Rahul Bery
@rahulbery.bsky.social
I'm a translator from Spanish and Portuguese, have Englished writers including Michel Nieva, Vicente Luis Mora, J.H. Bortoluci. Maybe trying some other stuff too.
EYE OF GOLIATH is an incredible WWI gothic novel, soaking in the ethers of early psychiatry, empire’s decay, the natural terrors of isolation & the sea to create a really tight and gripping tale of trauma, violence, doubles and shadows above and below. Also, there’s a badass evil black cormorant
To offer a recommendation, on the plane I read Diego Muzzio’s EYE OF GOLIATH (out w/ @pushkinpress.com & translated by @rahulbery.bsky.social, whose other translation of CENTROEUROPA was just named a finalist for the National Book Award!) & GOLIATH RIPS!!! eveninghousebooks.com/product/the-...
The Eye of Goliath
A dark, propulsive literary gothic novel that puts a modern twist on Stevenson and Poe, from a thrilling new voice in Latin American horror. “Impossible to stop reading. It has all the fascinating …
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Well this is quite exciting!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoThe National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards across the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. Here is a full list of the nominated books. nyti.ms/3VxTExk
Next up in our 2026 series of National Book Awards interviews, @vicenteluismora.bsky.social and @rahulbery.bsky.social on CENTROEUROPA, a “brilliant and unsettling” story set in 1820s rural Prussia. Read their interview on the longlisted novel here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
interview with me and @vicenteluismora.bsky.social in @wwborders.bsky.social about Centroeuropa. Tomorrow we find out if we’re finalists in the national book award translated fiction category! 🤞 wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The National Book Award Interviews: Vicente Luis Mora and Rahul Bery - Words Without Borders
Author Vicente Luis Mora and translator Rahul Bery discuss Centroeuropa, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
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Vicente Luis Mora entra en la 'longlist' del 77th National Book Award en la categoría de Translated Literature con «Centroeuropa»
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 3w agoA huge congratulations to the seven (!) WWB contributors longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature! Check them all out here: www.nationalbook.org/longlist-for... @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @worldedbooks.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social
Vicente Luis Mora ya no puede pasar desapercibido: 'Centroeuropa' entra en la carrera por el National Book Award
Vicente Luis Mora ya no puede pasar desapercibido: 'Centroeuropa' entra en la carrera por el National Book Award
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Two works of #SFinTranslation are on the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature: Vicente Luis Mora's Centroeuropa, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery Intan Paramaditha's Night of a Thousand Hells, translated from the Indonesian by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao
Today programme about to platform someone advocating for ‘AI rights’. Off it goes. If AIs have rights then they should also be subject to the rule of law. If so, they are by their creators’ own admissions guilty of massive levels of theft, and so can go straight to jail and enjoy their rights there.
buying a button accordion even though I've only been playing tenor banjo for 3 years and even if I just played that for the rest of my life it wouldn't be enough. also deeply coveting an 80s/90s boxy volvo or mercedes (but holding back as I think having two cars is deeply crass and wrong)
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last mo.What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.
Resharing this long thread of recommendations for the weekend crowd. A lot of books, short story links, and authors to dig into 🤘🍻📚
John Chrostek@johnchrostek.com · last mo.THE DISPOSSESSED by LeGuin Kafka’s COLLECTED STORIES VALIS by PKD NIGHT TRAIN, Xu Zechen FIFTEEN DOGS, Andrè Alexis MAMMOTHER, Zachary Schomberg MADELINE BEFORE THE DAWN, Sandrine Collette CENTROEUROPA, Vincente Luis Mora ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN, Mónica Ojeda Among MANY others
just discovered that someone (with lots of followers) who used to gleefully sub-tweet me rather than engage doesn't allow replies or quote posts to their posts on this platform🤔 luckily i remembered to (re)block them so i don't have to read their 100% and un-critique-able opinions any longer
a pretty strange thing is happening - i did some work for a university, and they're paying me within less than two weeks! Not months, not years, weeks! 😱😱🫨
Gombrowicz and the Buenos Aires "FERDYDURKE translation committee"
It is coming home... if you live in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Ushaia, Mendoza or Salta!
I'm proposing the permanent destruction and abolition of England. The football team, the country, the language, the very concept, all of it. It can all just be absorbed into greater Wales/ Cymru Fawr.
The head of NATO praises the US for going to war with Iran But remember folks, NATO is a defensive alliance
A quirky fairytale replete with a witch, a giant, and lots of corpses. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c... @jbywrites.bsky.social @vicenteluismora.bsky.social @rahulbery.bsky.social #booksky
Centroeuropa | Washington Independent Review of Books
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You know what’s funny? Correcting people even when they use ‘less’ correctly. ‘He did less well’ - actually I think you’ll find it’s ’fewer well’?
"People talk about great opening lines all the time, but dynamite second lines receive less attention. Spanish author Vicente Luis Mora’s Centroeuropa has an all-timer of a second line": spectrumculture.com/2026/06/21/c... @galaxiagutenberg.bsky.social @rahulbery.bsky.social
Centroeuropa: by Vicente Luis Mora (Translated by Rahul Berry) - Spectrum Culture
Wordplay, structural games and hidden rules can all be sensed in the formal construction of Centroeuropa, giving it a paradoxical air of arbitrary intention and inevitable serendipity.
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Dealing with the heat in the best possibly way: by having hot, spicy and heavy Indian food in a poorly ventilated restaurant!
If you like your sci-fi/cli-fi "weird," run don't walk to pick up a copy of "Dengue Boy" by Michel Nieva; it's sui generis AF
In my experience, the parents who are most agitated about it are those whose children are still years away from it, view it from afar as an impossible parenting challenge, and are desperately hoping the government will take this imminent responsibility away from them
Rachel Cunliffe@rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4mo agoGot into an argument on Sky a few weeks about about banning social media for teens. "But parents want it!" Sure, but that doesn't mean it will work or is a good idea! How about a serious conversation about what social media is doing to all of us, adults included? Or is that too difficult?
Agreed!! Semi-relatedly: this passage (especially in context) rocked my shit this afternoon
