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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This reading is from the chapter The Trade Winds, in which Anna falls for the charismatic photographer Guillermo and impulsively drops everything to sail around the world with him. More of Anna’s adventures aboard can be seen in the BBC documentary she made about the journey: buff.ly/8vQtSd4

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A story of love, waves, and the arms trade - BBC Reel

A filmmaker remembers the love story that took her on a sailing trip around the world with Guillermo Cervera, a photographer whose father was involved in the international arms trade. Written and…

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

KILLING THE NERVE by annapazos.bsky.social, co-translated by cmctranslations.bsky.social & Laura McGloughlin is OUT THIS WEEK, published by Foundry Editions. "This novel will hit like a revelation; restless, questioning, and indelible." buff.ly/sJQqwNm

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Charlotte Coombe & Laura McGloughlin read from Anna Pazos' KILLING THE NERVE (Foundry Editions 2025)

In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the ‘Mediterranean…

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 05/06/2025

Sales of translated fiction so far in 2025 are up 8% compared with the same period in 2024, according to data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s TCM – although more than three quarters of that number is down to Asako Yuzuki’s Butter 👇 #BookSky

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I CAN believe it is Butter: translated fiction outstrips wider category

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

It seems like only yesterday that we started this little YouTube channel & now here we are, five years & several hundred videos later, immensely proud of the incredible repository of literary & translation talent we've showcased to the world. Thanks to all who contributed!🎉 buff.ly/L9ZSuwZ

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Starting tomorrow, we will be hosting another New Books in German feature week. A series of readings translated from German, all books seeking a publisher, with funding available. Stay tuned for some great readings from some very talented translators! @newgermanbooks.bsky.social

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Funding for English translations – New Books in German

Information on the guaranteed funding available through New Books in German

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Of course we wouldn't be able to fund the Translators Aloud BCLT bursary without your generous donations throughout the year, for which we are deeply grateful, thank you so much! Please do buy us a coffee if you're able; ALL monies go toward funding each year's bursary. 💚 ko-fi.com/translatorsa...

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We've just sent off the payment for our @bcltuea.bsky.social half-bursary for the 2025 Literary Translation Summer School! 🎉 We're SO delighted that we've been able to fund participation for another BIPOC translator and we look forward to introducing you to the recipient in due course!

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My translation of Zoé Derleyn's short story 'Yellow Dust' has just been published in the gorgeous spring issue of The Southern Review. 💛 The story is from the collection Je m’appelle Australie (Éditions du Rouergue, 2024) thesouthernreview.org/issues/detai... @southernreview.bsky.social

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@furiousleeper.bsky.social reads from Colombian writer Ricardo Silva Romero's RIO MUERTO (@worldedbooks.bsky.social): a wrenching tale of murder and survival; "a window into a violent world and a tale about a family suffering at the hands of paramilitarism and bad neighbours."

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Victor Meadowcroft reads from Ricardo Silva Romero's RIO MUERTO (World Editions, 2025)

On the outskirts of Belen del Chami, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salomón Palacios is murdered a few steps away from his ho...

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Lots of buzz at the moment about Emily Wilson and her performance-readings from her translations of Homer's #Odyssey. You can watch those readings (and so many more!) on our channel: check us out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1at...

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Emily Wilson's dramatic mini reading from Homer's The Odyssey - Book 1

YouTube video by Translators Aloud

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🛒 Check out all the amazing #translatorsaloud merch for sale on our website. 🛒 Funds raised go to supporting our bursary for the BCLT summer school.✍️ buff.ly/41dRMKv

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Business idea. Clothes made from rubber rings and lilos: float couture

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We are a completely unfunded operation - any funds we've raised over the years through kind donations, doing feature weeks & collaborations, or selling merch, have gone towards funding this #BCLT summer school bursary every year. Head to our website for ways to support us: www.translatorsaloud.com

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Translators Aloud – Translators reading translations

Translators Aloud is a YouTube channel devoted to sharing the work of literary translators, for both published and unpublished works.

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

For the last few years, Translators Aloud has been contributing to a bursary for the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School. In 2024 we funded a place for Makafane Tšepang Ntlamelle (@makafanentlamelle.bsky.social) who is a writer, among other things. He lives in Maseru, Lesotho.

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Translators Aloud is a completely unfunded operation. Any funds we've raised over the years through your kind donations, or by doing feature weeks, collaborations & selling merch, have gone towards funding this #BCLT summer school bursary every year. Check our website for ways you can support us 🙏

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Since 2022, #TranslatorsAloud has been contributing to a bursary for the #BCLT Literary Translation Summer School, either helping to fund a full place for a participant, or to cover travel costs... Our first recipient in 2022 was Bryony Lau, who joined the multilingual prose workshop with @antonhur.

