www.euronews.com/culture/2026... sad news indeed

Morning all it's that time of week again what have you been reading from around the world? #translationthurs

@nonsuchbook.bsky.social 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

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 @thebookerprizes.com

Love that we are maintaining the unbroken pattern of making the Booker list every two years... @charcopress.com thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Be starting the remember soldier and reading she who remains as well @thebookerprizes.com

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... 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

Olga Ravn! thebookerprizes.com/media-centre...

Not bad longlist I've read and reviewed three books this year @thebookerprizes.com

Oh a better year have three books on the blog already @thebookerprizes.com the wax child woman without men and on earth as it is beneath

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of the High Street in #Crail, East Neuk of Fife. Crail became a Royal Burgh in 1178 in the reign of King William the Lion tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2011/03/old-...

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.

@nonsuchbook.bsky.social hi Frances

Twenty mins left

Going very slow today on the countdown to the @thebookerprizes.com longlist

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 @thebookerprizes.com

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

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