Translators Aloud
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The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
Just a reminder, even as we celebrate #WITmonth, that September is #WorldKidLitMonth! #Translators, send us your readings from translated children's and YA books, poetry, or plays and we'll be delighted to feature you. Full guidelines available on our website: translatorsaloud.com/submissions/
Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading? buff.ly/Zx1Nt4C #langsky #xl8
Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?
With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever. A novelist shares her eight-week scheme to get you back into the habit
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We are an ad-free home for immersive reading including translated works. Micro stories, flash, novellas, novels. By chapter or ebook, by time, genre, or mood. What genre first? Let us know below. Join -> join.betweenreads.com/readers #BookSky #ReadingCommunity #TranslatedLit
A trip up north turns into an exchange in @robmunb.bsky.social's story Of All Who Sorrow, Joy, but what does it mean? www.fictionable.world/stories/of-a... #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
@europaeditions.bsky.social brought out the #WITMonth treat DISORIENTAL by NÉGAR DJAVADI and translated by Tina Kover, a Lammy Award-winning bisexual fiction effort: #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2022/06/this...
THIS CLEAVING AND THIS BURNING, what gay men coped with a century ago & DISORIENTAL, Lammy Award-winning bisexual fiction
DISORIENTAL NÉGAR DJAVADI (tr. Tina Kover) Europa Editions $18.00 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.5* of five WINNER OF THE 31...
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But wait, there’s more! Another #WomenInTranslation spread to help you build your #WITmonth wish-lists featuring writers from: 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇮🇹🇬🇪🇯🇵 🇻🇳🇲🇾🇷🇺🇩🇪🇬🇷 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇸🇻🇫🇷🇪🇬🇺🇾 #ReadTheWorld (Titles, authors and translators are listed in the ALT text)
Georgia Reads@georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 2w agoAn embarrassment of riches! 🇺🇦🇨🇺🇫🇮🇸🇪🇫🇷🇦🇱🇧🇬🇷🇺🇩🇪🇧🇫🇲🇰🇦🇹🇧🇯🇧🇪 Need to decide what I want to read for #WITmonth this August. What would you pick up first? And what other #WomenInTranslation recommendations do you have?
Welcome to #WITmonth 2026! We kick off our celebration of women in translation with @dances-with-voles.bsky.social and Romanian-German author Iris Wolff's CLEARING, the prizewinning tale, told in reverse, of a lifelong friendship in northern Romania. buff.ly/WL7FVCf #readwomen #readtheworld #wit
Ruth Martin reads from Iris Wolff's CLEARING (Moth Books, 2026)
Published on 4 June 2026 by Moth Books, this is the second of Iris Wolff’s books to appear in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 German Book Prize. It tells of the deep, almost lifelong…
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Timothy Adès reads Berthold Brecht's poem 'Seventh Song of the God of Luck' (Arc Publications) #poetry #translation #german #english #brecht
Timothy Adès reads Berthold Brecht's poem 'Seventh Song of the God of Luck' (Arc Publications)
One of a great many poems which will be in my book from Arc Publications. Brecht wrote about 3,000 poems, but priority always went to his plays. Translator bio Timothy Adès, rhyming translator-poet…
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Of course translators are shaping readers' experiences... that's inevitable; in fact, it's kind of what we do! This article is nonetheless interesting. #xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐 💙📚 www.thebookseller.com/news/its-not...
It’s not all Greek to them: translators are shaping reader experiences
After the much anticipated release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, sales of all copies soared, as The Bookseller reported. 18,726 copies across all editions sold in the past four weeks.
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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Four translators of Slovak (John Minahane, Janet Livingstone, Magdalena Mullek & Jonathan Gresty) read from the anthology THE BOOK OF BRATISLAVA (commapress.bsky.social, 2026) edited by Radoslav Passia & buff.ly/pXs9oqv buff.ly/XMetPlU
Four translators read from the anthology THE BOOK OF BRATISLAVA (Comma Press, 2026)
A part of the series 'Reading the City', the anthology Book of Bratislava: A City in Short Fiction, co-edited by Radoslav Passia and Julia Sherwood, features ten stories by ten different authors set…
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There couldn't be a more perfect time to re-share this wonderful dramatic mini reading (complete with improvised costumes) from Book 1 of Homer's The Odyssey by the translator @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social. buff.ly/Kff4NNy #theodyssey #emilywilson #translation
Emily Wilson's dramatic mini reading from Homer's The Odyssey - Book 1
Book 1 (First posted on May 15, 2020) Characters featured: Narrator; Athena, with mighty spear, and in disguise, with sunglasses; Telemachus, in Phillies hat. This is the first video in the mini…
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Louise Rogers Lalaurie reads from Serge Joncour's HUMAN NATURE (Gallic Books / Pushkin Press), "An outstanding, big, compassionate novel... By telling the story of days gone by, Joncour makes us reflect on those yet to come." buff.ly/65sctRN
Louise Rogers Lalaurie reads from Serge Joncour's HUMAN NATURE (Gallic Books / Pushkin Press)
Serge Joncour's panorama of rural life in late 20thC France won the Prix Femina in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in an English translation by Louise Rogers Lalaurie. It's set…
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Our 2026 #newgermanbooks feature week concludes with an encore by Jamie Lee Searle, reading from ÓSMANN, FERRYMAN OF THE NORTH, Joachim B. Schmidt's luminous novel based on the life of the legendary northern Icelandic ferryman. Coming in 2027 from @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social!
Jamie Lee Searle reads from Joachim B. Schmidt’s ÓSMANN, FERRYMAN OF THE NORTH (Bitter Lemon Press)
Joachim B. Schmidt is a Swiss writer who has lived in Iceland for many years, a land that provides the evocative setting for many of his books. This, his latest novel, is inspired by the life of Jón…
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Our @newgermanbooks.bsky.social feature week continues with @robtranslates.bsky.social and OUTSIZE (seeking a publisher), Sophia Merwald's prizewinning, fiercely idiosyncratic debut novel about queer kinship, anti-establishment homemaking, and the precarious construction of safety.
Rob Myatt reads from Sophia Merwald's OUTSIZE (seeking a publisher)
Sophia Merwald’s award-winning debut (Alfred Döblin Prize 2025) is a fiercely idiosyncratic novel about queer kinship, anti-establishment homemaking, and the precarious construction of safety. With…
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Christoph Safferling reads from THE POWERLESSNESS OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE - THE RETURN OF WAR AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (seeking a publisher). "Equal parts analysis, diagnosis and warning cry." #newbooksingerman #nonfiction buff.ly/fLbFjB1
Christoph Safferling reads from THE POWERLESSNESS OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE (seeking a publisher)
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Our next @newgermanbooks.bsky.social feature week star is translator Jamie Lee Searle, reading here from Lilli Tolkien's debut novel TWO HANDS HOLDING THE SKY, the searing tale of a woman raised amid turmoil in 1980s West Berlin who forges a life for herself as an artist and mother.
Jamie Lee Searle reads from Lilli Tollkien's TWO HANDS LIFTING THE SKY (seeking a publisher)
Lilli Tollkien's debut, Two Hands Lifting the Sky, is a 2026 New Books in German pick, and has been published in Germany to great acclaim. Jamie Lee Searle's sample translation can be found on NBG's…
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It's time for another New Books in German feature week! 🥳 We start with translator @dances-with-voles.bsky.social reading from A DIFFERENT STORY, the sophisticated, humorous tale of an aging film producer sentenced to regular psychoanalysis. Seeking a publisher!
