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Jamie Lee Searle

@jamielsearle.bsky.social
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Translator, Editor and Mentor Royal Literary Fund Fellow Translating: Kim de l'Horizon, Joachim B. Schmidt, Anna Kim, Urs Faes and more jamieleesearle.com

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Translating Kim de l'Horizon's #Blutbuch has been one of the greatest, hardest, most joyous challenges of my literary translation career to date. To celebrate its publication week, Literary Hub have published a piece I wrote on the experience👇📚❤️
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
My translation of Kim de l'Horizon's stunning debut novel #Blutbuch was published yesterday, with @fsgbooks.bsky.social in the US and @sceptrebooks.bsky.social in the UK. To read an extract, head over to @literaryhub.bsky.social... 👇
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Putting the finishing touches to my #translation of the latest in the Brittany Mystery Series, and as always, I'm reluctant to part ways with the delightfully grumpy, caffeine-addicted Detective Dupin ☕🕵️ Out next spring with Macmillan USA. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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The Secrets of the Abbey
In international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec's The Secrets of the Abbey, between large inlets, the wild Atlantic, and enchanting apple orchards, a t...
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Couldn't agree more 📚 ❤️
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
One of the things I enjoy most about #literarytranslation is polishing the dialogue (where there is dialogue), and making it sound as natural as possible. In my own writing, I've always veered away from dialogue and felt intimidated by it. Something to lean into, I think!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Remember that episode of Friends where Julio the misogynist poet blames a 'bad translation' for not liking the book he's reading? I guess we'll never know if he read the original! #translation #clichés
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
With thanks to @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social and @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Absolutely *loved* taking part in yesterday's panel on Gender in Translation and AI for @bristoltranslates.bsky.social with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social, and being reunited with @roselab.bsky.social, the French translator of #Blutbuch, for the first time since our Swiss workshop ❤️
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Looking forward to discussing gender in translation and the limitations of AI at Bristol Translates, together with #Blutbuch's French translator, @roselab.bsky.social, in collaboration with the @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social and @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social @bristoltranslates.bsky.social
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Bristol Translates 2025 - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni
Keynote Lecture : Reading Like a Translator with Damion Searls Monday 7 July – 17.00 Free and open to all (registration required) The opening keynote will be delivered by renowned American translator ...
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
One of the first things that drew me to my partner was his exquisite taste in stationary. I'm now hooked on the same stuff, and it's an expensive habit 📝 #rulerofmyheart
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thanks Steph!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I wouldn't be surprised! My pleasure.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Author just arrived. Excited to have a piece in it, for the first time, on the process of translating #Blutbuch. It includes mischievous mountains, voice software, and dancing! @societyofauthors.bsky.social
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Mine too! Thank you for commissioning my piece on Blutbuch; it's great to see it in print :)
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
''Every piece of technology can either make us more human or less human […] In the formative stages of education, we are now at risk of stripping away the core competency that makes our species thrive: learning not what to think, but how to think.'' This is excellent 👇
forkingpaths.co
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A brass candlestick has just popped up on p. 96 of the mystery novel I'm #translating, and I'm so hoping it turns out to be the murder weapon.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Currently #translating a sample for an exciting upcoming title which opens with the Greek myth of Pandora, and I've gone down a rabbit hole of how it was originally a jar ('pithos') but seemingly mistranslated into Latin as a 'box' in the 16th C by the Renaissance humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam...
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Reading from my sample translation of Joachim B Schmidt's wonderful new novel Ósmann for @translatorsaloud.bsky.social #swisswriting #icelandicstories
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Ah, dictation software, how I love thee for the amusement you bring to my working day! A young woman has just been "rescued from the clutches of wild librarians" (rather than barbarians. Were they irate at her flagrant disregard for the Dewey Decimal System?). #amtranslating
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Abie Longstaff @abielongstaff.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My letter to the @theguardian.com on the META theft of our work. Will be in the physical paper tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Letter. Please follow the link if this isn't legible
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.new-books-in-german.com/the-journey-... NBG invited me to write a piece about the wild ride of translating Kim de l'Horizon's #Blutbuch, which is (finally!) out this August, with Sceptre in the UK, and FSG in the U.S. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @newgermanbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
new-books-in-german.com
The journey from Blutbuch to Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues – New Books in German
Reflections on translating award-winning Kim de l’Horizon's Blutbuch.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
societyofauthors.org/prizes/trans... The Goethe Institut's biennial Award for New Translation is open for entries, with an award of EUR 1,000 plus a trip to the Leipzig Book Fair & the International Translators' gathering at the LCB. Entry details below! 👇
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German - Goethe-Institut Award - The Society of Authors
The Society of Authors’ and the Goethe-Institut Londons’ biennial Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation. The Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation was founded in 2010 and is presented by the S...
