PELTA, the origin story! Cristina Pinto-Bailey spoke to Daniel Hahn & Padma Viswanathan, two of PELTA's founders, to find out about the vision around which PELTA was based, and its plans for the future. Check it out on the PELTA Blog: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/p...

We commissioned The American Way in '21 after the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end. How wrong we were. 📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...

PELTA wishes happy holidays to all its members and friends - and hopes everyone gifts, receives and reads lots of books by wonderful Lusophone authors over the holidays and in 2026!

Immensely proud to see my translation of Ricardo Silva's 'Río Muerto' featured on the longlist for the 2026 PEN Translation Prize among such fantastic company! I'll be forever grateful to @worldedbooks.bsky.social for considering me as the translator for this powerful, moving and timely novel.

Congratulations, Ricardo Silva Romero and @furiousleeper.bsky.social! So thrilled to see Rio Muerto on the list! 🍾🥂🍾

Congratulations to all of the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards nominees! With a list that includes biography, poetry, translation, science writing, and more, this year’s longlist has something for every reader. Join us in celebrating this year’s nominees, see here: pen.org/announcing-t...

#SFinTranslation coming out in 2026, so far: from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @unnamedpress.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bsky.social, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, and more www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=15892

“Do you imagine in your wildest dreams that now we have tasted freedom we are going to let ourselves be pushed around once more by you and your leering mate?” #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/t...

We're delighted to invite our members to PELTA's traditional end-of-year holiday social on December 11 at 6pm (UK time) on Zoom! Please RSVP to our PELTA Chair, and if you're not a member yet, you can still join in time to participate in the merriest of all celebrations!

So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿 To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/

🔔FUNDRAISER ALERT!🔔 Dear friends, our OG Bonfire store is still open and selling all kinds of merch! We're already fundraising to support a BIPOC translator for the 2026 @bcltuea.bsky.social summer school, so start your #Christmas shopping early with us right here: www.bonfire.com/store/transl...

PinT Book Club 20th session | PinT Book Club www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880–1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk

FREE BOOK EVENT🎟️📚 Join us tomorrow at @bookcornerhx.bsky.social w/ authors David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y Alam for readings and chat about 'The Book of Bradford', a new anthology in celebration of @bradford2025.co.uk 🎉 Free entry but RSVP👇🎟️ bookcornerhalifax.com/town/

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

Friday morning plans: get cozy with @southwestreview.bsky.social’s THE HORROR ISSUE.

Angolan poet & historian Ana Paula Tavares has won the 2025 Camões Prize for literature in the Portuguese language! "Awarding the prize to Ana Paula Tavares celebrates the strength and beauty of Lusophone literature," said Brazil's culture minister, Margareth Menezes. www.gov.br/bn/pt-br/cen...

Published today: A literary celebration of Christmas south of the equator where the holiday falls in Brazilian summer and festivities are punctuated by rhythms of surf and samba. It's the tenth volume in the New Vessel Press holiday anthology series. newvesselpress.com/books/very-b...

Delighted to have one of my translations in this book. Just look at that cover! 💚🇧🇷🎄

It's #BannedBooksWeek! @everylibrary.bsky.social is hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syria’s most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature. Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...

My translation of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

Delighted to feature @rosefacchini.bsky.social reading from INN OF THE SURVIVORS, out now from @snugglybooks.bsky.social, a visionary & highly relevant tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world set amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic.

Our translation grants – #PENTranslates, including PEN Translates x SALT, and #PENPresents: Brazil – are NOW OPEN for submissions! Find out more, apply & share ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/translation/...

PUBLISHED TODAY. "Midnight Timetable", the new literary horror collection from Bora Chung, author of the phenomenal "Cursed Bunny" We have a few SIGNED copies! You can get one HERE. biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Whether you crave a comfort read or (like our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social) something unsettling and all-around spooky come the start of October, this year brings us plenty of new books to look forward to! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/01/1...

Starting DIVING BOARD by Tomás Downey, tr from the Spanish by Sarah Moses, from Invisible Publishing invisiblepublishing.com/product/divi... #SFinTranslation

(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Natalia Garcia Freire! www.cercadorprize.com

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help. open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/w... (This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Such a wonderful day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of @jeremytiang.bsky.social‘s State of Emergency!

KILLING THE NERVE by annapazos.bsky.social, co-translated by cmctranslations.bsky.social & Laura McGloughlin is OUT THIS WEEK, published by Foundry Editions. "This novel will hit like a revelation; restless, questioning, and indelible." buff.ly/sJQqwNm

I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! 🗳️ 📖

Yesterday the brilliant Julia Sanches gave her fellow PELTA members a fascinating & valuable insight into the intricacies of translation contract negotiation. PELTA regularly offers such workshops to its members - if you're a translator working in Portuguese & aren't yet a member, why not join us?

"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, “A Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul." @holaculturadc.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social holacultura.com/corruption-a...

THE BOOK OF BRADFORD #Giveaway 📚 Can you name the 10 #Bradford landmarks on The Book of Bradford cover? First person to like, share & answer all 10 correctly will receive a copy of this upcoming anthology specially commissioned for @bradford2025.co.uk! 🥳 📚 commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

‘Blasim’s demotic documentary tone is not just authentic, it is also revolutionary in form... The result is prose as urgent and innovative in its style as it is uncompromising in its content.’ - @thetls.bsky.social ✍️ Alev Adil on 'Sololand' by Hassan Blasim 📃 www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Updated Post: Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations bookblast.org/blog/natalia...

🐊🐊🐊 Extremely cool news!!! @monaojedaf.bsky.social !!! deadline.com/2025/09/dieg...

Some responses to US event, from Trinidad to Uganda, shows how far & deep US evangelical networks run. Time to re-read Iryn Tushabe’s brilliant memoir-essay “Saved” on colonialism, religion & language in Uganda in #riverinanocean (essays on translation) #TranslationMonth

Today we feature translator Alice Banks reading from ANIMALITOS, an ode to childhood and a reflection on the harshness of adult life and the human capacity to overcome. A unique, raw and delicate debut novel reminiscent of Ocean Vuong and Ottessa Moshfegh. Seeking a publisher! #xl8

We're over the moon to announce that the LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien is officially coming soon, featuring meditations, essays, fiction, poetry, and more from LARB contributors new and known. Prep for landing and join today to get your issue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

All That Dies in April is a roadless road novel told in short chapters like clockwork from 3 different perspectives. A Hay Festival Book Club selection, this is a suspenseful ancestral tale rooted in a Latin American history of rural displacement and perpetual inequality. @worldedbooks.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce today's publication of All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio, translated by @willmorningstar.bsky.social and @samanthaschnee.bsky.social

I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here: jencalleja.com/writing/

'Entrancing in its imagery and themes, “A Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul.' Michelle Benitez with a brilliant review of García Freire's novel for @holaculturadc.bsky.social! 🐐🦜🦊 tinyurl.com/56xv5u3z

Today we explore trees in stories from India, Faroe Islands, Madagascar and Finland, continuing Lori’s theme from Friday. Not only existing as a natural backdrop, the trees here symbolize our human connection to nature and our environment🌲🌳🌴 worldkidlit.org/2025/09/07/t... #WorldKidLitMonth

I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...