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Join Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne and In Other Words for a conversation around Balkan women’s writing, exile, and translation, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody!
🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
Join Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne and In Other Words for a conversation around Balkan women’s writing, exile, and translation, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody!
🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Join Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne and In Other Words for a conversation around Balkan women’s writing, exile, and translation, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody!
🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
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Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
Can we take this opportunity to say how much we also love the work of Krisztina Tóth?
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
Final cover for Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, publising in Oct. by @sevenstories.bsky.social in the US and @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social in the UK. Available for preorder now
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Can we take this opportunity to say how much we also love the work of Krisztina Tóth?
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social
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It's essential that we recognize the work of his many translators who brought his literature to life around the world, including his translators to English: John Bakti, and our contributors George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ! 💙
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's essential that we recognize the work of his many translators who brought his literature to life around the world, including his translators to English: John Bakti, and our contributors George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ! 💙
Many congratulations to @georgeszirtes.bsky.social and all translators of László Krasznahorkai! We would not be able to read him without their labour!
Take a look back in our fiction archive and read this 2009 excerpt (tr. George Szirtes) from EL ÚLTIMO LOBO by Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai (later published as THE LAST WOLF in 2016). wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Many congratulations to @georgeszirtes.bsky.social and all translators of László Krasznahorkai! We would not be able to read him without their labour!
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"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny
Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.
www.theskinny.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
On October 26th, author Park Seolyeon and translator Anton Hur will join In Other Words at Tills Bookshop in a conversation about writing and translating political fiction, explored through their latest novel: Capitalists Must Starve.
@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @antonhur.com
@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @antonhur.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
On October 26th, author Park Seolyeon and translator Anton Hur will join In Other Words at Tills Bookshop in a conversation about writing and translating political fiction, explored through their latest novel: Capitalists Must Starve.
@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @antonhur.com
@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @antonhur.com
What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
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Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.
Tonight (!) we are hosting the Edinburgh launch of Laura Vogt’s wonderful choral novel ‘Woman, Idle’, her latest to be translated into English by Caroline Waight and published by Héloïse Press.
🎟️Last tickets here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...
🎟️Last tickets here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...
Woman, Idle: Laura Vogt in conversation with Annie Rutherford — In Other Words
Join us for the Edinburgh launch of Laura Vogt’s latest novel to be translated into English: Woman, Idle . Published in the UK by Héloïse press and translated by Caroline Waight, Woman, Idle explor...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Tonight (!) we are hosting the Edinburgh launch of Laura Vogt’s wonderful choral novel ‘Woman, Idle’, her latest to be translated into English by Caroline Waight and published by Héloïse Press.
🎟️Last tickets here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...
🎟️Last tickets here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...
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To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.
We can't wait to read this! Congratulations @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ✨
👧 THE OTHER GIRL by Annie Ernaux, tr. Alison L. Strayer publishes today 👧
Brilliantly translated for the first time into English, Ernaux explores the meaning of a family secret, and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters.
👧
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-ot...
Brilliantly translated for the first time into English, Ernaux explores the meaning of a family secret, and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters.
👧
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-ot...
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We can't wait to read this! Congratulations @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ✨
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Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉
September 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉
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Autumn book tour dates for FAIR! See you there! @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Autumn book tour dates for FAIR! See you there! @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social
Earlier this summer we hosted three sold-out sessions of our seminar series ‘Our Brilliant Friends’, focusing on the Neapolitan Novels written by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein. Held at Tills Bookshop, we gathered to discuss how these novels have shaped our lives.
August 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Earlier this summer we hosted three sold-out sessions of our seminar series ‘Our Brilliant Friends’, focusing on the Neapolitan Novels written by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein. Held at Tills Bookshop, we gathered to discuss how these novels have shaped our lives.
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ALT Book Fringe 2025
4–29 Aug, Edinburgh
Entirely run & curated by 3 of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – @argonautbooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social & @typewronger.bsky.social – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival
www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-...
4–29 Aug, Edinburgh
Entirely run & curated by 3 of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – @argonautbooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social & @typewronger.bsky.social – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival
www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-...
July 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ALT Book Fringe 2025
4–29 Aug, Edinburgh
Entirely run & curated by 3 of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – @argonautbooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social & @typewronger.bsky.social – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival
www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-...
