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...

Next up! #SFinTranslation by Samanta Schweblin, tr Megan McDowell, from @aaknopf.bsky.social

At WWB, reading in translation isn’t something we do only for the 30 days of August—we do it every month, all year. Last week, we published Tobias Carroll’s latest Watchlist featuring all women in translation, so that you can keep the #WITMonth vibe going: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

As Latin American Heritage Month approaches, we’re turning to stories passed down for generations. 🌙📖 LATIN AMERICAN FOLKTALES gathers tales from 20 countries—rich with Indigenous & Hispanic tradition. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/13446/...

#SFinTranslation Out This Month (stories/books/reviews): www.sfintranslation.com?p=15050

54 Books By Women From Each Of Africa's 54 Countries | The Republic rpublc.com/april-may-20...

Stories dealing with the hard topics are a #WITMonth staple...THE SIMPLE ART OF KILLING A WOMAN by PATRÍCIA MELO & translated by Sophie Lewis, via Restless Books is a brutally honest recounting of the reality of femicide in Brazil. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

What's in your TBR pile for #WomenInTranslationMonth ?

The Transmutation of Death into Light: @willmcmahon36.bsky.social reviews Natalia García Freire’s A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES (@worldedbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t...

@willmcmahon36.bsky.social reviews Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities (tr. Victor Meadowcroft) at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org : ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t... Spanish (Ecuador) #SFinTranslation

With the brilliance of #WITMonth in August and #WorldKidLitMonth in September, this time of year is a surfeit of riches for literature in translation! We've got dedicated playlists for #WIT + #kidlit + so much more--do check us out! www.youtube.com/@Translators...

"Natalia García Freire’s writing shocks, confounds, and fascinates; this carnival proves well worth the ride." Will McMahon with a brilliantly insightful review of Natalia García Freire's 'A Carnival of Atrocities' (@worldedbooks.bsky.social)! 🦜🐐🦊 tinyurl.com/yj4zeman

DIFFICULT LIGHT by TOMÁS GONZÁLEZ & translated by Andrea Rosenberg via Archipelago Books demonstrates that blindness is more than physical. Apparently some think this should not be in #WITMonth but translators deserve honoring. expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/diff...

Our #WITMonth goodies include @worldedbooks.bsky.social's 2023 treat This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire & translated by the estimable @furiousleeper.bsky.social #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2023/08/augu...

Spanish author Sara Mesa's books always dazzle and her novel 'Four by Four' where dark academia meets Latin American Gothic is no exception... Translated by Katie Whittemore, 'Four by Four' is out now from #PeirenePress #WomenInTranslation uk.bookshop.org/a/209/978191...

“I am searching for that state just before individual languages are dismantled—freed from their meanings and finally annihilated.” Yoko Tawada considers language as a destabilizing force.

This #WITMonth have a medieval adventure courtesy of @deepvellum.bsky.social: RECITAL OF THE DARK VERSES, translation by Heather Cleary of Mexican poet Luis Felipe Fabre's bizarre, fact-based religious heist novel. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2023/09/reci...