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Robin Munby

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Translator. Raitán. Swappin' yarns tae cowe the gowan.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 4d ago

August is #WomeninTranslationMonth! Celebrate with us by picking an online read (or several) from our reading list of works both written and translated by women: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…

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Jeffrey Zuckerman@jmz.bsky.social · 2d ago

For British readers, THE THREAD will be in bookshops from November, and American readers can also order it then from Blackwell's (which has a US warehouse) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... or they can wait until February 2027 to find it in American bookstores. I can't recommend it enough, truly.

The Thread

A hauntingly powerful and moving lost classic of AIDS literature, translated into English for the first time. "Terribly powerful... The style and structure are

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Jeffrey Zuckerman@jmz.bsky.social · 2d ago

« Tu prévoyais des dangers partout. » Language was the one way Christophe Bourdin could hold together a life threatening to come apart with his HIV diagnosis, and finding an English to convey this dread and this need was a breathtaking challenge. How moving that THE THREAD will now exist in English.

A yellowed copy of Christophe Bourdin's LE FIL, published by Éditions de la Différence in 1994, alongside a shiny Advanced Reading Copy of THE THREAD, in my English translation, to be published by Pushkin Press in Nov. 2026 (UK) and Feb. 2027 (US).Dear reader, I am not a hypochondriac, but when Christophe Bourdin's sole novel, Le Fil, showed up in my mailbox one afternoon, a used copy yellowed by three decades out of print, its first sentence thrummed across the years with frightening immediacy: "You foresaw dangers everywhere." The Thread is a novel of AIDS, but it offers no sweeping panorama of the epidemic; it is the deeply intimate story of one person in a circumscribed world of omnipresent risk, a life spent perpetually on guard, and as Bourdin's inordinately labyrinthine yet exacting sentences articulate that world closing in on him, they themselves all but close in on us. I couldn't shake how much The Thread felt like a dystopian novel-although so unlike any other that, in reading it, I felt compelled to translate it. Rendering Bourdin's sinuous sentences has meant pushing the English language almost to the breaking point. Astonishingly, as I immersed myself in this world of disarray and disease, Bourdin's precision became my bulwark: no matter how heartbreaking or worrying the reality being described was, his words and his syntax offered a clarity that his world—our world-could not. Bourdin died in 1997, just shy of 33 years old. The Thread, however, offers an ending remarkably different from any other AIDS novel I have read or translated—a glimmer of hope that has shined bright enough for the book to come back into print in France, and to find new readers in English. Some books live only one life; others live many lives. The Thread, by some miracle, does both. Here it is, in your hands. Open it and see where it leads you. JEFFREY ZUCKERMAN
Wasafiri Magazine@wasafirimag.bsky.social · last wk.

The book reviews in our summer special issue, Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue, cover a range of recent work by writers working in English, Spanish, Catalan, and Galician. Read all these reviews and more in Wasafiri 126 — available to order now. buff.ly/9wBrqkr

Red background. Headline in pale yellow reads: REVIEW ESSAY Texts of Wrecking and Renewal by Alejandro Beas-Murillo. Underneath are photos of the three book covers which are reviewed in the essay. Below that is white text which is a quote from the review. It reads: ‘... all three of these texts, as well as their authors, are scrambling to capture a life, a world, and a mode of being in relation to the natural world – and to one another – that are about to disappear.’ Red background. At the top is a book cover, showing the book being reviewed. Underneath in yellow text is the title and author of the book: My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments by Marta Sanz, trans. by Katie King. Below that is a quote from the review in white: ‘After three years of insisting, doctors finally examine her to find that a thread from an episiotomy has been left inside her, causing a potentially deadly infection.’ Red background. At the top are two book covers, showing the books being reviewed. Underneath in yellow text is the title and author of the books: What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa and What Remains by Brais Lamela, trans. by Jacob Rogers. Below that is a quote from the review in white: ‘As both titles suggest, there exist, in a post-war society, traces and echoes in the landscape, an invitation to remember. Perhaps this – fragile as it is – brings Basques and Galicians closer to justice.’ Red background. At the top are two book covers, showing the books being reviewed. Underneath in yellow text is the title and author of the books: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà, trans. by Mara Faye Lethem and Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, trans. by Madeleine Arenivar. Below that is a quote from the review in white: ‘Set within the Afro-Ecuadorian community of Esmeraldas, our young narrator Ainhoa describes coming of age among the ‘ñañerío’, a term normally reserved for siblings – as her light-skinned cousins from Quito mockingly observe ...’
Robin Munby@robmunb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Absolutely made up that Anna Lidia Vega Serova's short story collection Estirpe de papel has won a PEN Translates award - this is the form she is best known for in Cuba, and with Jennifer Shyue they couldn't be in better hands #PENTranslates

