Alison Anderson

Alison Anderson is a novelist and translator. Her most recent novel, The Summer Guest, based on an episode in the life of Anton Chekhov, was published this year, and her translation of Boualem Sansal’s 2084: The End of the World is forthcoming in January 2017. She lives in Switzerland.

January 2017

Dubravka Ugrešić and Contemporary European Literature: Along a Path to Transnational Literature

In 1997 I was offered a job to teach English to adults in Croatia. Of course I had been following the events that had torn Yugoslavia apart between 1991 and 1995; and just as I was learning what I c...
November 2016

Of Gatekeepers and Bedtime Stories: The Ongoing Struggle to Make Women’s Voices Heard

Photo: Flickr.com/people/nex230 Do we need a special issue devoted solely to women writers? Indeed we do. Author and translator Alison Anderson explains why. Do we still need magaz...