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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 20h

What makes a translated book stand out to publishers? How do Italian titles find their place in the English market? 📚

Join Ruth Clarke, Federico Andornino (Sceptre), Kate Harvey (Akoya) & Richard Village (Foundry Editions) for publisher insights!

Register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 1d

Event Reminder!

Join us in Cork tomorrow at the Irish Centre for Galician Studies at 5pm for What Remains in Translation, an event to mark the launch of our latest title.

Don't miss a thought-provoking conversation between Brais Lamela & Jacob Rogers, chaired by Martín Veiga.

Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 16d

Mark your calendars!

The Irish Centre for Galician Studies at University College Cork warmly welcomes you to What Remains in Translation, an event with author Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers, chaired by Martín Veiga.

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Inaciu Galán @inaciugalan.bsky.social · 1d

🗣️ Recitando nel Antic Teatre de Barcelona col @pencatala.bsky.social #asturianu #català #aragonés #euskara #occitá #galego

📸 Semeyes: Raimon Solà.

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 1d

Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format.

The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

@princetonupress.bsky.social

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 8d

For #ITD2025 you could do worse than the three new mask-poems by Xaime Martínez, translated from Asturian and available to read at Versopolis, along with several more from his weird and wonderful poetry collection/detective novel Cuerpos perdidos en las morgues

www.versopolis.com/poet/606/xai...

Stanza from the poem 'Xota of the Mask' by Xaime Martínez:

pan, pan, pan, pan,
pan, pan, pan, pan.

As the geometric beats peter out,
the Guirria appears amid the rocky hillsides.
A posse of lads on horseback come following single file,
they ask for gifts, letting out cries and rattling off tunes on empty bottles of anís.
The Guirria jumps, wool cascading spume-like from his lips.

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 7d

Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org

uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-re...

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Annie Rutherford @annierutherford.bsky.social · 4d

I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!

British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 4d

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨

Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 4d

Today! @conwayhall.bsky.social

Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 7d

If you're based in London, copies will also be on sale at the Spanish Book and Zine Fair at Conway Hall this Saturday, at the Amaurea Press table (stand 40)

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

www.conwayhall.org.uk

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 7d

if it's got Baillie Gifford on the front of it, it's no longer a serious/credible literary institution. this shortlist shows that it's stopped even pretending

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 7d

Women can only write about
literature and all shortlistees must be white. This is like a shortlist from the 1950s.

Sanjay Sipahimalani @sansip.bsky.social · 7d

“Formidable female novelists, ghastly literary men, a faith-shaken poet, eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, international terrorists.”

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist.

www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/inside-the-c...

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Publication Day to What Remains!

Out now - online & in bookshops - this award-winning debut from author Brais Lamela, translated by Jacob Rogers, is a powerful meditation on the meaning of home in an uncertain world.

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Literature Ireland @literatureireland.bsky.social · 7d

A month in books: September 2025 📚

Literature Ireland's Translation Grant programme invites international publishers to apply for a contribution towards the translation of Irish literature from English or Irish into another language.

In September we received copies of 10 titles in 9 languages:

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 7d

big old October coming up ...

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 7d

If you're based in London, copies will also be on sale at the Spanish Book and Zine Fair at Conway Hall this Saturday, at the Amaurea Press table (stand 40)

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

www.conwayhall.org.uk

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 7d

More info about the fair here! linktr.ee/londonspanis...

londonspanishbookfair | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

London Spanish Book & Zine Fair

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 7d

If you're based in London, copies will also be on sale at the Spanish Book and Zine Fair at Conway Hall this Saturday, at the Amaurea Press table (stand 40)

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

www.conwayhall.org.uk

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 7d

Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org

uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-re...

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 8d

Thrilled to have Clare Pollard write our latest #FromTheArchive piece for September!

(Includes free access to the whole of our Iran focus issue. Link inside the article 👀)

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve written this month’s ’From The Archive’ feature for @mptmagazine.bsky.social on their 60th anniversary modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

From the Archive: Forugh Farrokhzad translated from Farsi by Sholeh Wolpé - Modern Poetry in Translation

Clare Pollard writes on Forugh Farrokhzad

modernpoetryintranslation.com

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 8d

This workshop w/@kaszyma.bsky.social asks how can we use languages to effect change? What's the difference between translation as activism & translation as art? & much more...

🗓️20 Oct Manchester Poetry Library, M15 6BG

🎟️FREE places for MMU & UoM Students

🔗 englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/057fe075

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 8d

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Xaime Martínez — Cuerpos perdidos en las morgues

Publicación: septiembre de 2018 Colección: Ultramarinos, 7 Formato: rústica con solapas, 14 x 21 cm Páginas: 68 ISBN: 978-84-945208-6-0 PVP: 14 euros AGOTADO EN LA WEB Cuerpos perdidos en las morgu...

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 8d

For #ITD2025 you could do worse than the three new mask-poems by Xaime Martínez, translated from Asturian and available to read at Versopolis, along with several more from his weird and wonderful poetry collection/detective novel Cuerpos perdidos en las morgues

www.versopolis.com/poet/606/xai...

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 8d

Justice for the Cammell Laird 37 - KIM JOHNSON MP explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/just...

Justice for the Cammell Laird 37

WHEN 37 shipyard workers from Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead were sent to a high-security prison in 1984, their only crime was fighting for their jobs, the survival of their sector and their com...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 8d

The theme for #ITD2025 highlights the importance of human trust in the art of translation. Translators carry the responsibility of ensuring trustworthy communication — a craft threatened by the rising use of AI-generated and machine translation.

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 9d

Now's The Day, Now's The Hour: Poems for John Maclean (2023)

Edited by Henry Bell & Joey Simons, this anthology collects poems & songs in tribute to the revolutionary life and legacy of John Maclean (1879-1923) on the centenary of his death.

Maclean's legacy, & the tragedy of his martyrdom…

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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 9d

⛓️‍💥Los nueve sindicatos presentes en Asturias piden el indulto para ‘las Seis de la Suiza’.

El magistrado emérito del Supremo, Martín Pallín, es el firmante número uno de la petición que pretende lograr la libertad a las sindicalistas, en tercer grado desde julio.
https://elsal.to/44264

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Writing on the Wall @wowfest.bsky.social · 9d

✨ From WWII devastation to Race Riots—Liverpool 8 holds stories that shaped our city.

Walk with us through hidden histories on the Great War to Race Riots tour.

📅 Sat 11 Oct, 11am
🎟️ bit.ly/46AJsGe

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