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Marina Sofia

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Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 1h

We were supposed to be walking so I didn't want to stop to take too many pictures. Besides, the light was really diffused and odd today, my phone camera couldn't quite cope

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Elisabeth Wolf @elisabethwolf.bsky.social · 5h

This week's edition of the Edinburgh Shelfie has dropped.

Find yourself a great book event to go to...

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Super Thursday?

Apparently it's rolling this year...

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3h

The monologue are pretentious (thanks to Peter Handke) but the cinematography and scenes showing the people of Berlin are good

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 9h

Watching Wings of Desire in Berlin in a restored version on the big screen - highly recommended!

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning and Happy #BookshopDay.

Please do support Indy Bookshops.

They pay their full taxes and don't splurge their money on rockets to Mars.

@babooksellers.bsky.social
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And thank you team Bookcase Hebden for promoting
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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 1d

Love Berlin but my neck hurts now from looking up

Understand creatures light display on top of the Berliner Dom

We ❤️ Berlin in colourful display with hearts on Brandenburg Gate

Remnant of the Berlin wall in the foreground against high rise buildings with colourful light displays

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

Ne vedem în câteva zile, de-abia aștept. Prietena care vede de el s-a îndrăgostit de el... Dar nu-l dau! 🤣🤣

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 2d

Authors, start your engines!

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Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social · 2d

If this firecracker of a novella isn't banned in at least six US states, it ought to be...
Little Rebel by Jérôme Leroy is a short read, but it more than makes up for that in sheer fizzing energy... a little gem!
amazon.co.uk/dp/B097KCVCKY/

Little Rebel eBook : Leroy, Jérôme, Roberts, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 2d

Vivid, joyful, raw, tender, Andrev Walden's BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins & ends; and above all, about men. Sound interesting? Here's a taste, read by translator @iangiles.bsky.social himself! youtu.be/ruwop7t0dME?...

Ian Giles reads from Andrev Walden’s BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS (Fig Tree, 2025)

YouTube video by Translators Aloud

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

Mersi! Ce mai faceți?

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Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social · 2d

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable - and how does this link to Nightingale & Co? findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

Banning and censoring books isn’t going to stop people thinking about those uncomfortable, sometimes unpleasant things. And it’s not going to make those things go away
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WE Don't Need No Thought Control* margot-kin-berg.com/2025/10/09/w...

We Don’t Need No Thought Control*

I have a news flash to share. Earlier this year, my fourteen-year-old granddaughter read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. And guess what? She hasn’t jumped into an unhealthy and inappropriate relationshi…

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3d

But it's only for Kurdish playwrights

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 3d

Also to Daniel Gustafsson Pech (Swedish), Joëlle Dufeuilly (French), Adam Kovacsics (Spanish), Mari Alföldy (Netherlands), Hans Skirecki (Germany) and many, many others

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to LK's various translators including George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, and John Batki

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 3d

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/08/n... the yearly fun Nobel guessing post

Nobel Literaure 2025 - Winstonsdad's Blog

It is that time of year when we all think about who is going to win the Nobel Literature Prize. There is a feeling that in the last few years the prize has alternated between a female and a Male. This...

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Life is a Festival! @lifeisafestival.bsky.social · 4d

Cambridge Literature Festival currently has some free online author talks to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth #booksky #authors www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/clf-player-w...

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CLF Player at Cambridge Literary Festival

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 4d

A wonderful piece by B.A. Charles, focusing on Charlotte Mandel's new translation of the second volume of 'In Search of Lost Time': 'In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom', which I warmly recommend. I don't think any English translator has brought us closer to Proust's own diction and tone.

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · Sep 10

“The anthology’s constellation of animals, children, misfits and survivors reshapes the image of Poland for the English reader...”

Agnes Dudek interviews ALTA member Antonia Lloyd-Jones about her recent translation project, a collection of Polish short stories. At Culture Pi:

From the Forgotten to the Famous: Antonia Lloyd-Jones on 'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories'

'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories', edited and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, shatters clichés of Poland as only war and sorrow, unveiling a dazzling century of fiction alive with humour,…

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 4d

Translator Polly Barton discusses the process of translating HUNCHBACK by Saou Ichikawa, which has been longlisted for the NBA for Translated Literature. Read the interview here, as well as all our other interviews in this series:

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National Book Award Interviews: Polly Barton on Hunchback “It’s rare (for me) to read a book that is both totally thrilling and utterly unique. It’s tiny, but it feels like it contains universes. ” — Polly Barton, Words Without Borders. Image: Black background with white and blue text. Circular author photo of Polly Barton in the bottom right corner, and book jacket of Hunchback in blue and orange, on the upper left.

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 4d

In The Spotlight: Alex Michaelides' The Maidens margot-kin-berg.com/2025/10/07/i...

In The Spotlight: Alex Michaelides’ The Maidens

Visit the post for more.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 7d

Am glad that @corylusbooks.bsky.social has bravely translated a slender Leroy. It is a market challenge to put out novellas.

The Corylus translation of Little Rebel was done by Graham H. Roberts. Let’s support brave indies and works in translation🌹 #booksky

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