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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the latest @thetls.bsky.social, I review Iya Kiva’s uncompromising collection “Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters,” translated from Russian and Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk @huribooks.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy International Translation day! No better gift than having my latest translation in my hands. The earthy-ethereal, brutal-gentle poems by Dan Sociu in Deep Fakes will be available from World Poetry Books, with a beautiful cover by Ana Maria Micu, starting next week.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Why read a devastating book on the beach - when you can read three? Sooo goood

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

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Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I love this new Substack by Beca Sandu, an exploration of women's subjectivity -- and especially that of her mother and grandmother in Communist Romania. It's hard to describe what it is, you just have to read a few entries. Feels totally fresh to me as an approach. justmeandthebear.substack.com

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Just Me and the Bear | Rebeca Sandu | Substack

Notes on women's subjectivity inside and beyond dictatorship. Click to read Just Me and the Bear, by Rebeca Sandu, a Substack publication. Launched 24 days ago.

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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Dallas! Chicago! NYC! SF! DC! Tatiana Tîbuleac and Monica Cure are coming to you on an incredible 5-city tour to celebrate The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes — sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute! We’ll see you there.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), Italian aristocrat & pioneering figure in the early history of photography #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman holding a card with an oval hole to her eye, facing right wearing a dark dress

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“There is one thing I’m good at, and that’s looking at the sea.” —Marguerite Duras

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 05/04/2026

As the water temperature rises, the fish become more active and want to get through the door! Why not help them and ring the bell if you see one. A good way to spend some time this Easter northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/...

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Ring ring! Open the door, let me through! The Fish Doorbell

Every year in spring, a lovely side of humanity shows in the form of a fish doorbell in Utrecht, Netherlands, but what is it and what does it do?

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I was honored to take part in the public humanities project, Through the Lens of K-Drama, with a discussion of Crash Landing on You. Towards the end, I discuss how the show humanizes the geopolitics of division - something we very much need everywhere today www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSxb...

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Crash Landing on You: Life Under Communism in North Korea and Romania

YouTube video by Through the Lens of K-Drama

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

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Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island

Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"I’m not the first translator to say that translation can feel like a seance. There are all these voices and references at play in the text, and then you channel them like a medium – what do you hear, what do you mishear?" Michelle & I interviewed by English PEN pentransmissions.com/2026/02/19/n...

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Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja

Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 15/02/2026

"The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis." Empower the arts ✊ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

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Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent

When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Today's the official publication day of my translation of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Tibuleac! I don't think I've ever had a more exciting lead up, with a review in the New York Times and especially the visit of @deepvellum.bsky.social founder @willevans.bsky.social to Bucharest

Cover of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes

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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"If you use AI there’s a loss of process—art process, theatre making, translation....Process is where you build knowledge. Just going from A to B without process, you gain no knowledge, no human experience. You gain zero opportunity because you are not having to engage with anybody else..." #xl8 💙📚

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

East Window, 2008 by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

📚 Join Ceci Rossi for How to Write a Reader’s Report 📚 What exactly is a reader’s report? Is it simply a synopsis of a book, a critical commentary, or a combination of both? And what purpose does it serve? Find out more & register👉 www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm pinching myself. My newest translation @deepvellum.bsky.social in the New York Times. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/b...

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Why Does This Teenager Hate His Mother So Much?

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Such a beautiful interview by @brittastromeyer.bsky.social with Tatiana Tibuleac about The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes @deepvellum.bsky.social! www.ronslate.com/a-dialogue-w...

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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Check out all of our upcoming titles for the first quarter of 2026! All of these books are available for preorder now at store.deepvellum.org.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

May all the beautiful things that lay dormant last year come to life in 2026. (Brașov, Romania)

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation. Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue. It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'm absolutely ecstatic! What amazing company Liliana Corobca and I @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social are in!

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Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🇷🇴 Congratulations to Liliana Corobca and @monicacure.bsky.social! TOO GREAT A SKY has been shortlisted for this year's Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! 🇷🇴 You can read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

An extraordinary issue. Still can’t believe i get to be part of this. 🥹 You will be blown away by these poems. ❤️

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry: DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen, pub. World Poetry Books! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

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cameron @famousceleb.co · 29/10/2025

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

So excited that Too Great a Sky @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social) is on this amazing list for this wonderful prize!!!

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Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

We are thrilled that TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca and translated by Monica Cure has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025!

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Beyond excited for literary events next week in Seattle and San Francisco! I've just done a round up of happenings in my latest newsletter if you want to find out more: monicacure.substack.com/p/coming-soon

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"It’s important for work to be published at the right time, for the readers who need to read it now."

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 06/10/2025

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Might as well see the beauty. Days of rain in Bucharest.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

And we have a cover! I can't wait for everyone to be able to get their hands on my translation of Tatiana Tibuleac's incredible novel The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes. It comes out on January 13 from @deepvellum.bsky.social.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It's not too late to wish my fellow human translators Happy International Translation Day! (literal Romanian google translation reads, "can I drink fatback"). Also a good moment to remind everyone that translators are writers.

The prompt in English May I have bacon is translated by Google as pot să beau slănină

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A highlight this week was a fascinating talk on anthropology and biomedicine from Raluca Nagy - and a long awaited meeting! I translated a sample from her novel for the European Prize for Literature in 2022 and now learned how her fieldwork inspired it. euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-aut...

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A nice backdrop for my translation of Dan Coman's wonderful poem at the opening night of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival. Originally published in Plume Poetry plumepoetry.com/a-tall-bird/

My translation projected on the wall of the neoclassical University of Bucharest library auditorium

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 15/09/2025

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

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Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

"Adèle Rosenfeld’s surreal exploration of deafness and intimacy arrives in English through Jeffrey Zuckerman’s luminous translation. As the protagonist slips further into hearing loss, the novel immerses us in a shifting sensory world, rendered with nuance and lyricism. Zuckerman masterfully preserves Rosenfeld’s balance of melancholy and absurdity, attuning English to the novel’s pulse of sonic absence. Jellyfish Have No Ears expands the vocabulary of loss—and listening—in a translation that feels both precise and otherworldly."

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Minority Rights @minorityrightseu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Discover Romanian Romani author Madeline Potter’s excerpt from her newest book, The Roma: A Travelling History (2025), a moving reflection on Romani memory and identity challenging erasure and reclaiming the power of storytelling. Read via @literaryhub.bsky.social: #Roma #Amreading #Booksky

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In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story

From a very young age I was drawn to the world of fiction. Every day my grandfather would walk me home from nursery and tell me a story as we walked along the lifeless streets. I wish I could remem…

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year." Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders

Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.

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Joe Williams @joewilliamshistory.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Thanks, Monica! It was such a pleasure to talk to you both about this wonderful book. It really was one of the most compelling original things I've read in a long time.

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