Really looking forward to taking part in this year’s Cork World Book Fest! @gaellebelem.bsky.social and I will be in conversation about her second novel, The Rarest Fruit, co-translated with Karen Fleetwood.

actualitte.com/article/1297... Amazon quitte le Festival du livre de Paris après une polémique publique. Mais derrière l’affrontement symbolique, une question demeure : d’où vient l’argent qui finance l’événement ? Une mécanique de financement moins lisible qu’il n’y paraît.

Tonight we announce the winners of our 2025 Translation Prizes. Nine literary translators and one editor will be honoured at a ceremony at the British Library, celebrating outstanding translations of prose, poetry and non-fiction, from languages from around the globe and across a range of genres.

Universités : « La mort du service public est en train d’être organisée ». Dans un courrier adressé à Emmanuel Macron, la présidente de l’université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier s’est faite le relais du désespoir des personnels. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

I miss you, Dublin!

Thrilled to hear that the latest issue of Mémoires du livre on in/visibility and discoverability in the book industry is now available OA! Can’t wait to read all contributions. Many thanks to guest editors @julienlf.bsky.social and @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social. www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

Latest issue of Alizés out! Karen Fleetwood & I contributed our English translation of Roger Parsemain’s 'D'lo d’Amérik'. In our Translators’ Note, we reflect on the crucial importance of building transoceanic, island-to-island bridges through translation, linking 🇲🇶 & 🇷🇪. alizes.univ-reunion.fr/343

Delighted to be shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff prize, together with Karen Fleetwood for our translation of Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door, pub. by @bullaunpress.bsky.social. Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation prizes!

Please join us for this free literary event with author Fabienne Jonca next Saturday 06/12 @3pm at Maison de l’Afrique in Nantes. She will talk about her beautiful debut novel ‘Brown Baby’ (Atelier des nomades).📚🎁

Today is St Jerome day, also known as International Translation Day, so I want to pay a tribute to my third-year students’ wonderful work and collaborative translation projects from last semester, which led to an exhibition at the BU Lettres, at Nantes University 🥰

Primer congreso de literatura del género de la salsa a partir de este viernes en San Juan, 🇵🇷

Delighted to announce that the latest issue of the Irish Journal of French Studies on ´Passages’, coedited with my dear colleague @19thc-charlotte.bsky.social, is now available OA! Many thanks to all contributors, reviewers and to the journal editors. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/irjo...

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

Vous vous intéressez à la traduction? Le webinaire de recherche « Traduction et détournements: une culture universelle du piratage? » que je co-organise avec Bénédicte Letellier (DIRE, Thalim CNRS) débutera le 2 octobre. Pour obtenir le lien de connexion, merci de m’écrire en MP.

La Martinique, son pays de naissance, s’est souvenue de Frantz Fanon, né il y a cent ans, le 20 juillet 1925. Merci au Cercle Fanon d’avoir organisé ce vivifiant Colloque international autour des « Damnés de la terre ». Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant : Martinique, éveilleuse du monde.

Short post about the excellent second novel by Gaëlle Bélem, the work of @bullaunpress.bsky.social and translators Karen Fleetwood and @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social, and the pleasure of following her first novel's deserved journey to prize success: publishinginfrastructures.org/2025/05/12/g...

Very happy to announce the opening of my students’ exhibition of their work on Reunionese literature in translation today at Nantes Université. Please come and join us at 4pm today to celebrate the opening. Details below. bu.univ-nantes.fr/animations-c...

Have you picked up your copy yet? Check out the latest reviews for The Rarest Fruit by Gaëlle Bélem (tr. Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert): litechoes.com/the-rarest-f... ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/04/29/b... Out now on our website & in bookshops!

OUT 1 MAY 2025 From the Republic of Consciousness prize-winning team, The Rarest Fruit tells the true story of Edmond Albius, an orphan born into slavery who unravelled the secret to hand-pollinating the vanilla orchid. Pre-order: bullaunpress.com/books/the-ra...

Join us in Merrion Square Park next month as we launch The Rarest Fruit, our second title from #InternationalBooker longlisted author Gaëlle Bélem. Hosted by @ilfdublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @franceinireland.bsky.social. Tickets via ILFD: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

"…physical book retail in Ireland is hugely important for Irish publishers & Irish authors & Irish culture…" So grateful for all the Irish booksellers I've met the last few years, & bookshops I've spent so much time in over my life. They need support. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Don't miss this, translators!

