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Translator. Raitán. Swappin' yarns tae cowe the gowan. https://linktr.ee/robinmunby
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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · Oct 1
Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org

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levostregc.bsky.social
Philosopheres, wryteres, artistes, filmemakeres, actors, and educatores seem to agree that Gen AI ys a terrible ydea -- but what if... what if the business executives who stande to make moneye from it are correct that it ys great?
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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wasafirimag.bsky.social
Celebrate our forthcoming issue Wasafiri 124: Presencia & Resistencia, guest co-edited by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix. This special event @britishlibrary.bsky.social brings together leading British Latinx writers including Juana Adcock and @yararf.bsky.social.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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jencalleja.bsky.social
Before the Rocket was Book of the Week and now a Book of the Month at Voce Books! Proud publisher ❤️
vocebooks.bsky.social Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 10h
🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, NOVEMBER 2025
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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skeinpress.bsky.social
Unveiling our first publication of 2026...

'Contentious Spaces' is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh

#ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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robmunb.bsky.social
You can currently pick up a copy of my translation of Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua for a tenner from Smithdown Road/the internet's very own @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social in their autumn sale, along with lots of other good stuff

deadinkbookshop.com/collections/...
AUTUMN SALE
The Dead Ink Bookshop is your neighbourhood bookshop specialising in books from independent publishers!
deadinkbookshop.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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antonhur.com
My friend and colleague @kasiabesfud.bsky.social reminded me of this informative discussion between IBP winner @michehut.bsky.social and Fitzcarraldo editor Tamara Sampey-Jawad on issues surrounding the editing of translations. Editing is not tedious busywork but a vital and dynamic discussion.
Between the Lines: The Art of Editing Literary Translations
YouTube video by British Centre for Literary Translation
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December 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
robmunb.bsky.social
You can currently pick up a copy of my translation of Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua for a tenner from Smithdown Road/the internet's very own @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social in their autumn sale, along with lots of other good stuff

deadinkbookshop.com/collections/...
AUTUMN SALE
The Dead Ink Bookshop is your neighbourhood bookshop specialising in books from independent publishers!
deadinkbookshop.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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minorliteratures.bsky.social
and coming up this week ...

— @matthewkinlin.bsky.social interviews R.J. Dent

— experimental poetry from @robmunb.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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wheekerbooks.bsky.social
Hablamos mucho del nombre del traductor en cubierta y poco de esto.

Tengo delante 25 novelas traducidas al inglés publicadas recientemente por 25 editoriales distintas. 18 de los libros (72 %) incluyen una biografía del traductor junto a la del autor.

¿Cuántas editoriales hacen esto en España?
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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antonhur.com
In 2012, Larry Summers said in an NYT op-ed that my bilingualism would become useless.

In 2025, I still have a full-time job as a translator and he is unemployed.
English's emergence as the global language, along with the rapid progress in machine translation and the fragmentation of languages spoken around the world, make it less clear that the substantial investment necessary to speak a foreign tongue is universally worthwhile. While there is no gainsaying the insights that come from mastering a language, it will over time become less essential in doing business in Asia, treating patients in Africa or helping resolve conflicts in the Middle East.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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bullaunpress.bsky.social
Wonderful to see What Remains front and centre among such great company on the New Fiction table in Charlie Byrne's over the weekend✨

Pick up your copy in store or online at bullaunpress.com today 📚
Close shot of a table of books in the new fiction section of Charlie Byrnes, including What Remains by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers (Bullaun Press) Close shot of a table of books in the new fiction section of Charlie Byrnes, including What Remains by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers (Bullaun Press)
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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inaciugalan.bsky.social
Las obras en asturiano, aragonés y leonés optarán a los Premios Nacionales de Cultura desde la convocatoria de 2026 www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/2025...
Las obras en asturiano, aragonés y leonés optarán a los Premios Nacionales de Cultura desde la convocatoria de 2026
MADRID, 18 (EUROPA PRESS) El ministro de Cultura, Ernest Urtasun, ha anunciado en el Congreso, durante su comparecencia en la Comisión del ramo a petición propia, que las...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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arteesetica.bsky.social
Mientras muchos siguen ocupados en dejarse deslumbrar por la IA generativa de turno, a ver quién la tiene más hiperrealista que el otro, se avanza en el camino hacia el colapso energético poniendo en riesgo otros sectores de producción y hasta la calefacción de los hogares.

🛑 STOP GEN AI
Informe especial IA generativa y crisis energética Primera entrega: centros de datos Quemando el planeta a base de prompts https://www.instagram.com/p/DRLx6wgjkhA/?igsh=MmI1OHJ4aGE4cWU3
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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calume.bsky.social
Compartímosvos delles imáxenes de la gala d'entrega de los premios lliterarios y artísticos n'asturianu del Gobiernu del Principáu d'Asturies. Norabuena s los premiaos y n'especial a Daniel García Granda, ganador del premiu 'Florina Alías' pola traducción d'En llucha incierta de John Steinbeck.
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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wwborders.bsky.social
Congratulations to our contributors Évelyne Trouillot, Krisztina Tóth, and Han Kang for being shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! If you're interested in reading more from these fantastic authors— head to our website!
womenintranslation.bsky.social Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 22d
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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minorliteratures.bsky.social
"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..."

ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova

minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova
stay for a moment hey november as slipping through your fingers but moving on movement tilts a stroke of time moving as it is one after another which blows statues as if immune to others for you ha…
minorliteratures.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Event with translator @robmunb.bsky.social in Madrid
#xl8
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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libripotens.bsky.social
any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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asls.org.uk
☝️ Ian Hamilton Finlay’s “Fox” was first published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961)
Page from Ian Hamilton Finlay's GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961) The page is printed in a red-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, sleekit, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem: see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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asls.org.uk
Wan o the 1%:

Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Nov 3
Heads up: if you are describing a fox, there’s like a 99% chance that you will use the adjective ‘sly.’
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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bethangharad.bsky.social
I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature.

I’d love you to give it a read!

modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the archive: Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Modern Poetry in Translation
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
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November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
robmunb.bsky.social
Lovely piece from @mptmagazine.bsky.social and @bethangharad.bsky.social, who puts an ear to the archive and walks us through the Darkness with Ana Luísa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa 👂

(don't forget to read the poem at the end!)
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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calume.bsky.social
Mural escomanáu dedicáu a Conceiçāo Evaristo na Pequena África (Rio de Janeiro), cerca del puertu pel que se diz que foi la mayor entrada d'esclavos. Y ye que d'esclavitú tamién se fala en 'Caleyos de la memoria', la novela que traduxo @hefacuriella.bsky.social pa Ediciones Trabe.
#BookSky #calume
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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marrrtha.bsky.social
Three years of work on this — my new translation of the poetry and selected prose of sixteen-century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross for Penguin Classics.

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You can preorder it via all the usual bookshops or links here. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137...
Penguin Books webpage showing the cover of Dark Night: Poetry and Selected Prose of St John of the Cross, with a cover detail by El Greco. A quote from one of the poems: ‘Oh living flame of love, how tenderly you scorch me’ The blurb text: The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T.S. Eliot. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Cross’s complete poems and a selection of his prose, including from his extended commentary on the poem ‘Dark Night’. In his immediate, sensual writing, we see a soul searching for meaning and union with the divine: both meek and bold, deserving and undeserving, oscillating between light and dark, soaring and falling, desperation and salvation. Dark Night gives us a picture of faith at once confronting and inspiriting, and of the power of words as a means of spiritual transcendence. Translated by Martha Sprackland, with an introduction by Colin Thompson.
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM