Published today: A literary celebration of Christmas south of the equator where the holiday falls in Brazilian summer and festivities are punctuated by rhythms of surf and samba. It's the tenth volume in the New Vessel Press holiday anthology series.

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Delighted to have one of my translations in this book. Just look at that cover! 💚🇧🇷🎄

It's #BannedBooksWeek! @everylibrary.bsky.social is
hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syria’s most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature.

Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...

My translation of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

Delighted to feature @rosefacchini.bsky.social reading from INN OF THE SURVIVORS, out now from @snugglybooks.bsky.social, a visionary & highly relevant tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world set amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic.

Our translation grants – #PENTranslates, including PEN Translates x SALT, and #PENPresents: Brazil – are NOW OPEN for submissions!

Find out more, apply & share ⤵️
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PUBLISHED TODAY.

"Midnight Timetable", the new literary horror collection from Bora Chung, author of the phenomenal "Cursed Bunny"

We have a few SIGNED copies!

You can get one HERE.

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Whether you crave a comfort read or (like our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social) something unsettling and all-around spooky come the start of October, this year brings us plenty of new books to look forward to!
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Starting DIVING BOARD by Tomás Downey, tr from the Spanish by Sarah Moses, from Invisible Publishing invisiblepublishing.com/product/divi...

#SFinTranslation

(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Natalia Garcia Freire!

www.cercadorprize.com

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help.

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(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Such a wonderful day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of @jeremytiang.bsky.social‘s State of Emergency!

KILLING THE NERVE by annapazos.bsky.social, co-translated by cmctranslations.bsky.social & Laura McGloughlin is OUT THIS WEEK, published by Foundry Editions. "This novel will hit like a revelation; restless, questioning, and indelible." buff.ly/sJQqwNm

I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! 🗳️ 📖

Yesterday the brilliant Julia Sanches gave her fellow PELTA members a fascinating & valuable insight into the intricacies of translation contract negotiation.

PELTA regularly offers such workshops to its members - if you're a translator working in Portuguese & aren't yet a member, why not join us?

"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, “A Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul." @holaculturadc.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social

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THE BOOK OF BRADFORD #Giveaway 📚

Can you name the 10 #Bradford landmarks on The Book of Bradford cover?

First person to like, share & answer all 10 correctly will receive a copy of this upcoming anthology specially commissioned for @bradford2025.co.uk! 🥳

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‘Blasim’s demotic documentary tone is not just authentic, it is also revolutionary in form... The result is prose as urgent and innovative in its style as it is uncompromising in its content.’ -
@thetls.bsky.social

✍️ Alev Adil on 'Sololand' by Hassan Blasim

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Updated Post: Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations bookblast.org/blog/natalia...

🐊🐊🐊 Extremely cool news!!! @monaojedaf.bsky.social !!!
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Some responses to US event, from Trinidad to Uganda, shows how far & deep US evangelical networks run.

Time to re-read Iryn Tushabe’s brilliant memoir-essay “Saved” on colonialism, religion & language in Uganda in #riverinanocean
(essays on translation)

#TranslationMonth