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Frank Wynne

@terribleman.com
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Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 4h
Powerfully said – The kernel of every work of art, in any medium, is the sound of a human voice seeking to be heard. If we entrust our art to machines, they will in time, perhaps, create a simulacrum that is adequate. But adequate is a poor substitute for human.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 12h
Pernod, Fennel, Dill, Absinthe…. Just not licorice
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 30/09/2026
No, absolutely not, I loathe it. Despite the fact that I like other things that have an aniseed flavour
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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
May I recommend The Call Out by Cat Fitzpatrick? A novel in verse (we need more of these) about navigating social dynamics and cancelling people online
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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 19/04/2026
For reasons that should be obvious to anyone who is paying attention, I'm resharing this article I wrote for @pajiba.com about how too many men out here are complete fucking trash, and how men need to do much, much, MUCH better when it comes to how they treat the women around them.
pajiba.com
Men's Advice To Women On How To Stay Safe Is Useless Trash
Men need to spend less time telling women how to be safe, and more time checking each other for making women unsafe
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 28/09/2026
Do you have PayPal or something like that ? – both Venmo and Cash App are not available outside the US
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Look. Me. Doing a turn. At this.
Show I'm doing in Cambridge on Friday afternoon, October 9th. 50 seater. Lovely venue.
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 24/09/2026
Désolé, ce n’est nullement ce que je voulais faire. Au contraire, pour moi, c’est de l’harcèlement raciste du plus virulente, Thélyson est ciblé précisément parce qu’il est Black, et c’est également par racisme que la presse en fait un tabac.
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 24/09/2026
Pangram et une merde qui ne sait rien de rien. Il décide que tout ce qui est cadencé, qui utilise des rythmes, et des répétitions, et forcément IA. Ci-attaché, son verdict sur “Je” de Lilia Hassaine, roman qui figure également dans le premier sélection pour le Goncourt
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 23/09/2026
The Poetry review has its own online archive going back to 2013, and if I’m not mistaken the essay was published in 2015 – so it should be online there. Unfortunately that requires buying a subscription
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 22/09/2026
It’s called “Mind the gap: On reading American poetry” you can request a copy here
researchgate.net
Mind the gap: On reading American poetry | Request PDF
Request PDF | On Sep 1, 2006, John Burnside published Mind the gap: On reading American poetry | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 17/04/2026
How to Get a Great Idea for a Novel feat. my novel TOWARD ETERNITY, published by HarperCollins everywhere ✨🪐 US: www.harpercollins.com/products/tow... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/towa...
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bikesforcenturies @theodora2b.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They stood up, when so many democratic party LGBT clubs are failing, they stood up. Hopefully more follow. Especially for the Senate races in Texas, Alaska, and Iowa the silence is deafening from orgs meant to defend us. BTW a great source on LGBT politics in Ohio is @ari4ohio.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ Dark Matter Jacquelinetern 🎃 @jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey trans girl reading this. You are more amazing than you think you are. You are so much better than you think you deserve to be. You deserved better from the world. Even if all you have right now is spite, you loved yourself enough to be who you are even if you can't feel it right now.
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 20/09/2026
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 18/09/2026
I cannot tell you how much I love Traffic’s ”Shootout at fantasy factory”, and “the low spark of the high heeled boys”
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 17/09/2026
“The entire situation is incredibly depressing. I feel like a cow surrounded by breeders who are discussing whether to play Mozart or Chopin to make my meat more tender.”
theguardian.com
Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters
The author of Generation Maybe, Camilla Cavendish, explains the many reasons people are having fewer children, from dating apps to unaffordable housing and the climate crisis
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 17/09/2026
It’s a lovely thought, but as @adamkinzinger.substack.com points out, the constitution alone cannot act, it requires not just an oath, but action by voters, Congresspeople, judges, everyone…  www.adamkinzinger.com/p/the-consti...
adamkinzinger.com
The Constitution Won't Save Us
A serious message on Constitution Day
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LGBT+ History Month UK @lgbthm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We are very sad to hear of the death of friend of the Month, Bonnie Greer. She took part in the National Festival of LGBT History - London hub, at the Museum of London in 2016
bbc.co.uk
Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77
Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🥳 The longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature is here! Congratulations to all on this stellar longlist, including ALTA member @jeremytiang.bsky.social & past National Translation Award winner Martin Aitken - judged by ALTA member Shelley Fairweather-Vega! buff.ly/uRejPsK
nationalbook.org
Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature - National Book Foundation
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Find the New Yorker announcement here. New York, NY (September 15, 2026) – The National Book Foundation today announced…
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Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Utterly delighted that my translation of Karim Kattan's EDEN AT DAWN, a novel about two men who fall in love amid a months-long sandstorm blanketing Jerusalem and narrated by the sky itself, is longlisted for the National Book Award in Translation! www.nationalbook.org/longlist-for...
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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This week, read an excerpt from Alberto Manguel’s upcoming book-length essay, The Reverse Side of the Tapestry: carcanet.substack.com/p/the-revers...
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Recommended!
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One of my favourite Mathias Enards is THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE GRAVEDIGGERS' GUILD - a wonderful, riveting novel on death, love and the afterlife, and superbly translated by Frank Wynne. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/t...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild – Mathias Enard (tr. Frank Wynne)
Mathias Enard is one of my favourite contemporary authors after having read and loved two of his books – Compass and Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants. I’ve yet to read his much celebrate…
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 12/09/2026
duodécimabuelo = great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Poirot turns to existentialism from the wonderful @tomgauld.bsky.social
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 12/09/2026
Your best bet is the Berlin based vinyl store HHV, which ships pretty much everywhere (including Finland!)
hhv.de
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A watercolour painting of Suomenlinna (the sea fortress off the coast of Helsinki). Painted 10 years ago this week.
A watercolour painting of Suomenlinna
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 12/09/2026
The Simplified Chinese reads “Cube-style pull-out cat litter box”
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 11/09/2026
And Richard the Lionheart only spent 6 months of his 10-year reign in England, and barely spoke (Middle) English
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 11/09/2026
The Writing Kit Six Month Online Creative Writing Course is now open for enrolment. Come and learn the essentials of writing, plot, storytelling, voice and character with me over six months, with live writing rooms, prompts, examples from literature. Please share. www.kitdewaal.com/six
kitdewaal.com
The Six Month Writing Course | Kit de Waal
A structured programme of creative writing essentials with live online sessions, writing prompts and expert advice
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 11/09/2026
He’s a very fine writer, the Red Riding quartet is exceptionally fine, as is GB84 set during the miners’ strike
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 10/09/2026
I think the addition of the built-in camera in 1863 was the point when you finally sold me
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@Loudmouthkid62 @loudmouthkid62.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
September 10th is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. More than 700,000 people die by suicide every year. This is a major public health crisis. We must improve access to #mentalhealth treatment, increase support, lead with openness, empathy, and support. We need to talk about suicide. #EndStigma
5 Action Steps to Help Someone Having Thoughts of Suicide

