Congratulations to PELTA members @guedesftaty.bsky.social, @ninaperrotta.bsky.social, @bethangharad.bsky.social, @aminckey.bsky.social, @emyrwallace.bsky.social, Julia Sanches, Vania Gomes and Gilles Madan - all shortlisted for the @englishpen.bsky.social PEN Presents: Brazil funding programme!

Huge congratulations to PELTA member Padma Viswanathan, whose translation of Ana Paula Maia's 'On Earth As It Is Beneath' has been shortlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com #InternationalBooker2026!

We're excited to offer a new webinar for our members - Beyond Pitching: Other Routes to Work! Join PELTA members @rahulbery.bsky.social, Sophie Lewis & Nina Perrotta to learn about reader reports, publishing in journals, translating samples & more - free to members! Joining info on our website!

We're delighted to bring you the first in our series of PELTA member spotlights, where we'll be introducing you to some of the fantastic translators who make up PELTA! First up, the brilliant @furiousleeper.bsky.social hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/p...

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...

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!

An unmissable new PELTA blog on Mário de Andrade's 'O Turista Aprendiz' by the brilliant Flora Thomson-DeVeaux (@ruivanorio.bsky.social). Read it here: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/b...

To watch this and many other readings of translated literature, go to www.jillreadingnyc.com. For my video, you can also go to youtu.be/IISyuDWUXe4?... I'm #seekingapublisher for this work. #Brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters #contemporaryBrazilianauthors #novels #booklovers

Can 't wait to see it on the shelf at my local library! #literatureintranslation #Brazilianliterature #contemporaryBrazilianauthors #novels #womenwriters #booklovers #sundialhousenyc @columbiaup.bsky.social

WHAT a privilege to feature @hmelehy.bsky.social, reading from his translation of EQUINOX ISLAND, Mauritian poet Jean Fanchette's collection of verse "filled with dimly lit landscapes, and seaside expanses." Enjoy this masterful rendering of a haunting, rarely-heard voice. youtu.be/noVPk7KKERw?...

A delight as always to feature translator @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, here with Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS, a collection of stories that invites readers into #Ethiopia’s literary heartbeat, where everyday gestures carry philosophical weight and history lingers in intimate lives.

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!

I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature. I’d love you to give it a read! modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees. For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part. 💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...

A host of @pelta.bsky.social translators featured in this fabulous collection of Brazilian Christmas stories from @newvesselpress.bsky.social.

An unmissable event featuring @pelta.bsky.social members Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott!

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...

Our new PELTA Blog post is up! From FLIP - Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty - Christina Baum, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Sophie Lewis talk about promoting Brazilian literature in English, the joys and challenges of being a translator, and much more: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/p...

An excerpt from Sketch in Stone and Dream, Brazilian author Marilia Arnaud's most recent novel, in my translation. I am seeking a publisher for this novel. Visit the pitches section of my website (www.ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com) for more information about this and other works by Arnaud.

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

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?

"Translation is a form of resistance" - don't miss this fascinating interview with renowned literary translator Elizabeth Lowe, by PELTA's own Cristina Pinto-Bailey. Up on the @pelta.bsky.social blog now! hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...

Cristina Pinto-Bailey interviewed Elizabeth Lowe for the PELTA blog. An insightful conversation! Lowe is a prominent translator from various languages, whose memoir Translating from the Portuguese: A Life Translated is forthcoming from Tagus Press. hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...

Any @pelta.bsky.social types into comic translation?

Many congratulations to the PEN Translates winners! Special shout-out to the WWBers on the list: @annielmcd.bsky.social @shreedaisy.bsky.social Annie McDermott Mara Faye Lethem Madame Neilsen Gaye Kynoch Geetanjali Shree Daisy Rockwell

August is Women in Translation Month! Celebrate the work of the world's best female writers, read by the incredibly talented women (and men) who translate them, with our dedicated playlist--currently 323 videos strong (!!!) and always growing. #WITmonth

It was such a lovely evening! Thank you, Banter Bookshop, for hosting, Kathleen Wheaton for the great conversation, and everyone who showed up for our THE BOOK OF AFFECTS event. #WomenInTranslationMonth #shortstorycollection #Brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters

Cover reveal! Delighted to share the artwork for the August 2025 issue of MPT, Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature, guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira. This issue will be posting out to subscribers at the end of this week! Cover artwork by artwork by Estéfani Díaz Azúa

We're delighted to bring you a new blog post: read all about PELTA member Kim Olson's path to becoming a literary translator, via, among other things, Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto's 1908 novel 'Esfinge'. Hope you enjoy it!

Publishers @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Editions, @giramondobooks.bsky.social and New Directions have launched the biennial Poetry in Translation #prize, which will award an #advance of $5,000 (£3,700) to be shared equally between #poet and #translator. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Excited to present José Luís Peixoto's incantatory tale of memory, grief, and longing, together with my co-translator Elton Uliana; what a formidable table of contents! #literatureintranslation #PortugueseLiterature

Excited to share that this week I’ll be starting my translation of THE SEVENTH OATH by Mozambican legend (& Premio Camões winner 2021) Paulina Chiziane, for the wonderful @archipelagobooks.bsky.social 🇲🇿 📕 ✨ Just shy of 2 years ago I was in Mozambique, so this feels like a very full-circle moment.

PELTA is a network of literary translators from Portuguese into English. Our main aims are to promote Portuguese-language literature in English translation and to represent the community of Portuguese-English literary translators, while at the same time maintaining a register of such translators.

Translated by @pelta.bsky.social member Sophie Lewis!

Join us on Feb 12 for our Translation Prizes, as we celebrate @britishlibrary.bsky.social To purchase tickets - societyofauthors.org/event/the-20... Not able to attend in person, watch via our livestream -https://societyofauthors.org/event/the-2024-society-of-authors-translation-prizes-livestream/

Great to see my translation of Ricardo Silva Romero’s ‘Río Muerto’ (World Editions) included on this wonderful list of books to fall for this month!

We're just 27 #YouTube subscribers away from 2500! If you love great #books from all over the globe and haven't yet explored our treasure trove of nearly 600 readings of #world #literature by the very people who translate it, check us out--and subscribe! #xl8 #booksky www.youtube.com/channel/UCja...

We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland. Discover the winners ⬇️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...