Jen Calleja
@niewview
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author of VEHICLE ( @PrototypePubs ); translator of German-language lit, co-publisher @PrasparPress
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It’s International Translation Day!
It’s a highly skilled, highly creative, underpaid job! Don’t take translators for granted! Pay them fairly & on time! If you wouldn’t rush or stress out an author, don’t do it to translators! Credit our work in pr & reviews! Send us gifts!🎁
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Mate. What a week. I've been awarded a Doctoral studentship to study for a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA from October. I'll be writing a memoir through the lens of translation & a thesis on women translators who've written creative non-fiction about their practice. !.
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Me: OF COURSE poetry can be translated!!!
Me, translating poetry:
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I hope you won’t begrudge me celebrating something I’ve been looking forward to for a long while during this discombobulating time - my debut book of short stories is out today from
@prototypepubs
. I’m wearing my new intellectual frog shirt to celebrate.
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So... Marion & I have been longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize?!?!?!?!
We are pleased to announce our
#MBI2019
longlist. Watch what our judges had to say. Read more
#FinestFiction
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Good morning I’ve just finished jumping on the sofa & am now crying because I’ve been awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from
@Soc_of_Authors
so I can work on my novel for 3+ months. Thank you SoA I love you.
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‘In the last four weeks language has deserted me’: Adania Shibli on being shut down - Speaking out since the cancellation of her award ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Palestinian author sheds light on her work & the power of linguistics & erasure
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It’s just hitting me how exciting/wild 2023 is going to be. I have a novel, a poetry collection, a collection of personal essays + my 13th & 14th book translations coming out + I’ll be finishing my PhD (on hybrid translator memoir + my own hybrid translator memoir)…
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*Vehicle: a verse novel* coming from
@prototypepubs
this November !!!
Can’t believe this book is finally coming out! And looking so handsome 🧡
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A guy in a suit outside Euston station just said ‘wow, hello there’ to me and when I gave him a withering look he said ‘eurgh, what a dog’ so I followed him growling and barking and he literally jogged away from me
#iwillbiteyou
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Cat’s out of the bag… I have a new book coming out in November from the beloved
@prototypepubs
- Vehicle: a verse novel.
It’s been many years in the making. Already had some messages about it this morning, you lot pay attention to newsletters!
More soon…
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Feeling a bit emotional: I've been longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize! My submission was an extract from my experimental literary translator memoir, which I'm writing as part of my PhD at UEA. Thank you to the judges & congrats to the other longlisted writers/artists.
We're delighted to announce the longlist for the Ivan Juritz Prize 2020!
Congratulations to all those listed, and thank you to everyone who entered, we had so many really strong submissions.
We look forward to sharing the shortlist & winners soon!
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I’ve been shortlisted for a translation prize and I actually can’t believe it 💘
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I’m very proud to say that last week I passed my viva and now hold a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. My creative-critical project is titled ‘The Life-Art of Translation: Hybrid Life Writing by Literary Translators’.
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Don’t buy books online from Amazon. Use this! It directly helps indie book shops, which is more important than ever. Keep buying direct if & when you can:
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Man alive, just finished the first draft of my translation memoir / the creative half of my PhD. Funny how that 60k sneaks up on you when you do things little by little over a long time. Suddenly there’s a book there💥
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I can finally tell everyone that I'm proud and excited to be the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library!
Introducing our first ever
@britishlibrary
/
@ahrcpress
Translator in Residence Jen Calleja
@niewview
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I’ve only just learned that the German word for cervix is ‘Muttermund’ - mothermouth - and placenta is ‘Mutterkuchen’ - mothercake. Good morning.
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Oh god.
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a brilliant presentation of the process of literary translation, created with an exceptional translator, Sophie Hughes. The point is not to show a ‘perfect’ translation, but to give an insight into the thought process of a translator of literature
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Here we go then: my first collection of short fiction goes to print today, out from
@prototypepubs
18 March. The trio of endorsements on the back gave me the hiccups the first time I read them on the proof.
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I did my undergrad at Goldsmiths (in media and modern literature) and it set me up as a writer and thinker in ways reflected daily in my work. Some of your favourite writers started here and/or teach here, and it’s being torn apart.
‘Cultural and social vandalism’: mass redundancy plans at Goldsmiths attacked
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London Book Fair starts today. We call on the entire industry to stand in support with Palestinian book workers, call for a ceasefire & condemn the destruction of schools, universities, libraries & publishing houses
#LBFVigil
#LBF24
#ceasefirenow
@bookworkers4pal
@pubforpalestine
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I can finally tell you about my new pamphlet...
GOBLINS !
It’s coming out as part of a series collab between
@RoughTradeBooks
& the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic + has artwork by one of my fave artists, Rachel Louise Hodgson!
