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World Editions is a publisher of literary fiction in translation, based in New York.
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Harare Review of Books
18 days ago
All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio, Samantha Schnee (tr.), Will Morningstar (tr.), from
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
. I don't know if you can call the essence of a book potent, but this was perfect.
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All that Dies in April x Mariana Travacio, Samantha Schnee tr.), Will Morningstar (tr.)
164 pp. September 9, 2025, World Editions. Fiction. All That Dies in April is the latest book of which I have thought at the end, “Perfect, just perfect.” Lina’s left her husband—not because she do…
http://hararereview.com/2025/09/25/all-that-dies-in-april-x-mariana-travacio-samantha-schnee-tr-will-morningstar-tr/
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Will McMahon
23 days ago
My final review of the year was of A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES by Natalia García Freire (tr. Victor Meadowcroft for
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
). Violent catharsis in a colonized landscape.
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t...
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The Transmutation of Death into Light: Review of Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities
Will McMahon Under Review:A Carnival of Atrocities. Natalia García Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft. World Editions, April 2025. In the town of Cocuán, people are shedding their clothes and…
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/the-transmutation-of-death-into-light/
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Victor Meadowcroft 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
Immensely proud to see my translation of Ricardo Silva's 'Río Muerto' featured on the longlist for the 2026 PEN Translation Prize among such fantastic company! I'll be forever grateful to
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
for considering me as the translator for this powerful, moving and timely novel.
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Congratulations, Ricardo Silva Romero and
@furiousleeper.bsky.social
! So thrilled to see Rio Muerto on the list! 🍾🥂🍾
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about 1 month ago
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
about 1 month ago
Next, from
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
, is THE CRACKS WE BEAR by Catalina Infante Beovic (tr.
@michellemirabella.bsky.social
), Executive Director Elisabeth Jaquette’s choice:
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The Cracks We Bear
Check out The Cracks We Bear - <b>"Chilean writer Infante's penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother.…
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cracks-we-bear-catalina-infante/321f399bba3f844d?ean=9781642861594&next=t&next=t&affiliate=169
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Exciting event news for our readers in Milwaukee! Join translators Alta L Price and Alex Niemi at
@woodlandpattern.bsky.social
as they read from and discuss work from Juli Zeh and Laura Vazquez
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Reading from works in translation: Alex Niemi and Alta L. Price *HYBRID*
Join us for a reading of works in translation with Alex Niemi, translator of The Endless Week (Dorothy, a publishing project) by French poet & novelist, Laura Vasquez; and Alta L. Price, translator of...
https://woodlandpattern.org/events/reading-from-works-in-translation-alex-niemi-and-alta-l-price
about 2 months ago
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Kindig Blog
2 months ago
Currently Reading:
#TheCutLine
by Carolina Pihelgas. Will be published 3rd February by
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
. Thank you to them &
@netgalley.bsky.social
for the ARC.
#BookSky
📚💙
#books
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Tomorrow at 7pm at
@communitybookstore.bsky.social
in Brooklyn! Don’t miss this conversation between first-time translators
@michellemirabella.bsky.social
and
@willmorningstar.bsky.social
, moderated by Anderson Tepper!
communitybookstore.net/events/48469
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Will Morningstar and Michelle Mirabella in conversation on All That Dies in April and The Cracks We Bear | Community Bookstore
Brooklyn's oldest operating bookstore. Serving Park Slope since 1971.
https://communitybookstore.net/events/48469
2 months ago
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Just published! "Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch."
@publisherswkly.bsky.social
@michellemirabella.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Michelle Mirabella
3 months ago
Can’t believe it’s finally pub day for The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante out today from
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
!! Thank you to Catalina, our publisher Christine Swedowsky, my editor Shimanto Reza, and my family, friends, and colleagues for their support!
