Thanks for the #UPWeek love, @literaryhub.bsky.social! Many university presses are dedicated to Teaming UP with translators to advance knowledge & understanding. Discover 17 outstanding examples to #ReadUP in “ Reading Around the World” https://bit.ly/43S4pf8#UPWeek#ReadUP..

Bumbling your way through any language will always be better than popping in AirPods. The literary translator Ross Benjamin on what we stand to lose in a world of instant translation:

Who else is getting excited about #IcelandNoir this week? Catch 3 of our authors (Oskar on Wednesday, Jon Atli on Thursday, Solveig on Friday), plus our sumptuously prolific translator @graskeggur.bsky.social (alongside a fantastic international line-up, including a certain creator of Squid Game)

Will @stellablomkvist.bsky.social be at Iceland Noir? Who knows? She could be there, quietly taking everything in, laughing at all of us... her identity remain a mystery even to @graskeggur.bsky.social, her translator amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G1B69GHT

Our AirBnB in Aberdeen in Feb'20 when I went up for my first ever Noir fest - #GraniteNoir with @jackycnoir64.bsky.social! I'm at the top & my pal, whose daughter lived in Abs at the time, hence our visit, is downstairs. Met Sólveig & Óskar from @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #SaturdayStairs #BookSky 🇮🇸

I sometimes lament that the Internet prompts people to scan nuanced pieces and miss their point entirely, or merely read top few sentences. But what if I become really shit at endings? Then I will no doubt crave the days when the vast majority only read the beginning www.tom-cox.com/what-will-li...

We are delighted to announce the judging panel for the 2025 Translation Prizes. Literary and translation experts from a wide variety of fields and, with a huge number of accolades between them, gather to judge works by translators.

14 titles have been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 chosen from 145 entries in 34 languages. A mix of genres on the list, 10 languages, 2 Nobel Prize winners, poetry, fiction, biography, short stories. Winner announced 27 November clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...

We know many of you prefer to buy paperbacks from indie booksellers, so we've partnered up with Gumshoe Books on our website, there are links to their site to buy each of our books, for example Broken - see the Gumshoe link at the bottom corylusbooks.com/broken/

AYE WRITE: MY PICK OF TWO UNMISSABLE EVENTS FROM AYE WRITE 6-16 NOVEMBER 2025 @AyeWrite @Brownlee_Donald liveanddeadly.net/2025/11/03/a...

*know and love! #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #BookSky #FictionInTranslation

'Weird coincidences are the Lord’s sick jokes,' as Stella Blomkvist's Mother would say. No one knows who Stella the author is, but we all know Stella the razor-sharp legal eagle

✨ Join us for the launch of Marcel Proust’s The Guermantes Way, newly translated by Peter Bush ✨ 🗓 Wednesday 19 November 2025 🕓 4.30–6.30pm (GMT) 📍 UEA Council Chamber & online (4.30–6pm) Refreshments served from 6-6.30 🥂 Register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Calling all translators and interpreters! The UK government is trying to ditch human interpreters and translators for AI systems - the mistakes made by which could be critical, and literally life-altering. Please sign this petition. #xl8 #translation #interpreting #translatorslife

Some of my favourite #IcelandicNoir reads here! #BookSky 🇮🇸 #FictionInTranslation

Can't stop staring at the beautiful page dedicated to all of our publications so far on the Gumshoe Books website! www.gumshoebooks.com/collections/...

Discovered a new crime bookshop in Cambridge Bodies in the Bookshop and was pleased and proud that they knew about @corylusbooks.bsky.social and @graskeggur.bsky.social

What a great idea! Gumshoe Books now features a page with suggested mystery/crime novels for reading groups and book clubs www.gumshoebooks.com/pages/readin...

If this firecracker of a novella isn't banned in at least six US states, it ought to be... Little Rebel by Jérôme Leroy is a short read, but it more than makes up for that in sheer fizzing energy... a little gem! amazon.co.uk/dp/B097KCVCKY/

"What is at stake if we cannot continue?" Simultaneously very happy and crestfallen to be part of this Open Letter (written to the industry, as well as readers, writers, and - well - everyone who cares). Please read, and share: www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

#FridayFun: Old Berlin Houses or How Squalor Became Desirable - and how does this link to Nightingale & Co? findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

COVER REVEAL — Our fabled first anthology is (almost) here! WHO'S AFRAID OF KURDISTAN? may be the first collection of Kurdish plays to be published in English. If you're a playwright, we want to hear from you! Please submit your work through the submission form on our website (henarpress.org).

For Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir’s A Lethal Legacy, forget fast-paced action—this story is all about slow-burning drama, sibling rivalry, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.. @corylusbooks.bsky.social nordicwatchlist.com/2025/10/06/a...

