Novel set in #London and #Paris "This is a terrific novel of grief and loss and what happens when the trauma becomes deeply buried and insurmountable..." www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-in... Double Room by Anne Sénès Published by @orendabooks.bsky.social #blueskybooks #booksky

Publication day! 🥳 It was a joy to work on this beautiful novel with @annesenes.bsky.social and @orendabooks.bsky.social From lengthy, bilingual exchanges with Anne, to delighting in @westcamel.bsky.social 's incredible edits, Double Room is finally in the hands of readers! tinyurl.com/yv3bybvf

📖 PUBLICATION DAY 💔 The greatest #LoveStory ever told... Then tragedy strikes💔📖 #DoubleRoom by @annesenes.bsky.social #Translated by A Banks is a beautiful, tender and haunting read - UNFORGETTABLE! Pick up your copy today! 📖 bit.ly/4khxIOD 📱 bit.ly/4kTQcEH #NewReleases #BookSky

HIGH praise for fab #translator @alice-banks.bsky.social! 'The excellent translation by Alice Banks … keeps you immersed so utterly in all the lovely misdirection and emotional melodrama conjured by Sénès in her original novel. I was floored!' #DoubleRoom @annesenes.bsky.social #BookSky

In 9 days, #doubleroom will be in bookshops and available to you all. It’s time to say a massive thank you to @alice-banks.bsky.social for her amazing work on the translation. #doubleroom #translation #literature #novel @orendabooks.bsky.social

What a beautiful review of Double Room! Thank you so much @bethsy.bsky.social "Sénès’ prose dances between notes and hues, creating a tapestry that is at once vivid and haunting." @annesenes.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social

When his life falls apart after a tragedy, a composer returns to his native #France, where he creates an #AI machine with his dead wife's voice, with devastating consequences… #DoubleRoom, the exquisite BREAKOUT #Bestseller from @annesenes.bsky.social T A Banks out in JUNE 🎵📖 🎵 bit.ly/4khxIOD

Excerpts from Little Animals, by Lucía Alba Martínez, in my translation, published in The Los Angeles review... losangelesreview.org/excerpts-fro...

Exciting to see another one of my translations from Raquel Delgado’s short story collection, Ser de fuera, published, this time in the wonderful Asymptote! www.asymptotejournal.com/fiction/men-...

😍 So excited for you (and Pebbles!!) to read

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social in conversation minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/b... — fiction from Raquel Delgado, translated from the Spanish by @alice-banks.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/04/03/t...

Delighted to have my translation of Raquel Delgado’s short story, “Tell Me About It” from From Outside published with @minorliteratures.bsky.social

Excited to read @alice-banks.bsky.social translation of DOUBLE ROOM by Anne Sénè, pub. @orendabooks.bsky.social 👀 📚 🇫🇷

In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read  "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: https://buff.ly/42OdRR3

We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland. Discover the winners ⬇️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

Today on WWB: Kotryna Garanasvili on “translation-adjacent” tasks, from pitching to editing—and on the necessity of acknowledging this labor. Read her essay here: https://buff.ly/3Daeols

Hello Blue Sky! Celebrating our first post with the launch of our new issue: 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan.' In the words of Ronald Puppo, 'Catalan, as this selection of poems makes clear, is very much alive – a language of life.' Find out more: tinyurl.com/mter9erv

Through December 5 at publishersforpalestine.org

We are delighted to announce the John Calder Translation Prize, an annual award for translations into English of full-length ambitious, ground-breaking works. Thanks to sponsors Alma Books and Sheila Colvin-Calder. societyofauthors.org/2024/11/28/i...