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Marina Sofia

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Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2h

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 12m

Mersi! Ce mai faceți?

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#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable - and how does this link to Nightingale & Co? findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2h

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 12h

Banning and censoring books isn’t going to stop people thinking about those uncomfortable, sometimes unpleasant things. And it’s not going to make those things go away
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WE Don't Need No Thought Control* margot-kin-berg.com/2025/10/09/w...

We Don’t Need No Thought Control*

I have a news flash to share. Earlier this year, my fourteen-year-old granddaughter read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. And guess what? She hasn’t jumped into an unhealthy and inappropriate relationshi…

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 16h

But it's only for Kurdish playwrights

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 20h

Also to Daniel Gustafsson Pech (Swedish), Joëlle Dufeuilly (French), Adam Kovacsics (Spanish), Mari Alföldy (Netherlands), Hans Skirecki (Germany) and many, many others

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 21h

Shout out to LK's various translators including George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, and John Batki

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 1d

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/08/n... the yearly fun Nobel guessing post

Nobel Literaure 2025 - Winstonsdad's Blog

It is that time of year when we all think about who is going to win the Nobel Literature Prize. There is a feeling that in the last few years the prize has alternated between a female and a Male. This...

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Life is a Festival! @lifeisafestival.bsky.social · 1d

Cambridge Literature Festival currently has some free online author talks to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth #booksky #authors www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/clf-player-w...

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CLF Player at Cambridge Literary Festival

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 1d

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful piece by B.A. Charles, focusing on Charlotte Mandel's new translation of the second volume of 'In Search of Lost Time': 'In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom', which I warmly recommend. I don't think any English translator has brought us closer to Proust's own diction and tone.

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 29d

“The anthology’s constellation of animals, children, misfits and survivors reshapes the image of Poland for the English reader...”

Agnes Dudek interviews ALTA member Antonia Lloyd-Jones about her recent translation project, a collection of Polish short stories. At Culture Pi:

From the Forgotten to the Famous: Antonia Lloyd-Jones on 'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories'

'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories', edited and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, shatters clichés of Poland as only war and sorrow, unveiling a dazzling century of fiction alive with humour,…

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 2d

Translator Polly Barton discusses the process of translating HUNCHBACK by Saou Ichikawa, which has been longlisted for the NBA for Translated Literature. Read the interview here, as well as all our other interviews in this series:

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National Book Award Interviews: Polly Barton on Hunchback “It’s rare (for me) to read a book that is both totally thrilling and utterly unique. It’s tiny, but it feels like it contains universes. ” — Polly Barton, Words Without Borders. Image: Black background with white and blue text. Circular author photo of Polly Barton in the bottom right corner, and book jacket of Hunchback in blue and orange, on the upper left.

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

In The Spotlight: Alex Michaelides' The Maidens margot-kin-berg.com/2025/10/07/i...

In The Spotlight: Alex Michaelides’ The Maidens

Visit the post for more.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 4d

Am glad that @corylusbooks.bsky.social has bravely translated a slender Leroy. It is a market challenge to put out novellas.

The Corylus translation of Little Rebel was done by Graham H. Roberts. Let’s support brave indies and works in translation🌹 #booksky

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Tagesspiegel Berliner Bezirke @tagesspiegelberlin.bsky.social · 2d

Eine Gedenktafel für Gabriele Tergit. www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/liter...
Mehr Geschichte auf @tagesspiegel.de: www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...

Zu Ehren der Schriftstellerin Gabriele Tergit: Gedenktafel in Berlin-Tiergarten wird am 8. Oktober enthüllt

Gabriele Tergit ist für ihre Romane und Gerichtsreportagen bekannt und schrieb nach dem Krieg für den Tagesspiegel. Den Nationalsozialisten war sie nur knapp entkommen.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3d

Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University - great piece by @berrydm.bsky.social

"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3d

Italy is not always the salvation of English-speaking people—but it does often seem that way. In film, in literature, in food, it’s the place where you go to find yourself.
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“Is There More to Life Than This?”: On Dinah Brooke’s Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady by Emma Cline

October 1, 2025 – “Sure, misery becomes raw material you can shape into a narrative—we tell ourselves that transformation has some value. But wouldn’t you rather be happy?”

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3d

Today I'm waiting for the Telecom guy to connect me to the www at last... so eagerly that I almost assaulted the bemused water meter reader to show him the telecoms box in the cellar 😳😳😳

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Jen Lucas (Jen Med’s Book Reviews) @jenlucas.bsky.social · 3d

Today on the blog I'm sharing a review of Broken, the first book in the Dora series by Jón Atli Jónasson, translated by Quentin Bates.

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Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson, translated by Quentin Bates

Today I am sharing my review of Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson, translated to English by Quentin Bates. I picked up a copy of the book after hearing the author on a panel at Capital Crime. I love my translated fiction and this sounded really interesting, as was the author, so how could I resist? Here's what it's all about:

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3d

We should meet up

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3d

I think so

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3d

A mattress next to the pile of books! 🤣🤣🤣 #devonbookhour

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 3d

Been reading quite a bit since I've had to wait for deliveries and no internet. Just finished Monique Ilboudo's So Distant from My Life, first ever book I read from Burkina Faso (transl. Yarri Kamara) ##devonbookhour

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