Translating Kim de l'Horizon's #Blutbuch has been one of the greatest, hardest, most joyous challenges of my literary translation career to date. To celebrate its publication week, Literary Hub have published a piece I wrote on the experience👇📚❤️

My translation of Kim de l'Horizon's stunning debut novel #Blutbuch was published yesterday, with @fsgbooks.bsky.social in the US and @sceptrebooks.bsky.social in the UK. To read an extract, head over to @literaryhub.bsky.social... 👇

Putting the finishing touches to my #translation of the latest in the Brittany Mystery Series, and as always, I'm reluctant to part ways with the delightfully grumpy, caffeine-addicted Detective Dupin ☕🕵️ Out next spring with Macmillan USA. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Couldn't agree more 📚 ❤️

One of the things I enjoy most about #literarytranslation is polishing the dialogue (where there is dialogue), and making it sound as natural as possible. In my own writing, I've always veered away from dialogue and felt intimidated by it. Something to lean into, I think!

Remember that episode of Friends where Julio the misogynist poet blames a 'bad translation' for not liking the book he's reading? I guess we'll never know if he read the original! #translation #clichés

Absolutely *loved* taking part in yesterday's panel on Gender in Translation and AI for @bristoltranslates.bsky.social with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social, and being reunited with @roselab.bsky.social, the French translator of #Blutbuch, for the first time since our Swiss workshop ❤️

Looking forward to discussing gender in translation and the limitations of AI at Bristol Translates, together with #Blutbuch's French translator, @roselab.bsky.social, in collaboration with the @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social and @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social @bristoltranslates.bsky.social

One of the first things that drew me to my partner was his exquisite taste in stationary. I'm now hooked on the same stuff, and it's an expensive habit 📝 #rulerofmyheart

The Author just arrived. Excited to have a piece in it, for the first time, on the process of translating #Blutbuch. It includes mischievous mountains, voice software, and dancing! @societyofauthors.bsky.social

''Every piece of technology can either make us more human or less human […] In the formative stages of education, we are now at risk of stripping away the core competency that makes our species thrive: learning not what to think, but how to think.'' This is excellent 👇

A brass candlestick has just popped up on p. 96 of the mystery novel I'm #translating, and I'm so hoping it turns out to be the murder weapon.

Currently #translating a sample for an exciting upcoming title which opens with the Greek myth of Pandora, and I've gone down a rabbit hole of how it was originally a jar ('pithos') but seemingly mistranslated into Latin as a 'box' in the 16th C by the Renaissance humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam...

Reading from my sample translation of Joachim B Schmidt's wonderful new novel Ósmann for @translatorsaloud.bsky.social #swisswriting #icelandicstories

Ah, dictation software, how I love thee for the amusement you bring to my working day! A young woman has just been "rescued from the clutches of wild librarians" (rather than barbarians. Were they irate at her flagrant disregard for the Dewey Decimal System?). #amtranslating

My letter to the @theguardian.com on the META theft of our work. Will be in the physical paper tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

www.new-books-in-german.com/the-journey-... NBG invited me to write a piece about the wild ride of translating Kim de l'Horizon's #Blutbuch, which is (finally!) out this August, with Sceptre in the UK, and FSG in the U.S. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @newgermanbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social

societyofauthors.org/prizes/trans... The Goethe Institut's biennial Award for New Translation is open for entries, with an award of EUR 1,000 plus a trip to the Leipzig Book Fair & the International Translators' gathering at the LCB. Entry details below! 👇

Spent the weekend in a cabin in the frosty woods, listening to owls and crows. Now to dive into the final Blutbuch proofs and editing my translator's note - one last push!

Thank you @jamielsearle.bsky.social @joheinrich.bsky.social and @dances-with-voles.bsky.social for a great discussion with the @iti-uk.bsky.social #German network book club about team #translating Angela Merkel’s Freiheit! You drew in a crowd and we learned a lot about your process together.

Saw #Maria last night. *Loved* Pierfrancesco Favino's subtle but scene-stealing turn as the butler. Also came out wanting to move to a fin-de-siecle apartment in Paris, and with a major craving for Fernet Branca.

Last night I dreamt I went to Porthcawl again. And I'm wondering if this would be a good writing prompt for a very un-Rebecca like novel... 🖋️

I've resolved to start keeping a reading journal again this year - it always galvanized my reading in the past. Some intriguing titles on this @literaryhub.bsky.social list to get me started: lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

Just sent off my sample translation for Joachim B. Schmidt's forthcoming novel, and let me tell you it's an absolute corker! Not a Kalmann, this time, but wonderful regardless! Fingers crossed for an English-language rights acquisition 🤞🏻 @diogenesverlag.bsky.social

The wonderful ProHelvetia have launched their open call for funding support: for residencies, sample translations and more. See their website for more info... 👇 prohelvetia.ch/en/find-supp...

Editorial meeting today with the #newbooksingerman team; debating the latest German-language fiction and non-fiction picks with these guys is absolutely one of my favourite roles 📚🙌 To find out which compelling titles have been selected previously, see: www.new-books-in-german.com/about-us/

Just taking a moment to appreciate the wonder of this little Christmas tree decoration that my partner's mum gave me. (Backstory: I'm an allotmenteer.) Gorgeous! #allotmentlove

Congratulations to all the talented translators shortlisted for the 2024 Society of Authors' Translation Prizes! 📚👏 Full lists below... #literarytranslation #translationprizes

Thirty-seven ish years of reading; twenty plus years of working with words, and I've just discovered that legs/arms akimbo doesn't mean what I thought it did! #everydayaschoolday

My sample translation of the intriguing opening to Lorena Simmel's debut novel 'Ferymont' is on the #TranslateSwissBooks website 👇 Published by @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social, and English-language rights are available 📚 translateswissbooks.ch/book/ferymont/

Twice a year, I get to review submissions to #newbooksingerman along with three fellow assessors, and it's absolutely one of my favourite things. In summer '22, #Blutbuch was among them, and its brilliance hit me like a rocket. What will this year bring?

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

Happy publication day to Angela Merkel's #Freedom, aka what I did this summer, along with seven wonderful fellow translators, for @panmacmillan.bsky.social.

Today's academic-writing support sessions in my RLF role range from essays on 'The Wind in the Willows' to 'Alien'. The diverse work I get to engage with (and the students' energy) always brings a smile to my face. #royalliteraryfund

A blue sky pic to start me off! I've been missing the wonderful online translator community, and look forward to finding new and old friends here! 📚 #winchester #translation