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Marina Sofia

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Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 4d

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 7h

Eh??? 🤯🤯

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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 1d

After a long while, here's my latest blog post.
In my translation practice, I've come to believe I need to kill my darlings. Do you? Let me know what you think.
#literarytranslation #emergingtranslators #narrativevoice #killyourdarlings
www.ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com/post/kill-yo...

Kill Your Darlings

I'm attentive to the author’s choices of register, syntax, and punctuation, the rhythm of the writing, the feelings it arouse. I follow the author’s cues, finding them at the surface level and in deep...

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats!

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

I saw it in 1990/91 and thought it a bit tedious then. Liked it much more now (especially the bit about Potsdamer Platz)

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 2d

As it’s the weekend here is your latest Wombling Along with reviews and more to relax into as it’s the weekend www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Wombling Along — Runalong The Shelves

Helloooo! Hope you survived stormy weekend and whatever the week blew at you. It’s been a quiet week and things are going ok and sometimes that’s just nice. I can see soon a week off, World Fantasy C...

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

It has some pretentious, unnecessary longeurs but still visually impressive and beautiful and moving

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

Saw this the day I arrived in Berlin. Disturbing atmosphere throughout, the soundscape and the use of dialect really stood out to me

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

We were supposed to be walking so I didn't want to stop to take too many pictures. Besides, the light was really diffused and odd today, my phone camera couldn't quite cope

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Elisabeth Wolf @elisabethwolf.bsky.social · 2d

This week's edition of the Edinburgh Shelfie has dropped.

Find yourself a great book event to go to...

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Super Thursday?

Apparently it's rolling this year...

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

The monologue are pretentious (thanks to Peter Handke) but the cinematography and scenes showing the people of Berlin are good

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 2d

Watching Wings of Desire in Berlin in a restored version on the big screen - highly recommended!

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning and Happy #BookshopDay.

Please do support Indy Bookshops.

They pay their full taxes and don't splurge their money on rockets to Mars.

@babooksellers.bsky.social
@thebookseller.com

And thank you team Bookcase Hebden for promoting
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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 4d

Love Berlin but my neck hurts now from looking up

Understand creatures light display on top of the Berliner Dom

We ❤️ Berlin in colourful display with hearts on Brandenburg Gate

Remnant of the Berlin wall in the foreground against high rise buildings with colourful light displays

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 4d

Ne vedem în câteva zile, de-abia aștept. Prietena care vede de el s-a îndrăgostit de el... Dar nu-l dau! 🤣🤣

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 4d

Authors, start your engines!

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Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social · 4d

If this firecracker of a novella isn't banned in at least six US states, it ought to be...
Little Rebel by Jérôme Leroy is a short read, but it more than makes up for that in sheer fizzing energy... a little gem!
amazon.co.uk/dp/B097KCVCKY/

Little Rebel eBook : Leroy, Jérôme, Roberts, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 4d

Vivid, joyful, raw, tender, Andrev Walden's BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins & ends; and above all, about men. Sound interesting? Here's a taste, read by translator @iangiles.bsky.social himself! youtu.be/ruwop7t0dME?...

Ian Giles reads from Andrev Walden’s BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS (Fig Tree, 2025)

YouTube video by Translators Aloud

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 4d

Mersi! Ce mai faceți?

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Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social · 4d

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable - and how does this link to Nightingale & Co? findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 4d

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable

And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…

findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com

Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 5d

Banning and censoring books isn’t going to stop people thinking about those uncomfortable, sometimes unpleasant things. And it’s not going to make those things go away
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WE Don't Need No Thought Control* margot-kin-berg.com/2025/10/09/w...

We Don’t Need No Thought Control*

I have a news flash to share. Earlier this year, my fourteen-year-old granddaughter read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. And guess what? She hasn’t jumped into an unhealthy and inappropriate relationshi…

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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 5d

But it's only for Kurdish playwrights

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 5d

Also to Daniel Gustafsson Pech (Swedish), Joëlle Dufeuilly (French), Adam Kovacsics (Spanish), Mari Alföldy (Netherlands), Hans Skirecki (Germany) and many, many others

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 5d

Shout out to LK's various translators including George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, and John Batki

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 6d

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/08/n... the yearly fun Nobel guessing post

Nobel Literaure 2025 - Winstonsdad's Blog

It is that time of year when we all think about who is going to win the Nobel Literature Prize. There is a feeling that in the last few years the prize has alternated between a female and a Male. This...

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