Jen Calleja
@niewview
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FAIR & VEHICLE (@PrototypePubs); GOBLINHOOD (@RoughTradeBooks); DUST SUCKER (Makina Books); translator of German-language lit, co-publisher @PrasparPress.
Hastings, England
Joined November 2012
Substack: https://t.co/ejsn1MKKQy Instagram/Threads: jencalleja_ Bluesky: @jencalleja.bsky.social https://t.co/O2DCULA1TL IRL 👋🏼
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“I see translation [...] as a human collaboration. Someone’s telling me a story. I’m going to have to retell it.” A highlight of our brand-new Fall issue, don’t miss our interview with Jen Calleja—on translator rights, AI, and the power of collaboration: https://t.co/aB6y6TZxna
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The new edition of @asymptotejrnl is out today! I got to interview the wonderful @niewview for it. You can find it here :)
asymptotejournal.com
I met with Jen Calleja—author, musician and translator from German extraordinaire—at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where she was taking part in two events. In the first, she appeared...
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All the world’s literature is a #palimpsest—layered with voices that history writes over. Our magnificent Fall 2025 issue, OUT NOW, puts many of these voices in conversation: Nay Thit, Jen Calleja, and Johanna Drucker in our Special Feature on #attention: https://t.co/qil2RFD1ig
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MAYFIELD HIGH SCHOOLConstitutional Violations Case October 21st, 2025 Maras vs. Mayfield High School This case is not just about one student or one school — it’s about restoring the most fundamental truth in our nation: parents have the right to defend their children’s
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‘On the wall in my grandmother’s kitchen there is a mortadella-coloured rotary telephone. It rings.’ 💅 Favorita proofs are in 💅 Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy, this wild novel from Michelle Steinbeck, translated by Jen Calleja, is out 12 February.
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🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Want to know more about the magical world of #Translating & #Translators? Read Fair by Jen Calleja.Startlingly well written in a playful form that grabs & maintains attention& has a fresh,original style that's entertaining, interesting, informative, witty, considered & forthright
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🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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@AlexClark3 @niewview @prototypepubs I'm currently reading the copy of "Fair" that I bought at @edbookfest, and my blood is boiling at the unfairness of it all, not only what @niewview recounts about her own journey as a literary #translator, but also the parts of it that apply to my work as a commercial translator
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"#Translators are [...] required to [...] sign up to the idea that invisibility is hard-wired into their value, and that a truly great translation is the one that the reader fails to notice" @AlexClark3 reviews @niewview's "Fair" (pub. by @prototypepubs) https://t.co/MAFzaXTicC
theguardian.com
A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction
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Tonight in London at Brick Lane Bookshop!
Autumn book tour dates for FAIR, see you there! @BrickLaneBooks @vocebooks @CollectedDurham @prototypepubs
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I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here: https://t.co/WVNOg7RdLe Voting is for SoA members and is done by post. Votes must arrive by 22 October.
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Autumn book tour dates for FAIR, see you there! @BrickLaneBooks @vocebooks @CollectedDurham @prototypepubs
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August is #WomenInTranslation month. Here are books we've enjoyed recently written by women in languages other than English & one by translator Jen Calleja about translation & translations. Names of authors, translators, original languages, English-language publishers in alt text
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🚨 Democrats are refusing to reopen the government unless Republicans support the expanded COVID subsidies Biden created—which they voted to end! This has zero to do with affordable healthcare. It's an organized looting of taxpayers. FGA CEO @TarrenBragdon for @dcexaminer.
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Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode by Jen Calleja
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🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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We’ve raised over $50K in the last ten days for @sameerproject 🙏🙏🙏 We are not and never will be a “501c3” we have no fiscal sponsor this has all been done by a small group of friends and comrades. Dont underestimate what you can do with the people around you.
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✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨
theguardian.com
A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction
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Will we hold Jay Jones to the most basic standards??? We teach our children to use persuasion to sort out disagreements, not threats of violence. Certainly not death wishes! My new ad. With @CatholicVote: “If we want a better future, it starts with better examples”
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✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨
theguardian.com
A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction
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So pleased that @niewview will be returning to @vocebooks in conversation with Sana Goyal in October: https://t.co/VzqmZIANa4
eventbrite.co.uk
We are excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce to discuss her typically slippery & singular new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION.
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