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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Joseph Van Den Bergh / Soldat Volontaire Belge / ????? / Depot Des Réformés Belges / Rue Du Manoir No 6 Ste Adresse / Le Havre France

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A wild guess, but I think I can make out a few bits of it (with line breaks): 18 Augustus 1915 / Cher Madame / Je doit Aujourdhui de nouvaux la / ??? Je ne sai pas pourquoi, mais on / Peut être sur que Deviendrai fou / Je te ai envoye ici an m?nte / ?? être Ancien Blessé /

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 11/04/2026

Calligraphy by Barbara Galińska #StopWar

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Gisèle Pelicot's only US event, March 30th in NYC:

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Vintage Books @vintagebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for ‘shame to change sides’. For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story. A Hymn to Life will be published in February 2026. Order your copy today: lnk.to/GiselePelicot

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Gratifying to see that one of the Guardian's picks for 2026 is Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, A HYMN TO LIFE, co-translated by Natasha Lehrer and yours truly. A heartbreaking but necessary read.

theguardian.com

Books to look out for in 2026 – nonfiction

Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham, essays by David Sedaris and Alan Bennett’s diaries are among the highlights of the year ahead

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

FULL HOUSE @foylesforbooks.bsky.social last night for the charismatic, incredible Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse talking to @fergalkeane.bsky.social about their shared experiences and memories of her escape from #Rwanda at the age of 15, and her IMMENSE, moving #memoir #TheConvoy t @ruthdiver.bsky.social

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#PublicationDay One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read… Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda #translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social 📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE 📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv #BookSky #memoir

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today, [...] the US delegation to the UN voted against a resolution condemning Russia for its aggression in Ukraine and calling for it to end its occupation. That is, the U.S. voted against a resolution that reiterated that one nation must not invade another[...].

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Friday March 7: King's College London, Strand Campus, 10:00am. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse will be in conversation with Dr Michael Flavin. More information and a booking link may be found on the KCL events page.

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thursday March 6: Foyles Charing Cross Road, 7:00pm Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse will be joined by Fergal Keane, the BBC Correspondent and author of Season of Blood. He played a key role in recording her escape from Rwanda in 1994. Further information and tickets are available from the Foyles event page.

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thursday March 6: University College London, 4:00pm Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse will be in conversation with Professor Patrick Bray and Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach. Admission is free and open to all, but booking is essential. More details and tickets can be found on the UCL events page.

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Wednesday March 5: University of Cambridge, 5:00pm The author will discuss The Convoy with Professor Charles Forsdick, Drapers Professor of French, at Magdalene College. Admission is free, but booking is required, so please reserve a space on Eventbrite.

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Tuesday March 4: Maison Française d'Oxford, 5:15pm Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse will be in conversation with Professor Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow of All Souls College. More information and a registration link are available on the Maison Française

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

THE CONVOY, by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, tells the story of her search for documentary evidence of her escape from the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in June 1994. She wat 15 at the time. For friends in the UK, the author will be making several presentations of her work.

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Thrilled to get my translator's copies! Charif Majdalani's delightful reimagining of his family history in the orange groves of Mount Lebanon, from the time of the Ottoman empire through the French mandate to the present day, a lesson in resistance & resilience. Publishing w Other Press in Dec/Jan.

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

I wrote this, and it's from the heart. And I'm scared of putting it out in the world. www.patreon.com/posts/92308751

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Hi Katherine, it's not available in French on the RFI site, for now at least. Recorded in French, written up in Russian. Google translate does the usual patchy job if you want to get the gist of it. Otherwise I can help with the detail.

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Since 24 February 2023, Gran has refused to give interviews in Russian; he says the only words he would ever pronounce In Russian are 'glory to Ukraine.'

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Original published by Éditions POL, translation by Mountain Leopard Press, now an imprint of Headline/Hachette, with generous funding from IFRU London. Due out in Aus/NZ Jan 2024. Support indie bookshops at bookshop.org.uk and bookhub.co.nz :)

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Told with Gran's signature verve and irony, it's set against a rollicking panorama of daily life in the USSR. An honour and delight for this translator to bring his debut into English, and his father's legacy to a new generation of readers.

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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Brimming with excitement! Tomorrow is UK pub day for THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY, Iegor Gran's novel about his father, the dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, whose notorious trial in 1966, for the contents of hid literary works published abroad under a pseudonym, marked the end of the Thaw.

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