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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our exciting subscription boxes for Read the World A to Z are now available! Set 1 ships in 3 packages and include books by @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @marianatravacio.bsky.social @willmorningstar.bsky.social @jeremytiang.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social etc worldeditions.org/product/read...
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World Editions - Read the World A to Z Subscription Box 2026 & 2027: Argentina, Belgium, China, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy
The 2026 & 2027 Read the World A to Z the first nine books, shipped in three installments
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Michelle Mirabella @michellemirabella.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Thank you to J. Walsh for this beautiful review of Catalina Infante's The Cracks We Bear in @worldlittoday.bsky.social! The Cracks We Bear is out now, in my translation, from @worldedbooks.bsky.social.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 08/03/2026
THANK YOU AWP! We sold the ENTIRE print run of our first physical copy of TBQ! (A sampler issue we slapped together!) Your support and kind words mean everything to us! Take note Taco Bell Overlords, I am now making cash hand over fist. Give me 50 million dollars for Literature!
The Taco Bell quarterly booth at awp 2026 in Baltimore
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We're excited to offer a new webinar for our members - Beyond Pitching: Other Routes to Work! Join PELTA members @rahulbery.bsky.social, Sophie Lewis & Nina Perrotta to learn about reader reports, publishing in journals, translating samples & more - free to members! Joining info on our website!
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Michelle Mirabella @michellemirabella.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My author, Catalina Infante Beovic, is on the cover of @worldlittoday.bsky.social!!! Inside you’ll find a new Infante Beovic story in my translation, my Q&A with Infante Beovic, and a review of our English-language book-length debut The Cracks We Bear (@worldedbooks.bsky.social)!
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Huge congratulations to PELTA member Padma Viswanathan, whose translation of Ana Paula Maia's 'On Earth As It Is Beneath' has been shortlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com #InternationalBooker2026!
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The French translation of #PostcardStories has just arrived on my doorstep. Translated by students of the University of Lorraine and published by Editions de L’Oxalide. This is the second translation from the original Emma Press publications.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We're delighted to bring you the first in our series of PELTA member spotlights, where we'll be introducing you to some of the fantastic translators who make up PELTA! First up, the brilliant @furiousleeper.bsky.social hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/p...
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PELTA MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
5 Questions + 2 for Victor Meadowcroft Answer all five … 1. How did you become a translator? And why Portuguese? My parents moved to Portugal when I was two years old and I lived there until I left…
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Hurray! Rio Muerto is on the list! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Ricardo Silva Romero! 🥂🥂🥂
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
PELTA, the origin story! Cristina Pinto-Bailey spoke to Daniel Hahn & Padma Viswanathan, two of PELTA's founders, to find out about the vision around which PELTA was based, and its plans for the future. Check it out on the PELTA Blog: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/p...
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We commissioned The American Way in '21 after the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end. How wrong we were. 📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
PELTA wishes happy holidays to all its members and friends - and hopes everyone gifts, receives and reads lots of books by wonderful Lusophone authors over the holidays and in 2026!
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Victor Meadowcroft 🇨🇦 @furiousleeper.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Immensely proud to see my translation of Ricardo Silva's 'Río Muerto' featured on the longlist for the 2026 PEN Translation Prize among such fantastic company! I'll be forever grateful to @worldedbooks.bsky.social for considering me as the translator for this powerful, moving and timely novel.
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Congratulations, Ricardo Silva Romero and @furiousleeper.bsky.social! So thrilled to see Rio Muerto on the list! 🍾🥂🍾
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Congratulations to all of the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards nominees! With a list that includes biography, poetry, translation, science writing, and more, this year’s longlist has something for every reader. Join us in celebrating this year’s nominees, see here: pen.org/announcing-t...
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Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
#SFinTranslation coming out in 2026, so far: from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @unnamedpress.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bsky.social, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, and more www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=15892
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“Do you imagine in your wildest dreams that now we have tasted freedom we are going to let ourselves be pushed around once more by you and your leering mate?” #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/t...
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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Born in Lancashire in 1917, Leonora Carrington is perhaps now best known as a surrealist artist; in 2024, one of her artworks sold for $28.5 million. During her career, however, she also wrote nove…
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We're delighted to invite our members to PELTA's traditional end-of-year holiday social on December 11 at 6pm (UK time) on Zoom! Please RSVP to our PELTA Chair, and if you're not a member yet, you can still join in time to participate in the merriest of all celebrations!
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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿 To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🔔FUNDRAISER ALERT!🔔 Dear friends, our OG Bonfire store is still open and selling all kinds of merch! We're already fundraising to support a BIPOC translator for the 2026 @bcltuea.bsky.social summer school, so start your #Christmas shopping early with us right here: www.bonfire.com/store/transl...
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Translators Aloud | Official Merchandise | Bonfire
Bringing literary translators out of the shadows, and into the limelight where they belong. . We are raising funds to sponsor full residential participation for a translator...
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 20/10/2025
PinT Book Club 20th session | PinT Book Club www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...
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PinT Book Club 20th session | PinT Book Club
Online Book Club focusing on translated fiction from Portuguese-language countries. Join us to discuss THE WIND WHISTLING IN THE CRANES by Portuguese author Lídia Jorge.
