This reading is from the chapter The Trade Winds, in which Anna falls for the charismatic photographer Guillermo and impulsively drops everything to sail around the world with him. More of Anna’s adventures aboard can be seen in the BBC documentary she made about the journey: buff.ly/8vQtSd4

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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

KILLING THE NERVE is out in the world today! www.linkedin.com/posts/cmctra...

I recently used World Of Books - Sell Your Books and they gave me a special offer to share with my friends. I’m treating you to an exclusive £5 extra on your first trade over £10. I’ll also get a reward, so it’s a win-win! sellworldofbooks.mention-me.com/m/ol/lw9rh-c...

Sales of translated fiction so far in 2025 are up 8% compared with the same period in 2024, according to data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s TCM – although more than three quarters of that number is down to Asako Yuzuki’s Butter 👇 #BookSky

Arts Council England Statement - "We will not use AI to assess applications or make funding decisions." www.artscouncil.org.uk/ai-arts-coun... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #ArtByArtists

It seems like only yesterday that we started this little YouTube channel & now here we are, five years & several hundred videos later, immensely proud of the incredible repository of literary & translation talent we've showcased to the world. Thanks to all who contributed!🎉 buff.ly/L9ZSuwZ

Starting tomorrow, we will be hosting another New Books in German feature week. A series of readings translated from German, all books seeking a publisher, with funding available. Stay tuned for some great readings from some very talented translators! @newgermanbooks.bsky.social

We are 5 today! 🎉💕 @tinakover.bsky.social

What to do if your NEA grant was rescinded docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Of course we wouldn't be able to fund the Translators Aloud BCLT bursary without your generous donations throughout the year, for which we are deeply grateful, thank you so much! Please do buy us a coffee if you're able; ALL monies go toward funding each year's bursary. 💚 ko-fi.com/translatorsa...

We've just sent off the payment for our @bcltuea.bsky.social half-bursary for the 2025 Literary Translation Summer School! 🎉 We're SO delighted that we've been able to fund participation for another BIPOC translator and we look forward to introducing you to the recipient in due course!

My translation of Zoé Derleyn's short story 'Yellow Dust' has just been published in the gorgeous spring issue of The Southern Review. 💛 The story is from the collection Je m’appelle Australie (Éditions du Rouergue, 2024) thesouthernreview.org/issues/detai... @southernreview.bsky.social

⚡ #FLASHBACKFRIDAY ⚡ Every week we take a fresh look at a reading from the #translatorsaloud archives. Treat yourself all over again to one of our brilliant features, or discover your next translated read! buff.ly/OfaFMJK @charcopress.com @cmctranslations.bsky.social #translation #xl8 #books #read

@furiousleeper.bsky.social reads from Colombian writer Ricardo Silva Romero's RIO MUERTO (@worldedbooks.bsky.social): a wrenching tale of murder and survival; "a window into a violent world and a tale about a family suffering at the hands of paramilitarism and bad neighbours."

Lots of buzz at the moment about Emily Wilson and her performance-readings from her translations of Homer's #Odyssey. You can watch those readings (and so many more!) on our channel: check us out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1at...

🛒 Check out all the amazing #translatorsaloud merch for sale on our website. 🛒 Funds raised go to supporting our bursary for the BCLT summer school.✍️ https://buff.ly/41dRMKv

Business idea. Clothes made from rubber rings and lilos: float couture

We are a completely unfunded operation - any funds we've raised over the years through kind donations, doing feature weeks & collaborations, or selling merch, have gone towards funding this #BCLT summer school bursary every year. Head to our website for ways to support us: www.translatorsaloud.com

For the last few years, Translators Aloud has been contributing to a bursary for the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School. In 2024 we funded a place for Makafane Tšepang Ntlamelle (@makafanentlamelle.bsky.social) who is a writer, among other things. He lives in Maseru, Lesotho.

