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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

@laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social
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Caribbeanist. Literary translator. Lecturing Translation and Translation Studies @NantesUniversité. ❤️ in 🇵🇷. Author of The Caribbean in Translation @PeterLangBooks. She/her.

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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣 Translation webinar: "Detours in Translation" Bénédicte Letellier and I are pleased to resume our translation webinar series this year. See the attached programme for details. 📅 The first session is coming up this Friday - check the poster for the Zoom link. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New this week on the Reading in Translation website, as part of 'Archipelagic Francospheres: Transoceanic Dialogues through Translation', co-edited with@nathanhdize.bsky.social! Many thanks to all the authors and translators who contributed to the special issue!
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 2nd intalment of the special issue on 'Archipelagic Francospheres: Transoceanic Dialogues through Translation' that @nathanhdize.bsky.social and I co-edited for Reading in Translation is now out! 🎉 Many thanks to @sunshineabroad.bsky.social, Maëlle Zemirline and my co-translator Karen Fleetwood!
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Delighted to announce that the 1st batch of 'Archipelagic Francospheres' is out! 🎉 The issue is being released incrementally, with more contributions to come. 🥰 Many thanks to all our contributors! @juliafrengs.bsky.social @katiehammitt.bsky.social readingintranslation.com/archipelagic...
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
COMING SOON! 🎉 @nathanhdize.bsky.social and I are thrilled to celebrate translation with our special issue of Reading in Translation! Three instalments throughout September, as #WomenInTranslationMonth wraps up and #InternationalTranslationDay approaches. First contributions out on Monday!
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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
2027 Critical Island Studies Conference | Archipelagic Mobilities and Infrastructures | Critical Island Studies Consortium (CIS) | April 1-3, 2027 | Sunchon National University | Submission Deadline: November 2, 2026 | For more information, visit here: www.2027cis.org
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thank you @smallaxeproject.bsky.social for creating this space for discussion!
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to spotlight another section of the 'Wuthering Heights in Translation' online exhibition this week, featuring @univ-nantes.fr FLCE students' imaginative rewritings of Emily Brontë's classic. Discover how they bring new perspectives to a timeless novel. 📚✨ bu.univ-nantes.fr/animations-c...
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Les éditions @rotbokrik.bsky.social font un travail essentiel de décolonisation du monde du livre. Aujourd'hui, elles sont durement touchées par la faillite de Makassar. Je choisis de les soutenir. Et vous ? Chaque contribution peut faire la différence. 📚 www.helloasso.com/associations...
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Soutien aux éditions Rot-Bo-Krik
Financement participatif organisé par ROT-BO-KRIK - Suite à la faillite de notre distributeur Makassar, nos caisses sont vides. Aidez-nous à financer le reste de notre programme pour 2026 !
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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What are you reading for #WITMonth? To celebrate Women in Translation Month, we have put together a discounted bundle of three titles from some of our favourite women authors and translators. Follow the link below to order now and stock your #TBRpile this August. bullaunpress.com/books/women-...
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
SX80 is now available! 🎊 This issue is available digitally through Duke University Press ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
✨ How many afterlives can a classic novel have? ✨ Explore Wuthering Heights across stage, screen, and music through student projects featured in the online exhibition “Wuthering Heights in Translation" @univ-nantes.fr Stay tuned for more (re)translations and rewritings in the coming weeks!
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New issue coming soon! 🎉 We are proud to continue celebrating 30 years of the Small Axe Journal with our next issue, SX 80, to be published July 2026. Take a look at the table of contents, and stay tuned for its release in July! SX80 will be available online through @dukepress.bsky.social
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📣Delighted to share that our online exhibition, Wuthering Heights in Translation, is now live!🥳 Created w/ 3rd-year English Studies students @univ-nantes.fr, it explores the many afterlives of Emily Brontë's novel through translation, adaptation & rewriting. bu.univ-nantes.fr/animations-c...
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'Wuthering Heights in Translation' : exposition en ligne
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Très heureuse d’apprendre la réédition de ce magnifique recueil de poèmes du Martiniquais Roger Parsemain, grâce aux éditions @atlande.bsky.social qui font un très beau travail permettant à la littérature caribéenne de circuler aux Antilles et au-delà !
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Literary translation has long been undervalued and underpaid, and author incomes have been falling for years. Starting in July, we’ll offer WWB contributors 15% more for their work—but we can’t do it without your help. Invest in fair pay for literary artists: wwborders.live/2026SpringFundDrive
A photo of Jessica Cohen and the following text:

DONATE TODAY TO SUPPORT WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS.
“WWB shows how crucial— and achievable—it is to both showcase translated literature and concretely support the translators whose labor makes it possible.”
Jessica Cohen, 
award-winning translator and WWB contributorA photo of Michele Hutchison and the text

