Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the Architectural Association which gathers 11 literary writers and 11 literary places, subjecting these to an act of immaterial translation.

The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-like Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the ‘Metaverse’ and end at the end of the world in west Vancouver. Each of the authors invent or interpret place. Together, the texts create a strange and beautiful territory that traverses distance and time. Writers include Douglas Coupland, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Julien Gracq, Jonathan Letham, Tom McCarthy, Guy Mannes Abbott, Sophia Al Maria, Hisham Matar, Adania Shibli, and Neal Stephenson, with essays by Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar.

9781907414176, 2011
10.5 × 17.5cm, illustrated, 144pp, paperback