Preorder here!:
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A week ago, mum had to leave us. She was sweet and funny and cheeky and would have laughing fits at anything naughty or rude or silly, especially if you made funny faces at her. She was a talented knitter of clothes, toys and blankets, and loved baking and gardening.
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Some of you already know this, but it’s time to put it out into the world a bit more officially:
@PrototypePubs
will be publishing my first collection of short fiction — I’M AFRAID THAT’S ALL WE’VE GOT TIME FOR — in early 2020.
〰️➰➿➰〰️➰➿➰〰️➰➿
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can someone commission me to write a wholesome saturday supplement feature about indie bookshops & indie bakeries so I can tour the UK eating pastry/doughnuts & getting in-person bookseller recs? It would just be a nice thing to do, and I’ve been doing the research for years.
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I did a gasp on the train !
Our Book of the Week is a brilliantly inventive speculative verse novel that explores xenophobia, academia, the politics of translation, DIY music scenes, and much else besides, written by novelist-poet-publisher-translator-musician Jen Calleja
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This is very cool!!!
I’m so happy to have been longlisted for this year’s Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for my translation of Raphaela Edelbauer’s genius novel The Liquid Land (
@ScribeUKbooks
) 🕳
We are extremely pleased to announce the longlist for this the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for literary translation.
Look out for the shortlist to be announced later in May! For more information:
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Feeling very lucky 📯
We could not be happier to share the news that we get to work with the incomparable
@niewview
again, and will publish her literary translator memoir Fair next year. This will be our 4th book together, since Test Centre published her debut poetry collection Serious Justice in 2016
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One of my favourite authors kindly offered to read my novel manuscript, so I sent it to her. She wrote me a long email about all the things she loved about it with some great advice & now I’m crying on a train 🙃 Really needed that email.
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5 years after being advised in a postgrad lecture at UCL not to go into literary translation I’m giving a talk to students there today on being a literary translator 😎
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🤤 so delicious to see these publishers & authors get this kind of coverage
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It’s International Translation Day! Send your favourite translator/s a message, a gift, a little bonus.
I finished writing my literary translator memoir this week, so maybe it’ll find a publisher & be out by next ITD !
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Passed my PhD probationary review (f.k.a “the upgrade”) today & my brain feels like it has completely powered down. Was actually really nice to squeeze the brain dry until there’s no juice left 🍋
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Don’t do this.
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I’m taking over the Goethe-Institut London’s Instagram account for the next couple of weeks! I’m sharing insights into my life & work as a literary translator from German, as well as book recommendations & DE-EN translator shout outs!
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Coming soon from
@FitzcarraldoEds
: Fifty Sounds by
@pollyfmbarton
. For anyone interested in languages, translation, desire, Japan, selfhood, belonging, not belonging. Couldn’t endorse this fast enough.
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Congratulations to new translated lit press MTO! They’ll only publish books written & translated by women and non-binary creatives & have started with short stories by Urszula Honek, tr. Kate Webster (so good!) & my translation of Bukowski’s Milk Teeth
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Thank you to everyone who commissioned & published me this year ✨ Thank you for messages telling me you enjoyed reading my work ✨ Thank you if you did a mentorship with me or booked me to lead workshops ✨ Thank you if you interviewed me or booked me to take part in events ✨
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Easier said than done, but take all the art away from funders. DIY it, keep it small, among ourselves, anything to be able to have freedom of expression for things like calling out genocide, calling out fascism. Why do you think I/we chose to make art?
APNews: Arts Council England (
@ace_national
) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)
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Got assigned some teaching as an associate tutor at UEA starting next week. What will the seminars entail? Spending MONTHS exploring
@EmilyRCWilson
’s translation of The Odyssey, translation itself, adaptation, rewriting !
Feels almost illegally good luck !
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Massive news!!! Mine &
@katztorace
’s new press kicks off today! This is a truly exciting day for us: finally launching a project we’ve been planning basically since meeting at an English PEN event back in January 2018 & saying ‘You’re Maltese!’ in surprise at one another.
*NEWS* Submissions are now open for our first publication: an anthology of contemporary Maltese writing to be published in 2021! Find out more here:
#MalteseLit
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We must call out toxic behaviour like this within literary/translation scenes. Solidarity with everyone involved for not staying silent in the face of harassment, threatening behaviour, plagiarism, bullying & gaslighting. This has no place in our work.
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Absolutely massive & revealing piece. Read it.
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I'm giving a seminar on 'Getting Started in Literary Translation' at UEA in Norwich this Wednesday 6th October, 5.30-7pm - FREE + all welcome both in person in Arts 2.07 & online. Email
@bcltuea
(bclt at uea dot ac dot uk) to register & to get the log-in if joining online.