DONATE TODAY TO SUPPORT WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS.
“Fair pay is the foundation of sustainable creativity.”
Michele Hutchison, 
International Booker Prize winner and WWB contributorA photo of Sophie Hughes and the text:

DONATE TODAY TO SUPPORT WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS.
“It’s this simple: if you don’t pay us enough, we can’t spend enough time on making worthwhile art.”
Sophie Hughes, 
award-winning translator and regular WWB contributor
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Dublin Literary Award @dublinlitaward.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We are saddened to hear of the passing of author and poet David Malouf at 92. As the very first winner of the Dublin Literary Award in 1996 for Remembering Babylon, his work helped shape the story of our award from the beginning. His later novel Ransom was shortlisted for the award in 2011.
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David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92
Acclaimed Brisbane-born writer was known for his work exploring his own childhood, great myths and colonial Australia
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Also very excited to be part of a conversation on Why Translation Matters @ Nano Nagle Place in Cork this Friday @ 1pm. Tânia Ganho and I will talk about the lived practice of translation, its challenge, possibilities and future directions. Come and join us to celebrate translation!
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Delighted to participate in a conversation with Gaëlle Bélem on The Rarest Fruit (published by @bullaunpress.bsky.social and co-translated w/ Karen Fleetwood) this Thursday as part of @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social. Can’t wait to talk about Reunionese literature and island-to-island translation!
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Cork World Book Fest @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
We take the ‘World’ part of Cork World Book Fest very seriously indeed.
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Really looking forward to taking part in this year’s Cork World Book Fest! @gaellebelem.bsky.social and I will be in conversation about her second novel, The Rarest Fruit, co-translated with Karen Fleetwood.
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ActuaLitté @actualitte.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
actualitte.com/article/1297... Amazon quitte le Festival du livre de Paris après une polémique publique. Mais derrière l’affrontement symbolique, une question demeure : d’où vient l’argent qui finance l’événement ? Une mécanique de financement moins lisible qu’il n’y paraît.
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Festival du Livre de Paris : derrière la polémique Amazon, la vraie question de l’argent
La présence annoncée d’Amazon parmi les partenaires du Festival du Livre de Paris 2026 aura déclenché une salve de boulets rouges. À l’initiative du Synd...
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Tonight we announce the winners of our 2025 Translation Prizes. Nine literary translators and one editor will be honoured at a ceremony at the British Library, celebrating outstanding translations of prose, poetry and non-fiction, from languages from around the globe and across a range of genres.
A pile of the winning books.
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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Universités : « La mort du service public est en train d’être organisée ». Dans un courrier adressé à Emmanuel Macron, la présidente de l’université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier s’est faite le relais du désespoir des personnels. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
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Universités : « La mort du service public est en train d’être organisée »
Dans un courrier adressé à Emmanuel Macron, Anne Fraïsse, présidente de l’université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier, s’est faite le relais du désespoir des personnels. La missive est pour le moment resté…
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I miss you, Dublin!
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Thrilled to hear that the latest issue of Mémoires du livre on in/visibility and discoverability in the book industry is now available OA! Can’t wait to read all contributions. Many thanks to guest editors @julienlf.bsky.social and @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social. www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
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Politiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine. Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2025 – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
Read this issue of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture on Érudit. Discipline: Literary Studies, History.
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Latest issue of Alizés out! Karen Fleetwood & I contributed our English translation of Roger Parsemain’s 'D'lo d’Amérik'. In our Translators’ Note, we reflect on the crucial importance of building transoceanic, island-to-island bridges through translation, linking 🇲🇶 & 🇷🇪. alizes.univ-reunion.fr/343
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45 | 2025 - Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments – Alizés
Alizés is a bilingual English-French journal devoted to English studies : civilisation studies, literature, linguistics and didactics.
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Delighted to be shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff prize, together with Karen Fleetwood for our translation of Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door, pub. by @bullaunpress.bsky.social. Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation prizes!
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Please join us for this free literary event with author Fabienne Jonca next Saturday 06/12 @3pm at Maison de l’Afrique in Nantes. She will talk about her beautiful debut novel ‘Brown Baby’ (Atelier des nomades).📚🎁
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Today is St Jerome day, also known as International Translation Day, so I want to pay a tribute to my third-year students’ wonderful work and collaborative translation projects from last semester, which led to an exhibition at the BU Lettres, at Nantes University 🥰
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Primer congreso de literatura del género de la salsa a partir de este viernes en San Juan, 🇵🇷
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Delighted to announce that the latest issue of the Irish Journal of French Studies on ´Passages’, coedited with my dear colleague @19thc-charlotte.bsky.social, is now available OA! Many thanks to all contributors, reviewers and to the journal editors. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/irjo...
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Irish Journal of French Studies: Ingenta Connect Table Of Contents
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2025
Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
