Katharina Bielenberg
@katharinabberg.bsky.social
European South Londoner, publisher/reader of everywhere, happy traveller, beekeeper, swimmer, walker, family person
RIP Roy Jacobsen 🖤 - beautiful books, lovely man.
www.nrk.no/kultur/forfa...
www.nrk.no/kultur/forfa...
Forfatter Roy Jacobsen er død
Forfatter Roy Jacobsen har gått bort, 70 år gammel. – En av våre aller største, uttaler statsministeren om forfatteren.
www.nrk.no
October 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
RIP Roy Jacobsen 🖤 - beautiful books, lovely man.
www.nrk.no/kultur/forfa...
www.nrk.no/kultur/forfa...
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'If you think you’ve heard this kind of story before, think again.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the Calculation of Volume III is nearly here! Publishing 18 November 📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
‘Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the Calculation of Volume III is nearly here! Publishing 18 November 📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
'If you think you’ve heard this kind of story before, think again.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the Calculation of Volume III is nearly here! Publishing 18 November 📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
‘Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the Calculation of Volume III is nearly here! Publishing 18 November 📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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We’re hiring a Senior Publicity Executive with a focus on non-fiction, film and history, and Faber Editions. If you have experience working closely with authors and agents and a track record delivering impactful campaigns, apply by 28 August.
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
August 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We’re hiring a Senior Publicity Executive with a focus on non-fiction, film and history, and Faber Editions. If you have experience working closely with authors and agents and a track record delivering impactful campaigns, apply by 28 August.
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
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We are recruiting a new Commissioning Editor for fiction. Like all Faber editors, they will publish with dynamism and creativity, sensitivity and bravery – apply by 7 September.
faber.co.uk/careers/fict...
faber.co.uk/careers/fict...
August 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We are recruiting a new Commissioning Editor for fiction. Like all Faber editors, they will publish with dynamism and creativity, sensitivity and bravery – apply by 7 September.
faber.co.uk/careers/fict...
faber.co.uk/careers/fict...
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'Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you’ve read the first volume of Solvej Balle’s International Booker Prize-shortlisted septology, now is the perfect time to continue the story… On the Calculation of Volume II is available from all good bookshops.
If you’ve read the first volume of Solvej Balle’s International Booker Prize-shortlisted septology, now is the perfect time to continue the story… On the Calculation of Volume II is available from all good bookshops.
August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
'Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you’ve read the first volume of Solvej Balle’s International Booker Prize-shortlisted septology, now is the perfect time to continue the story… On the Calculation of Volume II is available from all good bookshops.
If you’ve read the first volume of Solvej Balle’s International Booker Prize-shortlisted septology, now is the perfect time to continue the story… On the Calculation of Volume II is available from all good bookshops.
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We’re hiring a Senior Publicity Executive with a focus on non-fiction, film and history, and Faber Editions. If you have experience working closely with authors and agents and a track record in delivering impactful campaigns, apply by 28 August.
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
August 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We’re hiring a Senior Publicity Executive with a focus on non-fiction, film and history, and Faber Editions. If you have experience working closely with authors and agents and a track record in delivering impactful campaigns, apply by 28 August.
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
faber.co.uk/careers/senior-publicity-executive-2/
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We are now recruiting a new Commissioning Editor for fiction. Like all Faber editors, they will publish with dynamism and creativity, sensitivity and bravery – apply by 7 September.
faber.co.uk/careers/fiction-commissioning-editor/
faber.co.uk/careers/fiction-commissioning-editor/
August 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We are now recruiting a new Commissioning Editor for fiction. Like all Faber editors, they will publish with dynamism and creativity, sensitivity and bravery – apply by 7 September.
faber.co.uk/careers/fiction-commissioning-editor/
faber.co.uk/careers/fiction-commissioning-editor/
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Oh my gosh!!! 🪼💙🪼💙🪼💙!!!
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
June 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Oh my gosh!!! 🪼💙🪼💙🪼💙!!!
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And then there were three!
We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025:
📗Forgottenness @bullaunpress.bsky.social
📗Sons, Daughters @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
📗The Empusium @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025:
📗Forgottenness @bullaunpress.bsky.social
📗Sons, Daughters @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
📗The Empusium @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
www.ebrd.com/home/news-an...
April 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
And then there were three!
We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025:
📗Forgottenness @bullaunpress.bsky.social
📗Sons, Daughters @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
📗The Empusium @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
www.ebrd.com/home/news-an...
We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025:
📗Forgottenness @bullaunpress.bsky.social
📗Sons, Daughters @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
📗The Empusium @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
www.ebrd.com/home/news-an...
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Just heard that Alex Wheatle has died. He was such a fantastic writer, who captured the intensity, the passion, the humour and the tragedy of life as an Black teen, in contemporary Britain and in times past. Steve McQueen's Small Axe episode four tells his story: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Small Axe - Series 1: Alex Wheatle
The true story of award-winning writer Alex Wheatle, who spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home and was jailed after the Brixton uprising of 1981.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just heard that Alex Wheatle has died. He was such a fantastic writer, who captured the intensity, the passion, the humour and the tragedy of life as an Black teen, in contemporary Britain and in times past. Steve McQueen's Small Axe episode four tells his story: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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🖤 Rest in peace, Rest in power, sharing love and condolences with all family and friends, all of our writing family and community and all students of the mighty Alex Wheatle. What a loss. Thank you Alex.
March 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🖤 Rest in peace, Rest in power, sharing love and condolences with all family and friends, all of our writing family and community and all students of the mighty Alex Wheatle. What a loss. Thank you Alex.
