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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Literary translators! Please fill out this pay survey for the Translators' Association (Society of Authors)! forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Galaxia Gutenberg @galaxiagutenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Vicente Luis Mora entra en la 'longlist' del 77th National Book Award en la categoría de Translated Literature con «Centroeuropa»

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

read Centroeuropa

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Diario SUR Málaga @diariosur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Vicente Luis Mora ya no puede pasar desapercibido: 'Centroeuropa' entra en la carrera por el National Book Award

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Vicente Luis Mora ya no puede pasar desapercibido: 'Centroeuropa' entra en la carrera por el National Book Award

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Two works of #SFinTranslation are on the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature: Vicente Luis Mora's Centroeuropa, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery Intan Paramaditha's Night of a Thousand Hells, translated from the Indonesian by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today programme about to platform someone advocating for ‘AI rights’. Off it goes. If AIs have rights then they should also be subject to the rule of law. If so, they are by their creators’ own admissions guilty of massive levels of theft, and so can go straight to jail and enjoy their rights there.

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

buying a button accordion even though I've only been playing tenor banjo for 3 years and even if I just played that for the rest of my life it wouldn't be enough. also deeply coveting an 80s/90s boxy volvo or mercedes (but holding back as I think having two cars is deeply crass and wrong)

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 29/08/2026

Resharing this long thread of recommendations for the weekend crowd. A lot of books, short story links, and authors to dig into 🤘🍻📚

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Got some pretty sick photos of the eclipse

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

just discovered that someone (with lots of followers) who used to gleefully sub-tweet me rather than engage doesn't allow replies or quote posts to their posts on this platform🤔 luckily i remembered to (re)block them so i don't have to read their 100% and un-critique-able opinions any longer

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

a pretty strange thing is happening - i did some work for a university, and they're paying me within less than two weeks! Not months, not years, weeks! 😱😱🫨

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Gombrowicz and the Buenos Aires "FERDYDURKE translation committee"

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It is coming home... if you live in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Ushaia, Mendoza or Salta!

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm proposing the permanent destruction and abolition of England. The football team, the country, the language, the very concept, all of it. It can all just be absorbed into greater Wales/ Cymru Fawr.

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

brilliant and honest piece by the always great @jencalleja.bsky.social

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The head of NATO praises the US for going to war with Iran But remember folks, NATO is a defensive alliance

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think Plaid Cymru should stand in Clacton.

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You know what’s funny? Correcting people even when they use ‘less’ correctly. ‘He did less well’ - actually I think you’ll find it’s ’fewer well’?

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Dealing with the heat in the best possibly way: by having hot, spicy and heavy Indian food in a poorly ventilated restaurant!

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dr. menlo @drmenlo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

If you like your sci-fi/cli-fi "weird," run don't walk to pick up a copy of "Dengue Boy" by Michel Nieva; it's sui generis AF

Book cover of "Dengue Boy: A Novel" by Michel Nieva, translated by Rahul Bery. Psychedelic illustration on a black background with neon green, orange, and magenta. A giant mosquito with skeletal wings dominates the center, surrounded by planets, flames, Venus flytraps, and a small ghost. The title drips in chunky chartreuse letters at the top. Bold black text at the bottom names the author and translator, framed by a cracked green border with an orange outer edge.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In my experience, the parents who are most agitated about it are those whose children are still years away from it, view it from afar as an impossible parenting challenge, and are desperately hoping the government will take this imminent responsibility away from them

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 27/05/2026

Agreed!! Semi-relatedly: this passage (especially in context) rocked my shit this afternoon

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 27/05/2026

After starting it a few months ago, enjoying it but getting distracted and needing to redo my steps, I finished reading CENTROEUROPA today, by Vicente Luis Mora, translated by @rahulbery.bsky.social. A really lovely, enjoyable read. Haunted, humane, sexy, earthy historical weird

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora: Review by Jake Casella Brookins locusmag.com/review/...

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Again I say: get this book, I can already tell it's going to be a stand-out of the year. Strange, funny, and humane.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Oh that's easy I would start with INDEPENDENT TROPICAL WALES

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Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Just remarkable how suddenly the newfound interest in Welsh politics of the UK-wide commentariat evaporated the second Reform got beaten.

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

this is such a brilliant and entertaining piece!

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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

New in @equatormag.bsky.social, a dispatch from Havana, where recurrent fuel shortages have created a permanent state of crisis. Translated from Spanish by @rahulbery.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/aft...

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I think this is the last anglophone paper of record to be ticked off my list! Another great review for the US edition of my translation of Centroeuropa!

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Dengue Boy a top ten finalist in this year's Locus Awards! 🤞

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just seen the blurb on k*thleen stock's assisted dying book and I have some VERY bad news for 45-year old fans of cod-mystical, mid-tempo piano schlock.

"Do Not Go Gentle is a bracing, often chilling wrestle with the ethical dilemmas surrounding the assisted death service - a deeply unsettling read, clear and powerful. Kathleen Stock remains fearless, endless, thought provoking and always entertaining." Nick Cave

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Vicente Luis Mora @vicenteluismora.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

De la pila de novedades, Lincoln Michel toma una y lee la primera página. Y se queda -y explica los motivos, uno muy interesante-. Y la termina, y lee sobre ella, y todo le vuela la cabeza, y está bien que el azar exista: countercraft.substack.com/p/i-loved-th...

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I Loved this Novel About Digging Up Frozen Soldiers in 19th-Century Prussia and You Might Too

Thoughts on the bad state of book reviews. Plus, a review of a great book: Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora (translated by Rahul Bery)

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Achieved something quite spectacular today: placed my phone on top of my car while getting something from the boot, then, as I shut the boot, the phone fell into the gap and I pulverised it, as if it had been placed in a vice. And I only have a little over a year left to pay off on it!

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Today seems a good day to re-ask the question: "how's this stupid shit working out for everyone?"

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

googling the new book by Portuguese author Afonso Cruz, 'A Cozinheira do Ditador' and the AI results that I didn't ask for cannot figure out that that's that I'm looking for, and instead tells me that 'Afonso Cruz não é um ditador.' Afonso Cruz isn't a dictator. Wow, thanks!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The Israeli government is now doing to southern Lebanon what it has done to Gaza. Horror and death on an unimaginable scale. And still our governments supply weapons, intelligence and diplomatic support. #PartyToTheCrime

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I may be only 8% Irish in terms of genes but I don't see any of the actual Irish people I follow mainlining Seamus Ennis piping videos, so I think I win St Patrick's Day this year. My gift to you all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrXs...

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I wrote an article about the exquisite torture of translating Centroeuropa that Vicente has said is novelesque: it begins as a mystery and ends as a confession.

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thanks! This was a wonderful book- the kind that invites multiple reads. Thanks for the beautiful translation!

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The US version of Centroeuropa by @vicenteluismora.bsky.social is out today, in my translation, with Bellevue press. Rachel has written a brilliant and sensitive review, and I particularly love the framing of it as a speculative rather than historical novel!

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The Great Kaiju Bake Off 🔻🏴 @kaijubakeoff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It's 2003 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East It's 2026 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East

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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f... I have not read the review or the book but it touched my bitter, twisted heart to see an article by a guy called Rahul about another guy called Rahul

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Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya review – a heartfelt tale of life on the Indian railways

We follow one woman across decades of change in this deeply compassionate novel of independence and dreams

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