Congratulations to PELTA members @guedesftaty.bsky.social, @ninaperrotta.bsky.social, @bethangharad.bsky.social, @aminckey.bsky.social, @emyrwallace.bsky.social, Julia Sanches, Vania Gomes and Gilles Madan - all shortlisted for the @englishpen.bsky.social PEN Presents: Brazil funding programme!

English PEN@englishpen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In partnership with @britisharts.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to announce the shortlisted translators for PEN Presents: Brazil, an iteration of our ongoing #PENPresents award for sample translations. Discover the full shortlist ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/e...

Huge congratulations to PELTA member Padma Viswanathan, whose translation of Ana Paula Maia's 'On Earth As It Is Beneath' has been shortlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com #InternationalBooker2026!

We're excited to offer a new webinar for our members - Beyond Pitching: Other Routes to Work! Join PELTA members @rahulbery.bsky.social, Sophie Lewis & Nina Perrotta to learn about reader reports, publishing in journals, translating samples & more - free to members! Joining info on our website!

We're delighted to bring you the first in our series of PELTA member spotlights, where we'll be introducing you to some of the fantastic translators who make up PELTA! First up, the brilliant @furiousleeper.bsky.social hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/p...

PELTA MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

5 Questions + 2 for Victor Meadowcroft Answer all five … 1. How did you become a translator? And why Portuguese? My parents moved to Portugal when I was two years old and I lived there until I left…

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PELTA, the origin story! Cristina Pinto-Bailey spoke to Daniel Hahn & Padma Viswanathan, two of PELTA's founders, to find out about the vision around which PELTA was based, and its plans for the future. Check it out on the PELTA Blog: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/p...

PELTA wishes happy holidays to all its members and friends - and hopes everyone gifts, receives and reads lots of books by wonderful Lusophone authors over the holidays and in 2026!

An unmissable new PELTA blog on Mário de Andrade's 'O Turista Aprendiz' by the brilliant Flora Thomson-DeVeaux (@ruivanorio.bsky.social). Read it here: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/b...

Becoming an Apprentice Tourist with Mário de Andrade

By Flora Thomson-DeVeaux My first memories of the book come with an iPad and a hammock. I’m a ride-or-die paperback person, so the iPad was a last recourse – the only way I could track down a …

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To watch this and many other readings of translated literature, go to www.jillreadingnyc.com. For my video, you can also go to youtu.be/IISyuDWUXe4?... I'm #seekingapublisher for this work. #Brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters #contemporaryBrazilianauthors #novels #booklovers

Can 't wait to see it on the shelf at my local library! #literatureintranslation #Brazilianliterature #contemporaryBrazilianauthors #novels #womenwriters #booklovers #sundialhousenyc @columbiaup.bsky.social

WHAT a privilege to feature @hmelehy.bsky.social, reading from his translation of EQUINOX ISLAND, Mauritian poet Jean Fanchette's collection of verse "filled with dimly lit landscapes, and seaside expanses." Enjoy this masterful rendering of a haunting, rarely-heard voice. youtu.be/noVPk7KKERw?...

Hassan Melehy reads from Jean Fanchette's EQUINOX ISLAND: POEMS 1954-1991 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)

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A delight as always to feature translator @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, here with Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS, a collection of stories that invites readers into #Ethiopia’s literary heartbeat, where everyday gestures carry philosophical weight and history lingers in intimate lives.

Bethlehem (Betty) Attfield reads from Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS (Fidessa Publishing, 2025)

In Couch Grass's four remarkable stories, the acclaimed Ethiopian author Adam Reta uses multiple voices that interweave throughout the narratives, offering the reader a richer perspective through a…

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We're delighted to invite our members to PELTA's traditional end-of-year holiday social on December 11 at 6pm (UK time) on Zoom! Please RSVP to our PELTA Chair, and if you're not a member yet, you can still join in time to participate in the merriest of all celebrations!

I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature. I’d love you to give it a read! modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

From the archive: Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Modern Poetry in Translation

Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

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Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees. For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part. 💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...

A host of @pelta.bsky.social translators featured in this fabulous collection of Brazilian Christmas stories from @newvesselpress.bsky.social.

