Up early enough to discover there is a milkman in our area, which is nice. I don't trust the foxes not to steal a pint left on the doorstep though

Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6

Happy International Translation Day (pass it on)

AnnaBarna@annabarna.bsky.social · 6d ago

Alles Gute zum Übersetzerinnentag

UNS REICHT’S – WEIL ES NICHT REICHT Heute ist internationaler Übersetzertag, und heute protestieren wir öffentlich gegen unsere niedrigen Honorare – weil es nicht reicht. Die prekäre Einkommenssituation von Übersetzenden wollen und können wir nicht länger hinnehmen! #weilesnichtreicht

I was on Radio 4 for about 15 seconds - fame at last! Seriously though, it's brilliant that they talked to a translator in this context www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Value Crisis, 1. Crisis, What Crisis?

Ros Atkins asks whether technology has triggered a crisis in what we value.

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My assistant and I just attended a brilliant talk by @libripotens.bsky.social on her new book (Translating Books for Publication), which sounds immensely helpful for students and newish translators

Problem: Big Scary Animal Solution: Pretend We're Dead

Jeremy Noel-Tod@jntod.bsky.social · last mo.

Ok, let’s play pop song problems and solutions. I’ll start: Problem: Night Fever Solution: Night Nurse

Photo didn't upload earlier dammit

Ruth Martin@dances-with-voles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Uh, dude? I thought we had an agreement

Today has been a great excuse to catch up with the people I watched the 1999 eclipse with in Perranporth. Now way more than half our lives ago

In the middle of the night our arthritic, 16-year-old cat managed to Incredible-Hulk his way through a locked catflap. Clearly the drugs do work

News! From September I'll be the Royal Literary Fund fellow at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social, helping students with all aspects of essay writing. Very excited www.rlf.org.uk/writer/ruth-...

Ruth Martin

Ruth Martin is a literary translator working from German into English. She has translated more than 25 books.

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Welcome to #WITmonth 2026! We kick off our celebration of women in translation with @dances-with-voles.bsky.social and Romanian-German author Iris Wolff's CLEARING, the prizewinning tale, told in reverse, of a lifelong friendship in northern Romania. buff.ly/WL7FVCf #readwomen #readtheworld #wit

Ruth Martin reads from Iris Wolff's CLEARING (Moth Books, 2026)

Published on 4 June 2026 by Moth Books, this is the second of Iris Wolff’s books to appear in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 German Book Prize. It tells of the deep, almost lifelong…

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This morning's research has included the precise noises made in Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video, and some confusing botany #amtranslating

Fox News: we left the patio door open and briefly had an indoor fox, this is not a good development.

Went to see Q again. "By his genius as an author and as an editor he enriched the literature of England." It's quite a memorial

It's time for another New Books in German feature week! 🥳 We start with translator @dances-with-voles.bsky.social reading from A DIFFERENT STORY, the sophisticated, humorous tale of an aging film producer sentenced to regular psychoanalysis. Seeking a publisher!

Ruth Martin reads from Charles Lewinsky's A DIFFERENT STORY (seeking a publisher)

In this latest novel by the prolific Swiss writer Charles Lewinsky, an ageing Jewish film producer, Curtis Melnitz, tries to blag a prescription for sleeping tablets, only to find himself sentenced…

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German businesses: We only accept cash and we still have a fax number Also German businesses: We only accept e-invoices, you'll need special software and there are at least 48 ways to do it wrong

This morning I translated one word ("because"), remembered why I gave up halfway through that sentence yesterday, and am now doing all my admin instead. #amnottranslating

Fox news: foxes stole a gardening glove last night, ate all the fingers and then urinated on it. My water shoes are also missing. Stay tuned for more developments.

Here is a nice thing I found down a research rabbithole: sheet music transcriptions of animal sounds. The musician wren is particularly good, as you might expect boingboing.net/2021/01/06/c...

Composer transcribes animal sounds to sheet music

Alexander Liebermann, an accomplished composer living in Berlin, has been challenging himself to transcribe the sounds of penguins, whales, and other animals as an exercise for ear training.  Give his...

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Next door's cat has come round to stare malevolently at us despite the heat, that's real dedication to the cause. Never misses a day

The cat has spent the last two days asleep in a suitcase under the bed. Sensible animal. I might join him. #hot

Book of the month: Iris Wolff Last month I had the honour of introducing the Indie Press Network's spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from small presses in the UK and Ireland in the next few months. As indie presses have long been the heartland of…

Book of the month: Iris Wolff

Last month I had the honour of introducing the Indie Press Network's spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from small presses in the UK and Ireland in the next few months. As indie presses have long been the heartland of translated literature, I was only too pleased to have the opportunity to hear publishers present some of the books they're most excited about.

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Boring request but: work laptop recommendations please before mine finally dies... PC with minimal AI and shedloads of memory are the main things I want, the current one is 9 years old and that's at least how long I would like the next one to last.

Pub day for this beautiful book, launching at Hatchard's this evening - looking forward to enthusing about it to people

9.30am, north Cornwall; 7.30pm, London. Don't fully understand how that took ten hours but there were certainly some Incidents along the way. The final straw was when a train got stranded in Clapham by someone dropping their bag on the track.

Essential reading from inside Iran

10am Yorkshire, 10pm Kent. Not pictured: the A1(M), good grief that's a long road.

If you're in London and want to hear Shida Bazyar talking about The Nights are Quiet in Tehran, she'll be speaking to Susie Mesure at Veranda Books. 4.30 on Saturday 16th May verandabooks.com/events/

Went to see The Rose of Nevada last night, loved every second of it. The beauty of those shots of rust and flaking paint, and Francis Magee's haunting rendition of The White Rose in Cornish, are why I will definitely see it again.