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Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse @missadadoom.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello, and welcome to my poetry corner.

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"The Cafe with No Name" by Robert Seethaler, and by the translator with no name, apparently 🙄 Got this promotional email in my inbox today, with not one mention of @katyderbyshire.bsky.social in the whole text. Why does Europa keep doing this? It drives me up the wall... #namethetranslator

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"The point is, we make it our own, all while throwing the occasional loving, respectful glance back at our mother-text, to make sure she is still there..." I love Rosalind Harvey's incredible, personal essay on our relationship with translation. Hard relate 💗 wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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Is That a Familiar Feeling? - Words Without Borders

In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the un...

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you’re an author or book person (in any capacity) can you reply, tell me about yourself and I’ll share. Let’s make sure we’re all following each other. #booksky #authorsky

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ALT: a penguin wearing a hat is carrying a stack of books including a book that says " tudgy 101 "

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Starting tomorrow, every Friday we will be rewinding to the beginning of time... Well, back to when we started #TranslatorsAloud in May 2020 😜 Ease into the weekend with a past gem, which you may or may not have seen before! Join us for #FlashbackFridays⚡ #books #xl8 #translation #reading

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

You may not have seen the beaming faces of your #translatorsaloud executive team in a while! So here we are, last spring, in Harrogate, where we will most likely have our annual Translators Aloud Team meetup again this year! 🌸 #clickbait #wewish Now we've got your attention...

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Esther Allen @eallen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Currently researching #literarytranslation #mentorship programs anywhere in the world. If you run a literary translation mentorship, or are involved in one as mentor or mentee, I would be delighted to learn more about it from you.

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TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

A visit to the abandoned ‘Manhattan of La Mancha’ inspired Rosa Ribas’s Lejos (Far) TR: Charlotte Coombe Coming 16 July 2024 (that's tomorrow) theguardian.com/world/articl...

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‘Huge scars’: novelist finds a fractured Spain in its half-built houses

A visit to the abandoned ‘Manhattan of La Mancha’ inspired Rosa Ribas’s Lejos (Far), newly translated into English

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TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Far by Rosa Ribas TR: Charlotte Coombe Novel set in Central #Spain www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-in... A story of the "brick boom' in the country "..an unusual premise at its heart and it is overall a good read.."

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Novel set in Central SPAIN - TripFiction

Far by Rosa Ribas, novel set in Central Spain. TR: Charlotte Coombe. The book was inspired by a housing estate called Seseña, which was one of the

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

📚 Friends, colleagues, publishers and agents... I'll be attending The London Book Fair (LBF) from March 11-13, 2025 at Olympia London. 📚 Let me know if you'll also be there and would like to meet... It's the one week of the year that I'll be out of my loungewear and out in the world 🤣 ✨ #LBF25

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I've registered for The London Book Fair 2025, join me!

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In a bid to battle the robots and get more translation projects paid at rates that reflect my skill level and nigh-on two decades of professional experience, I've revamped my website/portfolio to kick off 2025: 👩‍💻 www.cmctranslations.com 🤖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TII... #humantranslation #noAI #xl8

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 27/01/2025

EXTREMELY HEARTENING PUBLISHING NEWS: for the first time, the Indie Alliance (an alliance of some of the best UK Independent publishers of which we're a founding member) has landed fourth in the top 5 publishers of 2024 @the-bookseller.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/review-...

A table showing the top 5 publishers in the UK by volume, ranked:

1 - PRH, with a value of £389 million
2 - Hachette, with a value of £241 million
3 - HaperCollins, with a value of £165 million
4* - The Indie Alliance with a value of £92 million
5- Pan Macmillan, with a value of £90 million

* The Indie Alliance has been listed as a sales alliance, as opposed to the other four big publishing conglomerates who are organised under a single company

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I apparently needed to release approximately five gallons of salt water from my eyes this evening, so this was a good classic choice 😭💗 #beaches @bettemidlermusic.bsky.social

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

editing a machine translated text is pure drudgery and takes more energy than actually just translating from scratch. Let the machines edit if they're so clever (they are not)

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Give me ONE reason for us to use AI (in any industry) that doesn't ultimately come down to 'because it saves rich people and big corporations' money...literally just ONE and I'll listen...if it's about improving OUR productivity then it should be OUR choice AND should come at no cost to us

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Every commercial for AI is basically “look, you’re a fucking moron, but we’ll help you fake it!” and it feels like they really do get their target audience.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 03/12/2024

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

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