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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 22h

Durham here I come!

Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 3d

Penultimate FAIR book tour event this Wednesday in Durham at Collected Books collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/...

Look out for our upcoming events - opportunities to hear writers talk about their work, buy signed copies, and meet fellow readers. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find details of ticketed events ...

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how literary translation gives you the chance to write a book you wish you’d written for the first issue of @draughtjournal.bsky.social draughtjournal.com

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 1d

Mysterious! And great! Might you be up for trying to find a couple of run-on lines in it over the next few days? I basically have a couple of lines in German, which I’ve translated into English, so it would be looking for lines *kind of like* those lines? No worries if that sounds not very fun.

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 1d

Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy, translated by Anne Milano Appel, Penguin UK, 2013 / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have a copy of The Art of Joy (the English translation of L'arte della gioia) by Goliarda Sapienza? I’m looking for a quote for a translation I’m working on. Thanks!

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 3d

Penultimate FAIR book tour event this Wednesday in Durham at Collected Books collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/...

Events

Look out for our upcoming events - opportunities to hear writers talk about their work, buy signed copies, and meet fellow readers. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find details of ticketed events ...

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lonesomedub.bsky.social @lonesomedub.bsky.social · 5d

Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 7d

See you this evening in Birmingham!

Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 9d

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Excited to welcome @jencalleja.bsky.social back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 7d

See you this evening in Birmingham!

Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 9d

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Excited to welcome @jencalleja.bsky.social back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 8d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 7d

Final three events for the FAIR book tour - see you soon Birmingham, Durham, London!

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Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social · 7d

In or near Birmingham? Hear @jencalleja.bsky.social speak at @vocebooks.bsky.social this Thursday, 2 October. #newbooks #translation #lifewriting #writerslife

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🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome @jencalleja.bsky.social back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE…

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Valeria!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Niall Oddy @nialloddy.bsky.social · 8d

This is a great book that you should all read (as well as everything by Jen because she is very cool)

Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 9d

Happy International Translation Day!

Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.

(Written out in replies)

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks so much Niall 😎

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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 9d

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Excited to welcome @jencalleja.bsky.social back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 9d

I will remember that all/not all projects are fair game to me […]

Also pictured: my custard pie model, now stuck to the wall.

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Fair: The Life-Art of Translation – indie bookshop special edition by Jen Calleja - Prototype

Fair: The Life-Art of Translation – indie bookshop special edition is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing i...

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 9d

I will believe that it is only fair for me to challenge unnuanced criticism of my work
I will be a fair mediator
I will remember I am a worker within an industry that takes my goods to fayre
I will ask for my fair share
I will fight for a fair income

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 9d

I will help make sure the way translators are chosen for jobs is as fair as possible
I will not uphold that every translation must be fair and beautiful, but simply befitting
I will acknowledge if I have made a mistake, fair cop

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 9d

I will treat my author fairly
I will say when I and others are not treated fairly, and challenge unfair behaviour
I will be fair with myself
I will rest when I am fairly tired
I will aim for fair health
I will help make sure not every translator is homogenously fair

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 9d

I will give writing creatively, and reading and writing in the forms I translate, a fair go
I will ask permission from the rights holder of the original; it must be used fairly
I will make sure quotes in the original are used legally in the translation: fair use

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