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World lit blogger husband trying to get by day to day
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Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes dies aged 83
António Lobo Antunes, one of Portugal's most widely read, sold and translated writers , has died. He was 83.
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/03/05/antonio-lobo-antunes-one-of-portugals-greatest-writers-dies-aged-83
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Morning all it's that time of week again what have you been reading from around the world?
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you got a few right there I didn't do a post but think I will next year this years list is the best for a couple of years already with out reading a lot of the books
about 2 months ago
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Four books I have the other ones I have ordered or asked for off publishers or both and had reviewed three books from the longlist
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about 2 months ago
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Fionn Petch
about 2 months ago
Love that we are maintaining the unbroken pattern of making the Booker list every two years...
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On Earth As It Is Beneath | The Booker Prizes
An unsettling novel that sets us among an isolated group of men whose bonds break down in ways both hard to comprehend and impossible to look away from
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/on-earth-as-it-is-beneath
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Be starting the remember soldier and reading she who remains as well
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finally here and I've managed to order the books asked for possible proofs and have some on tbr and had reviewed three surprised women without men is there as had been out years ago
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The International Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes
The longlist for the International Booker Prize 2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, has been announced, featuring stories of witchcraft, warfare, trauma, transformation and more
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2026
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Rebecca Hussey
about 2 months ago
Olga Ravn!
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Longlist announced for the International Booker Prize 2026 supported by Bukhman Philanthropies | The Booker Prizes
Today, Tuesday, 24 February, the longlist of 13 books for the International Booker Prize 2026 is announced
https://thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/press-releases/longlist-announced-for-the-international-booker-prize-2026
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Not bad longlist I've read and reviewed three books this year
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about 2 months ago
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Oh a better year have three books on the blog already
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the wax child woman without men and on earth as it is beneath
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Sandy Stevenson
about 2 months ago
Old Tour
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of the High Street in
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, East Neuk of Fife. Crail became a Royal Burgh in 1178 in the reign of King William the Lion
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Old Photographs Crail East Neuk of Fife Scotland
https://tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2011/03/old-photograph-crail-east-neuk-of-fife.html
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Frances Evangelista
about 2 months ago
Looking forward to the list tomorrow. Been struggling to limit my own list of guesses to 13. Also looking forward to reading with shadow panel friends again this year.
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hi Frances
about 2 months ago
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Twenty mins left
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Going very slow today on the countdown to the
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longlist
about 2 months ago
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Just finished this in time for the Booker international longlist later hopefully have an eligible book on my tbr when longlist comes out at two today
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about 2 months ago
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Right now have a book or can get a book from Every country in Africa so now need to look at the rest of the world when a few more African countries crossed off
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Liking this tale of a girl growing up with a drunkard father then meeting the wrong man at school a banned Swahili classic from Tanzania
about 2 months ago
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Five by five listening
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Mark O’Neill 🐻
about 2 months ago
Very sad news. “Roads to Santiago” alone is an astonishing work. And his fiction perfectly captured the sad absurdity of the bourgeois male lost to romanticism. He will be much missed. “Memory is a dog. It lies wherever it wishes.”
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sad news of the passing of Cees Nooteboom the greatest Dutch writer of his generation he gave an interview to the blog 15 years ago
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Just listening to this the first of the monthly CDs from uncut magazine 27 years ago this month
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Some of the books I got At Oxfam matlock today
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After Octavian
2 months ago
I'm also reading Alia Gorbunova's collection of flash fiction, (Th)ings and (Th)oughts (trs. Elina Alter). This is just delightful. I dip into it whenever I need a little pick me up or diversion.
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After Octavian
2 months ago
I've just started Salvador Elizondo's 'Farabeuf, or the Chronicle of an Instant' (trs. John Incledon). I'm reading it because it is referenced both explicitly (in an epigram) and obliquely throughout Ave Barrera's superb 2019 novel, Restauración, one of the best books I read in 2025.
