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Victor Meadowcroft πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@furiousleeper.bsky.social

Translator from Portuguese and Spanish

186 Followers  |  385 Following  |  25 Posts  |  Joined: 12.11.2024  |  1.9567

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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Born in Lancashire in 1917, Leonora Carrington is perhaps now best known as a surrealist artist; in 2024, one of her artworks sold for $28.5 million. During her career, however, she also wrote nove…

β€œDo you imagine in your wildest dreams that now we have tasted freedom we are going to let ourselves be pushed around once more by you and your leering mate?” #BookSky πŸ’™πŸ“š

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05.12.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're delighted to invite our members to PELTA's traditional end-of-year holiday social on December 11 at 6pm (UK time) on Zoom!

Please RSVP to our PELTA Chair, and if you're not a member yet, you can still join in time to participate in the merriest of all celebrations!

26.11.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿

To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/

31.07.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 385    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 3
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Translators Aloud | Official Merchandise | Bonfire Bringing literary translators out of the shadows, and into the limelight where they belong.Β . We are raising funds to sponsor full residential participation for a translator...

πŸ””FUNDRAISER ALERT!πŸ””
Dear friends, our OG Bonfire store is still open and selling all kinds of merch! We're already fundraising to support a BIPOC translator for the 2026 @bcltuea.bsky.social summer school, so start your #Christmas shopping early with us right here: www.bonfire.com/store/transl...

24.10.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PinT Book Club 20th session | PinT Book Club Online Book Club focusing on translated fiction from Portuguese-language countries. Join us to discuss THE WIND WHISTLING IN THE CRANES by Portuguese author LΓ­dia Jorge.

PinT Book Club 20th session | PinT Book Club www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

20.10.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Samantha Pious reads from CACTUS FLOWERS: SELECTED POEMS, Judith Teixeira (Headmistress Press, 2025)
YouTube video by Translators Aloud Samantha Pious reads from CACTUS FLOWERS: SELECTED POEMS, Judith Teixeira (Headmistress Press, 2025)

We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880–1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk

16.10.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FREE BOOK EVENTπŸŽŸοΈπŸ“š

Join us tomorrow at @bookcornerhx.bsky.social w/ authors David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y Alam for readings and chat about 'The Book of Bradford', a new anthology in celebration of @bradford2025.co.uk πŸŽ‰

Free entry but RSVPπŸ‘‡πŸŽŸοΈ
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15.10.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

13.10.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3299    πŸ” 2651    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 176
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Friday morning plans: get cozy with @southwestreview.bsky.social’s THE HORROR ISSUE.

10.10.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poeta angolana Ana Paula Tavares conquista o PrΓͺmio CamΓ΅es 2025

Angolan poet & historian Ana Paula Tavares has won the 2025 CamΓ΅es Prize for literature in the Portuguese language!

"Awarding the prize to Ana Paula Tavares celebrates the strength and beauty of Lusophone literature," said Brazil's culture minister, Margareth Menezes.

www.gov.br/bn/pt-br/cen...

09.10.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Published today: A literary celebration of Christmas south of the equator where the holiday falls in Brazilian summer and festivities are punctuated by rhythms of surf and samba. It's the tenth volume in the New Vessel Press holiday anthology series.

newvesselpress.com/books/very-b...

16.09.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Delighted to have one of my translations in this book. Just look at that cover! πŸ’šπŸ‡§πŸ‡·πŸŽ„

08.10.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's #BannedBooksWeek! @everylibrary.bsky.social is
hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syria’s most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature.

Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...

06.10.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My translation of β€œLegs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

02.09.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rose Facchini reads from Maico Morellini's INN OF THE SURVIVORS (Snuggly Books, 2025) A visionary tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world. Amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic, this is both an existential story of homesickness and a…

Delighted to feature @rosefacchini.bsky.social reading from INN OF THE SURVIVORS, out now from @snugglybooks.bsky.social, a visionary & highly relevant tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world set amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic.

02.10.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Current translation grant opportunities - English PEN

Our translation grants – #PENTranslates, including PEN Translates x SALT, and #PENPresents: Brazil – are NOW OPEN for submissions!

Find out more, apply & share ‡️
www.englishpen.org/translation/...

01.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Front cover of "Midnight Timetable"

Front cover of "Midnight Timetable"

Bora Chung's signature inside the book.

Bora Chung's signature inside the book.

PUBLISHED TODAY.

"Midnight Timetable", the new literary horror collection from Bora Chung, author of the phenomenal "Cursed Bunny"

We have a few SIGNED copies!

You can get one HERE.

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

02.10.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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12 Must-Read Books of October 2025 - Chicago Review of Books Here are the 12 books you need to read this October.

Whether you crave a comfort read or (like our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social) something unsettling and all-around spooky come the start of October, this year brings us plenty of new books to look forward to!
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/01/1...

01.10.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Diving Board Β· Invisible Publishing by TomΓ‘s Downey Translated by Sarah Moses 192 pages / 8" x 5" Forthcoming 7 October 2025 FICTION / World Literature / Argentina / Hispanic & Latino / Science Fiction / Short Stories

Starting DIVING BOARD by TomΓ‘s Downey, tr from the Spanish by Sarah Moses, from Invisible Publishing invisiblepublishing.com/product/divi...

#SFinTranslation

01.10.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!

01.10.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Natalia Garcia Freire!

www.cercadorprize.com

30.09.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What does it cost to produce a book? Why small presses in the UK are struggling - and what can be done about it.

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help.

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(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

25.09.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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Consider the Snail β€” The Dial β€œIn writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

25.09.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Such a wonderful day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of @jeremytiang.bsky.socialβ€˜s State of Emergency!

22.09.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlotte Coombe & Laura McGloughlin read from Anna Pazos' KILLING THE NERVE (Foundry Editions 2025)
In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the β€˜Mediterranean… Charlotte Coombe & Laura McGloughlin read from Anna Pazos' KILLING THE NERVE (Foundry Editions 2025)

KILLING THE NERVE by annapazos.bsky.social, co-translated by cmctranslations.bsky.social & Laura McGloughlin is OUT THIS WEEK, published by Foundry Editions. "This novel will hit like a revelation; restless, questioning, and indelible." buff.ly/sJQqwNm

19.09.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! πŸ—³οΈ πŸ“–

19.09.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Yesterday the brilliant Julia Sanches gave her fellow PELTA members a fascinating & valuable insight into the intricacies of translation contract negotiation.

PELTA regularly offers such workshops to its members - if you're a translator working in Portuguese & aren't yet a member, why not join us?

19.09.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Corruption And The Natural World In β€˜A Carnival Of Atrocities’ | Hola Cultura Stripped of her family, home and identity by the supposedly pious people of CocuΓ‘n, all that is left for Mildred is her hatred. In her rage, she curses the

"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, β€œA Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul." @holaculturadc.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social

holacultura.com/corruption-a...

17.09.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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