Welcome to my stop on the #BlogTour for #ALethalLegacy by Gudrun Gudlaugsdóttir Trns by @graskeggur.bsky.social - featuring journalist turned sleuth, Alma Jónsdóttir. 💙📚 #NordicNoir #Iceland Out now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-le... @ewashe.bsky.social

Re-upping my review of "A Lethal Legacy" by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, @corylusbooks.bsky.social translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social "Guðrún's deceptively simple style is once again irresistible in this new book in the Alma Jónsdóttir mystery series."

Joining the #blogtour for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Gúðlaugsdóttir (trans by @graskeggur.bsky.social) from @corylusbooks.bsky.social). A death on a remote farm leads journalist Alma into a complex & almost Gothic affair. #BookSky #crime #Iceland 📚💙 bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/blog...

Fresh, razor-sharp edge to Nordic Noir... Jón Atli Jónasson's remarkable Broken digs deeper, goes a step further, hits all the right notes... 'Completely unpredictable, yet bleakly inevitable,' says Antony Johnston. 'Quality Icelandic noir.'

Translation and Taste Learning how to have good taste means learning to translate. By Blake Smith hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso... #books #literature #translators

(2/2) recently on @hobeckbooks.bsky.social podcast interview with Quentin about his entry into reading Icelandic during his time on the fishing boats 🥰 Check out #Broken and loads of other #IcelandicNoir books translated by Quentin from the lovely @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #SupportAnIndie 💙📚

The @corylusbooks.bsky.social tour for #ALethalLegacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir (trans by @graskeggur.bsky.social) is in full flow with some great reviews to check out . A haunting and powerful story of family disputes and sickening crimes of the past. peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/a...

Another exciting release from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social ! Check out the blog tour for A Lethal Legacy below! #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 I have a name quirk that meant it took me a while to get the sisters straight in my head but once in I really enjoyed it! 🤩

Whether rain or shine, here's the perfect weekend plan: Curl up with a portion of dark-as-night Nordic Noir shot through with black humour and characters who leap off the page. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7 @graskeggur.bsky.social @davidheadley.bsky.social

Absolutely chuffed to see Oskar Gudmundsson on this impressive shortlist! The Petrona Award brings such fantastic books to the fore, year after year!

Nothing has changed at Bjargarlækur for as long as anyone can remember – so are moves to bring change to this remote Icelandic farm a motive for murder? Coming soon – rural darkness and intrigue from Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMRSFTHX/ @graskeggur.bsky.social

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨ Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

🎶TRANSLATORS & SCHOLARS OF TRANSLATION: You can sign up for just this series (without getting all the rest of the ArabLit emails) here: between2translators.substack.com

'Happiness finally came calling when I’d given up waiting for it, as Mother said.' Or has it...? You can never be sure with Stella! Check out the adventures of @stellablomkvist.bsky.social – Iceland's best kept Nordic Noir secret... amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3

Looking forward to the next @solveigpals.bsky.social book next year! If you haven't yet encountered Reykjavík detectives Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún, check out the four in the series to date. amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y5NPMKV

Here's an #AwesomeFoursome for #BuyABookDay that'll also happily #SupportAnIndie! Preorder from @orendabooks.bsky.social Ragnar Jónasson (9/10)& @liljawriter.bsky.social (23/10) & if you need an #IcelandicNoir fix NOW @corylusbooks.bsky.social have you covered with #Broken & #MurderTide! 🇮🇸 #BookSky

Highly recommended. Although I may be slightly biased.

Something to curl up with as the nights start to draw in...? Broken is the first of a razor-edged crime trilogy shot through with black humour and characters who leap off the page amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7 @graskeggur.bsky.social

#translation #translator #翻訳 #翻訳者

If you like #IcelandicNoir, @hobeckbooks.bsky.social have had an #AwesomeFoursome of interviews with 3 @corylusbooks.bsky.social authors (Jónína Leosdottir, Jón Atli Jónasson & here, Sólveig Pálsdóttir) & their translator (& author himself!), @graskeggur.bsky.social! Give'em a listen & buy books! 💙📚

Sorry, everyone, been missing in action because SOMEone (naming no @marinasofia.bsky.social names) has been having trouble connecting to the Corylus account on Bluesky while moving from house to house to house... Normal activity to resume now, what have we missed?

Murder mystery set in REYKJAVIK Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist Tr: quentin Bates (Stella Blómkvist Book 2) www.tripfiction.com/murder-myste... "..another enjoyable book and I hope there are more to come.." @corylusbooks.bsky.social @suekelsoryan.bsky.social #blueskybooks

My current read is one I picked up after a panel at @capitalcrime.bsky.social - Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson. Available now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-J%C3%... #books #booksky #amreading #broken

My current read - A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, translated by Quentin Bates. Out Sept 20th from @corylusbooks.bsky.social #books #booksky #amreading #alethallegacy

Join us as Edith chats with the talented Jon Atli Jonasson, who shares insights into his Icelandic roots, crime writing, and his gripping novel 'Broken'! Dive into an intriguing mix of storytelling and societal reflections. Listen now! #IcelandicCrime player.captivate.fm/episode/f2a7...