Ruth Martin reads from Charles Lewinsky's A DIFFERENT STORY (seeking a publisher)
In this latest novel by the prolific Swiss writer Charles Lewinsky, an ageing Jewish film producer, Curtis Melnitz, tries to blag a prescription for sleeping tablets, only to find himself sentenced…
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This week, we have a great selection of German fiction and nonfiction titles read by their English translators, for our New Books in German summer feature week! Be sure to check out the full "New Books in German" playlist on our YouTube channel (🔗 buff.ly/YV65qBW) #newbooksingerman #germanbooks
Misha Hoekstra reads from Sofie Kragh-Müller's THE CHRONOLOGY OF INNOCENCE: by turns creation myth, post-apocalyptic fable, and metafictional love story. buff.ly/IobSCwL #seekingapublisher #danishtoenglish #DELT buff.ly/IobSCwL
Misha Hoekstra reads from Sofie Kragh-Müller's THE CHRONOLOFY OF INNOCENCE (seeking a publisher)
The world has ended. The last human being arrives in the last city, where he falls in love with La Maga, a woman who may exist only in the pages of a novel. Presiding over it all is the Great Hare,…
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Next in our #DELT feature week: this beautiful reading by translator Marita Thomsen from the work of the great #Faroese writer & philosopher William Heinesen, who used his remote homeland as a microcosmic setting for universal social, psychological, & cosmic themes. Don't miss this.
Marita Thomsen reads from William Heinesen's THE WISE MAN FROM THE SEA (IPI Press, 2026)
The Wise Man from the Sea: Time and Place, Spirit and Eternity is a collection of previously unpublished texts, collected from letters, notebooks and excerpts from the novels by the acclaimed Faroese…
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@tlangendorfer.bsky.social reads from Mathilde Walter Clark's award-winning nonfiction work, A BLIND EYE, about the cull that would eventually kill the more than 15 million minks being raised on Denmark’s fur farms. “A major eye-opener that gives you food for thought”
Tyler Langendorfer reads from Mathilde Walter Clark's A BLIND EYE (seeking a publisher)
Mathilde Walter Clark’s Det blinde øje (A Blind Eye) is an essayistic work that begins in Autumn 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic. The author is sitting at home in isolation when she starts…
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Matthew Travers reads from Peter Laugesen's most recent poetry collection, MORNING SONGS, a volume of poems that unite a lifetime's wealth of literary learning with a precise use of spoken Danish to create a tone that is at once intimate and elevated. #seekingapublisher
Matthew Travers reads from Peter Laugesen's MORNING SONGS (seeking a publisher)
Peter Laugesen's poetry most recent collection 'Morgensange' (Morning Songs, 2025) is a highly accessible introduction to his poetic output and a fine example of what Edward Said called 'late style'.…
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Barbara J. Haveland reads from Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK I) (@New Directions, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2025) 'A startling exploration of profound questions about language, human connection, and time.' - The New Yorker
Barbara J. Haveland reads from Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK I)
Tara Selter has slipped out of time. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November…
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Michael Favala Goldman reads from Sine Plambech's GLOBAL SEX (@Akoya Publishing, 2026), which draws back the curtain on a hidden world, sharing intimate conversations with sex workers from Nigeria and Thailand living in Europe. ‘Where there is money, there will be sex.’
Michael Favala Goldman reads from Sine Plambech's GLOBAL SEX (Akoya Publishing, 2026)
‘Where there is money, there will be sex.’ Anthropologist Sine Plambech has dedicated her life to pursuing the trail of sex and money across continents. In Global Sex, she draws back the curtain on…
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Our next reading is a thought-provoking beauty by translator Phillip Shiels, from author @cyfrostholm.bsky.social's THE LAUREL DIALOGUES, a stunning take on humanity's response to the present eco-crisis, inspired by the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi. buff.ly/1BXNi1B #DELT #climatechange #ecology
Phillip Shiels reads from C.Y. Frostholm's THE LAUREL DIALOGUES (Random Gardens, 2025)
The Laurel Dialogues is a book on our human response to the present ecological crisis, inspired by the Pythias at the Delphi Oracle in ancient Greece. To order:…
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