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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. covers are excellent for Empusium and House of Day (we’re with Riverhead there).

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 1d

Also @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! :-) And in Primeval and Other Times, being reissued in the spring, there are genderless angels.

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, do finish Empusium; you’ll see when you read House of Day, written in 1998, that she was already exploring gender themes then.

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 1d

If you didn’t catch it the first time around, my translation of House of Day, House of Night has recently been published by Fitzcarraldo, and has an interesting queer theme in the story of the monk Paschalis and Saint Kummernis.

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 6d

Oliver Ready’s translation for Penguin Classics.

Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 29d

Only a little but you might enjoy the reinstated sections.

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 29d

Here’s a new children’s picture book from @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social in my translation, the third in a series by Tina Oziewicz and Aleksandra Zając, ideal for prompting conversations about emotions as well as for pure entertainment. pushkinpress.com/book/what-fe...

What Feelings Do at Night by Tina Oziewicz | 9781782695301 | Pushkin Press

Happiness sleeps peacefully. Imagination puts on her boots and goes out for a long ramble under the stars. Anger loves stormy nights, when the whole sky feels l

pushkinpress.com

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · Sep 11

It’s UK publication day for House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tokarczuk, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social This „constellation novel” is set in the author’s home village in SW Poland. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/house-...

House of Day, House of Night | Fitzcarraldo Editions

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with ...

fitzcarraldoeditions.com

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · Sep 10

“The anthology’s constellation of animals, children, misfits and survivors reshapes the image of Poland for the English reader...”

Agnes Dudek interviews ALTA member Antonia Lloyd-Jones about her recent translation project, a collection of Polish short stories. At Culture Pi:

From the Forgotten to the Famous: Antonia Lloyd-Jones on 'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories'

'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories', edited and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, shatters clichés of Poland as only war and sorrow, unveiling a dazzling century of fiction alive with humour,…

culture.pl

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Lucy Popescu @lucyjpop.bsky.social · Sep 2

I reviewed House of Day, House of Night - Olga Tokarczuk’s mosaic of memory, myth and misfits translated by #AntoniaLloydJones & publ by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social - for @ftweekend.com - online now: www.ft.com/content/7886... via @ft

House of Day, House of Night — Olga Tokarczuk’s mosaic of memory, myth and misfits

The International Booker Prize winner’s vivid 1998 novel about her adopted Polish village gets its first full English translation

www.ft.com

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Aug 30

As the Jewish telegram put it: "Start worrying. Details to follow."

My review of Mikołaj Łoziński's My Name is Stramer (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones): the story of a Jewish family in Poland between the wars, with plenty of comedy and an increasing measure of darkness.

‘Good, but not hopeless’ — a Jewish tragicomedy

In his wise and wry novel, My Name is Stramer, Mikolaj Lozinski imagines the lives of a Polish family during the turbulent first half of the 20th century

www.thetimes.com

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · Aug 28

A very positive first review in the Jewish Chronicle for My Name is Stramer, Mikołaj Łoziński’s fictionalised family story. www.thejc.com/life/my-name...

My Name is Stramer review: ‘One of the great east European novels of our time’ - The Jewish Chronicle

Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classic

www.thejc.com

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Its thematic architecture gives newcomers a compass while leaving seasoned Poland‑watchers ample room to wander." Agnieszka Dale reviews Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s new anthology “The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/poland-as-a-state-of-mind/

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Every interaction has the weight of a move in a multidimensional chess game... Elegantly translated by Kasia Beresford, “Inner Space” is by turns lyrical, claustrophobic and terrifying." @nytimes.com on Jakub Szamalek's novel
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...

Thrillers With Twists You Won’t See Coming

www.nytimes.com

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 18

& @kasiabesfud.bsky.social she called your translation "elegant"! (And she doesn't even know how beautifully you recreated time to accommodate mother & child zooms from space...)

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · Aug 6

Posting this in the spirit of early-bird-catches-the-worm: October is still a way off but please put this in your diaries as Oksana is a star ⭐ and it will be enlightening to read and talk with her
harriman.columbia.edu/event/women-...

Women Writing War: A Joint Reading and Conversation

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Sasha Dugdale and Oksana Maksymchuk. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.

harriman.columbia.edu

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · Aug 6

Fed up with the exhausting process of finding the perfect publisher for your translation? At @wwborders.bsky.social, check out this tongue-in-cheek essay by translator from French Laura Vergnaud about the dos and don’ts of searching for a publisher: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders

Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.

wordswithoutborders.org

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Peter Osnos @peterosnosplatform.bsky.social · Aug 5

In the Garden of Memory open.substack.com/pub/peterosn... Antonia Lloyd-Jones explains the book as only she can...

In the Garden of Memory

Part Two: The introduction by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

open.substack.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 19

‘It makes no sense for the perpetrators of genocide to be entrusted with the provision of aid to the people they are trying to kill.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Selma Dabbagh | Bad Days and Worse Days

Last month, Gazans honoured their donkeys, dressing them up and walking them down a red carpet to celebrate the animals...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Jul 3

Tobias Carroll on the June titles in translation you won't want to miss, from Peru, Tanzania, Tibet, and more. Read the June Watchlist:

The Watchlist: June 2025 - Words Without Borders

Tobias Carroll on the June titles in translation you won't want to miss, from Peru, Tanzania, Tibet, and more.

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · Jun 28

Many thanks to James Hopkin for this fabulous first review of The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. Free to read if you register. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-hopkin...

Is Poland Europe’s literary giant?

A new book of Polish short stories reveals the inventive mischievousness of the nation’s writers

www.thenewworld.co.uk

Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · Jun 5

By Jakub Kamiński.

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · Jun 5

It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · Jun 4

Not ashamed to admit that @uilleamblacker.bsky.social’s @theatlantic.com essay on Andrey Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries, the third volume of which I am currently steeped in, moved me to tears. A rare privilege—for authors, translators, anyone—to be so well understood. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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