Andrew McDougall@andymcd90.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today's post 😍🇧🇷🎄 Pleased to be alongside some fine @pelta.bsky.social company in this wonderful anthology from @newvesselpress.bsky.social

An unmissable event featuring @pelta.bsky.social members Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott!

Portuguese in Translation Book Club@pintbookclub.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Registration is now open for our 20th online event happening on Wednesday, 19th of November 2025 at 7pm (GMT). Portuguese author Lídia Jorge alongside translators Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott will join us to discuss The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

Angolan poet & historian Ana Paula Tavares has won the 2025 Camões Prize for literature in the Portuguese language! "Awarding the prize to Ana Paula Tavares celebrates the strength and beauty of Lusophone literature," said Brazil's culture minister, Margareth Menezes. www.gov.br/bn/pt-br/cen...

Poeta angolana Ana Paula Tavares conquista o Prêmio Camões 2025

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Our new PELTA Blog post is up! From FLIP - Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty - Christina Baum, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Sophie Lewis talk about promoting Brazilian literature in English, the joys and challenges of being a translator, and much more: hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/p...

PELTA at FLIP 2025

by Christina Baum, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Sophie Lewis CB: Earlier this year, Mauro Munhoz, the artistic director of FLIP — Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, told me he was keen to pr…

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An excerpt from Sketch in Stone and Dream, Brazilian author Marilia Arnaud's most recent novel, in my translation. I am seeking a publisher for this novel. Visit the pitches section of my website (www.ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com) for more information about this and other works by Arnaud.

(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!

Yesterday the brilliant Julia Sanches gave her fellow PELTA members a fascinating & valuable insight into the intricacies of translation contract negotiation. PELTA regularly offers such workshops to its members - if you're a translator working in Portuguese & aren't yet a member, why not join us?

"Translation is a form of resistance" - don't miss this fascinating interview with renowned literary translator Elizabeth Lowe, by PELTA's own Cristina Pinto-Bailey. Up on the @pelta.bsky.social blog now! hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...

“Translation is a form of resistance.” An Interview with Elizabeth Lowe

By Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey Lowe, a renowned literary translator from the Portuguese, is the founding director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch…

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Cristina Pinto-Bailey interviewed Elizabeth Lowe for the PELTA blog. An insightful conversation! Lowe is a prominent translator from various languages, whose memoir Translating from the Portuguese: A Life Translated is forthcoming from Tagus Press. hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...

“Translation is a form of resistance.” An Interview with Elizabeth Lowe

By Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey Lowe, a renowned literary translator from the Portuguese, is the founding director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch…

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Any @pelta.bsky.social types into comic translation?

Glacier Bay Books@glacierbaybooks.com · 12mo ago

Hello. Glacier Bay is looking for a Portuguese (European) → English translator to consult on a project. Relevant candidates, please reach out to info@glacierbaybooks.com with the subject line: "Portuguese Translation" and details of your relevant (comics) translation background + experience.

Many congratulations to the PEN Translates winners! Special shout-out to the WWBers on the list: @annielmcd.bsky.social @shreedaisy.bsky.social Annie McDermott Mara Faye Lethem Madame Neilsen Gaye Kynoch Geetanjali Shree Daisy Rockwell

English PEN@englishpen.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re delighted to announce that 14 titles from 10 publishers, 13 languages and 11 regions have won #PENTranslates awards – marking 400 books now supported through our programme. www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

August is Women in Translation Month! Celebrate the work of the world's best female writers, read by the incredibly talented women (and men) who translate them, with our dedicated playlist--currently 323 videos strong (!!!) and always growing. #WITmonth

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Women in Translation playlist. Translations of women authors read by their literary translators. #Women #WIT #WITMonth #womenintranslation #womenwriters #IWD...

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It was such a lovely evening! Thank you, Banter Bookshop, for hosting, Kathleen Wheaton for the great conversation, and everyone who showed up for our THE BOOK OF AFFECTS event. #WomenInTranslationMonth #shortstorycollection #Brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters

Cover reveal! Delighted to share the artwork for the August 2025 issue of MPT, Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature, guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira. This issue will be posting out to subscribers at the end of this week! Cover artwork by artwork by Estéfani Díaz Azúa