Helen Vassallo Translating Women from Exeter Modern Languages & Cultures has reviewed 'Not a River' by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott - nominated for the International Booker Prize

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How did I not know there was more Nino Haratischvili in English translation? Starting with MY SOUL TWIN, tr. Charlotte Collins. Storytelling and translation are sublime: 'How do you live without scars? How do you live without constantly cutting yourself on ... your own sharp edges?'

“Good literature will make sense anywhere in the world you know... something from any even the most remote place will transcend its borders and make sense in any part of the world if it is good and powerful...”

Geetanjali Shree at Bocas Lit Fest youtube.com/live/TsDvLPjQu…

Stop what you're doing to read this excerpt of the The Booker Prizes-shortlisted 'Not a River' by WWB contributor Selva Almada (translated by WWB contributor Annie McDermott).

Huge congratulations to Charco Press for winning the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize for ‘Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry. My thoughts as a judge👇🏾

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Thrilled to be working with The Booker Prizes for this #PENPresents round for translators from the Global Majority. Outstanding writing, outstanding translation, more of it, greater representation, better financial conditions.

“In the west, literature is primarily art, entertainment, intellectual & spiritual edification. It is not a literal means of survival, a tool that allows us to live with another’s dying cry in our ears.”
My essay on Halyna Kruk’s poetry for The Ukrainians Media theukrainians.org/thats-why-lite…

I adored Tidal Waters by Velia Vidal, trans. Annie McDermott, which is coming out with Charco Press in May. The first Afro-Colombian novel I've read, the first to evoke the Chocó–Darién, the first to mention the Emberá and the Wounaan and the communities who are never given voice.

📢 A book is always a new book if you haven't read it yet 📢

🌱 THE CARNIVOROUS PLANT by Andrea Mayo.

Translated from the #Catalan by Laura McGloughlin Laura McGloughlin

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Find it at your local bookshop and in our e-shop

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Ukrainian refugees living in Devon are being offered the opportunity to take part in therapeutic poetry workshops in association with students and staff at the University of Exeter
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An excerpt from my forthcoming translator memoir Fair is the lead feature in the latest issue of Wasafiri ! This bit is about all the ‘heckles’ I’ve had while speaking about translation at events and what I wish I’d said. 🥧 🥧 🥧 🥧 🥧 wasafiri.org/product/wasafi…

Required reading. Published last week by Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow #Palestine

London Book Fair starts today. We call on the entire industry to stand in support with Palestinian book workers, call for a ceasefire & condemn the destruction of schools, universities, libraries & publishing houses #LBFVigil #LBF24 #ceasefirenow Book Workers for a Free Palestine Publishers for Palestine

We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2024 longlist, featuring 13 books ‘that speak of courage and kindness, of the vital importance of community, and of the effects of standing up to tyranny’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2024

It's #InternationalWomensDay2024 today, so here is our #womenintranslation playlist: close to 300 videos of translations of women writers from across the globe, read by the translators themselves!
Enjoy! 👯‍♀️ #WomensDay #WomenEmpowerment #Literature
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This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the only way we know how: with a list of new/forthcoming books written AND translated by women. Scroll on to see what’s on this list, compiled by Alexander Aguayo 🧵 buff.ly/3uO5ZR8

For #InternationalWomensDay we wanted to highlight just some of the incredible authors and translators we are honoured to work with. Each one is leaving their own indelible mark on the world of literature.

HAPPY #InternationalWomensDay !

We want you to read more intersectional and international literature.

Get inspired by our #IWD Flash Sale - 30% of all titles by women/femme/non-binary authors and translators

(Psst. THAT'S ALMOST OUR WHOLE CATALOGUE)

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