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Stu (winstonsdad)

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World lit blogger have blogged for last 16 years at my blog https://winstonsdad.wordpress.com huge translated fiction fan available to review all fiction in translation I’ve reviewed 1475 plus books

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 2d

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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Lisa Hill @anzlitlovers.bsky.social · 5d

@stujallen.bsky.social Late for #TranslationThurs People from Oetimu (2019) by Felix Nesi, translated 2025 by Lara Norgaard: anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/05/p...

People from Oetimu (2019) by Felix Nesi, translated 2025 by Lara Norgaard

People from Oetimu came my way via a review from Stu at Winston’s Dad. Felix Nesi (b. 1988) is an author from Indonesian West Timor, and the novel is set there, on the western part of the isl…

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 6d

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/04/n... a milestone on the blog this is the 1500th book reviewed a lost gem from Iceland nothing rescued by Astra Sigurdardottir

Nothing to be rescued by Ásta Sigurdardóttir - Winstonsdad's Blog

Nothing to be rescued by Ásta Sigurdardóttir Icelandic short stories Original title - Sunnudagskvöld til mánudagsmorguns Translator Meg Matich Source - Review copy I had held this back with this post ...

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 9d

We’ll need to think about a man, my mother started to say.

A man. The sound of the word was strange to me. At that time, I had yet to see a man, but my mother had told me about them often.
#BookSky 💙📚 #TranslationThurs

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Asa Yoneda)

The award-winning Japanese writer Hiromi Kawakami first came to prominence with her beautiful, meditative novella Strange Weather in Tokyo (tr. Allison Markin Powell), which was shortlisted for the…

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 9d

It seems to have been translated but by a small press a few years ago and then a book on Amazon that looks like a print in demand book so not sure how good a translation it be

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 9d

Collected Works by F. van Dixhoorn translated by @astridalben.bsky.social from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 9d

It's #translationthurs what have you been reading from around the world

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 9d

This mornings read

Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 23d

Will let you know

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 23d

No brought it today and hadn't heard of it just caught when I saw it taken home ten years to write

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 24d

@ds228.bsky.social knowing your knowledge of holocaust fiction you come across battlefields and playgrounds János Nyiri Dorian ?

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 28d

Just finished this modern classic from Finland of a fifties childhood and still reading a novel from Palestine and short stories from Iceland

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Tony P | Book Reviewer @lifeonbooks.bsky.social · Feb 4

I've put together a reading list for myself and others to explore Black literature. #booksky

Check it out below
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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Had one worst days in my
Life yesterday had got home from town only day off and next thing Amanda is ill she has had a heart attack and thankfully is okish lots of change ahead for her and me. But a day I don't want to relive

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 28

On the blog - one for #WITMonth yesterday, Eva Moreda's "Home is Like a Different Time" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/a... #booksky 📚💙

Paperback of Home is Like a Different Time on a blue background

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Lisa Hill @anzlitlovers.bsky.social · Aug 17

No#12 in #20BooksofWinter: Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Anna Aslanyan. If I'd been a bit quicker with my review I could have tagged it #TranslationThursday, eh @stujallen.bsky.social? anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/17/e...

Everything Flows (1970), by Vasily Grossman, 2011 English edition, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Anna Aslanyan

Everything Flows is the last and unfinished novel by Vasily Grossman (1905-1964). It has a messy publication history. My Vintage Classics edition says it was first published in the Russian journa…

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · Aug 9

Stamford anyone been? Is it worth a drive too ?

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

Very eagle eyed

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

My reads for woman in translation month

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · Aug 1

Had huge clear out of bookertubers only a few left and still may get rid of a few

Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · Jul 31

I got caught up in what x y and z are doing and forgot this is my reading journey and maybe I don't need to try to be a reader I'm not sure if

Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · Jul 31

That feeling of constantly being in the air as a reader sort of lost or not some
Much lost as lacking focus because you maybe have been wanting to try new things and now feel the pull dragging you back to earth that's has been me as a reader this last while