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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This beautiful novel, located between Iran and Germany, came out in the UK last week. 'The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran' ... what savagely ironic timing. Look at this gorgeous writing by author Shida Bazyar and translator Ruth Martin @dances-with-voles.bsky.social. Please read it. shorturl.at/P0tz8

Blue cover of 'The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran' by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin

Blurb on the back of the book, which begins 'A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran.'

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Whoop whoop! Coming soon: #NinoHaratischwili 's #TheLackOfLight, tr. Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin. HarperVia: "This immersive, character-driven epic is one to get lost in, especially for fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, Isabel Allende, and stories that centre female friendship."

Cover of The Lack of Light: b/w photo of a woman pushing aside a net curtain to look out of a tall window. The title lettering is in a delicate pale lilac-yellow-turquoise wash.

Black and white photo of a woman halfway up an old-fashioned staircase, looking up. Over it, white text reads: "The Lack of Light is an immersive, sweeping epic set against the backdrop of Tbilisi, about a group of four women who formed a deep friendship in the turbulent years leading up to and after Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union."

Black-and-white close-up photo of Nino Haratischwili, looking straight down the lens and framing her face with both hands. She has striking features, with pale skin, dark eyes, hair and eyebrows, and dark lipstick. The text at the bottom reads: "Nino Haratischwili was born in Tbilisi and is an acclaimed and award-winning novelist and dramatist, and among the most important authors of contemporary German literature. Her international bestseller "The Eighth Life (for Brilka)" was translated into thirty languages and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Haratischwili lives in Berlin."

Close-up colour photos of Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, both white women with dark brown hair.
The text reads: "From the note on the translation: 'It is perhaps surprising how rarely literary works take supportive female friendship as their central theme, and in the "The Lack of Light" it is absolutely fundamental. It feels apt that, in the making of this translation, our own friendship and ongoing collaboration have become part of the book's journey into English.'"

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A wonderful event hosted by the Austrian Ambassador in London on Tuesday to celebrate Eva Menasse and her novel DARKENBLOOM (tr. by me). Exhilarating reading to a room packed to capacity with interested (potential) readers! Many thanks to @austriainuk.bsky.social and to all who came.

Two women stand side by side holding a copy of a book. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress patterned with big red and green flowers, the same colours as the book's cover.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Renowned Austrian author Eva #Menasse will be in the UK to discuss her work, in particular her most recent novel DARKENBLOOM, at events in Cambridge (21 March, @caiuscollege.bsky.social) and Brighton (24 March, @brightonuni.bsky.social). Please come! Registration links in thread below. 💙📚 #booksky

Flyer for the Cambridge event, with photos of Eva Menasse, Charlotte Collins, and the cover of DARKENBLOOM.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Great to see the work of so many outstanding colleagues acknowledged @societyofauthors.bsky.social #TranslationPrizes at the British Library last night. Extra hurrahs from this corner for the Germanists, esp. winner Andrew Shanks and runner-up Imogen Taylor, + a shout-out to Natasha Lehrer 👋🎉

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"GEORGIA CALLING! EUROPE, ARE YOU LISTENING?" In this outstanding and important article, author Nino Haratischvili pleads with Europe to take what is happening in Georgia seriously. Please share. www.eurolitnetwork.com/georgia-call...

Portrait of the author Nino Haratischvili. She has dark hair, dark eyes and red lipstick, and is wearing a black T-shirt and sunglasses perched on top of her head.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I mean, WHAT?! Jaw nearly hit the floor when I wandered in to do a spot of work here. Bibliothèque Richelieu, Paris. Free entry. See you again tomorrow.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Darkenbloom is an epic achievement that ought to take its place as an essential text of European literature." Fabulous review in the TLS! 😃 #Menasse #BookSky 💙📚

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

That warm, fuzzy feeling when you visit your local bookshop and find *both* your new translations close together, prominently displayed and outward-facing! Thank you, Heffers. 🙌😚 #Darkenbloom #EvaMenasse #TheGranddaughter #BernhardSchlink #BookSky 💙📚

Hardback books displayed on bookshelves. Two rows are visible; 'Darkenbloom' is facing out top left, 'The Granddaughter' bottom right.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

THE HOTEL: linked short stories by Daisy Johnson. Remarkable writing.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Succumbed to temptation at the lovely Book Stop in Tavistock. Navalny’s telling of his story makes compulsive reading in Arch Tait’s fizzing translation - looking forward to @bdralyuk.bsky.social’s of Andrey Kurkov - & Daisy Johnson’s superb linked short stories for Radio 4 now FINALLY in book form!

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Loving this review of Eva Menasse's DARKENBLOOM in the Mail! "Glittering novel... spine tinglingly strange... chillingly entertaining". Spot on! 💙📚

Photo of review of DARKENBLOOM by Eva Menasse in the Daily Mail

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

#brookeentrytax #proofofcat (proof of ex-cats, to be precise, but they are still very loved)

Close-up of the heads of two cats, snuggling close together on a fluffy grey blanket. On the left is a black cat, looking at his black-and-white sister on the right.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What is one of your comfort movies?

A still from the 1970 film "The Railway Children", showing three children from the back, standing in front of an approaching steam train. Roberta, the eldest, stands on the track waving red petticoats to warn the train to stop.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

'A novel of great ambition and achievement'! Great review of Eva Menasse's DARKENBLOOM (tr. by me) in @thetimes.com yesterday. Published this week by Scribe UK.

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Publication day! At Wimbledon Bookfest last night for a fascinating conversation between Bernhard Schlink and Robin Lustig about Bernhard's outstanding new novel, THE GRANDDAUGHTER (translated by me, out now from W&N). Covered East/West Germany, fall of the Wall, rise of the far right/AfD, & more.

Cover of Bernhard Schlink's 'The Granddaughter', featuring a teenage girl with long, naturally bright orange hair.

Charlotte Collins and Bernhard Schlink standing in front of Wimbledon Bookfest banners.

Cover blurb quotes for 'The Granddaughter'

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Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Translation delivered. 🥂🙌 Bernhard Schlink’s THE GRANDDAUGHTER begins as an East/West German love story before delving into the heart of Germany’s contemporary far-right völkisch community. For Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pub date October '24.

Cover of German edition: Bernhard Schlink, Die Enkelin

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