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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Congratulations to Daniel Gustafsson. Just spent a few days kicking around Croatia with him as part of the Lit Link festival. Not only is he an excellent translator, but he’s published what sounds like an amazing novel centered around oyster farming. And a fun travel companion!

Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 3h

yer man's Swedish translators reaction when you only congratulate his English translators

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! One of my favorite reads this year. I've reread passages.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!

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GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social · 2d

This book haunts me. It’s absolutely amazing. Quite possibly the best book @sandorfpassage.bsky.social has ever published. Don’t miss out on this book.

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 7d

If only all bookstores pushed @sandorfpassage.bsky.social titles like they do here in Zagreb.

Sandorf Passage books on display in a bookstore in Zagreb, Croatia

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 8d

I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!

The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders

This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.

wordswithoutborders.org

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 8d

It’s International Translation Day! Great to see @tobiascarroll.bsky.social has included Ellen Elias-Bursać’s translation of Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić, winner of the 2023 European Union Prize for Literature, on the @wwborders.bsky.social September Watchlist. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders

This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.

wordswithoutborders.org

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 9d

Bedbugs (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać) is the September pick for the Asymptote Book Club! “Pushing the frenetic and confessional potentials of the epistolary form, Martina Vidaić charts the psychological dissolution of her protagonist.” Read the full review here: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

Announcing Our September Book Club Selection: Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić - Asymptote Blog

Vidaić’s novel calls out and works within irreconcilable contrasts: inside and outside, urban and rural, educated and less so. . .

www.asymptotejournal.com

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 15d

“What I saw in this text was not just the pain of gender and patriarchal constraint but the resilience and complexity of identity forged at its margins.” Reading in Translation interviews @izidoraangel.bsky.social about Rene Karabash’s She Who Remains. readingintranslation.com/2025/09/22/i...

Izidora Angel on Translating from Bulgarian Rene Karabash's "She Who Remains"

In this interview, Izidora Angel unravels some of the mysteries behind her latest translation, discusses her choices and decisions as a translator, and hints at some of her own creative writing projec...

readingintranslation.com

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 17d

📢 Translators, you too can join the @alcs.co.uk and get paid for having your books checked out of the library.

A lifetime membership costs just £36. They take it out of your first payment, so you don’t pay a penny up front.

Since I joined in 2020, I have received £515.45! What are you waiting for?

ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 17d

🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!

Find out more:
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-di...

Your distribution questions answered

This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572. Get answers to your most pressing questions about our latest distribution.

www.alcs.co.uk

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 18d

Before and after: @bkbookfest.bsky.social table #334 before the book lovers show up. See you today?

Sandorf Passage table at Brooklyn Book Festival before setting up

Sandorf Passage Brooklyn Book Festival table after setting up

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20d

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 21d

After you pick up your @wwborders.bsky.social passport @bkbookfest.bsky.social this weekend, swing by booth #334 to get your passport stamped, and, you know, buy some books!

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 27d

Are you headed to the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Festival Day on September 21? So are we! Come find us at booth #308. We’ll have a raffle full of books and other goodies from our partner presses, WWB stickers, international candy, and as always, we’ll be excited to chat about our work with you!

Catch us at the Brooklyn Book Festival, September 14-22, 2025
Booth 308
Sunday, 9/21
Festival Day & Literary Marketplace

We’re partnering with translation presses at the festival to bring you the global lit-themed raffle prizes of your dreams!
Visit our booth to find out how to enter the raffle, chat with us about international literature, and snag international candy and WWB stickers while supplies last

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 21d

We’re thrilled that @gayadorno.bsky.social, who is responsible for the brilliant translation from Kurdish of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, is one of the literary hosts for this year’s @wwborders.bsky.social gala!