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Might as well give the Nobel directly to
@FitzcarraldoEds
at this point !
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023
#NobelPrize
in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
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Oh my god this is a dream come true - - a short story of mine being taught in a university. I mean. Wow. 🏆
This week students in the Fiction of the 21st Century seminar read Jen Calleja (
@niewview
)'s story 'Literary Quartet.' We talked about the rules of prizes, social capital, and class and had a blast!
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Recommendations of experimental memoirs please, bonus points for memoirs by artists/writers or other creative people like cooks/actors, thank you in advance 🫀
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🎞 🎞 🎞
So excited that actor Charlie Rowe (Rocketman, Angelyne) is adapting one of my stories into a film 🎞 🎞 🎞
We're very excited to share the news that actor Charlie Rowe has acquired the rights to make a short film of
@niewview
's story ‘The Natural’, from her Prototype collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For, which Rowe picked up
@burleyfisher
.
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Bloody hell! Argh!
We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for this year’s Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. Congratulations to all of the translators! ✨
The winner will be announced at Oxford Translation Day 2022, Saturday 11 June. For more information:
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Congrats to the King of Translation
@danielhahn02
for getting major recognition for his work in the form of an OBE (Overnight Book Edits; Oh Bloody Emails; Olympian Bridging Escapades; Ominous Basic Errors; Overwhelmed By Enthusiasm)
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The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral
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So, my PhD research focuses on both contemporary writing by women/NB translators writing creative non-fiction about lit translation + the ‘Translator’s Note’ as a form.
Don’t hold back pointing me in the direction of your fave great/unusual examples of these pls (incl. by men) 🤗
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Do I really have to put on my website “I do not translate books for free” ? Asking for my friend Jen.
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My book exists!!! Out 18 March in all good bookshops!!! Thank you
@prototypepubs
🦀 🦀 🦀 (&
@richardjphoenix
@hatefuldaughter
for impromptu celebratory breakfast)
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Leaving London this month after 9 years + 3 for uni & moving to Hastings!
Nice thing: If you live in Hastings, maybe we can be friends?
Boring admin: If you’re kind enough to post me things, please cease & drop me a line for new address 💐
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“Jen Calleja’s Vehicle renewed my sense of what literature can do”
Camilla Grudova - one of my absolute favourite writers - chooses Vehicle as one of her Books of the Year for
@GrantaMag
:
@prototypepubs
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‘Dust Sucker’, a new long sequence of poems/long poem (you decide) of mine up
@TheWhiteReview
.
It has always been my dream to be published by TWR, so this feels like a momentous way to end 2021 and start 2022.
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Happy new year! To start the year right, I implore publishers to pay literary translators fairly. 3 days before Xmas I had a big publisher trying to haggle me out of £50 because I had put my rate up after 5 years (the second time in 11 years!) £50 !!
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Felt very proud to have been shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize & had a great time on Saturday doing a workshop, two panels & reading from my shortlisted translation of The Liquid Land at Oxford Translation Day
@OxfordCCT
. Now enjoying an adrenaline hangover on the beach
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What are your favourite memoirs by artists, writers, makers or craftspeople? Especially looking for those where they talk about their creative process.
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A chapter from my PhD thesis got published in December. It explores hybrid life writing by literary translators and this section specifically looks at writing by Maureen Freely & Mireille Gansel tr. Ros Schwartz (my viva’s in March!)
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Incredibly happy that my poetry collection Serious Justice (
@prototypepubs
) is being translated into German by Swiss poet Melanie Katz & will be published by great press
@parasitenpresse
next year. Bin echt froh und auch ein bisschen stolz!
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Verso are starting a new imprint focusing on literature in translation 💫 One of the first titles will be a novel by Vigdis Hjorth who wrote one of my favourite books of last year
@VersoBooks
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Recs for German lit in a U.K. paper, some acknowledgement that English translations exist by links/covers, other times bizarrely withholding that info, no credit for colleagues Susan Bernofsky, Katy Derbyshire, Tim Mohr, Anne Stokes etc
#namethetranslator
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St Jerome, patron saint of translators, at the Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille
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3 months since Vehicle came out! What can I say. I was not expecting the enthusiastic & kind responses to this book that took so long to finish & nearly didn’t make it out there. It’s getting a reprint! A reprint!!! 🖨️ 🧡 🖨️ 🧡
@prototypepubs
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Here it comes!!! So proud to reveal the cover of our first title with our new press for Maltese literature!!!
COVER REVEAL !!!
Scintillas: New Maltese Writing 1, eds.
@niewview
@katztorace
Our forthcoming first anthology (& first title!) of contemporary Maltese fiction, poetry & essays in English & English translation.
Pre-order info & stockists will be announced soon!
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“a work stuffed to bursting with creative energy”
Vehicle got reviewed in
@TheTLS
!
