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Happy pub day to Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović (tr. Ena Selimović)! bookshop.org/p/books/underg…

TODAY IS THE PUB DAY OF MY FIRST TRANSLATION! bookshop.org/p/books/underg…

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Thanks to Literary Hub for featuring Underground Barbie on its list of today's new releases and using this killer Alina Stefanescu blurb!

see Deep Vellum and Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social is the best book mail ✨📚

"Selimović has brilliantly rendered the wonder, the mix of naive innocence with worldly wisdom, in this fabulous translation." Areeb Ahmad | اریب احمد reviews UNDERGROUND BARBIE by Maša Kolanović, in translation by Ena Selimović (Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social): full-stop.net/2025/01/30/rev….

One of the last reviews I wrote in 2024 (also the longest and the best in my estimation). Thanks to Full Stop for giving it space. Underground Barbie is quite unlike anything I have ever read. It fantastically uses whimsy and children's play to comment on very serious themes!

That's right, Underground Barbie is the February pick for the Asymptote Journal Book Club. "Underground Barbie bears witness to a turbulent childhood in transition—the wonder and terror of it all, sustained by imagination."

"There is a dark undercurrent to the [childrens'] games that flows far beyond Barbie World and into real life." Areeb Ahmad | اریب احمد reviews Maša Kolanović's UNDERGROUND BARBIE, tr. from the Croatian by Ena Selimović (Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social): full-stop.net/2025/01/30/rev….

Zipping down to Boston University today to see our pal Angela Rodel talk about translating both Georgi Gospodinov and The Case of Cem. Translation enthusiasts, don’t sleep on this free series. Next week it’s nick glastonbury and Anton Hur will be there in April. bu.edu/translation/tr…

Today we're looking at In Elvis's Room by Sebastijan Pregelj on the Dublin Literary Award Longlist, translated from the Slovenian by Rawley Grau. Nominated by Mariborska knjižnica & Mestna Knjižnica Ljubljana/Ljubljana City Library (Slovenia) and published by Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social. 🧵 1/4

Libraries are the best, and they should all have signs like the Boise Public Library!

6) Book Review: Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović (Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social), translated from the Croatian by Ena Selimović (Ena Selimović), for Full Stop with edits by Fiona Bell. full-stop.net/2025/01/30/rev…

Thank you to the Asymptote Journal team + especially to Junyi Zhou for her brilliant reading of Maša Kolanović's English debut UNDERGROUND BARBIE Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social! You can read our conversation below (horrifying as it is to embark on reading what you adlibbed): asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/02/2…

Shout out to Martina Vidaic’s BED-BUGS translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac, that traces the bites of bedbugs into the daily loneliness of lived experience in late capitalism.

Vera Mutafchieva’s masterpiece, The Case of Cem, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel, is on the shortlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada, judged by independent booksellers to shine a light on small, but mighty, publishers. Congratulations all!

The final decision is going to be so hard!

🥹 Caitlin L. Baker of Island Books generously picked UNDERGROUND BARBIE for Electric Literature's best new books of winter selection by indie booksellers—! Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social

Wildly late, but I posted a "favorite books of 2024" video if anyone's interested in that kind of thing.

Not on here much but want to make sure everyone knows about three events next week with Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost author Donald Niedekker and translator Jonathan Reeder at Community Bookstore, Porter Square Books, and the South Portland library. Join us!