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Translators Aloud
3 months ago
Don't miss this reading by translator
@michellemirabella.bsky.social
from
#Chilean
author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Michelle Mirabella and author Catalina Infante Beovic's THE CRACKS WE BEAR (World Editions, 2025)
What opens as a story on matrescence reveals itself to be an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief—personal, familial, and national—as the protagonist, Laura, struggling in her new motherhood,…
https://youtu.be/MOJ4xh_UrHo
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Michelle Mirabella
3 months ago
With less than two weeks until pub day for
#TheCracksWeBear
by Catalina Infante (
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
), it is so special to have this essay out in
@worldlittoday.bsky.social
, the home of our original debut together as author and translator.
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Vancouver Writers Fest
4 months ago
Pleased to announce these authors as featured guests for
#VWF2025
! Officially D-11 days from the 2025 Festival. • Saeed Teebi • Souvankham Thammavongsa • Madeleine Thien • Jeremy Tiang
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
• Miriam Toews
@authormiriamtoews.bsky.social
• Georgia Toews
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It's
#BannedBooksWeek
!
@everylibrary.bsky.social
is hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syria’s most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature. Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...
4 months ago
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Vancouver Writers Fest
4 months ago
These novels shed light on political conflicts and acts of resistance around the world. Meet Sheung-King (Batshit Seven) Maria Reva, (Endling), & Jeremy Tiang (State of Emergency) Oct 26. Presented w/ SFU’s World Languages and Literatures + Peliplat.
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
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Happy
#InternationalTranslationDay
! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations
@furiousleeper.bsky.social
and Natalia Garcia Freire!
www.cercadorprize.com
4 months ago
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Such a wonderful day at
@bkbookfest.bsky.social
today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
‘s State of Emergency!
4 months ago
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"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, “A Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul."
@holaculturadc.bsky.social
@furiousleeper.bsky.social
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Corruption And The Natural World In ‘A Carnival Of Atrocities’ | Hola Cultura
Stripped of her family, home and identity by the supposedly pious people of Cocuán, all that is left for Mildred is her hatred. In her rage, she curses the
https://holacultura.com/corruption-and-the-natural-world-in-a-carnival-of-atrocities/
4 months ago
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"My name is Lina Ramos, wife of Relicario Cruz. For a while now I’ve been telling him we need to leave, but he doesn’t want to." Continue reading!
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4 months ago
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Will Morningstar
5 months ago
This comes out tomorrow!! I can't wait for everyone to finally be able to meet Lina and Relicario (and his donkey) in English. Many thanks to
@literaryhub.bsky.social
for the space!
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Lit Hub
5 months ago
“I’d been warned that it wouldn’t be easy to go digging up the dead.” Read from Mariana Travacio’s novel All That Dies in April, translated by
@willmorningstar.bsky.social
and Samantha Schnee.
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All That Dies in April
I’d been warned that it wouldn’t be easy to go digging up the dead. I had some new coffins with me, because I’d also been warned the old coffins would be in pieces by now. It was a good thing I’d r…
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Turnaround Books
5 months ago
All That Dies in April is a roadless road novel told in short chapters like clockwork from 3 different perspectives. A Hay Festival Book Club selection, this is a suspenseful ancestral tale rooted in a Latin American history of rural displacement and perpetual inequality.
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Will Morningstar
5 months ago
It's finally here! My first book translation, co-translated with the brilliant
@samanthaschnee.bsky.social
, is out today from
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
. I fell in love with
@marianatravacio.bsky.social
's writing in early 2020, and I'm so happy to share it now in English.
tinyurl.com/4uvpn2jx
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We are thrilled to announce today's publication of All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio, translated by
@willmorningstar.bsky.social
and
@samanthaschnee.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
5 months ago
We’re celebrating Consortium’s 40th anniversary this year, and to mark the milestone, we're talking with staff about their favorite titles and memorable moments. 📚🎉 Kicking off the series is Julie Schaper, VP and president of Consortium. Read the interview:
www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09...
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CC'ing Julie Schaper - Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Welcome to Consortium Corner, a Q&A series with staff and reps to celebrate Consortium's 40 years of independent book distribution. To kick off the
https://www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09/04/ccing-julie-schaper/
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So excited to see All That Dies in April in the Foreword Reviews Book of the Day Roundup!