It got a chunk in a group review on ‘dark new approaches to faculty fiction’ alongside Dorothy Tse/
@natascha_bruce
, Livi Michael & Michelle Min Sterling
@prototypepubs
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On Fridays, I wear blue overalls. Yesterday I finished a v. challenging translation of an 11,000 word excerpt from my fav German author’s new novel, so it was a good Friday, overall 🥁
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writing a novel is like trying to get out of a labyrinth while building the labyrinth. translating a novel is like being given plans for a labyrinth & you spend ages going: what if the walls aren’t high enough, or the hedge is too opaque, what if this is the wrong kind of moss???
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My husband Richard Phoenix simultaneously won the Exeter Contemporary Open & was longlisted for the
@JMPaintingPrize
! If you’re in Liverpool or Exeter you can see his painting in
@walkergallery
till 25 Feb 2024 + 4 of his works
@exeter_phoenix
till 4 Nov 2023 🏆
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I continue to feel very overwhelmed by all this! Thank you all so much for the messages & the support, both now & over the years. I am so pleased for Marion. If you’d like to get a taste of the novel the opening is up
@GrantaMag
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*UPDATE*
My verse novel Vehicle will now be out February 2023.
You have to wait a little longer, but it’ll be worth it.
Any enquiries/proof requests can go to Rory
@prototypepubs
: rory[at]prototypepublishing[dot]co[dot]uk
*Vehicle: a verse novel* coming from
@prototypepubs
this November !!!
Can’t believe this book is finally coming out! And looking so handsome 🧡
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Eeeeeee it’s the cover of my first short story collection, out with
@prototypepubs
on 18 March! Designed by
@b_f_t_k
, drawing by
@richardjphoenix
✋🏼👈🏼
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It’s finally happening: starting an online Maltese course in a couple of weeks - An Introduction to the Maltese Language: Survival Level (!).
I realise now I’m older that my impulse to learn German was initially to fill the Maltese void in my life, excited to begin 🌱🪴
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My wish has been granted 🧞♂️Lydia Davis’s Essays Two on translation & language learning out 2 December.
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No more tweeting this week, so I’m here to say that The Liquid Land by Raphaela Edelbauer translated by yours truly is out in the U.K. tomorrow! I was working on this book for most of lockdown & I’m proud of my recreation of this wildly brilliant novel
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New translation! Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski published by
@unnamedpress
later this year. It’s a tense & taut book on motherhood, found family & climate crisis filled with beautiful & devastating imagery. It was literally thrilling to translate 🦷 🦷 🦷
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🌞 last night I revealed that in the comment section on my tax return I always write ‘I’ve tried my best’. I am always just trying my best 🌞
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Submitting my PhD tomorrow. Just got reminded of this thing we did 1 decade ago !
"...put me on the spot and ‘False Jesii, Part 2‘ just might squeak into it. The early
@ThePissedJeans
staple is one I return to often and, occasionally, I’ll get reacquainted with this fuzzy, poppier cover version from much missed Londoners
@saunayouth
."
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Today while out on a walk a woman came out her house to put the bins out & as I walked past she smiled & told me I looked really nice. It’s taken me a few hours to recover.
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Wow, this is huge!! Can't wait for a translator-focused event at Foyles every month hosted by the great
@KatyaTaylor
At Foyles we value the work of translators and we want to give readers the opportunity to hear directly from some of the leading translators about their craft.
So we created OK Translator.
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While I was translator in residence
@britishlibrary
I made a short video with the help of my colleagues about how wonderfully multilingual the British Library is. I’m very happy to finally be able to share it with you all!
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Three years ago, Kate Briggs invited a group of us to talk about translation, and our conversation is out now in Translation: Crafts, Contexts, Consequences (Ed. Jan Steyn,
@CambridgeUP
). There are plans to publish it elsewhere in part or in full at some point.
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It’s really hit me this week that I have 2 (TWO!) new books coming out in the next year. Both memoir/cultural criticism, both very different, both weird as hell. Grateful I get to write books I want to write with such enthusiasm & support behind them. More info very soon 🥚🫧
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Vehicle is out today & we’re both getting some rays 🌞🟠 1000 thank yous to too many people, but especially
@prototypepubs
for collaborating with me on it & putting it out into the world ⚫️ ⚪️
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Dreams can come true / I got published in The White Review 💫
'If there’s one thing I despise, it’s ill-behaved children'. New fiction now up online: 'The Kid', an extract from Michelle Steinbeck's novel forthcoming this autumn with
@DarfPublishers
, beautifully translated by
@niewview
. Read it here!
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Are you starting out as a literary translator and looking for a mentor and/or editorial feedback on a project? I’m looking to take on a few new mentees. DM me for details ✉️📑
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