Ellen Jones crea novelas históricas cautivadoras que dan vida a figuras formidables y apasionadas del pasado. Su escritura, profundamente arraigada en una meticulosa investigación histórica y enriquecida por extensos viajes por Europa, se centra en individuos clave que dieron forma a épocas. Jones se destaca por sumergir a los lectores en escenarios históricos ricamente detallados, explorando las motivaciones y vidas de mujeres notables. Sus obras ofrecen un viaje fascinante a tiempos pasados y a las complejas psiques de quienes se atrevieron a influir en la historia.
Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation.
Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing, to ask - and answer - several questions: Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western?