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Independent bookshop on Bristol's legendary Gloucester Road
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We lucky folk are hosting the UK launch of the brand new
@tolkajournal.bsky.social
on November 27th. Readings & discussion from Polly Barton, Ralf Webb, Chloé Duane and Liam Harrison. Step this way for tickets:
hdfst.uk/e141326
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We lucky folk are hosting the UK launch of the brand new
@tolkajournal.bsky.social
on November 27th. Readings & discussion from Polly Barton, Ralf Webb, Chloé Duane and Liam Harrison. Step this way for tickets:
hdfst.uk/e141326
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Manchester University Press
2 months ago
The 'Into being' book tour continues, with events in Penzance and Bristol (
@gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social
) this week, and
@ink84books.bsky.social
London next. Further events in Durham, Liverpool, London and Oxford to come, head to our Events page for more:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/
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Lawrence Schimel
3 months ago
Congrats to all his translators, including into English
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
&
@georgeszirtes.bsky.social
#booksky
#xl8
#literarytranslation
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The Booker Prizes
3 months ago
Wonderful news to see Lászlo Krasznahorkai, International Booker Prize 2015 winner, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Find out more about the author and his work:
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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László Krasznahorkai | The Booker Prizes
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2015 and shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/laszlo-krasznahorkai
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London Review of Books
3 months ago
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel prize in literature. In our archive, from 2014: ‘My name is Róbert Valzer and I like walking, not that I have anything to do with the famous Robert Walser, nor do I think it strange that walking should be my favourite hobby.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
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László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes · Story: ‘There Goes Valzer’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n06/laszlo-krasznahorkai/there-goes-valzer
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a massive favourite here at GRB! very excited about this gem
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Manchester University Press
3 months ago
INTO BEING: A reading list We asked author
@lilydunn.bsky.social
to compile a list of books by the authors she interviewed for her new book, 'Into being'. Full list on our Blog now, and you can also shop the full list on
@gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social
'
@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
page now.
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Really looking forward to hosting the great
@lilydunn.bsky.social
in conversation with
@mariannebrooker.bsky.social
. October 16th, tickets this way--->
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bos...
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Manchester University Press
4 months ago
To celebrate the imminent release of
@lilydunn.bsky.social
's 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform' in October, Lily has compiled a fascinating list of the authors she interviewed for the book for her local
@gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social
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Lily Dunn's Memoir Reading list
To celebrate the imminent release of Lily Dunn's Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform (published October 7th) Lily has given us a fascinating list of the authors that…
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/lily-dunn-s-memoir-reading-list
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Manchester University Press
4 months ago
Pre-order a SIGNED & DEDICATED copy of
@lilydunn.bsky.social
's forthcoming book, 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform', publishing 7th October 2025. Available from
@gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social
here:
gloucesterroadbooks.com/product/9781...
#choosebookshops
#booksky
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Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform – Pages of Hackney
Order Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform from Pages of Hackney for collection or nationwide delivery. Free UK shipping for orders over £50!
https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/into-being-the-radical-craft-of-memoir-and-its-power-to-transform/
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
4 months ago
The deadline for our Poetry in Translation Prize is tonight. Enter here:
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/the-p...
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Kirkdale Bookshop
5 months ago
let's make Bartleball a thing
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My favourite of all the Nancy strips are the ones that employ a humour that is somehow both visual and linguistic. Prime example ❤️
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Susie Dent
6 months ago
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
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Louie Stowell
6 months ago
This is hateful and dystopian. I was just on holiday in Kent. Nice to know how welcome queer people (esp children) are there eh? Please, Kent locals, write to your councillors and resist this grossness.
#KidLitUK
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Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section
KCC says the move came after a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6257p2vry3o?app-referrer=deep-link
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Patrick Ness
6 months ago
No book in the history of the world has made a child gay or straight or trans or cis. But they have provided hope and a future for those that already are. But of course, under Reform, all hope must be crushed.
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Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section
KCC says the move came after a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6257p2vry3o
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This is indeed excellent. We were lucky enough to have Camilla Grudova here a couple of years ago, and she was great then too. Everybody start paying writers on time. Or else.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
6 months ago
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM NANCY…
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The Booker Prizes
6 months ago
We’re delighted to reveal the
#InternationalBooker2026
judging panel for the 10th anniversary of the prize in its current form. Natasha Brown will act as chair and will be joined by Marcus du Sautoy, Sophie Hughes, Troy Onyango and Nilanjana S. Roy.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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The International Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes
The 2026 judging panel for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, has been announced
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2026
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Canongate
6 months ago
Thrilled to announce Canongate will be publishing WORDS ARE MY MATTER by Pulitzer Prize winner by Ursula K. Le Guin. A manual investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction.
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CANONGATE TO PUBLISH URSULA K. LE GUIN’S SELECTED WRITING ON LITERATURE
CANONGATE TO PUBLISH URSULA K. LE GUIN’S SELECTED WRITING ON LITERATURE
https://canongate.co.uk/news/canongate-to-publish-ursula-k-le-guins-selected-writing-on-literature/?ref=1
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Good Helen Garner day today
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Lily Dunn
6 months ago
The perfect purchase from my local bookshop
@gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social
on a beautiful summer morning. This is going to be my summer reading. What book have you bought from an independent bookshop this week?
