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.
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 · 2mo 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
After starting it a few months ago, enjoying it but getting distracted and needing to redo my steps, I finished reading CENTROEUROPA today, by Vicente Luis Mora, translated by @rahulbery.bsky.social. A really lovely, enjoyable read. Haunted, humane, sexy, earthy historical weird
Again I say: get this book, I can already tell it's going to be a stand-out of the year. Strange, funny, and humane.
Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 3mo agoCentroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora: Review by Jake Casella Brookins locusmag.com/review/...
Oh that's easy I would start with INDEPENDENT TROPICAL WALES
Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 3mo agoCan we start compiling a list of every policy you'd like to see a new Labour leader make? Big or small, what would actually start to make the country feel better for people?
Just remarkable how suddenly the newfound interest in Welsh politics of the UK-wide commentariat evaporated the second Reform got beaten.
Excerpt from my latest translation published in LitHub today! lithub.com/argentina-th...
Argentina Through the Eyes of Polish Writer Witold Gombrowicz
The scene is something like this: one leaden winter morning the Chrobry, a luxury liner that set sail in Poland and has been traveling across the Atlantic Ocean for over twenty days, approaches Bue…
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this is such a brilliant and entertaining piece!
The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 3mo agoWriting won’t make you a living—not an easy one, anyway. Our latest issue collects the testimonies of seven critics, poets, and journalists on the odd jobs and side gigs they’ve done to make their career work. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...
New in @equatormag.bsky.social, a dispatch from Havana, where recurrent fuel shortages have created a permanent state of crisis. Translated from Spanish by @rahulbery.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/aft...
I think this is the last anglophone paper of record to be ticked off my list! Another great review for the US edition of my translation of Centroeuropa!
Vicente Luis Mora@vicenteluismora.bsky.social · 3mo agoComparto la alegría de que 'Centroeuropa' (Bellevue Press, trad. @rahulbery.bsky.social ) ha sido reseñada en The New York Review of Books. Según Alida Becker, la novela "es una atractiva mezcla de relato tradicional y estrategia literaria". Se puede leer aquí: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/b...
Just seen the blurb on k*thleen stock's assisted dying book and I have some VERY bad news for 45-year old fans of cod-mystical, mid-tempo piano schlock.
