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

Important to add that even if you get a good contract for a translation, you should still send it to @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Especially if it has a good rate: if the SoA don’t ‘observe’ rates higher than £100/ 1000 words then they can’t change the rate and publishers will continue to cite it.

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

'Insures'? The New Yorker has gone too far this time. What next? 'Incompass'? 'Inable'? 'Inact'?

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...