Mozart over Bach????

That was even more stunning than I expected - thanks to frank wynne 🏳️‍🌈 and Fitzcarraldo Editions for bringing this to English-speaking readers

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This week I speak to the Harshaneeyam podcast about the International Booker Prize 2024, growing up multilingual and reading as a political act ⁦The Booker Prizes⁩ harshaneeyam.in/2024/04/10/fia…

Adrian’s translation of THE WHORE by Márcia Barbieri is an absolute marvel of a book, one of the best things I have read in years. Do yourself a favor and go buy it from Sublunary Editions in solidarity with their courage in standing against PEN America’s complicity in genocide.

How does the act of translation make, mix up, and unmake identity?

Award-winning translator Anton Hur grasps at the shapeshifting boundary between him and his author as he submerges himself in her work and finds her identity in himself: tinyurl.com/29v9yusv

My first book from the 2025 International The Booker Prizes longlist (I hope!). Son of Man. What a team… and former Republic of Consciousness Prize winners

It’s been 6 months of war. I've just signed this letter to Foreign Secretary David Cameron to let him know that many British Jews support an end to the war, release of all hostages, humanitarian aid to Gaza & long term resolutions. Add your name here: yachad.org.uk/yachad-campaig…

We all know the truth

Robert and I will be reading tomorrow for the launch of SpoKe 10-- I'll be reading my translations of poems by Sabine Huynh, who I hope will also be reading:

stu #TranslationThurs : Kamchatka, by Marcelo Figueras, translated by @TerribleMan.

The experience of reading a book is always better when it is the translator himself who makes sure you have a copy.

glli-us.org/2024/04/04/tra…

#HistoricalFiction #ComingOfAge 🧵

“As tight as arsecrack and underpants” – journalist Emily Hart and literary translator Frank Wynne @terribleman discuss ‘Macondo’s Enemy Number One’ – Colombia’s cult author Andrés Caicedo.

Tune in.

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Some familiar blogs here and some I haven't seen before.
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I celebrated #TDOV by sitting in a coffee shop sharing loud anecdotes with a trans woman 50 years younger than me and discovering community continuities across time.

Jonathan is an amazing novelist – he has written more a dozen stunning, fantastically reviewed novels and yet remains sadly unknown – I’m thrilled to see him at Fitzcarraldo Editions

jonathan-buckley.co.uk

Hi, book friends. I found the list of publishers distributed by Small Press Distribution (SPD) as of the end of January 2024 on the Wayback Machine. I created a spreadsheet with links I could find quickly. It's a work in progress but I hope this is of use. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Huge congratulations to all the nominees for
Lambda Literary
awards and their publishers. Huge, special congrats to
Soula Emmanuel whose debut novel, WILD GEESE, was nominated for trans fiction! lambdaliterary.org/awards/current…
Feminist Press
Footnote Press

Congratulations to WWB contributors Iman Mersal, Robin Moger, Fernanda Melchor, and Sophie Hughes!

Read Sana R. Chaudhry’s lovely translation of “Derrida in Lahore” in the The Paris Review !

Falling in love with other boys. The 1970s weren’t much fun

Tales from the the Mitigated Affliction Department.
Rites of Passage by ⁦Judith Flanders⁩ review – a brilliant account of Victorian Britain in mourning theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…