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PELTA is the Portuguese-English Literary Translators Association. portuguesetranslators.org

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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Congratulations to PELTA members @guedesftaty.bsky.social, @ninaperrotta.bsky.social, @bethangharad.bsky.social, @aminckey.bsky.social, @emyrwallace.bsky.social, Julia Sanches, Vania Gomes and Gilles Madan - all shortlisted for the @englishpen.bsky.social PEN Presents: Brazil funding programme!
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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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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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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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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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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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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
An unmissable new PELTA blog on Mário de Andrade's 'O Turista Aprendiz' by the brilliant Flora Thomson-DeVeaux (@ruivanorio.bsky.social). Read it here: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/b...
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Becoming an Apprentice Tourist with Mário de Andrade
By Flora Thomson-DeVeaux My first memories of the book come with an iPad and a hammock. I’m a ride-or-die paperback person, so the iPad was a last recourse – the only way I could track down a …
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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
To watch this and many other readings of translated literature, go to www.jillreadingnyc.com. For my video, you can also go to youtu.be/IISyuDWUXe4?... I'm #seekingapublisher for this work. #Brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters #contemporaryBrazilianauthors #novels #booklovers
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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Can 't wait to see it on the shelf at my local library! #literatureintranslation #Brazilianliterature #contemporaryBrazilianauthors #novels #womenwriters #booklovers #sundialhousenyc @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
WHAT a privilege to feature @hmelehy.bsky.social, reading from his translation of EQUINOX ISLAND, Mauritian poet Jean Fanchette's collection of verse "filled with dimly lit landscapes, and seaside expanses." Enjoy this masterful rendering of a haunting, rarely-heard voice. youtu.be/noVPk7KKERw?...
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Hassan Melehy reads from Jean Fanchette's EQUINOX ISLAND: POEMS 1954-1991 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A delight as always to feature translator @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, here with Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS, a collection of stories that invites readers into #Ethiopia’s literary heartbeat, where everyday gestures carry philosophical weight and history lingers in intimate lives.
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Bethlehem (Betty) Attfield reads from Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS (Fidessa Publishing, 2025)
In Couch Grass's four remarkable stories, the acclaimed Ethiopian author Adam Reta uses multiple voices that interweave throughout the narratives, offering the reader a richer perspective through a…
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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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Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature. I’d love you to give it a read! modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
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From the archive: Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Modern Poetry in Translation
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 18/11/2025
Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees. For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part. 💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
Join English PEN’s letter-writing campaign for Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025: send a message of hope and solidarity to an imprisoned writer.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A host of @pelta.bsky.social translators featured in this fabulous collection of Brazilian Christmas stories from @newvesselpress.bsky.social.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
An unmissable event featuring @pelta.bsky.social members Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott!
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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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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our new PELTA Blog post is up! From FLIP - Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty - Christina Baum, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Sophie Lewis talk about promoting Brazilian literature in English, the joys and challenges of being a translator, and much more: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/p...
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PELTA at FLIP 2025
by Christina Baum, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Sophie Lewis CB: Earlier this year, Mauro Munhoz, the artistic director of FLIP — Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, told me he was keen to pr…
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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
An excerpt from Sketch in Stone and Dream, Brazilian author Marilia Arnaud's most recent novel, in my translation. I am seeking a publisher for this novel. Visit the pitches section of my website (www.ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com) for more information about this and other works by Arnaud.
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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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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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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Translation is a form of resistance" - don't miss this fascinating interview with renowned literary translator Elizabeth Lowe, by PELTA's own Cristina Pinto-Bailey. Up on the @pelta.bsky.social blog now! hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...
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“Translation is a form of resistance.” An Interview with Elizabeth Lowe
By Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey Lowe, a renowned literary translator from the Portuguese, is the founding director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch…
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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Cristina Pinto-Bailey interviewed Elizabeth Lowe for the PELTA blog. An insightful conversation! Lowe is a prominent translator from various languages, whose memoir Translating from the Portuguese: A Life Translated is forthcoming from Tagus Press. hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...
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“Translation is a form of resistance.” An Interview with Elizabeth Lowe
By Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey Lowe, a renowned literary translator from the Portuguese, is the founding director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch…
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Beth Fowler - Translator @bethfowler.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Any @pelta.bsky.social types into comic translation?
