Charlotte Collins

On the one hand, there is 'La vache qui rit'; here we have 'Le chat qui ronronne'.

Translators - the excellent journal Exchanges run out of the stellar mfa program in translation at Iowa is now on Bluesky @literaryexchanges.bsky.social. They’re also open for submissions for what sounds like a cool themed issue on in/fidelity in translations. Give it a look!

why AI should not replace human translators #38265073

"A striking example from Prof Federici's research showed the risks of unchecked machine translation of cancer information, with "Don't stay at home if you develop a fever" being translated as "Do stay at home"

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The love of your life, surely??

wayyyy over my head

A little trailer for the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, available now at asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...

Fragment d'un discours sur le chat

She is SUCH a character! 😆
Bonsoir from Paris, chez Ciuff...

Scat! 🤣

Publishers: please credit translators on the cover and on your website!

Authors: please mention translators when talking about translations of your book!

Reviewers: please name the translator in your review!

If you do book reviews on a blog or Booktube and happen to pick up a translated novel please, please, please name the translator! You might be experiencing the author's story but it's the translator's prose you're reading.
#namethetranslator #booktube #booktwt

Private Eye hits the nail on the head

We hear you. We care. x

An immunocompromised friend and my elderly grandfather both got shingles on their face inc. inside their mouth. Both said it was absolutely excruciating. The first was hospitalised; he was told he would scream with pain, but he doesn't remember. Vaccine side-effects sound... not as bad as that.

If only I could. Immunocompromised here so can't have live vaccines, but I'm under 70. Had chickenpox in my 30s, but immunity since erased by stem cell transplant. Catching chickenpox/shingles would be v. dangerous, so for years now I've been prescribed 4 tablets per day as prophylaxis.

Ah, great, thanks! I've signed up - see you then. x

BBC Radio 4 - Whose Truth Is It Anyway?, Memoir and Me Damian Barr explores reality, truth and fiction in literature - beginning with memoir.

When it comes to memoir, what is ‘truth’? What do editors and lawyers do (or not)? And how is the process different for fiction? If today’s Salt Path story makes you want to know more….you might enjoy this series I made:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Just listened to “Watership Down” on BBC Sounds. A long time since I read it. I’d forgotten the rabbits’ beautiful euphemism for death: “He has stopped running.” I find this infinitely preferable to, and more expressive than, “he passed”.

Artist Endre Penovac Paints Eerie Watercolor Cats Which 'Bleed' Into The Paper Cats have long been associated with the spirit life. Many cultures such as the Ancient Egyptians have revered them for their mystical powers since time began and it is this aspect of the animals which...

She's a watercolour.
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Loving the book, Jen! Any chance of Cambridge in the autumn? x

A quite impressive pile of copies of BLURRED by Iris Wolff displayed on a table in Hatchards

Iris signing a reader's copy at an antique desk

Launched! And out in bookshops tomorrow - please read this beautiful meditation on migration, home, what it means to leave and to stay. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/blur...

Wasn't that the night Anna Lapwood played as well? You lucky thing!

Love listening to you speak Dutch. As the fabulous Hannah Waddingham said during Eurovision: you see, Europe, some of us do bother to learn another language. Always a superpower! 🧡

NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2025 so far After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.

#DARKENBLOOM is on NPR's pick of 2025 fiction!
"The book succeeds on multiple levels – it's a gossipy small-town satire that's laugh-out-loud funny but also a historical mystery." One to get your teeth into on holiday... #EvaMenasse
www.npr.org/2025/06/25/n...

Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.

I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.

A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Blue cover of 'The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran' by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin

Blurb on the back of the book, which begins 'A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran.'

Photo of the first page of the book.

This beautiful novel, located between Iran and Germany, came out in the UK last week.
'The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran' ... what savagely ironic timing.
Look at this gorgeous writing by author Shida Bazyar and translator Ruth Martin @dances-with-voles.bsky.social. Please read it. shorturl.at/P0tz8

someone should invent a Nighttime Internet, like a child lock but for that last hour before bed when you sort of want to pleasantly scroll for a bit but without getting confronted with The Constant Horrors

Hahaha same!
Glad to know I may in fact see you again one of these days. (Translators’ picnic in August…?)

Morgan! Where are you now, and where are you going? Good luck with everything xx