OUT NOW! 📚 SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.

Vivid, joyful, raw, tender, Andrev Walden's BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins & ends; and above all, about men. Sound interesting? Here's a taste, read by translator @iangiles.bsky.social himself! youtu.be/ruwop7t0dME?...

📢 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬⁣ ⁣ There are just 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 left to return your ballot papers for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬! If you haven’t yet voted, please do – every single vote really does matter.⁣

Next Thurs, I'll be talking to co-translators @cctranslates.bsky.social and @dances-with-voles.bsky.social as part of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #SoAatHome events. We'll be talking translation & celebrating the release of their co-translation of Nino Haratischwili's "The Lack of Light".

The Society has today launched a new funding grant in honour of Dr Ryan Foster, supporting those who have come or returned to academia later in life.

📘 Out today: my translation of Andrev Walden’s “Bloody Awful in Different Ways”. I loved working on this – all credit to Andrev for writing something that engaged my inner translation chimp. I’m certain you’ll love it too. Please go out and get a copy or request at your local library.

Andrev Walden’s Bloody Awful in Different Ways is out on 31 July in my translation from Swedish published by Fig Tree. As Meg Rosoff puts it: “Andrev thrashes through life with the optimism and blind persistence of a three-legged squirrel.” Pre-order now via link in bio. #TranslationMatters

Completely fascinating - & moving - piece by Yukiko Duke on a mother-daughter book translating relationship, & the joys & challenges of transforming Japanese prose into another language. Essay translated by @iangiles.bsky.social. Thanks @jolloyds.bsky.social for sharing this.

We’re asking Meta to #DoTheWriteThing, are you? #MetaBookThieves www.change.org/p/protect-au...

I've written a piece for Eurozine about literary translation and AI - perhaps we're all doomed, perhaps we're not. www.eurozine.com/pirate-ai/

I’m organising the Assembly of Literary Translators – a gathering for literary translators of all persuasions to come together for an afternoon of panels and conversation in central London on 11 March. Full details and registration: the-assembly-of-literary-translators.eventbrite.co.uk