English PEN@englishpen.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re delighted to announce that 14 titles from 13 publishers, 7 languages, and 8 regions have won #PENTranslates awards. Discover the winners ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

Sam Jones@swajones.bsky.social · 3w ago

'The irony would be comical were it not so tragic: we, the Sahrawi people whose land was used to film parts of the Odyssey, have been living our own brutal odyssey for more than 50 years'. By Mohamed Sleiman Labat www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey

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Lisa C. Hayden@lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Huge thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social and @yelenafurman.bsky.social for the opportunity to Q&A about my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body, published by @newvesselpress.bsky.social in the US & Linden Editions in the UK!

Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Delighted to have this conversation with @lizoksbooks.bsky.social up on @puncturedlines.bsky.social today! I'll post it properly in the next couple of days, with graphics and all. Buy the book from the most wonderful @newvesselpress.bsky.social!! puncturedlines.com/2026/07/15/c...

Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨@unaminh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

¡ATENCIÓN! 🚨 El 5 de Julio de 2026 entra en vigencia la actualización de los ToS de Linktree. Esto incluye el uso de IA generativa (Dall-E de OpenAI) con los textos, imágenes y links que el usuario suba a su cuenta. Incluso compartirán toda la info del usuario con otros proveedores externos de IA ⚠️

We have updated our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice AI Features on Linktree An overview of Linktree's AI features How AI features work AI features on Linktree generate results (called Output) based on information provided to the system (called Input). Input may include things like: Text prompts you enter e.g. asking questions within our Insight Chats feature. Content you upload or add to your Linktree like images or videos e.g. uploading a profile image and using our Restyle AI feature. Information available on the Linktree platform and from your profile including your links e.g. AI generated link titles or AI generated bios. Links you submit to create your Linktree. Information provided by third-party services e.g. authenticating with Instagram so that we can analyse your social media data and provide you with social analytics. The AI system uses this Input to generate Output, which may include text, images, analytics and profile insights or recommendations depending on the feature. https://linktr.ee/help/en/articles/9269822-ai-features-on-linktree?lid=g3hnv8kr9765
Skein Press@skeinpress.bsky.social · 4w ago

Some beautiful news to share: the new Irish passport features poetry by our very own commissioning editor Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe 💚 The lines read: ‘Lie with me now Ireland/ a promise deep in bloom/ weaving in with all this green/ beneath a nascent moon’

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Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · last mo.

🗣️ The Scots Language Publication Grant is open fir applications! 🗣️ The grant exists tae support publishers tae publish and promote work scrived in the Scots leid. Send in yir applications by ⏰ 12 (noon) on Wed 2 Sept 2026 ⏰ Mair info can be found here: www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

The Scots Language Publication Grant

The Scots Language Publication Grant exists to support publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots.

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Clare Pollard@poetclare.bsky.social · last mo.

Ooh interesting. Next gen is back. I was on the judging panel in 2014… assumed as we missed 2024 we weren’t doing it this decade…

Poetry By Heart@poetrybyheart.bsky.social · last mo.

Next Generation Poets is BACK! Founded in 1994 to champion the 20 best debut UK and Irish poets of the decade. We're delighted to be a youth programme partner. Submissions are now open, closing on 14 August at 5pm. To enter, visit: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/next-g... #NextGenerationPoets

Graphic advertising the Next Generation Poets initiative.
Calume@calume.bsky.social · last mo.

Del 3 al 12 de xunetu esperámosvos nel puestu d'Ediciones Trabe na playa de L'Arbeyal. Nesta nueva edición de la Semana Negra vamos tener presentaciones, firmes y novedaes editoriales. Vémonos en Xixón. #BookSky #trabe #calume #batura #elmotordelahistoria #lleernasturianu2026 #asturies

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Calume@calume.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Facemos una posa na promoción de la colección Calume d'Ediciones Trabe pa compartivos la cubierta de 'El motor de la historia', un volume de 560 páxines dedicaes al conocimientu y a la divulgación de la historia contemporánea d'Asturies. A nun tardar nes llibreríes. #BookSky #lleernasturianu2026