The authors and translators nominated for the #InternationalBooker2025 reflect on the stories that sparked their love of lit – and continue to inspire them today ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

So happy for what this award means for Irish indie publisher @bullaunpress.bsky.social and for Reunionese literature! Lé gadiamb! 🥰 Very warm thanks to the judges of the 2025 UK/Ireland RofC Prize! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Author Gaëlle Bélem & translator @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social had the pleasure of taking part in the Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlist Showcase earlier this month. This Tuesday 1 April, join us at Foyles Charing Cross Road for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize winner announcement.

Registration for the 48th Annual SCS Conference is now open! 🥳 This year the conference will be held at the University of Bristol 2-4 July 2025. For more info, and to register, please see: community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/ We can't wait to see you there!

Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62

Looking forward to taking part in the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses Showcase tonight in Deptford together with Gaëlle Bélem. See details below to join us. @bullaunpress.bsky.social

It’s been 2 wonderful days of v. rich conversations with Gaëlle Bélem who kindly accepted to meet 3rd-year students at Nantes U to talk about her work. Students were captivated and are working on collaborative translation projects of her first novel. Can’t wait to see their translations! 🥰

It was all just a dream ... but no, this morning sees There's a Monster Behind the Door make it to the shortlist for The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2025. We are thrilled! therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/short-list...

New Irish publisher on International Booker Prize longlist. Congratulations to Bullaun Press, founded by Bridget Farrell in Sligo in 2021, which published There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Très émue et heureuse de voir la littérature réunionnaise représentée dans la sélection du prix International Booker 2025 à travers le 1er roman de Gaëlle Bélem, traduit à 4 mains avec Karen Fleetwood et publié par @bullaunpress.bsky.social! Quelle magnifique aventure collaborative reliant 🇷🇪 et 🇮🇪 !

Episode 2 of Books and Their Makers is here, with excellent timing! In this one I speak to Gaëlle Bélem & translators Karen Fleetwood & @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social about Bélem's novel There's a Monster Behind the Door, longlisted for the International Booker today: radio.moli.ie/r/gaelle-belem

Available to pre-order now: bullaunpress.com/books/the-ra...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

This Saturday, February 22nd, is #IrelandReads - a national celebration of the simple joy of reading! We know that books have the power to take you places you never expected. Whether it’s a novel, a poem, or a few stolen minutes with a short story, squeezing in a read is always time well spent.

Check out the first episode of our new RadioMoLI series, Books & Their Makers! In this episode Paul Lynch appears in conversation with Juliet Mabey and Margaret Kelleher to discuss his novel Prophet Song, the Booker Prize, and independent publishing. radio.moli.ie/r/paul-lynch...

If you're teaching about the Caribbean and are interested in contributing your materials to @dlocaribbean.bsky.social's archive of Open Educational Resources, you should apply! I'm currently a fellow and the support has been phenomenal. 💜

Exciting news - the cover of our next title in translation, The Rarest Fruit, has arrived! Design by @hitoneie.bsky.social #booksky 📚

Great to see contemporary Irish literature translated into Euskera! Sally Rooney’s Normal People (trans. by Irene Aldasora) spotted in Obaba Liburuak, in Gernika, in the New Year.

This is very, very good, especially recommended for those of you liking your #womenintranslation. Schutti received the 2015 EU Prize for Literature for it. Translated by Deirdre McMahon, originally titled Einmal muss ich über weiches Gras gelaufen sein (Once I must have trodden soft grass).

Pasandolo muy bien en la @filguadalajara.bsky.social. Muchas traducciones buenissimas hechas en América Latina. ❤️

En hommage à Elizabeth Nunez, figure de la littérature trinidadienne actualitte.com/a/2QCJb7t0

Just out from Bullaun Press. I got an advance copy and thoroughly enjoyed it; the prose pops with vibrancy despite the hardships thrown at the central character - she's a force of nature!

If you are a translator from the global majority, do consider applying for this scholarship thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... @thebookerprizes.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social @terribleman.com