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We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025.
tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r

The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth

My reads for woman in translation month

The other two Piñeiros I've read were so flipping good it would be hard to top them to be honest! There's a lot I haven't read on your pile as well - Woman at Point Zero is excellent though, I really need to read more by her.

We'll have to compare notes at the end of the month!

Love seeing people preparing for the start of #WITMonth tomorrow! Here’s my stack of possibilities (well, a conservative selection of them) 📚 Spotting any favourites?

#bookSky #WomenInTranslation

For our “Prize Winners” month we have decided to read this year’s Booker International winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (trranslated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi) @andotherstories.bsky.social
Our meeting will be on Monday 4th August at 7pm GMT. DM us if you would like to join.

A stack of books including Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (translated by Deepa Bhasthi), All Yours by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Miranda France), Time of the Flies by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle), Love by Hanne Ørstavik (translated by Martin Aitken), Europa28 edited by Sophie Hughes and Sarah Cleave, Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez (translated by Julia Sanches), A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (translated by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz), On A Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer (translated by Lucy Scott), Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Michael Hofmann), Love/War by Ebba Witt-Brattström (translated by Kate Lambert), and Mr. Distinctive by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Joanna Concejo)

A stack of possibilities for #WITmonth 2025!

I'm not keen on either the Tilted Axis or And Other Stories covers, I think they're a real downgrade. Honestly just looks like they wanted to save on proper design to me. If we're talking retaining a uniform identity while still having great design we only have to look at Charco!

Where should I start if I want to read Joan Didion, bluepals?

#lifegoals

Congratulations! You both look so happy, love to see it. Wishing you a long and happy life together xx

On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.

The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.

A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.

For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

That looks beautiful. Have an amazing time!

God I miss Exki!

Welcome aboard!

Anita Brookner is flipping brilliant. Although now I want to be moping around Paris reading Balzac, too.

I've said this before but I'll say it again

If your reading recommendations (especially if you are an industry professional of some kind) include no works by Black authors

Then I urge you to *seek out and read* more work by Black authors

Excited to share that this week I’ll be starting my translation of THE SEVENTH OATH by Mozambican legend (& Premio Camões winner 2021) Paulina Chiziane, for the wonderful @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
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Just shy of 2 years ago I was in Mozambique, so this feels like a very full-circle moment.

Awesome news! Excited to read it!

Now off to Panama on my #readingtheworld journey with The Golden Horse: A Novel About Triumph and Tragedy Building the Panama Railroad by Juan David Morgan. I'm intrigued!

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

I’ll look up the former. The latter I’m aware of, I emailed the writer to see if it would be possible to read the manuscript but unfortunately she hasn’t replied so that might not be possible.

Catch Turkoslavia translators at Sant Jordi's online program—with readings by @yanaellis.bsky.social, @marinasofia.bsky.social, @agiborimottern.bsky.social, Elena Alexieva, @robtranslates.bsky.social, Denis Ferhatović, Elena Koroleva, Hamid Ismailov, and Shelley Fairweather-Vega! www.stjordi.nyc

And finally, you might find this website useful if you haven't seen it already - readaroundtheworldchallenge.com

Quite a few of these are the tough ones that I haven't got to yet and I read in French for Chad and Niger. I have got things lined up for most of them so I'll let you know if they're good, and will wait to see if you manage to find anything for Palau - that's the last one I'm really struggling with!

For Guinea, I read The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye (translated by James Kirkup) which I remember quite enjoying.

#BookSky people - I need your help on my #ReadTheWorld adventure.

Let me know which books/authors you recommend for these countries:

Chad
Guinea
Liechtenstein
Maldives
Malta
Monaco
Nauru
Niger
Palau
Paraguay
Qatar
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
San Marino
Seychelles
Solomon Islands

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Searching for Makumbi in hopes of hearing about a new book - brilliant news!

I loved The Wall!

I didn’t know this is a cover, every day is school day!