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Five translations, five original English novels make up the 2024 longlist of The JCB Prize for Literature for literature. scroll.in/article/107290…

Distressed to receive this message from a writer I know in Manipur, India. It sounds like a terrible situation

Hey! Here are some literary journals opening for submissions in October, & some are open now & some will close soon. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary, & dates are tentative. I think these are no-fee submissions. There are more resources & journals out there! Good luck! 🌻❤️✨

I mentor someone whose father’s godfather was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination was a major catalyst for the First World War

Delighted to be running another How to Be a Literary Explorer workshop at Cheltenham Festivals next month. This event sold out last year and was so much fun! Already fizzing with ideas of texts we can play with… cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/how-to-…

One of the most intrepid and audacious translators of our time, Max Lawton, together with the brilliant editor Francesco Pacifico are going to change literature textbooks forever by finally making Horcynus Orca available to Anglophone readers! theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/hor…

Independent bookshops' 'impressive' cultural impact revealed in new Arts Council report thebookseller.com/news/independe…

So thrilled to be collaborating with Gregory Warner , host of NPR’s fabulous and much-missed Rough Translation, for this special online event. Why don’t you join us? substack.com/@gregorywarner…

All set up at the Multicultural Book Fair Conway Hall - 50 publishers, tons of fab books, free - but you’ll leave with a bag of books! Here till 4, so come on down!

There are many fabulous book festivals out there, but few are more stylish than the MargateBookie. Here I am chatting to Dale Shaw in the stunning Turner Contemporary last year. Thanks to Ben Bowles for the handsome shot!

Doing an interview with the extraordinary young poet Batool Abu Akleen (Modern Poetry in Translation's new poet-in-residence) over WhatsApp, and I asked her to say something about where she is now. Will share the whole interview soon.

Writers! Come and write with us at The University of Waikato 🎓 in 2025! Applications for the Kaipukahu University of Waikato Writer in Residence are now open: elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

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Does anyone know the work of Burmese writer Sabal Phyu Nu? Is her novel Myauk Phya Ka Alwan Yadhi (The Sentimental Time in the Far North) available in English?

Obsessed with this sentence from THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA. The magic of the story lies in it: in the repetition of the image of illumination, and in the fact that the moment of wonder has nothing to do with a talking tiger but with a family going out for a meal unexpectedly