@willmorningstar.bsky.social
@marianatravacio.bsky.social
@samanthaschnee.bsky.social
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Book of the Day Roundup: September 1-5, 2025
Arty the Aardvark Is Counting on His Lunch / EB Mackie / CK Mackie, illustrator / World Changers Press / Hardcover $21.99 (28pp) / 979-899033604-9 / The bright colors and bold patterns and brushs...
https://www.forewordreviews.com/articles/article/book-of-the-day-roundup-september-1-5-2025/
5 months ago
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We are so happy to announce that Lisa Grgas has joined the World Editions Editorial Team! You might know Lisa from her 20 years as Supervising Editor of The Literary Review, which sadly shut down. She has worked with
@adroitjournal.bsky.social
@blreview.bsky.social
@tinhouse.bsky.social
and others
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"A visceral and emotional migratory quest propels the haunting novel All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio."
@willmorningstar.bsky.social
@samanthaschnee.bsky.social
@marianatravacio.bsky.social
www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/all-...
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Victor Meadowcroft 🇨🇦
5 months ago
"Natalia García Freire’s writing shocks, confounds, and fascinates; this carnival proves well worth the ride." Will McMahon with a brilliantly insightful review of Natalia García Freire's 'A Carnival of Atrocities' (
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
)! 🦜🐐🦊
tinyurl.com/yj4zeman
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The Transmutation of Death into Light: Review of Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities
Will McMahon Under Review:A Carnival of Atrocities. Natalia García Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft. World Editions, April 2025. In the town of Cocuán, people are shedding their clothes and…
https://tinyurl.com/yj4zeman
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ExpendableMudge (he/him)
5 months ago
Syria's chaotic cruelty should interest everyone in the US in 2025's
#WITMonth
PLANET OF CLAY by SAMAR YAZBEK & translated by Leri Price, via
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
is a tale of the toll simply living exacts on the different in high-control cultures.
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PLANET OF CLAY, tale of the toll living exacts on the different
PLANET OF CLAY SAMAR YAZBEK (tr. Leri Price) World Editions $16.99 trade paper, available now Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Say...
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2021/11/planet-of-clay-tale-of-toll-living.html
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Cait_onthe_luce
5 months ago
Lunchtime reading with All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio; translated by Will Morningstar and Samantha Schee. out in September from
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
.
#WITMonth
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ExpendableMudge (he/him)
5 months ago
A
#WITMonth
pleasure from
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
: FOWL EULOGIES by LUCIE RICO & translated by Daria Chernysheva
#Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/08/fowl...
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FOWL EULOGIES, strange, absurd, and very French
FOWL EULOGIES LUCIE RICO (tr. Daria Chernysheva) World Editions $17.99 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.5* of five The Publish...
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/08/fowl-elegies-strange-absurd-and-very.html
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ExpendableMudge (he/him)
5 months ago
Our
#WITMonth
goodies include
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
's 2023 treat This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire & translated by the estimable
@furiousleeper.bsky.social
#Booksky
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Los Angeles Review of Books
5 months ago
“How does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold War’s forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?” Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/
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Ancillary Review of Books
5 months ago
The Transmutation of Death into Light:
@willmcmahon36.bsky.social
reviews Natalia García Freire’s A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES (
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t...
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The Transmutation of Death into Light: Review of Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities
Will McMahon Under Review:A Carnival of Atrocities. Natalia García Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft. World Editions, April 2025. In the town of Cocuán, people are shedding their clothes and…
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/the-transmutation-of-death-into-light/
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Emily, Bibliophile
6 months ago
Perks of being a bookseller: sales reps/publishers supplying you w/ amazing books in translation that'll probably destroy you emotionally, but you are 💯 here for it.
#currentlyreading
: The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas, translated from Estonian by Darcy Hurford. (
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
)
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Check out this interview with
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
on
@electricliterature.com
!
electricliterature.com/these-two-bo...