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2 months ago
For
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's Hungarian Literature Month. George Konrad's The Case Worker (translated by Paul Aston), possibly the most depressing novel I have ever read:
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The Case Worker
When Hungarian writer George Konrád, his sister and his parents returned to their hometown of Berettyóújfalu in 1945 they were the only Jewish family to have survived the war intact. Their troubles…
https://1streading.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/the-case-worker/
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Teresa Tumminello Brader
2 months ago
On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland
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Ian Curtin
2 months ago
Morning Stu, I am most of the way through The Skin by Curzio Malaparte, translated by David Moore.
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Claire McAlpine 📚
2 months ago
Reading Tangerinn by
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translated by Lucy Rand. Interesting account of voming to terms with the effect of living outside one's home and culture, understanding the inner frustrations of not belonging or making peace with being an "other".
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Marina Sofia
2 months ago
From the Fatherland, with Love has 3 translators:
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Ralph McCarthy & Charles De Wolf.
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deb-reader
2 months ago
Morning Stu. Longtime lurker, first time poster. I am reading Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, translated by Alfred MacAdam. 2019.
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Morning all its
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what have you been reading from around the world this week
2 months ago
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round up of the 14 reviews last month and mention of the shadow
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International jury for there 10th year and our 15th of this prize and the old iffp prize over a 1000 reviews of works in translation over that time
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January 2026 I hit the ground running round up post - Winstonsdad's Blog
Mr Bowling buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura Library for the War Wounded by Monika Helfer Killing the Nerve by Anna Pazos Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murak...
https://winstonsdad.blog/2026/02/01/january-2026-i-hit-the-ground-running-round-up-post/
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Frances Evangelista
2 months ago
I’ve started thinking about the International Booker Prize as some of us do this time of year.
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reached out today about getting our annual reading group back together. And I’m looking through a very good eligibility list.
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Rachel Ward
3 months ago
I'm reading Damion Searls' The Philosophy of Translation - excellent, but requires chewing over - and Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka, tr. Sam Malissa, by way of contrast!
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My
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3 months ago
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It's that time again what have you been reading from around the world this week ?
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3 months ago
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The republic of consciousness prize in us longlist is out
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Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada Announces Its 2025 Longlist — Republic of Consciousness Prize
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2026 10 Books from Small, Independent Presses Acknowledged for Literary Merit The Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada, has announced its...
https://www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news/republic-of-consciousness-prize-us-amp-canada-announces-its-2025-longlist
3 months ago
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Nils Tregenza 📚
3 months ago
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My just read and two current reads
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3 months ago
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It's that time of week again what have you been reading from around the world
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alifeinbooks
3 months ago
Five Books Featuring Cats I’ve Read
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Five Books Featuring Cats I’ve Read - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
https://alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/five-books-featuring-cats-ive-read/
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Must try and use Bluesky some more
3 months ago
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Anyone read this the first Vietnamese book in English ?
3 months ago
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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
3 months ago
On the Ramblings today - my thoughts on a wonderful book about books by Lucy Mangan!
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“A book is shared humanity…” #bookish #lucymangan
When you’re left with a massive book hangover, like I was after finishing the Proust, it can be very hard to move on to new reading, and I admit I struggled a bit. I usually go for GA crime i…
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/a-book-is-shared-humanity-bookish-lucymangan/
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a review of the final novel by Naguib Mahfouz for
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The Coffee House by Naguib Mahfouz - Winstonsdad's Blog
The Coffee House by Naguib Mahfouz Egyptian Fiction Original title - قشتمر (رواية) Translator - Raymond Stock Source - Personal copy I have read a few other books by Mahfouz over the years. He is a wr...
https://winstonsdad.blog/2026/01/08/the-coffee-house-by-naguib-mahfouz/
3 months ago
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I'm a little late but what have you been reading from around the world this week ?
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3 months ago
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Georgia Reads
4 months ago
November took me to Nicaragua
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Peepal Tree Press
6 months ago
OTHER WILD this Saturday 11th with Emily Zobel Marshall, 2025 Bookshop Day Ambassador, at Waterstones Leeds. Chaired by Sai Murray, the event explores collection and the lives of errant women&creatures.
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forty years of
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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/03/illustrating-the-postcolonial-experience-40-years-of-peepal-tree-press?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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