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 23d

Exciting news for your Monday: Today, we announced the literary hosts for our Annual Gala on October 29! Join host Vanessa Chan and @natashawimmer.bsky.social , @meghamaj.bsky.social , @monaeltahawy.bsky.social , and more writers and translators for an evening of global lit: wwborders.live/2025Gala

Introducing this year’s literary hosts at the
Words Without Borders Annual Gala
Wednesday, October 29
Edison Ballroom in NYC

Words Without Borders
Annual Gala
Literary Hosts
For more information and tickets:
wwborders.live/2025Gala
+ square photos of all 23 literary hosts

Words Without Borders Annual Gala
Hosted by
Vanessa Chan
Author of The Storm We Made
wwborders.live/2025Gala
+ a photo of Vanessa Chan

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 22d

We always do, especially when the forecast looks as good as it does for this weekend!

sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 22d

September is both #nationaltranslationmonth and @bkbookfest.bsky.social. So here are some translated novels (and a poetry collection) that will be on sale this Sunday at booth #334. Of course, we’ll have more to choose from. So, swing by, say hey, and buy some books!

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 27d

Read Vera Mutafchieva’s THE CASE OF CEM (@sandorfpassage.bsky.social) this #TranslationMonth!

This novel translated by Angela Rodel is a “blend of court intrigue, tragedy, and historical fact that masterfully captures complex layers of history.” —Asymptote Journal sandorfpassage.org/product/the-...

The Case of Cem – sandorfpassage.org

This will only take a…

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · Sep 8

For anyone who missed this on Friday, @coryoldweiler.bsky.social wrote a great review of Bedbugs, winner of the 2023 European Union Prize for Literature, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Elias-Bursać’s translation is linguistically lovely and stylistically luxurious.” @coryoldweiler.bsky.social gets under the hood on the translation of Bedbugs and rightly recognizes how this novel distinguishes itself from other contemporary Croatian ones. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-li...

A Life Infested with Doubt | Los Angeles Review of Books

Cory Oldweiler reviews Croatian author Martina Vidaić’s novel “Bedbugs,” newly translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Haven’t had many opportunities lately to write about fiction from the Balkans, but I’m thankful @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social gave me a chance to review Croatian author Martina Vidaić's novel "Bedbugs," trans. by Ellen Elias-Bursać, about a woman at an inflection point in her life.

A Life Infested with Doubt | Los Angeles Review of Books

Cory Oldweiler reviews Croatian author Martina Vidaić’s novel “Bedbugs,” newly translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać.

lareviewofbooks.org

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Elias-Bursać’s translation is linguistically lovely and stylistically luxurious.” @coryoldweiler.bsky.social gets under the hood on the translation of Bedbugs and rightly recognizes how this novel distinguishes itself from other contemporary Croatian ones. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-li...

A Life Infested with Doubt | Los Angeles Review of Books

Cory Oldweiler reviews Croatian author Martina Vidaić’s novel “Bedbugs,” newly translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · Sep 4

Annual reminder: The best beaches are #Maine beaches in September.

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · Sep 3

Books read in August, highlights were The Case of Cem, the Taubes, and Night Journey, magical books for WIT month. Personal narrative in comic form was also prevalent this month, Pittsburgh was a favorite and would recommend the others as well. 📚✨

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy publication day to Martina Vidaić’s Bedbugs (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać), winner of the 2023 European Union Prize for Literature. This novel delivers impressive insight into a psyche damaged not by the trauma of war, but by the intrinsic, and often isolating, difficulties of the human condition.

Front flap from the novel Bedbugs, which features an excerpt from the novel

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · Sep 1

Goodbye #witmonth, hello #nationaltranslationmonth! Of course, for us, most months are all about celebrating a dynamic range of translated work, like these three of our next four releases, including the 2023 EU Prize for Literature winner, Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić, which is out tomorrow!

Covers of Bedbugs, Closed Season, and She Who Remains

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 30

Bea Vianen’s MY NAME IS SITA (@sandorfpassage.bsky.social) “shadows Sita, a young East Indian girl, as she copes with the loss of her mother and defends herself against her father’s many mistakes.”

This 1969 novel translated by Kristen Gehrman is on our #WITMonth list! bookshop.org/p/books/my-n...

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