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Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony Irish author Sally Rooney could not travel to collect a literary prize this week over concerns that she may be arrested if she enters the UK, given her support of banned group Palestine Action. Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for her fourth novel, Intermezzo. At a ceremony on Tuesday, audiences were told that Rooney “couldn’t be here”, before her editor, Faber publisher Alex Bowler, collected the award on her behalf. Continue reading...
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Vous vous intéressez à la traduction? Le webinaire de recherche « Traduction et détournements: une culture universelle du piratage? » que je co-organise avec Bénédicte Letellier (DIRE, Thalim CNRS) débutera le 2 octobre. Pour obtenir le lien de connexion, merci de m’écrire en MP.
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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
La Martinique, son pays de naissance, s’est souvenue de Frantz Fanon, né il y a cent ans, le 20 juillet 1925. Merci au Cercle Fanon d’avoir organisé ce vivifiant Colloque international autour des « Damnés de la terre ». Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant : Martinique, éveilleuse du monde.
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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Short post about the excellent second novel by Gaëlle Bélem, the work of @bullaunpress.bsky.social and translators Karen Fleetwood and @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social, and the pleasure of following her first novel's deserved journey to prize success: publishinginfrastructures.org/2025/05/12/g...
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Gaëlle Bélem in Translation - Publishing Infrastructures
Last autumn, Bullaun Press published the novel There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Réunionese author Gaëlle Bélem. Bullaun was founded by Bridget Farrell in 2021, and this was only their fourth book....
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Very happy to announce the opening of my students’ exhibition of their work on Reunionese literature in translation today at Nantes Université. Please come and join us at 4pm today to celebrate the opening. Details below. bu.univ-nantes.fr/animations-c...
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Exposition "La traduction au-delà des mots : une porte ouverte vers La Réunion" I BU Lettres
Du 12 mai au 27 juin 2025, la BU Lettres expose le projet de traduction collaborative réalisé par les étudiants de Licence LLCEr anglais de Nantes Université.
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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Have you picked up your copy yet? Check out the latest reviews for The Rarest Fruit by Gaëlle Bélem (tr. Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert): litechoes.com/the-rarest-f... ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/04/29/b... Out now on our website & in bookshops!
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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
OUT 1 MAY 2025 From the Republic of Consciousness prize-winning team, The Rarest Fruit tells the true story of Edmond Albius, an orphan born into slavery who unravelled the secret to hand-pollinating the vanilla orchid. Pre-order: bullaunpress.com/books/the-ra...
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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Join us in Merrion Square Park next month as we launch The Rarest Fruit, our second title from #InternationalBooker longlisted author Gaëlle Bélem. Hosted by @ilfdublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @franceinireland.bsky.social. Tickets via ILFD: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"…physical book retail in Ireland is hugely important for Irish publishers & Irish authors & Irish culture…" So grateful for all the Irish booksellers I've met the last few years, & bookshops I've spent so much time in over my life. They need support. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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How Irish booksellers feel about the arrival of Amazon.ie: ‘It’s a very real danger to the industry’
Bookshops offer something that an exclusively online retailer cannot, but they may need support to compete against a corporate giant
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Don't miss this, translators!
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 28/03/2025
The authors and translators nominated for the #InternationalBooker2025 reflect on the stories that sparked their love of lit – and continue to inspire them today ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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The 2025 longlistees on the book that made them fall in love with reading | The Booker Prizes
The authors and translators nominated for this year’s International Booker Prize reflect on the stories that sparked their love of lit – and continue to inspire them today
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
So happy for what this award means for Irish indie publisher @bullaunpress.bsky.social and for Reunionese literature! Lé gadiamb! 🥰 Very warm thanks to the judges of the 2025 UK/Ireland RofC Prize! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Bullaun Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize for ‘rollicking picaresque’ novel
Irish publisher receives award for small presses for Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door
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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Author Gaëlle Bélem & translator @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social had the pleasure of taking part in the Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlist Showcase earlier this month. This Tuesday 1 April, join us at Foyles Charing Cross Road for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize winner announcement.
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Registration for the 48th Annual SCS Conference is now open! 🥳 This year the conference will be held at the University of Bristol 2-4 July 2025. For more info, and to register, please see: community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/ We can't wait to see you there!
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2025 Annual Conference Registration – Society for Caribbean Studies
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/03/2025
Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62
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Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62
The writer, who found success with young adult novels, inspired one of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films which was based on the author’s childhood British writer Alex Wheatle, the author of books including East of Acre Lane and the Crongton series, has…
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Looking forward to taking part in the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses Showcase tonight in Deptford together with Gaëlle Bélem. See details below to join us. @bullaunpress.bsky.social
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Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It’s been 2 wonderful days of v. rich conversations with Gaëlle Bélem who kindly accepted to meet 3rd-year students at Nantes U to talk about her work. Students were captivated and are working on collaborative translation projects of her first novel. Can’t wait to see their translations! 🥰
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