@andymcd90.bsky.social
Literary translator from Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan
Summer
28.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Continuing the tour of Valencian cuisine... fideuà!
28.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Arròs al forn 👌
Not as famous as its cousin paella, but every bit as good.
We are deeply concerned by the Government's proposal to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action under terrorism legislation.
Read our joint statement with @peninternational.bsky.social, @scottishpen.bsky.social & Wales PEN Cymru ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Translator copies! #WorldKidLit
25.06.2025 18:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WOW!
'Double Room is Anne Sénès' first literary novel and it's quite the debut. Despite its relative brevity, this elegy to love and grief is an exquisitely immersive read which left me reeling.'
LOVE this review of @annesenes.bsky.social' #DoubleRoom, T #AliceBanks!
Add it to your #TBR!
Feeling enthused after delivering a creative translation workshop to a group of Y6 students, who really engaged with the Spanish-language poem. Translation is a powerful tool for developing a range of transferible cross-curricular skills! @stephenspender.bsky.social @translationexch.bsky.social
23.06.2025 16:33 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tonight in Glasgow!
at Mount Florida Books! FREE! mountfloridabooks.com/products/jen... @prototypepubs.bsky.social
Out now in my translation:
algareditorial.com/small-size-c...
Protect and fund libraries.
www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...
Great review of Mara Faye Lethem's latest translation of Irene Solà. A complex and darkly fascinating novel that will get inside your head and stay there.
www.ft.com/content/7582...
World Kid Lit logo. A child sitting on a big pile of books and reading.
Exciting opportunity for UK schools! Friends at @worldkidlit.bsky.social are launching a new award celebrating Reading For Pleasure with an international dimension.
They would LOVE to hear from teachers and schools who are interested in being involved.
Let them know if you'd like to hear more.
„There was a time when I’d set out to be a magnificent boy.“
Read an excerpt of Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia Garcia Freire and @furiousleeper.bsky.social on @crimereads.bsky.social by @literaryhub.bsky.social.
crimereads.com/carnival-of-...
So sad to see publishers and literary journals in the USA facing such uncertainty because the current president hates culture, creativity and critical thought.
07.05.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An exciting event in two weeks' time in London if you're around.
And you can read an extract from Nara Vidal's work in my translation here: latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2024/09/an-e...
Feliz dia mundial da língua portuguesa!
05.05.2025 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.’ Shelley
Something appropriate for May Day Weekend ✊
02.05.2025 23:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In these times, let us always keep the spirit of 25 April present.
25.04.2025 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
25 Abril sempre, fascismo nunca mais 🌹
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Great to hear about your translations from Catalan! Five translations from Catalan in this year's translated children's books/YA list :)
worldkidlit.org/2025/01/08/2...
I aquest és el llibre que jo he regalat aquest #SantJordi 🌹📚
#Bromera @ainaflll.bsky.social
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-...
#OnThisDay in 1979, schoolteacher #BlairPeach was killed at an anti-NF protest by a member of the Met's Special Patrol Group.
Ifran Master's 'Inner State' from Resist shows a Southall community reeling from loss, & paving a way forward.
📗: commapress.co.uk/books/resist
Bon Sant Jordi a tots!🌹📚
Happy World Book Day!
Feliz día del libro!
Feliz dia do livro!
The True Story of Flora Pomerania by Anna Vilar, illustrated by Jordi Vila Delclòs.
Published by: Animallibres
Rights info: Bromera
See more info from the publisher, read an extract and request the full sample here:
foreignrights.bromera.com/books/95/the-t…
The Locomotive and I by Pep Molist, illustrated by Dani Torrent.
Published by: Animallibres
Rights info: Bromera
See more info from the publisher and request the full sample here:
t.co/ltXaA6OfJA
The Catalan section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has chosen the 35 best Catalan children's books of the last year.
And I've done sample translations of two of the books on the list! #WorldKidLit
www.ibbycat.cat/la-conseller...
Happy International Children's Book Day! #WorldKidLit
I'll be spending most of the rest of the week going over the proofs of my latest translation of a children's book. Publication slated for June.
Published today! A Carnival of Atrocities by @nataliagarcia.bsky.social, translated by @furiousleeper.bsky.social and featured by @lorifeathers.bsky.social, co-owner of @interabangbooks.bsky.social. There’s been so much love from the indies for this one - thank you 🥰!
01.04.2025 23:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Dark days not just for the creative industries but for humanity when the theft of art is being celebrated in viral trends.
I hope this piece gives some people pause for thought.