Translators Aloud is a completely unfunded operation. Any funds we've raised over the years through your kind donations, or by doing feature weeks, collaborations & selling merch, have gone towards funding this #BCLT summer school bursary every year. Check our website for ways you can support us 🙏

Since 2022, #TranslatorsAloud has been contributing to a bursary for the #BCLT Literary Translation Summer School, either helping to fund a full place for a participant, or to cover travel costs... Our first recipient in 2022 was Bryony Lau, who joined the multilingual prose workshop with @antonhur.

Hello, and welcome to my poetry corner.

Banned Romance: Ahead of #ValentinesDay, PEN America has released a list of the most commonly banned romance novels in public schools. pen.org/press-releas...

"The Cafe with No Name" by Robert Seethaler, and by the translator with no name, apparently 🙄 Got this promotional email in my inbox today, with not one mention of @katyderbyshire.bsky.social in the whole text. Why does Europa keep doing this? It drives me up the wall... #namethetranslator

"The point is, we make it our own, all while throwing the occasional loving, respectful glance back at our mother-text, to make sure she is still there..." I love Rosalind Harvey's incredible, personal essay on our relationship with translation. Hard relate 💗 wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

If you’re an author or book person (in any capacity) can you reply, tell me about yourself and I’ll share. Let’s make sure we’re all following each other. #booksky #authorsky

Starting tomorrow, every Friday we will be rewinding to the beginning of time... Well, back to when we started #TranslatorsAloud in May 2020 😜 Ease into the weekend with a past gem, which you may or may not have seen before! Join us for #FlashbackFridays⚡ #books #xl8 #translation #reading

You may not have seen the beaming faces of your #translatorsaloud executive team in a while! So here we are, last spring, in Harrogate, where we will most likely have our annual Translators Aloud Team meetup again this year! 🌸 #clickbait #wewish Now we've got your attention...

Currently researching #literarytranslation #mentorship programs anywhere in the world. If you run a literary translation mentorship, or are involved in one as mentor or mentee, I would be delighted to learn more about it from you.

Hello #translation world! Created in 2020 by @cmctranslations.bsky.social & @tinakover.bsky.social, we showcase the world's best #books in translation, read by their talented #translators. #Fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, & more. #Submissions always open. Check us out! www.youtube.com/@Translators...

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A visit to the abandoned ‘Manhattan of La Mancha’ inspired Rosa Ribas’s Lejos (Far) TR: Charlotte Coombe Coming 16 July 2024 (that's tomorrow) theguardian.com/world/articl...

Far by Rosa Ribas TR: Charlotte Coombe Novel set in Central #Spain www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-in... A story of the "brick boom' in the country "..an unusual premise at its heart and it is overall a good read.."

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📚 Friends, colleagues, publishers and agents... I'll be attending The London Book Fair (LBF) from March 11-13, 2025 at Olympia London. 📚 Let me know if you'll also be there and would like to meet... It's the one week of the year that I'll be out of my loungewear and out in the world 🤣 ✨ #LBF25

In a bid to battle the robots and get more translation projects paid at rates that reflect my skill level and nigh-on two decades of professional experience, I've revamped my website/portfolio to kick off 2025: 👩‍💻 www.cmctranslations.com 🤖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TII... #humantranslation #noAI #xl8

EXTREMELY HEARTENING PUBLISHING NEWS: for the first time, the Indie Alliance (an alliance of some of the best UK Independent publishers of which we're a founding member) has landed fourth in the top 5 publishers of 2024 @the-bookseller.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/review-...

I apparently needed to release approximately five gallons of salt water from my eyes this evening, so this was a good classic choice 😭💗 #beaches @bettemidlermusic.bsky.social

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

editing a machine translated text is pure drudgery and takes more energy than actually just translating from scratch. Let the machines edit if they're so clever (they are not)

Give me ONE reason for us to use AI (in any industry) that doesn't ultimately come down to 'because it saves rich people and big corporations' money...literally just ONE and I'll listen...if it's about improving OUR productivity then it should be OUR choice AND should come at no cost to us

Every commercial for AI is basically “look, you’re a fucking moron, but we’ll help you fake it!” and it feels like they really do get their target audience.

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

financial hacks for translators: If you're being paid per word use "next to" instead of "beside" and watch the money roll in