5/24/2023 0 Comments Leena krohn collected fiction![]() ![]() ![]() and Australia, but also from Norway, Germany, and Finland-not to mention my new anthology, The Bestiary (here’s a link to a fun excerpt over at Tor.com: ), which in addition to work from Cat Valente and China Miéville features work from Serbia, the Philippines, Iran, Sweden, and elsewhere. As someone who unfortunately only reads in English, I want to make sure my creative world is as cosmopolitan and modern as possible, and sometimes translations are the only way to have a more complete view of world fiction. So in addition to fiction in English from overseas, it’s important to promote and fund translations. ![]() Everywhere, too, this impulse or way of thinking about the world is different - sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes in vastly different ways. One thing about fantastical fiction that I like is it’s a universal condition - you find examples from all over the world of writers expressing themselves through the fantastical because sometimes there’s no other way to get across a unique idea or perspective. ![]()
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