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Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62
Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62
The writer, who found success with young adult novels, inspired one of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films which was based on the author’s childhood
British writer Alex Wheatle, the author of books including East of Acre Lane and the Crongton series, has…
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62
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On this day in 1984, the Ethiopian writer Baalu Girma vanished, almost certainly kidnapped & murdered by the Derg regime in retaliation for his novel Oromay. The brutal regime’s attempt to silence him failed, as Oromay is a beloved & popular classic. Thank you Ato Baalu. We remember.
#bannedbooks
#bannedbooks
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day in 1984, the Ethiopian writer Baalu Girma vanished, almost certainly kidnapped & murdered by the Derg regime in retaliation for his novel Oromay. The brutal regime’s attempt to silence him failed, as Oromay is a beloved & popular classic. Thank you Ato Baalu. We remember.
#bannedbooks
#bannedbooks
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From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
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thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...
February 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...
thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...
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Our English translation of the 1983 Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma is out *today* in the UK (Feb 4 in US). Praised in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and Kirkus (⭐️), among others, as a compelling spy/romance/political thriller/war novel. Really! www.davidwrites.net/oromay
Oromay — David DeGusta
www.davidwrites.net
January 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our English translation of the 1983 Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma is out *today* in the UK (Feb 4 in US). Praised in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and Kirkus (⭐️), among others, as a compelling spy/romance/political thriller/war novel. Really! www.davidwrites.net/oromay
Today is the day this once-banned Ethiopian novel appears in a much-anticipated English translation by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu
“Astonishing and compelling” MAAZA MENGISTE
“Carries the shock of truth” AIDA EDEMARIAM
“Startling, intimate” OKEY NDIBE
“Gripping” ANDREY KURKOV
“Astonishing and compelling” MAAZA MENGISTE
“Carries the shock of truth” AIDA EDEMARIAM
“Startling, intimate” OKEY NDIBE
“Gripping” ANDREY KURKOV
The classic 1983 Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma, translated from Amharic by myself & Mesfin Felleke, will be published in the UK Jan 16 by MacLehose and in the US Feb 4 by @sohopress.bsky.social.
All info at www.davidwrites.net/oromay including a list I made of other great Ethiopian books.
All info at www.davidwrites.net/oromay including a list I made of other great Ethiopian books.
January 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Today is the day this once-banned Ethiopian novel appears in a much-anticipated English translation by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu
“Astonishing and compelling” MAAZA MENGISTE
“Carries the shock of truth” AIDA EDEMARIAM
“Startling, intimate” OKEY NDIBE
“Gripping” ANDREY KURKOV
“Astonishing and compelling” MAAZA MENGISTE
“Carries the shock of truth” AIDA EDEMARIAM
“Startling, intimate” OKEY NDIBE
“Gripping” ANDREY KURKOV
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Oromay by Baalu Girma review – an Ethiopian classic
Oromay by Baalu Girma review – an Ethiopian classic
This political satire of propaganda during the civil war, which is thought to have cost the author his life, gets an English translation at last
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Oromay by Baalu Girma review – an Ethiopian classic
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Are you passionate about books and eager to share your love of literature with others?
Goldsboro Books is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Bookseller to join our team in the heart of Covent Garden, London.
More details at the link below:
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Goldsboro Books is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Bookseller to join our team in the heart of Covent Garden, London.
More details at the link below:
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Goldsboro Books London is Hiring - Full Time London Bookseller
Are you passionate about books and eager to share your love of literature with others? Goldsboro Books, the UK's leading independent retailer of signed first editions, is seeking an experienced and en...
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November 20, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Are you passionate about books and eager to share your love of literature with others?
Goldsboro Books is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Bookseller to join our team in the heart of Covent Garden, London.
More details at the link below:
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Goldsboro Books is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Bookseller to join our team in the heart of Covent Garden, London.
More details at the link below:
goldsborobooks.com/blogs/news/g...
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My first outing for #ecumenicalpours on this platform. None of the bitter aftertaste you get on TwiXter.
November 21, 2024 at 9:48 PM
My first outing for #ecumenicalpours on this platform. None of the bitter aftertaste you get on TwiXter.
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Next up in our glorious FT annual round-up of the best books of the year: Martin Wolf shares his selection of must-reads from the world of economics. Lots of other goodies - from tech to crime - with more to come. And then all brought together print on Saturday. Dive in!
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
The FT’s guide to the Books of the Year
From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics
Ft.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Next up in our glorious FT annual round-up of the best books of the year: Martin Wolf shares his selection of must-reads from the world of economics. Lots of other goodies - from tech to crime - with more to come. And then all brought together print on Saturday. Dive in!
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
The 40,000-year-old, 5 cm-high Venus of Hohle Fels puts all kinds of things into perspective. She has her own room at www.urmu.de in Blaubeuren, DE.
November 16, 2024 at 8:46 AM
The 40,000-year-old, 5 cm-high Venus of Hohle Fels puts all kinds of things into perspective. She has her own room at www.urmu.de in Blaubeuren, DE.
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Amharic fiction coming in 2025 ! Baalu Girma's 'Oromay' coming from Soho Press in the US www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768953... and MacLehose in the UK www.hachette.co.uk/titles/baalu... 2/2025. This is fantastic ! (Basically nothing gets translated from Amharic, so this is big, big news.)
Oromay by Baalu Girma: 9781641296663 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A journalist finds himself embroiled in a disastrous government campaign as well as a sweeping romance in this landmark English translation of Ethiopia’s most famous novel. ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
September 25, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Amharic fiction coming in 2025 ! Baalu Girma's 'Oromay' coming from Soho Press in the US www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768953... and MacLehose in the UK www.hachette.co.uk/titles/baalu... 2/2025. This is fantastic ! (Basically nothing gets translated from Amharic, so this is big, big news.)
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This is a wonderful Christmas present!
November 15, 2024 at 4:26 PM
This is a wonderful Christmas present!