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Thank you! Yes it was pretty toasty, and a great sun trap. It'd be a good place for a DIY writing retreat, I reckon.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Spent the weekend in a cabin in the frosty woods, listening to owls and crows. Now to dive into the final Blutbuch proofs and editing my translator's note - one last push!
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Kate Sotejeff-Wilson @katesw.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thank you @jamielsearle.bsky.social @joheinrich.bsky.social and @dances-with-voles.bsky.social for a great discussion with the @iti-uk.bsky.social #German network book club about team #translating Angela Merkel’s Freiheit! You drew in a crowd and we learned a lot about your process together.
Jamie Lee Searle, Ruth Martin and Jo Heinrich in conversation with Kate Sotejeff-Wilson on Zoom
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Saw #Maria last night. *Loved* Pierfrancesco Favino's subtle but scene-stealing turn as the butler. Also came out wanting to move to a fin-de-siecle apartment in Paris, and with a major craving for Fernet Branca.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Last night I dreamt I went to Porthcawl again. And I'm wondering if this would be a good writing prompt for a very un-Rebecca like novel... 🖋️
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I've resolved to start keeping a reading journal again this year - it always galvanized my reading in the past. Some intriguing titles on this @literaryhub.bsky.social list to get me started: lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Well, 2024 was fairly bad, and 2025 may in fact be worse. Regardless, we will be reading. Here are the books the Lit Hub staff is most excited to pick up in the (first half of the) year ahead. JANU…
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Just sent off my sample translation for Joachim B. Schmidt's forthcoming novel, and let me tell you it's an absolute corker! Not a Kalmann, this time, but wonderful regardless! Fingers crossed for an English-language rights acquisition 🤞🏻 @diogenesverlag.bsky.social
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The wonderful ProHelvetia have launched their open call for funding support: for residencies, sample translations and more. See their website for more info... 👇 prohelvetia.ch/en/find-supp...
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Find support - Pro Helvetia
This page provides an overview of our funding measures that are implemented by Pro Helvetia or in collaboration with third parties. It replaces the previous guidelines for applicants in the individual...
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Editorial meeting today with the #newbooksingerman team; debating the latest German-language fiction and non-fiction picks with these guys is absolutely one of my favourite roles 📚🙌 To find out which compelling titles have been selected previously, see: www.new-books-in-german.com/about-us/
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About Us – New Books in German
Information on New Books in German
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I'm currently doing the same! Support group tomorrow over margaritas? Also, keen to see what inspiration comes from this thread!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I don't think I realised until now just how much I needed tiny knitted cabbages in my life!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just taking a moment to appreciate the wonder of this little Christmas tree decoration that my partner's mum gave me. (Backstory: I'm an allotmenteer.) Gorgeous! #allotmentlove
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Congratulations to all the talented translators shortlisted for the 2024 Society of Authors' Translation Prizes! 📚👏 Full lists below... #literarytranslation #translationprizes
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thirty-seven ish years of reading; twenty plus years of working with words, and I've just discovered that legs/arms akimbo doesn't mean what I thought it did! #everydayaschoolday
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My sample translation of the intriguing opening to Lorena Simmel's debut novel 'Ferymont' is on the #TranslateSwissBooks website 👇 Published by @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social, and English-language rights are available 📚 translateswissbooks.ch/book/ferymont/
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Ferymont - Translate Swiss Books
“The strange thing about that summer was that time flew by, but the individual hours in the field, in the tunnels or in the reprocessing centre just didn't want to pass.” "If you take a break, it's ha...
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Twice a year, I get to review submissions to #newbooksingerman along with three fellow assessors, and it's absolutely one of my favourite things. In summer '22, #Blutbuch was among them, and its brilliance hit me like a rocket. What will this year bring?
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Aka what Adrian Mole did with the omitted 'e's?!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I fell over mine when I headed out to dinner in the dark 😂 DPD must've put them on the doorstep without ringing...
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 26/11/2024
Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ooh, yes please! 😍
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Congratulations, Charlotte, and what a wonderful title that is!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
That's infuriating. Especially as with twice the work, they almost certainly spent the entire summer working.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I miss the Friday calls too, Jo!
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Happy publication day to Angela Merkel's #Freedom, aka what I did this summer, along with seven wonderful fellow translators, for @panmacmillan.bsky.social.
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Yay! This is lovely news, and a great, happy pic. Sending big love x
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It's wonderful, isn't it! Glad to hear your post is going well :)
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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Today's academic-writing support sessions in my RLF role range from essays on 'The Wind in the Willows' to 'Alien'. The diverse work I get to engage with (and the students' energy) always brings a smile to my face. #royalliteraryfund
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