This Saturday is European Day of Languages! Celebrate with our treasure chest of activities available here: www.stephen-spender.org/translation-... Maltese picturebooks, Ukrainian crafts, French recipes, Urdu riddles and a lot more...
Tina Kover
@tinakover.bsky.social
Award-winning literary translator. US/UK citizen. Coloradan. Democrat. Wearer of red lipstick. Co-founder, @translatorsaloud.bsky.social.
Poetry in Translation by Fadwa Suleiman "I’m sitting alone in my room / my clothes scattered around me"... https://arablit.org/2026/09/24/poetry-in-translation-by-fadwa-suleiman/
Poetry in Translation by Fadwa Suleiman
"I’m sitting alone in my room / my clothes scattered around me"
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£17.99 → £0.99⏰ That’s ALL FIVE books in Simone Buchholz’s dark, shocking and caustically funny #ChasityRiley series (t. by @racheltranslates.bsky.social). Your next German noir binge is waiting… 🔗https://geni.us/7cKvX
Today is #pubday for not one, but TWO of my translations: @marclevyofficiel.bsky.social's THE BOOKSHOP OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS and Nincemon Fallé's prizewinning THESE BLAZING SUNS. One is the story of a bookseller arrested for selling banned books; the other a coming-of-age tale set in Cote d'Ivoire.
Trump is a toxic waste dump of the worst of human character. His greed, corruption, ego, stupidity, arrogance, cruelty, prejudice, and active contempt for virtue, the law and people are manifest daily in ways that are destroying our institutions and our country. And he is getting worse daily.
Donald Trump is the hoax. Nothing he says, professes, or promises can ever be taken seriously. He is a toxic clown, a dangerous joke, and the great American embarrassment. He is the hoax.
$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.
Jen McGowan@iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 2w agoWe should just publicly fund political campaigns Everyone gets $500 That’s it
The President of the United States is a rapist, traitor and extortionist.
A reading by translator Talei Lakeland today, from a unique and remarkable novel that explores a little-known facet of history: that of Iraqi Jews during the 20th century. This book, by award-winning author Usama Al Shahmani , is seeking an English-language publisher! buff.ly/n2f0e9j
Talei Lakeland reads from Usama Al Shahmani's A SONG SLUMBERS DEEP IN THE TIGRIS (seeking publisher)
A Song Slumbers Deep in the Tigris (In der Tiefe des Tigris schläft ein Lied) tells the story of Iraqi Jews during the 20th century through the eyes of Gadi, an Israeli professor living in…
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The current president of the United States of America is a liar.
I’m sending this from Ukraine to whoever needs a little reminder tonight: We’re tired. We’re human. And we’re still fighting for our normal life back.
This is what people voted for. Then they complain endlessly . . . and vote for it again. Geez people, look at what is actually happening, not what you're being told, and recalibrate.
I am SO EXCITED for the release of Marc Levy's THE BOOKSHOP OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS in my English translation, available in both the U.S. and the UK on September 24th! A story of love, and courage--and grass-roots resistance to dictatorship that couldn't be more timely. Live. Read. Resist.
How better to celebrate the U.S. publication of Anjet Daanje's THE SONG OF STORK AND DROMEDARY (out NOW from @fsgbooks.bsky.social) than with a reading by its brilliant translator, David McKay? Don't miss this excerpt from the book hailed as the greatest Dutch novel of this century! buff.ly/QfQYfDT
David Mckay reads from Anjet Daanje's THE SONG OF STORK AND DROMEDARY - Chapter 1 (2026)
This is one in a series of readings from The Song of Stork and Dromedary by Anjet Daanje. Check out the whole series at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvwToi1IG7tIbyOABfbjnvA Inspired by the…
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I will definitely go see this. Anybody who stands against tRump is a friend.
This would explain the hatred of Mail in ballots....
How did a child rapist get elected twice in America? "With enough money, lies that even Satan can elected in USA more than twice.
FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!
The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.
As if I couldn’t hate the orange felon more than I already do, over 60 trees which include historic Cherry Blossom trees were quietly cut down recently in Washington DC without court approval. I’ll never forgive anyone who supports this monstrous hateful destructive criminal.
As death stalks Trump his ideas and positions become more greedy, more extreme and more scattered. Americas disintegrating fake president.
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.