Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month Our monthly top 5 books roundup brings together five strong voices in translation, each tracking the art of survival across vastly different landscapes. Whether navigating the external terrors of a regime or the internal wilderness of obsession and…

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

Our monthly top 5 books roundup brings together five strong voices in translation, each tracking the art of survival across vastly different landscapes. Whether navigating the external terrors of a regime or the internal wilderness of obsession and 'otherness', these books map the geography of our deepest, private battles. Mayfly Season by Matthias Jugler Tr. Jo Heinrich  An exploration of a dark chapter of East German history: state-sanctioned forced adoptions.

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I enjoyed this book. It's a nicely paced, suspenseful story that is greatly enhanced by reflections on nature, which interweave with the main narrative.

Jo Heinrich@joheinrich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Publication day for Matthias Jügler's Mayfly Season, at last - a book I loved so much I had to translate it so my friends could read it 😊

Publication day for Matthias Jügler's Mayfly Season, at last - a book I loved so much I had to translate it so my friends could read it 😊

Thrilling to see the conversations about Mayfly Season by Matthias Jügler starting up ahead of its publication by The Indigo Press on 14 May: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains why

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👋 Hello lovely Blueskyers! Do I (or you?) know any gothic novel fans (or even better, with links to the UK publishing industry)? A student I know is keen to ask research questions about British gothic novels by women authors over the years and their correlation with societal changes. And pls share!

@ronanhession.bsky.social hello! I wanted to message you about an ARC of a book I think you might like but I see I can't (you must be too famous now you're hobnobbing with Julia Roberts 😆). If you'd like to have one, could you get in touch please, maybe via my website joheinrichtranslation.co.uk ?

In other news, my son has unwittingly written his own version of the plums in the icebox poem…

Out today! I have learned SO much translating this book and I’ve been surreptitiously quoting from it whenever the conversation’s turned dark for months. Now you can too!

"Machine-translated subtitles processed by post-editors also have almost 7 times as many errors as human-translated subs." + "While the technology has the potential to save time & resources, an important question remains: How much loss of quality are we willing to accept?" #loveyourhumansubtitler

AI and subtitling: How machine translation affects the viewing experience - Stockholm University

Subtitling has long been a central part of the Swedish television experience, but with the rapid development of AI and machine translation, the subtitling industry has undergone a significant change. ...

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Good morning!

Good morning! Not exactly a blue sky but it’ll do

Publication day for this beast! This year’s ’pinch me’ moment was being asked to be part of a team of translators to work on this so it could be published worldwide on the same day. So lovely to work with everyone else, I miss those Friday meetings!

Orbital wins The Booker Prize

There's something very strange going on here, judging by the crazy numbers of new followers I'm getting today 🤔 It's very flattering but all I'll say is that if you'd like me to follow you back, please write a bio and don't make your only posts a tirade against The Other Place?

Celebrating #InternationalTranslationDay2024 by a) emailing the company I do commercial work for to ask them to stop undercutting me and my team with someone cheaper 😠👊 and b) joyfully sneaking the word 'whopper' into the book I'm currently translating 😁

Second book post in three days 😁 Out on Thursday with Peirene, it’s my second outing with Katja Oskamp, her first book out in English at last

I'm not sure I'll ever get over the odd sensation of flicking through a book, only to find the words you translated in there 🙂

A little Riviera peek for you from Villefranche…

English weather is wet But German weather is Wetter   English children are kind But German kids are Kinder   English mothers mumble But German mothers Mutter   The English shout the word people But Germans just quietly Menschen it   And English sausages can be bad But a German sausage is the Wurst

Today I've been updating my website and it now includes some sample translations I've worked on so you can get a feel for what I do, although they're by no means exhaustive. Take a look here (especially if you're in publishing!): joheinrichtranslation.co.uk

A look, budding UK translators! Manchester in Translation is happening online in February, with workshops for Bengali (Amy Parsons), Arabic (Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp) and German (me). It’s free! www.eventbrite.com/cc/mancheste...

Manchester in Translation 2024

Our annual online translation conference returns this year from the 19th-21st February. Manchester in Translation celebrates the city's language diversity along with all things literary translation wi...

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Dublin pals, help please... any tips for a lovely light(ish) lunch somewhere in central Dublin? I'm coming back v soon for a lightning one-night trip to show my husband some of the Irish magic I discovered last year...

Well that’s it, the first big step in getting some more Katja Oskamp out into the English-speaking world done and sent off. I’m going to lie on the floor now.

So, should I be offended to find out the bottle of Amarula our neighbours gave us for Christmas is a tad out of date? 🤨

A very merry Christmas to all you lovely blueskyers 😘

Lovely to chat with Shawn the Book Maniac about Marzahn and new projects, and about Prophet Song, Star 111 @tesslewis.bsky.social, While We Were Dreaming @katyderbyshire.bsky.social and The Blacksmith's Daughter @aycatur.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1fw...

Good morning!