Dan Bird
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Editor at @GrantaBooks | he/him | views own | DMs always open
London, England
Joined June 2010
Very excited to announce that I'm translating EL DESIERTO BLANCO by @murciano81 for @GrantaBooks - about the future & memory, it's melancholy yet comic, structurally inventive yet highly readable, w touches of 'Lost' & 'The Traitors', among other thingsšļø https://t.co/WJfdFjKkPj
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2023 Herralde Novel Prize Nine strangers escape from bombings in a hot air balloon. They must decide which one of them has to jump into the ocean so that the rest of them can get to a deserted island...
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We're looking for a new Editorial Assistant @JonathanCape. Please apply if you think that might be you - happy to answer any questions. (Deadline is 25 June)
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Join us on 13 June for an evening of readings fundraising for Palestinian writers displaced in Egypt At SET Social, Peckham - from @eseapn, @TiltedAxisPress, @FitzcarraldoEds, in association with @PalFest, + @EseaSisters will present on ESEA-Palestine solidarity teach-in events
š WRITERS FOR PALESTINE š We're proud to be partnering with our friends @TiltedAxisPress @FitzcarraldoEds @PalFest @EseaSisters to bring an evening of readings and political teaching to @set_set_set_set on June 13 https://t.co/JE1NFU9Acq
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So, so happy to see BLACKOUTS here! An ace list, as ever.
Congratulations to our eight finalists for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024! "Every work here is testament to the power of blazing imagination and patient craft in our complex times." - @alexhharris, Chair of Judges Explore the shortlists: https://t.co/i1lPIyCkbR
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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2024 is Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann. Discover the book: https://t.co/aUq1jtipPC
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Time is flying by and we now only have one week left to go until the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize deadline!ā
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Faber is hiring an Editorial Assistant. The purpose of this role is to support Alex Bowler, Faberās publisher. Apply by 11 April 2024. https://t.co/d3b4Uvkrme
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āš¼ A fortnight left until the 2024 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize deadline! Still plenty of time to craft your story, give it a good look over, and get in to us for a chance of winning Ā£1,000 and being published in our annual anthology!
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āØ Meet the judges of the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2024 š¦ We're thrilled to have a team with wonderful reading and writing wisdom at the helm of the decision making process. š This year we're joined by author @onwuemezi , editor @dbirdan , and agent @agent_luck
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Couldnāt be happier to be welcoming @MonaOjedaF to @GrantaBooks for her new novel. ELECTRIC SHAMANS is a trip. https://t.co/zkGy6Yj91E
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Granta has pre-empted the new novel from the National Book Award finalist MĆ³nica Ojeda, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun.Ā
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Late to the party, but v excited about this. A tour through different sexual fetishes, SECOND SKIN will be playful and disruptive, deeply considered and definitely a little smutty. Couldnāt be happier to be working with @anastasiia_f and @jessleebot
.@GrantaBooks has acquired Second Skin by Anastasiia Fedorova (@anastasiia_f) š
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V excited to be judging the @BrickLaneBooks Short Story Prize this year. Submissions open tomorrow!
ā° Set your alarms! The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2024 will open for submissions tomorrow! āš½š„ š§š¾āāļø We are thrilled to be joined this year by judges @vanessa_onwuemezi (author, 'Dark Neighbourhood'), @dbirdan (editor @GrantaBooks) and @agent_luck (agent @CWAgencyUK).
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'Hugely ambitious... it builds into a rich, poetic reclamation of cultural inheritance' Great to see Justin Torres' BLACKOUTS included in @GuardianBooks' autumn preview:
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Sara Pascoeās new novel, rare Terry Pratchett, memoirs from Barbra Streisand and Britney Spears, plus the essential reading on todayās hot button topics ā all the releases to look out for
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*missing person* Please retweet and reshare. Come home my darling friend. I love you. Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please get in touch with Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23. Heās been missing since Shambala. More details below https://t.co/RRW20AFoal
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BLACKOUTS, Justin Torresā first novel since We The Animals, is āshapeshifting and ambitiousā (Niven Govinden), āa dexterous, searing exploration of queer livesā (@IrenosenOkojie) thatās āfull of a kind of daring that winks as it passesā (@alexanderchee). V excited for it to land.
BLACKOUTS, the new novel from Justin Torres and his first since #WeTheAnimals, is publishing in November. An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them. Pre-order here https://t.co/bkHELGWmSi
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Delve into the nitty gritty of editing translations this July, at our in-person Publishers' Panel with @sawadhussain @dbirdan and @NeemTreePress 27 July, 1:45pm - 3:15pm IN-PERSON AT UEA, NORWICH Free - Register here: https://t.co/1lRMOACsZO
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@akblakemore has written a monstrously brilliant, beautiful, brutal novel! This is what historical fiction should be - writing that throws you into the viscera of the past in all its strangeness & intensity. Amy is a true original & I canāt wait for everyone to read this.
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Huge! V excited for THE GLUTTON to enter the world. Itās depraved and debased in all the best ways ā a sweeping, sensory gem on which to gorge.
'The hunger is all he is... and the whole world and everything in it, the things that should make Tarare happy ā a sunset, a kitten, a psalm remembered ā make him hungry instead.' Introducing THE GLUTTON, the incredible second novel from @akblakemore! https://t.co/IvDLaOIkoD
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Itās my face! Gassed to be acquiring for the list (across fic and non-fic), and equally thrilled for my utterly ace colleagues
"Iām delighted to have such a talented, experienced and passionate team in place ahead of what promises to be a stellar 2023 for Granta." At @GrantaBooks, @prowlandson, @LamornaElmer, @izzydepiazzi and @dbirdan have all been promoted. Read here: https://t.co/T5Zlogu085
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