ASK “Are you thinking about killing yourself?”
BE THERE “Listen without judgment and acknowledge their feelings.”
HELP KEEP THEM SAFE Reduce their access to lethal items or places.
HELP THEM CONNECT Call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (988)
FOLLOW UP Stay in touch to see how they’re doing.

From nimh.nih.gov/suicideprevention
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 10/09/2026
The only place showing it tomorrow is Vue at Angel Islington (10pm) , otherwise you can see it on Saturday at The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden, 3pm
myvue.com
I Want Your Sex | Vue Cinema Times & Book Tickets | Vue
Book tickets to watch I Want Your Sex at Vue Cinemas. Find film screening times, runtimes and watch the latest I Want Your Sex trailer here.
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 09/09/2026
Perhaps Justin Webb can interview them all tomorrow morning on BBC4 and question how Jewish they are…
theguardian.com
Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements
Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 08/09/2026
Oh, believe me, having worked with editors for a couple of decades, they believe lots of books are “too French”, “too Spanish”, “too Scottish”, “too gay”, “too small”, “too Irish”… read @antonhur.com’s essay on the mythical English reader (a version exists in “Violent Phenomena”)
lithub.com
Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader
When I started my career as a professional literary translator, I began coming up against a mysterious “English reader” whom academics and editors kept referring to when they looked over my work, l…
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 07/09/2026
This is a man who has never met a cat
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Strange to think that an embryo can lose its rights if it develops into a female
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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Londoners, please help me spread the word about this! Ticket sales are dishearteningly tragic and this show does not deserve that. I promise it's worth your time. 🩷💜💙 I WAS A TEENAGE BISEXUAL 14-19 October, 7pm (& 2pm Sat) 🎟 polisloizou.com/iwatb
Poster for I WAS A TEENAGE BISEXUAL, with the above info and an image of a bald beardy man in jeans and a chequered shirt posing like a monster from a vintage horror movie
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last week notices went out to all claimants in the Anthropic case, summarising each of their claims, who else has filed a claim for each title and the percentage of the award others have claimed. 🧵
authorsguild.org
Important Information Regarding Anthropic Copyright Settlement Claim Notices
As part of the claims reconciliation process in the Anthropic copyright class action lawsuit, the settlement administrator sent out notices this week to all claimants summarizing each of their…
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 05/09/2026
Who would’ve thought?
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 05/09/2026
My post from earlier today about the craziness around Anthropic claim notices, updated with both of the notices writers are receiving, and a list of literary agents who are trying to claim a share of payouts writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...
writerbeware.blog
Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware
This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like these: The one on the right invites authors to review and confirm their claims: jus...
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 04/09/2026
More important is the class action suit against publishers who simply neglected to file copyright. Of the 78 titles of mine in libgensys at the point when Anthropic downloaded it, only 14 titles had had copyright registered 
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