Avui publico un article a @lseimpactblog.bsky.social sobre una obsessió: per què trobar traduccions és tan difícil. Un exemple: el valencià/català ocupa el vuité lloc a Zenòdot per nombre d'edicions, per davant del xinés i el rus. No perquè tinguem més producció, sinó perquè he connectat les fonts.

New piece on the LSE Impact Blog on why finding books in translation is still so hard — and why the problem isn't content but infrastructure. Nearly 90% of the ISBN-verified editions in Zenòdot appear in only one of its 23 sources.

A man develops a wound where you’d expect a nail. He doesn’t pray. He gets a filleting knife. “Stigmata” — new story, up now. When did you stop expecting miracles? #Horrorwriterschat

It happens to be Good Friday, and some timing you don't argue with. A man who doesn't believe in God but needs to know why his wrist bleeds on Fridays. "Stigmata" — new on Mediterranean Gothic. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/stigmata

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. This beauty is 51% off! Need more reasons? - Stoker/Locus nominee - Great NYT and NPR reviews - Finally some adaptation interest(?!) - Magic! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Mediterranean Gothic fiction and essays at ausiastsel.substack.com — horror under bright sun, Catholic ritual, villages that keep secrets in plain sight. Work in Flash Fiction Magazine, Neon & Smoke, Pithead Chapel. #HorrorWritersChat

Working on Mediterranean Gothic flash — Catholic ritual, village silence, things that stay buried under civic politeness. Just had a piece in Pithead Chapel and another forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine. Spring is for processions and submission deadlines. #HorrorWritersChat

By the third day of spring, the garden had started asking for names. The old woman next door said that was normal. “Give it the names of people who owe you something,” she said, pulling weeds bare-handed. “It settles faster that way.” #HorrorWritersChat

Flowers on graves. In València, spring means cemetery visits, fresh paint on niches, families arguing over lunch while the dead listen. Everything blooms and everything rots at the same pace. #HorrorWritersChat

Ausiàs Tsel, from the Valencian Country. Mediterranean Gothic: horror under bright sun, Catholic guilt as architecture, villages that remember everything. I love writing the moment before someone understands what they’ve seen. #HorrorWritersChat

Apparently I'll be published in the London School of Economics Impact Blog in a couple of weeks. So much for not changing careers at forty.

New story up. "Inventory." The coldest thing I've written in a while.

Ja ens han arribat les 25 còpies de la segona tirada de “Per un grapat de joies”, la traducció en català d’un parell de contes de Lord Dunsany, feta a base de vi i amor. 🍇 Podeu encarregar-lo per DM o a [email protected] (12€), i llegir-ne el text (gratuït, creative commons!) a www.pegana.cat

Write horror and want to chat about it? Join #HorrorWritersChat a Wednesday meet-up on BlueSky. All time zones welcome! Questions/Prompts will stay up and shareable for up to 24 hours, so you can still join in "late". We start today at 7 pm (GMT/UK) / 3 pm (ET/USA) #AmWriting #HorrorSky #WiHM

Yours truly will be on Flash Fiction Magazine June 21, 2026. A liitle Mediterranean Gothic Vampire tale. #Horrorwriterschat

How did you sleep today? Alone? That’s a shame. I had company.

Avui fem un quart de segle. 25 anys de coneixement lliure, promogut per voluntaris, obert a tothom i en català-valencià. La Viquipèdia avui és més necessària que mai. I que excel·leixi en la nostra llengua ho és encara més. Gràcies per llegir-la i enriquir-la! #Viquipèdia25🧩

Treballant en un nou #ConteEstrany. Escrit per Lovecraft fa 100 anys, amb referències als Països Catalans i inèdit en català.

#Baturday Bat-shaped night light, around 1930 museelesecqdestournelles.fr/en/oeuvres/b...

Després de l'actualització d'aquest vespre, la «Paremiologia catalana comparada digital (PCCD)» pccd.dites.cat ja té 919.443 fitxes (unes 6.400 més), corresponents a 102.786 paremiotipus (uns 1.800 més), recollides de 821 fonts i 7.926 informants diferents.

Alguna cosa ha passat este matí. He obert Publishers Lunch i he trobat Zenòdot a la columna de Michael Cader. M'ha dit "Spanish author." Ací haguerem tingut problemes. Ho explico ací:

Something happened this morning. I opened Publishers Lunch and found Zenòdot in Michael Cader's column. He called me a "Spanish author." Close enough to start a war back home. I talk about it here: On building a tool no one built, going viral, and what's still missing.

