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

Five by five listening

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.”

winstonsdad.blog/2011/06/28/c... 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

Just listening to this the first of the monthly CDs from uncut magazine 27 years ago this month

Some of the books I got At Oxfam matlock today

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.

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.

For @stujallen.bsky.social's Hungarian Literature Month. George Konrad's The Case Worker (translated by Paul Aston), possibly the most depressing novel I have ever read: 1streading.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/t...

On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland

Morning Stu, I am most of the way through The Skin by Curzio Malaparte, translated by David Moore.

Reading Tangerinn by #EmanuelaAnechoum 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".

From the Fatherland, with Love has 3 translators: @ginnytkmr.bsky.social Ralph McCarthy & Charles De Wolf.

Morning Stu. Longtime lurker, first time poster. I am reading Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, translated by Alfred MacAdam. 2019.

Morning all its #translationthurs what have you been reading from around the world this week

winstonsdad.blog/2026/02/01/j... round up of the 14 reviews last month and mention of the shadow @thebookerprizes.com 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

I’ve started thinking about the International Booker Prize as some of us do this time of year. @stujallen.bsky.social reached out today about getting our annual reading group back together. And I’m looking through a very good eligibility list. www.goodreads.com/list/show/22...

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! #TranslationThurs

My #translationthurs read is Queen by Brigitta Trotzig a Swedish family saga saga translated by Saskia Vogel

It's that time again what have you been reading from around the world this week ? #translationthurs

The republic of consciousness prize in us longlist is out www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news/republi...

My just read and two current reads #transationthurs

It's that time of week again what have you been reading from around the world #translationthurs

Five Books Featuring Cats I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/five...

Must try and use Bluesky some more

Anyone read this the first Vietnamese book in English ?

On the Ramblings today - my thoughts on a wonderful book about books by Lucy Mangan! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/a...

winstonsdad.blog/2026/01/08/t... a review of the final novel by Naguib Mahfouz for #translationthurs

I'm a little late but what have you been reading from around the world this week ? #translationthurs

November took me to Nicaragua #TranslationThurs bsky.app/profile/geor...

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. @emilyzmarshall.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social Info: www.waterstones.com/events/emily...

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... forty years of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

Current read this tough French memoir of childhood rape

‘Marketa Lazarová’ by Vladislav Vančura (1931) At the murky birth of Northern Europe, a showdown between Bohemian brigands draws in German troops. The prose is incredibly vivid, but keeps the spirit of a folktale. The forest warps with the characters once the frost begins to thaw

The doughnuts at a viral Japanese bakery chain are breathy, yeasty, tender, and warm. “It was the dream doughnut I didn’t realize I had always yearned for,” Helen Rosner writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EII61Q

What an incredible achievement to be recognised alongside some of the finest literature of the year across both fiction and non-fiction. Congratulations also to translator Hildegard Serle and to Europa Editions.

🍆 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE🍆 This week, the thorny issue of PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by PHILIP ROTH. Is the novel more than its reputation? Is it really just about onanism? Roth expert Matthew Shipe helps us find out. All the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

Flicking through a few reviews by Anthony Burgess

My #translationthurs book

The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy Review The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called…

It's that time of week what have you been reading from around the world? #translationthurs

I think having a head cold was are he main reason I was so down the other day today getting other side of it been a busy few months as well

Was in town forgot my book so decided pop in the library and get one and this jumped out at me how could you not pick this book up with that title know its about a after and real events in world war two

For #GermanLitMonth, a writer who deserves more attention, Gert Hofmann, and his novel, Our Conquest, exploring the end of the second world war through the eyes of a child: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/o...

Slowing the blog down a bit to fall back in love with reading

Full of cold at moment but off for four days after today

If you're looking for poetry about Budapest, about post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe—or about illness, dissent, the city as a psychic space—go find a copy of this book.

In March we got the rare chance to sit down with the poet, writer and literary translator George Szirtes in his own home for an interview... We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!

@owengood.bsky.social thanks for the follow