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880–1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk
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Samantha Pious reads from CACTUS FLOWERS: SELECTED POEMS, Judith Teixeira (Headmistress Press, 2025)
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
FREE BOOK EVENT🎟️📚 Join us tomorrow at @bookcornerhx.bsky.social w/ authors David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y Alam for readings and chat about 'The Book of Bradford', a new anthology in celebration of @bradford2025.co.uk 🎉 Free entry but RSVP👇🎟️ bookcornerhalifax.com/town/
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gothic whore @brujaespecial.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Friday morning plans: get cozy with @southwestreview.bsky.social’s THE HORROR ISSUE.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Angolan poet & historian Ana Paula Tavares has won the 2025 Camões Prize for literature in the Portuguese language! "Awarding the prize to Ana Paula Tavares celebrates the strength and beauty of Lusophone literature," said Brazil's culture minister, Margareth Menezes. www.gov.br/bn/pt-br/cen...
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Poeta angolana Ana Paula Tavares conquista o Prêmio Camões 2025
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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Published today: A literary celebration of Christmas south of the equator where the holiday falls in Brazilian summer and festivities are punctuated by rhythms of surf and samba. It's the tenth volume in the New Vessel Press holiday anthology series. newvesselpress.com/books/very-b...
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Andrew McDougall @andymcd90.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Delighted to have one of my translations in this book. Just look at that cover! 💚🇧🇷🎄
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It's #BannedBooksWeek! @everylibrary.bsky.social is hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syria’s most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature. Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My translation of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...
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Legs
Irina is a rural paramedic in some Russian region. She moved here alone. She likes these parts; her great-grandparents were from here. She moved into her ancestral home and restored it. Her parents we...
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Delighted to feature @rosefacchini.bsky.social reading from INN OF THE SURVIVORS, out now from @snugglybooks.bsky.social, a visionary & highly relevant tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world set amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic.
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Rose Facchini reads from Maico Morellini's INN OF THE SURVIVORS (Snuggly Books, 2025)
A visionary tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world. Amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic, this is both an existential story of homesickness and a…
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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our translation grants – #PENTranslates, including PEN Translates x SALT, and #PENPresents: Brazil – are NOW OPEN for submissions! Find out more, apply & share ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/translation/...
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Current translation grant opportunities - English PEN
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
PUBLISHED TODAY. "Midnight Timetable", the new literary horror collection from Bora Chung, author of the phenomenal "Cursed Bunny" We have a few SIGNED copies! You can get one HERE. biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Front cover of "Midnight Timetable"Bora Chung's signature inside the book.
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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Whether you crave a comfort read or (like our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social) something unsettling and all-around spooky come the start of October, this year brings us plenty of new books to look forward to! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/01/1...
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12 Must-Read Books of October 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Here are the 12 books you need to read this October.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Starting DIVING BOARD by Tomás Downey, tr from the Spanish by Sarah Moses, from Invisible Publishing invisiblepublishing.com/product/divi... #SFinTranslation
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Diving Board · Invisible Publishing
by Tomás Downey Translated by Sarah Moses 192 pages / 8" x 5" Forthcoming 7 October 2025 FICTION / World Literature / Argentina / Hispanic & Latino / Science Fiction / Short Stories
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Natalia Garcia Freire! www.cercadorprize.com
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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help. open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/w... (This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)
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What does it cost to produce a book?
Why small presses in the UK are struggling - and what can be done about it.
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Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
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Consider the Snail — The Dial
“In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Such a wonderful day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of @jeremytiang.bsky.social‘s State of Emergency!
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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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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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! 🗳️ 📖
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Yesterday the brilliant Julia Sanches gave her fellow PELTA members a fascinating & valuable insight into the intricacies of translation contract negotiation. PELTA regularly offers such workshops to its members - if you're a translator working in Portuguese & aren't yet a member, why not join us?
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, “A Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul." @holaculturadc.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social holacultura.com/corruption-a...
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Corruption And The Natural World In ‘A Carnival Of Atrocities’ | Hola Cultura
Stripped of her family, home and identity by the supposedly pious people of Cocuán, all that is left for Mildred is her hatred. In her rage, she curses the
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
THE BOOK OF BRADFORD #Giveaway 📚 Can you name the 10 #Bradford landmarks on The Book of Bradford cover? First person to like, share & answer all 10 correctly will receive a copy of this upcoming anthology specially commissioned for @bradford2025.co.uk! 🥳 📚 commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
‘Blasim’s demotic documentary tone is not just authentic, it is also revolutionary in form... The result is prose as urgent and innovative in its style as it is uncompromising in its content.’ - @thetls.bsky.social ✍️ Alev Adil on 'Sololand' by Hassan Blasim 📃 www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Future refugees
The three novellas in Sololand, Hassan Blasim’s fourth work of fiction, confront the reader with uncomfortable home truths about life in Iraq – and
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BookBlast® Official @bookblast.org · 13/09/2025
Updated Post: Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations bookblast.org/blog/natalia...
Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🐊🐊🐊 Extremely cool news!!! @monaojedaf.bsky.social !!! deadline.com/2025/09/dieg...
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Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal & Nick Antosca Adapting Coming-Of-Age Horror Novel ‘Jawbone’ For TV
Monica Ojeda's novel Jawbone is being developed for television by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Nick Antosca.
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