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Many congratulations to the PEN Translates winners! Special shout-out to the WWBers on the list: @annielmcd.bsky.social @shreedaisy.bsky.social Annie McDermott Mara Faye Lethem Madame Neilsen Gaye Kynoch Geetanjali Shree Daisy Rockwell
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
August is Women in Translation Month! Celebrate the work of the world's best female writers, read by the incredibly talented women (and men) who translate them, with our dedicated playlist--currently 323 videos strong (!!!) and always growing. #WITmonth
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Women in Translation #WIT #Read_WIT
Women in Translation playlist. Translations of women authors read by their literary translators. #Women #WIT #WITMonth #womenintranslation #womenwriters #IWD...
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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It was such a lovely evening! Thank you, Banter Bookshop, for hosting, Kathleen Wheaton for the great conversation, and everyone who showed up for our THE BOOK OF AFFECTS event. #WomenInTranslationMonth #shortstorycollection #Brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters
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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Cover reveal! Delighted to share the artwork for the August 2025 issue of MPT, Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature, guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira. This issue will be posting out to subscribers at the end of this week! Cover artwork by artwork by Estéfani Díaz Azúa
The cover has a dark blue background with a paler blue image of low
hills with flat grassland on the lower third of the page. On the right is a large white and pale-blue image of a long thin plant with five leaves and some small flowers at the top. It reaches about three-quarters of the way up the page, framing the cover. On the left is a similar sized pale blue-and-white image of bent grass, with some leaning towards the
centre of the page as if blown by the wind. This image spreads onto the back page where there are also two smaller pale blue images of leaves.Contributors names in white text over the predominantly dark blue background.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We're delighted to bring you a new blog post: read all about PELTA member Kim Olson's path to becoming a literary translator, via, among other things, Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto's 1908 novel 'Esfinge'. Hope you enjoy it!
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Esfinge: On Becoming a Translator and a New Translation
by Kim F. Olson Mine was a winding path to literary translation, involving pivotal points with a dash of serendipity. A decade of corporate work in Washington, DC—at the time a hub for internationa…
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Publishers @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Editions, @giramondobooks.bsky.social and New Directions have launched the biennial Poetry in Translation #prize, which will award an #advance of $5,000 (£3,700) to be shared equally between #poet and #translator. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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New prize for translated poetry aims to tap into boom for international-language writing
Award, to be shared between poet and translator, is a joint project by three publishers and will give a $5,000 advance for a new collection
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Amanda Sarasien @amandasarasien.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Excited to present José Luís Peixoto's incantatory tale of memory, grief, and longing, together with my co-translator Elton Uliana; what a formidable table of contents! #literatureintranslation #PortugueseLiterature
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Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Excited to share that this week I’ll be starting my translation of THE SEVENTH OATH by Mozambican legend (& Premio Camões winner 2021) Paulina Chiziane, for the wonderful @archipelagobooks.bsky.social 🇲🇿 📕 ✨ Just shy of 2 years ago I was in Mozambique, so this feels like a very full-circle moment.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Let us know if you have any questions, we'll be happy to help. And if you're already a member, help spread the word: tell us why you have joined and tag as many people as you like that you think would benefit from joining. Thanks!
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
PELTA is an independent, non-profit, global network run by translators, for translators. If you're not a member yet, and are curious about what PELTA can offer, check out 10 reasons to join!
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
In addition, we seek to actively promote links with Anglophone and Portuguese-language publishers and relevant cultural and literary organisations, and to encourage greater recognition and improved conditions for literary translators.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
PELTA is a network of literary translators from Portuguese into English. Our main aims are to promote Portuguese-language literature in English translation and to represent the community of Portuguese-English literary translators, while at the same time maintaining a register of such translators.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Translated by @pelta.bsky.social member Sophie Lewis!
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Join us on Feb 12 for our Translation Prizes, as we celebrate @britishlibrary.bsky.social To purchase tickets - societyofauthors.org/event/the-20... Not able to attend in person, watch via our livestream -https://societyofauthors.org/event/the-2024-society-of-authors-translation-prizes-livestream/
A collection of books framed against a gold background.
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PELTA @pelta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Fantastic, well done Victor!
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Victor Meadowcroft 🇨🇦 @furiousleeper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Great to see my translation of Ricardo Silva Romero’s ‘Río Muerto’ (World Editions) included on this wonderful list of books to fall for this month!
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We're just 27 #YouTube subscribers away from 2500! If you love great #books from all over the globe and haven't yet explored our treasure trove of nearly 600 readings of #world #literature by the very people who translate it, check us out--and subscribe! #xl8 #booksky www.youtube.com/channel/UCja...
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Translators Aloud
TRANSLATORS ALOUD: THE VOICE OF TRANSLATED LITERATURE A place for translators to read their own work; a positive space for sharing great literature, read aloud by the translators themselves. Submiss...
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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland. Discover the winners ⬇️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...
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PEN Translates winners announced - English PEN
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