Four months ago I asked a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? No one tracks this. Not ISBN. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built Zenòdot. Yesterday, it exploded here. Today, Michael Cader wrote about it in Publishers Lunch. Thank you all. Zenodot.app

Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language L: https://www.zenodot.app/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310717 posted on 2026.03.09 at 11:54:23 (c=2, p=4)

This thread! 👇

No AI, no LLMs. Just four databases, a lot of normalization, and a pipeline that tries very hard to match the same book across languages and scripts. The boring, old kind. The only place I use a lang model is to translate queries behind the scenes. But the actual data is all from structured sources.

Awesome tool to libraries like @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social

Showing on HN today: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731...

That's really cool. I appreciate this because I speak French and I often have friends who are learning French ask me if there are good books that I can recommend and this will help immensely

Fantastic. The lack of this data, despite all the tech we have, has always baffled me. Google Search personalisation is so bad that it didn't show the French translation of a book, which existed, just 'cos my default Google language is English.

Thanks for this. I am a recent immigrant to Denmark trying to learn this crazy language and have been trying to find out which of my favorite books have been translated to Dansk. Unfortunately there is not a huge market for Danish translations - simply not enough native speakers. This will help.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

Now, this is good. "There is a quality to certain silences. Not absence of sound—presence of attention. The silence of something listening." from The Hermitage by Ausiàs Tsel

I’ve never traveled to this part of the world, but when I do someday, “Mediterranean Gothic” is the vibe I’ll be looking for

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#HorrorWritersChat Our Questionnaire is LIVE! Thanks to all who have already completed it. The information will be used to help us improve things here, both now and in the near future. You can find the link in the post below

Not bad, not bad at all.

Great questions! and great to see who’s out here writing this stuff. The horror community on here is something else. See you next week.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you're on Substack I'd love to know. I'm at ausiastsel.substack.com

The ants built their trail around the bed. Perfect circle. They didn’t stop when we sprayed them. They didn’t stop when we moved the bed. They are still there. The circle is smaller now. #HorrorWritersChat​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Ants. Not because of the bite. Because they already know something is wrong with the house before you do, and they’ve already decided where the edges are. #HorrorWritersChat​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The pig of Sant Antoni. Blessed, untouchable, free to roam the village. Everyone feeds it. Nobody questions it. We are surprisingly confortable with a sacred animal that could eat anything. #HorrorWritersChat​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Ausiàs Tsel. I write Mediterranean Gothic: the horror underneath liturgy, harvest festivals, village silence. Nature intrudes as rot. The fig tree. The dry riverbed. The saint’s feast no one questions. #HorrorWritersChat

I’m really proud of having "The Bread" at @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. Writing it confirmed something: Mediterranean Gothic doesn't need fiction. The dread is already in the kitchen. I'd like to know what you think. pitheadchapel.com/the-bread/

🔥Demà arriba a les llibreries l’esperadíssim…🔥

Ja ha sortit la meva traducció de «Maria Stuart», la novel·la amb què Stefan Zweig narra la biografia truculenta i controvertida d’aquesta reina escocesa —tan controvertida, per cert, que la versió anglesa de l’obra es va publicar fortament censurada.

Our March Issue is live! pitheadchapel.com/2026/03/01/v... Cover Art by KYLE MERCER Fiction by CHARLIE KIEFT PHEBE KIRKHAM KATHRYN REESE @kathrynreese.bsky.social DOUGLAS BAKER Nonfiction by AMY TURN SHARP AUSIÀS TSEL @ausiastsel.com Prose Poetry by SEAN CHO A. LILY CROWDER MATT POINDEXTER

Per anar fent gana pel vermut, us convidem a llegir la presentació i les primeres pàgines de MARIA STUART, de Stefan Zweig i traducció de Joan Ferrarons, cortesia de @vilaweb.cat : 🫴 www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/ava...

First published nonfiction. ‘The Bread’ at @pitheadchapel.bsky.social — Mediterranean Gothic without ghosts. Just bread, superstition, and a son who learned cruelty could look like intelligence. pitheadchapel.com/the-bread/

By the way, have you read my The Hermitage on @neonandsmoke.bsky.social ? I would love to know your opinion. www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...

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