4–29 Aug, Edinburgh
Entirely run & curated by 3 of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – @argonautbooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social & @typewronger.bsky.social – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival
www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-...
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Doing two events at Edinburgh International Book Festival on 15 August:
Jen Calleja & Annelise Finegan: Life in Translation
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Lanre Bakare, Jen Calleja & Ash Sarkar: Changing the Culture
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Jen Calleja & Annelise Finegan: Life in Translation
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Lanre Bakare, Jen Calleja & Ash Sarkar: Changing the Culture
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Lanre Bakare, Jen Calleja & Ash Sarkar: Changing the Culture
From Fri 15 Aug - Three vibrant voices shaking up assumptions on class, race, and culture join us for a perspective-shifting discussion…
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July 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Doing two events at Edinburgh International Book Festival on 15 August:
Jen Calleja & Annelise Finegan: Life in Translation
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Lanre Bakare, Jen Calleja & Ash Sarkar: Changing the Culture
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Jen Calleja & Annelise Finegan: Life in Translation
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Lanre Bakare, Jen Calleja & Ash Sarkar: Changing the Culture
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Meet the International Booker Prize 2025 winners.
📍Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF
🗓️ Friday, 15 August 2025, 12:15pm
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https://edbookfest.pulse.ly/il4kiwiu6h
📍Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF
🗓️ Friday, 15 August 2025, 12:15pm
🎟️⤵️
https://edbookfest.pulse.ly/il4kiwiu6h
2025 International Booker Prize: Meet the Winners
From Fri 15 Aug - Join 2025 judge Sana Goyal and the International Booker Prize’s administrator Fiammetta Rocco as they speak to the winners of this year’s prize about their work and the art of translation…
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August 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Meet the International Booker Prize 2025 winners.
📍Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF
🗓️ Friday, 15 August 2025, 12:15pm
🎟️⤵️
https://edbookfest.pulse.ly/il4kiwiu6h
📍Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF
🗓️ Friday, 15 August 2025, 12:15pm
🎟️⤵️
https://edbookfest.pulse.ly/il4kiwiu6h
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We're so excited to have three incredible Welsh and Gaelic poets coming to read their work and speak about it at Oxford Translation Day!
Remember to register!
⏰: 14 June 2025, 14:00-15:15
📍: Seminar Room 8, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/ldqYS
Remember to register!
⏰: 14 June 2025, 14:00-15:15
📍: Seminar Room 8, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/ldqYS
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
We're so excited to have three incredible Welsh and Gaelic poets coming to read their work and speak about it at Oxford Translation Day!
Remember to register!
⏰: 14 June 2025, 14:00-15:15
📍: Seminar Room 8, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/ldqYS
Remember to register!
⏰: 14 June 2025, 14:00-15:15
📍: Seminar Room 8, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/ldqYS
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
June 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
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🚨Emerging writers & translators🚨: there's only ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, open to entries in Poetry, Fiction, and Life Writing, including translated work.
Deadline: 30 June.
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Deadline: 30 June.
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June 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨Emerging writers & translators🚨: there's only ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, open to entries in Poetry, Fiction, and Life Writing, including translated work.
Deadline: 30 June.
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Deadline: 30 June.
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'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.'
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
Both a novelist and literary translator, @antonhur.com – Fiction judge for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – discusses toggling between being an author and translator, and how each role is treated in the book production process.
The Two Wolves Inside Me: Writer vs. Translator by Anton Hur
Both a novelist and translator…
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June 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.'
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
First Ferrante seminar of the summer coming up! 🧿 Some tickets still available. Come talk about friendship with us!
We invite you to join us, whether you’ve read the whole series, the first novel, or none of it at all!
Tickets and more details here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal... 🎟️
(There are a limited number of concession tickets available.)
Tickets and more details here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal... 🎟️
(There are a limited number of concession tickets available.)
Our Brilliant Friends: Three Seminars on the Neapolitan Novels — In Other Words
For a second summer in a row, we are delving into the world of Elena Ferrante. This time around, our series of three seminars will focus on the Neapolitan Novels , which for many has marked the e...
www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
First Ferrante seminar of the summer coming up! 🧿 Some tickets still available. Come talk about friendship with us!