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Paul Kaye

@paulkaye.bsky.social
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Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels. FRGS, BWFC.

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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
136. Mort by Terry Pratchett 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Comes to most
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
135. Il était une fois l’escalade by Catherine Destivelle, David Chambre, Laurent Bidot and Clémence Jollois 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Premier de cordée
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
134. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 So it goes
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don’t know what a persona is (in this context). Field: governmental translation - legal, admin, technical, policy.
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
133. La Liste d’Orwell by Carlos Hernandez, translated from Spanish to French and adapted by Jean-Paul Moulin 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Claimed by all
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Wouldn’t ’any part of this book’ be more natural?
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
132. Classics: a Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard and John Henderson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Ego in Arcadia
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
131. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Saw it coming
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Pronking?
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I doubt most people from Oldham or Stockport call themselves Mancunians. People from Bolton certainly don’t.
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‪130. Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe‬ ‪🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘‬ ‪A familiar landscape‬
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
129. Palestine by Joe Sacco 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Tragically vivid sojourn
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
128. Odsunuté děti by Marek Toman, Jan Blažek, Jakub Bachorík, Magdalena Rutová, Stanislav Setinský, Františka Loubat and Jindřich Janíček 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Forgetting and remembering
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
127. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 First of many
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Is it the only translation? Is there an Irish/British English one?
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
126. Playground by Richard Powers 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Depths beautifully captured
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Is this made by AI?
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
125. Climbers by M. John Harrison 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Top-out took ages
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
124. L’anniversaire de Kim Jong-il by Aurélien Ducoudray and Mélanie Allag 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 True story, mostly?
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
123. Nottingham, tome 2: La Traque by Vincent Brugeas, Emmanuel Herzet, Benoît Dellac and Denis Bechu 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 An unlikely alliance
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
‘Made away themselves’ 🤗
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
122. Όμορφα παραμύθια με ζώα by Αίσωπος, illustrated by Sergio Cavina 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Fabulously drawn fables
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I’ve noticed people using this formulation a lot recently and Keir Starmer on Peter Mandelson is just the latest and most noticeable yet. If the prime minister says it, can it be wrong? Is the past perfect tense dying out? 2/2
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
‘If knew then what I do now, he would never have been anywhere near government.’ That’s grammatically incorrect, isn’t it? When I was teaching English as a foreign language I’d have corrected that a hundred times out of a hundred to ‘If I *had known* then what I do now…’. 1/2
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
121. Ανώνυμος ο Αθηναίος: στη σκιά της Ακρόπολης by Κωνσταντίνος Σκλαβενίτης 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 Who was he?
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
120. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Deepest darkest Saxony
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
119. Atomic Albion by Tom Bolton 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Hidden legacy hunting
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
118. The Book Tour by Andi Watson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 I bought it
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
2025 reading: 52 books; made my target of one a week by a whisker. 27 fiction, 23 non-fiction, 2 poetry. 19 not in English: 5 in CS, 5 FR, 4 EL, 3 PL, 1 HU, 1 UK. 16 by or translated by women. 15 graphic novels. 5 in translation: 1 each from DE, CY, PL, ES and KR. Reviews: bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
117. Nonstop Eufrat by Veronika Bendová 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 Mysterious texting ways
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
116. Ρεμπέτικο Νοτούρνο by Περικλής Κουλιφέτης 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 No one wins
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
115. Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 What a character
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
115. Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 What a character
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
114. Faith by Joanna Trollope 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Bookstore her way
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
113. Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill 🌕🌕🌕🌗 Cats and kids
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
112. The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Master tackles hindutva
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Until seeing this one I’d only seen the recent years and assumed you were presenting the best book you’d read in the year in question!
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
🤣
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Thank you for this one. I’m deep into climbing but hadn’t come across it.
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A Happy Christmas to all!
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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Exciting news! 📣 We are delighted to announce the workshop strands for the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School 2026. Next year’s Summer School will take place online from Monday 20 July – Friday 24 July 2026. Bursaries are available. Find out more and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
He isn’t a dentist
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
111. L’Arabe du futur, tome 1: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1985-1987), by Riad Sattouf 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 More Tintin influence
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I think that’s what I was getting at.
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I love creative street art and graffiti (and Portugal has lots of good examples) but that’s criminal.
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
110. Royal Robbins: the American climber by David Smart 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 Monarch of Yosemite
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
109. Alois Nebel by Jaroslav Rudiš (script) and Jaromír 99 (artwork) 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Beyond his station
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
108. Láska nebeská by Mariusz Szczygieł 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Czech cultural adventures
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
107. Hanging On: a life in British climbing’s golden age by Martin Boysen 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Higher and higher
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Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
106. We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 Nobel documents ignobility
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