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These Two Books Spotlight Guerrilla Soldiers in Malaya’s Forgotten War - Electric Literature
Writer and translator Jeremy Tiang discusses the connections between his debut novel, “State of Emergency,” and his translation of Hai Fan’s “Delicious Hunger”
https://electricliterature.com/these-two-books-spotlight-guerrilla-soldiers-in-malayas-forgotten-war/
6 months ago
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Will Morningstar
6 months ago
Thanks to Kirkus for this great first review! Mariana Travacio's ALL THAT DIES IN APRIL (co-translated by
@samanthaschnee.bsky.social
and me) comes out September 9 from
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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ALL THAT DIES IN APRIL | Kirkus Reviews
A woman sets off from her mountain home in search of the ocean and the possibility of a better life.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mariana-travacio/all-that-dies-in-april/
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What a fantastic event with
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
and Dorothy Tse at
@brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social
🥰
7 months ago
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Jeremy Tiang
7 months ago
come hang out if you're in boston next thursday
www.eventbrite.com/e/transnatio...
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Transnational Series: Jeremy Tiang with Dorothy Tse
The Transnational Series hosts Jeremy Tiang to discuss and celebrate the release of State of Emergency with writer Dorothy Tse.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transnational-series-jeremy-tiang-with-dorothy-tse-tickets-1330201090269?aff=oddtdtcreator
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So happy all our new books made it to
#ALA2025
! Thank you
@consortiumbooks.bsky.social
!
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
@nataliagarcia.bsky.social
@furiousleeper.bsky.social
@leriprice.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Such an inspiring event tonight with
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
launching his novel State of Emergency and translation of Delicious Hunger published by
@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social
. Thank you to Singapore Unbound for hosting!
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Tomorrow at 7pm at KGB bar in NYC!
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
double Book launch hosted by Singapore Unbound!
singaporeunbound.org/event-list/j...
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Jeremy Tiang: Double Book Launch — Singapore Unbound
KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003 Free and Open to All. Cash Bar RSVP Jee at
[email protected]
https://singaporeunbound.org/event-list/jeremy-tiang-book-launch
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Jeremy Tiang's historical novel about Singapore, Malaya, and how Malaysia came to be in the end of Empire, via
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
.
#Booksky
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STATE OF EMERGENCY, historical novel about Singapore, Malaya, and how Malaysia came to be
STATE OF EMERGENCY JEREMY TIANG World Editions ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $19.99 trade paper Rating: 4.25* of five The Pu...
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/06/state-of-emergency-historical-novel.html
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We are thrilled to announce today's publication of "State of Emergency" by
@jeremytiang.bsky.social
! With a foreword by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, State of Emergency is an "important piece of work from one of Singapore's finest living authors" Straits Times.
8 months ago
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Translators Aloud
8 months ago
It's
#FlashbackFriday
, and this reading by translator Jonathan Reeder from TWO BLANKETS, THREE SHEETS (
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
) is timelier than ever. Based on the author’s true story, this is the account of Iraqi refugee Samir, who spends nine years in a Dutch asylum center. Watch now!
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Jonathan Reeder reads from Rodaan Al Galidi's TWO BLANKETS, THREE SHEETS (World Editions, 2020)
Translator Jonathan Reeder speaks about and reads from his translation (from Dutch to English) of Rodaan Al Galidi's TWO BLANKETS, THREE SHEETS, available fr...
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Dublin Literary Award
8 months ago
The 2025 winner will be revealed tomorrow! 🏆 30 years of the International Dublin Literary Award
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
via
@rte.ie
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30 years of the International Dublin Literary Award
Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the prestigious International Dublin Literary Award when the winner of the €100,000 award is announced in Dublin.
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2025/0521/1513933-international-dublin-literary-award/
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Jeremy Tiang
9 months ago
I have already forgotten what I said on this podcast and will not be listening back because I hate the sound of my own voice, but YOU might enjoy me going on about Communists in the rainforest
mynahmag.substack.com/p/survivor-t...
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Survivor: The Malayan Rainforest
Episode 6 of The Mynah Podcast with Jeremy Tiang
https://mynahmag.substack.com/p/survivor-the-malayan-rainforest
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