mankells boorish, navel-gazing Swedes. THE ELEPHANT KEEPERS CHILDREN By Peter Hoeg. Translated by Martin Aitken. Other Press, $27.95. It cant be easy growing up exceptional in an unexceptional village on an island in...
New Zealand Herald, December 16, 2012
...Sinbad Al-Blabblab. Subtle, this ain't - though I'll detour to say it seems superbly translated by Martin Aitken. Everything is a performance: exuberant, gymnastic, flamboyant. You may find it irresistible. You may find it irritating. There are times...
STV.tv, November 20, 2012
...and La Vita George Square. The Family Restaurant of the Year award has been sponsored by chartered accountants Martin Aitken and Co. Here is what the restaurants had to say about their nominations: Di Maggio’s City Centre The city centre...
Ayrshire Post, November 16, 2012
...by Yonnie McInnes, Martin Aitken has worked with the BBC in TV and as a BAFTA make-up artist in London and Scotland. He is a member of Dior’s Pro-Artist team throughout Britain and...
Cambridge News, October 12, 2012
...to keep the situation under review so that parents and others can have as much reassurance as possible. Martin Aitken, of the Cambridge branch of SSITA, said many experts disagree with the HPA, including neuroscientist Professor Olle Johansson, of the...
UK Nigeria Online, October 6, 2012
...On the charming island of Fino – a quaint cluster of churches, half-timbered 18th-century cottages, a medieval monastery and a flock of storks – Tilte...
The Independent, October 6, 2012
...On the charming island of Fino – a quaint cluster of churches, half-timbered 18th-century cottages, a medieval monastery and a flock of storks – Tilte and her younger brother Peter are super-precocious teens; part of a family of charismatic...
