Robin Munby

Five copies of 'Eely' by Steve Ely, spines facing outwards.

Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting
over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled-out
on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales.
Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats,
armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup.

Last day to order 'Eely' with £2 off
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New name and partner for groundbreaking prize for small press publishers Announcing The Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize

The Republic Of Consciousness Prize is undergoing a slight change as it celebrates it's tenth year. #Booksky, get this on your radar if it's not already.

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Incredibly sad to hear the news of Xuan Bello's death - a brilliant, unique writer with an amazing breadth of work.

‘I write in a language that few speak, and even fewer read,’ he wrote, in the encyclopaedic novel Hestoria Universal de Paniceiros, but his efforts did so much to belie those words ✊

Dexónos Xuan Bello de forma inesperada. La murnia enllénanos pol adiós d’un collaciu y pola perda d’un escritor imprescindible pa entender les lletres asturianes de los 40 años caberos. El Resurdimientu nun s’entendería ensin los versos y la prosa de Bello.
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The title of that issue, conceived of as a literary map of Spain in all its linguistic diversity, was 'Poetics of Language', an idea for which Xuan Bello was the perfect embodiment: novelist, journalist, translator and, of course, poet

His story 'Tres histories de la historia' appears in English translation in issue 24 of @grantamag.bsky.social´s Spanish companion magazine Granta en Español, translated by Valerie Miles

Asturies pierde a ún de los sos meyores escritores. Y la Xunta pierde un amigu. Con otros militantes fundadores, participó nel nacimientu de la nuestra organización allá per 1984. Dedicóse dafechu a la lliteratura y el periodismu, pero siempre nos echó un gabitu cuando lu llamemos (1)

L’Academia de la Llingua Asturiana llamenta tener que confirmar la muerte de Xuan Bello, miembru correspondiente d’esta institución y Premiu Nacional de Lliteratura Asturiana. El so llabor nes lletres asturianes foi inmensu y nunca va escaecese. Queremos acompañar a la familia nesti momentu murniu.

First page of the poem Paniceiros by Xuan Bello in English translation

Second page of the poem Paniceiros by Xuan Bello in English translation

This is an English translation of one of Xuan Bello's poems, also titled Paniceiros, after his hometown, translated by fellow Asturian poets Laura Marcos and Daniel García Granda

Incredibly sad to hear the news of Xuan Bello's death - a brilliant, unique writer with an amazing breadth of work.

‘I write in a language that few speak, and even fewer read,’ he wrote, in the encyclopaedic novel Hestoria Universal de Paniceiros, but his efforts did so much to belie those words ✊

Thanks for featuring our book ‘The Gospel According To…’ and for @gaystheword.bsky.social for stocking us! 💜

Reviewers! Get in touch if you’d like us to send you Before the Rocket 🚀 Out this September 🚀

read an extract here:

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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

cover of anima fatua by anna lidia vega serova translated by robin munby

Absolutely wonderful. If you love Ferrante, you’ll love this book, and I know a fckton of you love Ferrante

Exqusite job, @robmunb.bsky.social!

(CW: SA)

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Thanks Anton!

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Madrid, la ciudad de los museos de la felicidad, las ilusiones o de Banksy (sin Banksy): "Deberían llamarse de la idiotez" En el centro de la capital proliferan espacios alejados de la definición tradicional de un prestigioso término con el cual "parece que no hay mercadotecnia", según el crítico de arte Fernando Castro. ...

Madrid se ha llenado de "McMuseos". Lugares con insospechadas temáticas, llenos de cachivaches y experiencias absurdas. Fernando Castro y @yoantoniorivera.bsky.social tratan de aclarar si son o no museos y explicar las razones de la explotación comercial del término.
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J.M. Coetzee and Language — The Dial A review of Speaking in Tongues.

Carey Baraka, in his review of Mariana Dimópulos and J.M. Coetzee’s new book "Speaking in Tongues," expresses frustration that in Coetzee’s efforts to challenge the linguistic dominance of English, he is still blind to global power dynamics in translation. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction

✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨

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15 Novels in Translation You Should be Reading This Summer and Fall - Electric Literature The second half of 2025 is introducing literary voices from Japan, Ecuador, Kurdistan, and elsewhere"

Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) is on this fab @electricliterature.com list. @lydiakiesling.bsky.social calls it “a breathtaking, virtuosic, dark, funny, furious, sad, and genuinely strange work of fiction.” electricliterature.com/15-novels-in...

Sexta edición del programa de mentorías - ACE Traductores El programa de mentorías de ACE Traductores, que desde 2022 se convoca cada dos años, celebrará una nueva edición en 2025-2026. Una vez más, quienes están dando los primeros pasosRead More

Si estás dando los primeros pasos en la traducción editorial y quieres disfrutar de una mentoría (o si tienes experiencia y quieres ser mentor/a de alguien que está empezando), aquí van unas fechas para apuntar en la agenda de este otoño:
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#mentoriasACETraductores

Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction

Everybody read FAIR please, thank you.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

"That’s what translators do: We find original forms of expression for unoriginal material." — Boris Dralyuk in conversation with Sara Gear on the question of whether one has to be a poet to translate poetry 🧿 www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an...

"One guest turned to me and said, ‘This feels like a wedding—and I love it.’ That simple, powerful comment filled me with pride—not just for what we created, but for what our city stands for." - LAAF Trustee, Taher Qassim

Full @liverpoolecho.co.uk article:

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PEN Translates winners announced - News & Events - English PEN Awarding 14 titles from 10 publishers, 13 languages and 11 regions.

We’re delighted to announce that 14 titles from 10 publishers, 13 languages and 11 regions have won #PENTranslates awards – marking 400 books now supported through our programme.
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Image of finished copies of Closed Season, She Who Remains, and The Competition of Unfinished Stories

Hot off the press in Zagreb, our October, November, and January titles: award-winning Croatian poetry, a wickedly wild Kurdish farce translated by @gayadorno.bsky.social, and a landmark Bulgarian queer novel about a sworn virgin in Albania. Get in touch for ARCs.

A Queer Puerto Rican Story for the Moon Landing Anniversary "He asked me if the little figure I sketched on every moon was Neil Armstrong making his moon landing. No, I answered. It's me. Me, because when I grow up I want to be an astronaut." “Bruises” by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

The anniversary of the 1969 moon landing is July 16th—celebrate that anniversary with this relevant short story from Puerto Rico. It comes with lots of interactive resources, including a reading from writer Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro! Tr. by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social : wwb-campus.org/literature/b...

Murcia muestra su rechazo a las cacerías racistas en Torre Pacheco con una gran manifestación Miles de personas acuden a la convocatoria de repulsa contra las cacerías que grupos supremacistas desarrollaron la semana pasada.

✊🏽 Murcia muestra su rechazo a las cacerías en Torre Pacheco con una gran manifestación

👉🏽 Miles de personas acuden a la convocatoria de repulsa contra las cacerías supremacistas. 

'The Book of Sana'a, for outsiders, is a way in. But for people who know it, it brings it alive.'✍️

In the latest Comma blog, editor Laura Kasinof talks first impressions, Yemen's overlooked role in the region, & engaging with a place through fiction.

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