Matthew Hyde Literary Translation

21/11/2018

Absolutely thrilled to have our of The Death of the Perfect Sentence nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award! Congratulations to author Rein Raud and translator Matthew Hyde! Another great day for literary translation!

30/09/2018

Now available at UK Society of Authors, Translators Association

My translations have been published by Pushkin Press, Dalkey Archive Press, Vagabond Voices, Words Without Borders, Asymptote. 

25/09/2018

A late update after the summer holidays...Matthew Hyde Literary Translation shortlisted in John Dryden Translation Competition....'better luck next time', as they say...

The winners of the John Dryden Translation Competition for 2017-18 have been announced. The jury has evaluated translations from a range of languages into English and awarded the following: First p…

30/08/2017

My translation of Rein Raud's 'The Death of the Perfect Sentence', available from Vagabond Voices

https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/bookshop-changelings/the-death-of-the-perfect-sentence

THE DEATH OF THE PERFECT SENTENCE by Rein Raud translated by Matthew Hyde Pages: 168 ISBN: 978-1-908251-70-1 Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 12 mm Publication: 21 June 2017 (Available now) Compare at Wordery Click here to look inside the book

27/04/2017

My translation of a chapter from Andrei Hvostov's Sillamäe Passion, in the literary journal Asymptote .http://www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/andrei-hvostov-cold-war/

Whenever Estonians who are around ten years younger than me recall their childhood, fear of nuclear war is a recurring theme. The background is well known. At the beginning of the eighties there was a lot of talk in the Soviet Union about Reagan’s Star Wars programme. In 1983, the Americans st

30/01/2017

My translation of Meelis Friedenthal's The Willow King (originally known as 'Mesilased') recently published by Pushkin Press, London...

http://www.pushkinpress.com/book/the-willow-king/

Wrapped into his long coat against the incessant rain and accompanied by a strange parrot, the young Dutch student Laurentius arrives in Estonia on an icy day at the end of the seventeenth century. On the run from a dark past and suspected of heresy, he has fled to Tartu, 'The City of the Muses', to...

12/08/2016

A review of Toomas Vint's recently published collection of short stories, which I translated.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/toomas-vint/the-sweepstakes-of-love/

The difference between the surreal and the mundane is shown to be negligible in this fine collection of essays and stories.

09/08/2016

My article on the writer Andrey Ivanov, in the latest issue of Asymptote literary journal

http://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/matthew-hyde-andrey-ivanov/

07/04/2016

My translation of Eeva Park's 'A Dog's Life' in Words Without Borders
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/a-dogs-life1

He was old and filthy and probably hadn’t eaten for some time.

07/04/2016

My translation from Russian of Andrei Ivanov's short story 'Jackdaw on a Snowdrift' in Words Without Borders

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/jackdaw-on-a-snowdrift

For two weeks I felt like I was wrapped in barbed wire.