#independentbookshopweek
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Indie solidarity. The symbiosis between indie bookshops and indie publishers makes it possible for us to do what we do. Manifesto printed for
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So Mayer
7 months ago
Corrected that headline for you: "Foxes battling corporate gentrification infestation in canalside neighbourhood."
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Jonathan Gibbs
7 months ago
Fitzcarraldo should ditch their binary cover design and embrace the inherent hybridity of most narrative endeavours by giving each individual book a colour on the blue-white spectrum that precisely indicates the truth (white) to fabrication (blue) ratio of the text it contains.
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Will be looking forward to this one then
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Nikesh Shukla
7 months ago
My childhood best friend, a doctor, has set up a project to get kids who need urgent specialist medical care, out of Gaza, to get the help they need. They're crowdfunding here:
www.purehope.co.uk
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Project Pure Hope
https://www.purehope.co.uk/
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Wasafiri Magazine
7 months ago
Just ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize! Open to early-career researchers (including PhD students) in the field of international contemporary literature (literature published since 1965 from anywhere in the world). ⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025
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We had such an amazing time listening to
@jencalleja.bsky.social
last week, it was unquestionably one of the highlights of Translated By, Bristol and you should all read this - whether or not you've ever thought about the process of translation.
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Canongate
7 months ago
Yesterday, over 380 writers published an open letter demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire and end to the genocide. It's a letter we believe everyone should read, and one we support wholeheartedly:
canongate.co.uk/news/writers...
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Writers Demand Immediate Gaza Ceasefire
Writers Demand Immediate Gaza Ceasefire
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Stew Hotston (he/him)
7 months ago
the political party that commits to the slogan 'tough on billionaires, tough on the causes of billionaires' will rule for a generation.
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Melinda Salisbury
7 months ago
Exactly this. But he's willing to kill the UK's (lucrative and proven) arts industry for a tech industry that's bleeding millions, can't keep its promises, over-heating the planet and sucking up water resources the UK doesn't have, yet his main argument seems to be "But everyone else will do it."
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Tomorrow! Still some tickets left if you'd like to come along.
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Bristol24/7
8 months ago
Final preparations are underway for Bristol's first festival of translated literature
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Final preparations underway for 'Translated By, Bristol' – the city’s first festival of translated literature
The event begins on May 12 and will run for a just over a fortnight
https://www.bristol247.com/culture/books/final-preparations-underway-for-translated-by-bristol-the-citys-first-festival-of-translated-literature/
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London Review of Books
8 months ago
‘“Monkey Grip” is beautifully under-plotted and immersive; marked by tonal variation and structural ease, the finished shape of the book affords the pleasure of musical completion.’ Anne Enright (
@thewrengirl.bsky.social
) on Helen Garner:
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Anne Enright · I stab and stab: Helen Garner’s Diaries
The diaries filled me with nostalgia for all the bollocks we had to listen to back in the day; the interminable wrangle...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n08/anne-enright/i-stab-and-stab
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Lovely to have some national press coverage for the festival & the state of translated literature more broadly
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Lovely to have this mention of the very imminent Translated By, Bristol festival in
@bristol247.bsky.social
Thanks folks! 🙏🙏🙏
www.bristol247.com/culture/book...
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Final preparations underway for 'Translated By, Bristol' – the city’s first festival of translated literature
The event begins on May 12 and will run for a just over a fortnight
https://www.bristol247.com/culture/books/final-preparations-underway-for-translated-by-bristol-the-citys-first-festival-of-translated-literature/
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mosababutoha
8 months ago
I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice. 🍓🍓🍓🍓
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And don't miss the chance to hear 5 of the shortlisted translators discuss their work on the same stage!
translatedbybristol.com/programme/#e...
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When we started working on this, well over a year ago, it felt perfectly safe because it was so far away. It's now worryingly, excitingly, nerve-janglingly close. It starts on Monday. It's fine it's fine I'm fine.
translatedbybristol.com/programme/
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This is going to be fantastic. Alas, it's sold out, but there are plenty more events in our festival of translated literature that still have tickets available:
translatedbybristol.com/programme/
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We have signed copies, but won't for long.
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I don't know what the threshold is for a phrase tipping over into common usage but I feel like we can get this there
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Summer dates now available for our Creative Non-Fiction writing course.
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I absolutely adore Three Men In A Boat. Thoroughly enjoyed this piece too. It's making me want to re-read JKJ...
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Such a great expression of this incredibly important crux. And exactly why we're collaborating on a festival of translation and translated literature.
translatedbybristol.com/programme/
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The Society of Authors
9 months ago
Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 40,000+! You can
#DoTheWriteThing
& stop
#MetaBookThieves
by adding your signature here ✒️
authr.uk/sp40
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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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The danger is real
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