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Rose Labourie @roselab.bsky.social · 6h

Sublime interview de Kim de l’Horizon avec @jamielsearle.bsky.social ! « I don’t see it as Blutbuch having an original in German and sixteen translations, but rather that the text now exists in seventeen versions, with seventeen co-authors. » www.new-books-in-german.com/writing-for-...

“Writing, for me, has always meant having to go elsewhere” – New Books in German

Translator Jamie Lee Searle interviews author Kim de l’Horizon.

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Aug 27

Translating Kim de l'Horizon's #Blutbuch has been one of the greatest, hardest, most joyous challenges of my literary translation career to date. To celebrate its publication week, Literary Hub have published a piece I wrote on the experience👇📚❤️

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Aug 25

@jamielsearle.bsky.social reflects on the rich challenges of translating genre and gender blurring in Kim de l’Horizon’s Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues.

Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

In the autumn of 2023, I found myself in the mountains above Lake Geneva, at a place called Château de Lavigny. I had been invited there on a fellowship to work on my translation of Kim de l’Horizo…

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Aug 27

My translation of Kim de l'Horizon's stunning debut novel #Blutbuch was published yesterday, with @fsgbooks.bsky.social in the US and @sceptrebooks.bsky.social in the UK. To read an extract, head over to @literaryhub.bsky.social... 👇

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Aug 25

“It was one of those things we couldn’t say to one another. I had told Father, Father had told Mother, Mother must have told you.” Read from Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues, translated by @jamielsearle.bsky.social.

Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

For example, I never officially told you about “it.” I just came over for coffee one day wearing makeup, with a box of Lindt & Sprüngli (the medium-sized, not the small ones like usual), and th…

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Aug 1

Putting the finishing touches to my #translation of the latest in the Brittany Mystery Series, and as always, I'm reluctant to part ways with the delightfully grumpy, caffeine-addicted Detective Dupin ☕🕵️

Out next spring with Macmillan USA.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Secrets of the Abbey

In international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec's The Secrets of the Abbey, between large inlets, the wild Atlantic, and enchanting apple orchards, a t...

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jul 15

Couldn't agree more 📚 ❤️

Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · Jul 12

If you love the English translations of authors working in other languages, I recommend you keep track of the translator. Chances are they work across several authors - and they are mostly always linguistic chameleons whose work you will always enjoy.

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jul 14

One of the things I enjoy most about #literarytranslation is polishing the dialogue (where there is dialogue), and making it sound as natural as possible. In my own writing, I've always veered away from dialogue and felt intimidated by it. Something to lean into, I think!

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jul 12

Remember that episode of Friends where Julio the misogynist poet blames a 'bad translation' for not liking the book he's reading? I guess we'll never know if he read the original!
#translation #clichés

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jul 11

With thanks to @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social and @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social!

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jul 11

Absolutely *loved* taking part in yesterday's panel on Gender in Translation and AI for @bristoltranslates.bsky.social with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social, and being reunited with @roselab.bsky.social, the French translator of #Blutbuch, for the first time since our Swiss workshop ❤️

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 30

Looking forward to discussing gender in translation and the limitations of AI at Bristol Translates, together with #Blutbuch's French translator, @roselab.bsky.social, in collaboration with the @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social and @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social

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Bristol Translates 2025 - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni

Keynote Lecture : Reading Like a Translator with Damion Searls Monday 7 July – 17.00 Free and open to all (registration required) The opening keynote will be delivered by renowned American translator ...

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 25

One of the first things that drew me to my partner was his exquisite taste in stationary. I'm now hooked on the same stuff, and it's an expensive habit 📝 #rulerofmyheart

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thanks Steph!

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 24

I wouldn't be surprised! My pleasure.

Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 24

The Author just arrived. Excited to have a piece in it, for the first time, on the process of translating #Blutbuch. It includes mischievous mountains, voice software, and dancing! @societyofauthors.bsky.social

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 24

Mine too! Thank you for commissioning my piece on Blutbuch; it's great to see it in print :)

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 20

''Every piece of technology can either make us more human or less human […] In the formative stages of education, we are now at risk of stripping away the core competency that makes our species thrive: learning not what to think, but how to think.''

This is excellent 👇

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 20

A brass candlestick has just popped up on p. 96 of the mystery novel I'm #translating, and I'm so hoping it turns out to be the murder weapon.

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 5

Currently #translating a sample for an exciting upcoming title which opens with the Greek myth of Pandora, and I've gone down a rabbit hole of how it was originally a jar ('pithos') but seemingly mistranslated into Latin as a 'box' in the 16th C by the Renaissance humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam...

Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Jun 2

Reading from my sample translation of Joachim B
Schmidt's wonderful new novel Ósmann for @translatorsaloud.bsky.social #swisswriting #icelandicstories

Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · Jun 2

@jamielsearle.bsky.social‬ reads from Joachim B. Schmidt's novel ÓSMANN, told in lyrical prose, and inspired by a ferryman who lived in the far north of Iceland around the turn of the 19th century, witnessing the changes brought by modernity. buff.ly/tcVsxnC
More info at @newgermanbooks.bsky.social

Jamie Lee Searle reads from Joachim B. Schmidt’s ÓSMANN (seeking a publisher)

Joachim B. Schmidt is a Swiss writer who has lived in Iceland for many years, a land that provides the evocative setting for many of his books. This, his lat...

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Apr 22

Ah, dictation software, how I love thee for the amusement you bring to my working day! A young woman has just been "rescued from the clutches of wild librarians" (rather than barbarians. Were they irate at her flagrant disregard for the Dewey Decimal System?). #amtranslating

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Abie Longstaff @abielongstaff.bsky.social · Apr 9

My letter to the @theguardian.com on the META theft of our work. Will be in the physical paper tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Letter. Please follow the link if this isn't legible

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Apr 10

www.new-books-in-german.com/the-journey-...

NBG invited me to write a piece about the wild ride of translating Kim de l'Horizon's #Blutbuch, which is (finally!) out this August, with Sceptre in the UK, and FSG in the U.S. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @newgermanbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social

The journey from Blutbuch to Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues – New Books in German

Reflections on translating award-winning Kim de l’Horizon's Blutbuch.

www.new-books-in-german.com

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Apr 10

societyofauthors.org/prizes/trans...

The Goethe Institut's biennial Award for New Translation is open for entries, with an award of EUR 1,000 plus a trip to the Leipzig Book Fair & the International Translators' gathering at the LCB. Entry details below! 👇

German - Goethe-Institut Award - The Society of Authors

The Society of Authors’ and the Goethe-Institut Londons’ biennial Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation. The Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation was founded in 2010 and is presented by the S...

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Mar 3

Thank you! Yes it was pretty toasty, and a great sun trap. It'd be a good place for a DIY writing retreat, I reckon.

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Mar 3

Spent the weekend in a cabin in the frosty woods, listening to owls and crows. Now to dive into the final Blutbuch proofs and editing my translator's note - one last push!

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