Frank Wynne
@terribleman.com
Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
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Not once, in all my time on Twitter, did I come across a 'gender critical' activist who made me think, 'maybe I have this wrong?'
In fact, watching people like Graham Linehan slide further and further into Right Wing and Far Right ideology confirmed that they are the ideologues.
In fact, watching people like Graham Linehan slide further and further into Right Wing and Far Right ideology confirmed that they are the ideologues.
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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I would assume “partner”, but I would also ask questions
January 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I would assume “partner”, but I would also ask questions
I’ve never seen an in-depth piece by him, but this essay by Chikako Nihei is very interesting
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January 6, 2026 at 12:29 PM
I’ve never seen an in-depth piece by him, but this essay by Chikako Nihei is very interesting
Javier Marias translated « Tristram Shandy » and also work by Nabokov, Conrad, Hardy, Faulkner, Hardy, Yeats
January 6, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Javier Marias translated « Tristram Shandy » and also work by Nabokov, Conrad, Hardy, Faulkner, Hardy, Yeats
Balanchine: I wonder if you'd like to do a little ballet with me.
Stravinsky: For whom?
Balanchine: For some elephants.
Stravinsky: How old?
Balanchine: Very young.
Stravinsky: All right. If they are very young elephants, I will do it.”
Stravinsky: For whom?
Balanchine: For some elephants.
Stravinsky: How old?
Balanchine: Very young.
Stravinsky: All right. If they are very young elephants, I will do it.”
January 5, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Balanchine: I wonder if you'd like to do a little ballet with me.
Stravinsky: For whom?
Balanchine: For some elephants.
Stravinsky: How old?
Balanchine: Very young.
Stravinsky: All right. If they are very young elephants, I will do it.”
Stravinsky: For whom?
Balanchine: For some elephants.
Stravinsky: How old?
Balanchine: Very young.
Stravinsky: All right. If they are very young elephants, I will do it.”
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Echan a los traductores y quieren que revisen por un tercio de su salario.
Es basura insultante
Es basura insultante
Harlequin (HarperCollins Francia) finaliza sus contratos con decenas de traductores y traductoras para volcarse de lleno a la IA. La editorial usará una agencia externa, Fluent Planet, para «traducción automática» y luego contratarán freelancers que hagan la «posedición» de lo que escupa la IA ⚠️
January 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Echan a los traductores y quieren que revisen por un tercio de su salario.
Es basura insultante
Es basura insultante
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Said worked on numerous food security projects, volunteered at 12 Baskets Cafe, organized supplies for the Standing Rock Protests, studied renewable energy, helped found JVP Asheville, did pro bono electrical work for individuals and grassroots orgs, and so much more. 2/3
WNC 4 Peace and local chapter of Veterans for Peace name local 'Peacemaker of the Year'
WNC 4 Peace, Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 and Elder and Sage Community Gardens, sponsors of the local International Day of Peace, announce that Said Abdallah of Asheville is their 2019 Peacemaker of...
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January 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Said worked on numerous food security projects, volunteered at 12 Baskets Cafe, organized supplies for the Standing Rock Protests, studied renewable energy, helped found JVP Asheville, did pro bono electrical work for individuals and grassroots orgs, and so much more. 2/3
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December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The wran, the wran, the king of all birds,
On St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze.
His body is little but his family is great
So rise up landlady and give us a trate.
And if your trate be of the best
Your soul in heaven can find its rest.
On St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze.
His body is little but his family is great
So rise up landlady and give us a trate.
And if your trate be of the best
Your soul in heaven can find its rest.
December 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The wran, the wran, the king of all birds,
On St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze.
His body is little but his family is great
So rise up landlady and give us a trate.
And if your trate be of the best
Your soul in heaven can find its rest.
On St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze.
His body is little but his family is great
So rise up landlady and give us a trate.
And if your trate be of the best
Your soul in heaven can find its rest.
Fascinated to see the noncanonical British – Irish Isles as part of the legend
December 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Fascinated to see the noncanonical British – Irish Isles as part of the legend
@sharkbitesteve.bsky.social hi Steve, it’s a longshot – but I thought if anyone might, you might
Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@sharkbitesteve.bsky.social hi Steve, it’s a longshot – but I thought if anyone might, you might
Every (translator) knows this, the problem may be trying to convince editors and publishers
AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet | The Observer
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Every (translator) knows this, the problem may be trying to convince editors and publishers
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December 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Please, please share
Please share. Thanks
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Please, please share
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Please share. Thanks
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Please share. Thanks
The opening lyrics are not the original, which ran “Have yourself a merry little Christmas // It may be your last // Next year we may all be living in the past.”
Garland objected, saying they were too depressing, “Margaret will cry, and they’ll think I’m a monster”.
Garland objected, saying they were too depressing, “Margaret will cry, and they’ll think I’m a monster”.
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The opening lyrics are not the original, which ran “Have yourself a merry little Christmas // It may be your last // Next year we may all be living in the past.”
Garland objected, saying they were too depressing, “Margaret will cry, and they’ll think I’m a monster”.
Garland objected, saying they were too depressing, “Margaret will cry, and they’ll think I’m a monster”.
“An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence”
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence”
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence”
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence”
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And may every day be another wonderful secret.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
Reading the French, it is easy to imagine a punchier opening
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reading the French, it is easy to imagine a punchier opening
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"Representative Junie Joseph: Colorado Will Not Let Washington Interfere in Care for LGBTQIA+" #copolitics
Representative Junie Joseph: Colorado Will Not Let Washington Interfere in Care for LGBTQIA+ - Yellow Scene Magazine
As a legislator, a member of this community, and someone who believes every young person deserves safety and dignity, I am deeply alarmed by the federal government’s latest attempts to interfere in private medical decisions. Today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to restrict gender-affirming care for minors, but its message reaches far beyond that, targeting LGBTQIA+ people of all ages, across incomes, neighborhoods, and social classes.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Representative Junie Joseph: Colorado Will Not Let Washington Interfere in Care for LGBTQIA+" #copolitics
Sainsbury was the go-to Translator for a lot of crime fiction in the 50s and 60s, including quite a lot of Simenon.
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Sainsbury was the go-to Translator for a lot of crime fiction in the 50s and 60s, including quite a lot of Simenon.
I have to say, based on the screen grab you posted, it could do with a new translation
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have to say, based on the screen grab you posted, it could do with a new translation
But he didn’t write « D’entre les morts » on which Hitchcock based “vertigo”, that was the writing team of Boileau-Narcejac (they wrote it specially, because Hitchcock had wanted to adapt « Les Diaboliques » which they had written two years earlier, and was brilliantly filmed by Clouzot)
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
But he didn’t write « D’entre les morts » on which Hitchcock based “vertigo”, that was the writing team of Boileau-Narcejac (they wrote it specially, because Hitchcock had wanted to adapt « Les Diaboliques » which they had written two years earlier, and was brilliantly filmed by Clouzot)
Dard is really difficult to translate – inspired by the Chandler and Hammett, he invented a form of French criminal slang to create his books which is brilliant, pithy, and fiendishly difficult to translate
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Dard is really difficult to translate – inspired by the Chandler and Hammett, he invented a form of French criminal slang to create his books which is brilliant, pithy, and fiendishly difficult to translate