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Translator from Spanish | www.michellemirabella.com Translator of The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante (World Editions, 2025)

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So proud πŸ₯²!

27.02.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My author, Catalina Infante Beovic, is on the cover of @worldlittoday.bsky.social!!!

Inside you’ll find a new Infante Beovic story in my translation, my Q&A with Infante Beovic, and a review of our English-language book-length debut The Cracks We Bear (@worldedbooks.bsky.social)!

26.02.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Judging for the 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships with my judgy fellows Anushka Sen and
@calvino.bsky.social!

26.02.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To be in conversation with translator Edith Adams is an educational and joyful experience... I invite you in via this interview out now on @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social:

27.01.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2025 β€˜Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year You’ve read the other β€œBest of” listsβ€”now read the other one, for the rest of us. Here are Ms. magazine's top feminist books of 2025.

Violet and I chose these 48 books as our top feminist reads of the year for @msmagazine.com!

Feat @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @annanorth.bsky.social @kweingarten.bsky.social & more

msmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...

23.12.2025 16:20 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Best Books in (and on) Translation We Read in 2025 - Words Without Borders 13 staff members, 11 countries, 9 languages: The WWB team recommends our favorite books in translation from 2025.

To read the full list of WWB’s 2025 staff recommendations, head to our website or click the link below: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

11.12.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Best Books in Translation Check out WWB’s staff favorites from 2025! Image: 12 book covers of Journey to the Edge of Life, On the ClockΒ by Claire Baglin, Dear Teacher, Bodies Found in Various Places, Unfaithful, The Pawn, The Book of Rain, Calculation of Volume, The Poem Said Its Piece, The Lack of Light, Mending Bodies, We Computers, The Cracks We Bear.

Best Books in Translation Check out WWB’s staff favorites from 2025! Image: 12 book covers of Journey to the Edge of Life, On the ClockΒ by Claire Baglin, Dear Teacher, Bodies Found in Various Places, Unfaithful, The Pawn, The Book of Rain, Calculation of Volume, The Poem Said Its Piece, The Lack of Light, Mending Bodies, We Computers, The Cracks We Bear.

As 2025 comes to a close, we are excited to present some of our favorite 2025 releases in (or about) translation. From Turkey to Georgia, and China to Italy, our favorite books spanned the globe. Take a look at our picks here, or scroll the thread:Β  wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

11.12.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cracks We Bear Check out The Cracks We Bear - <b>"Chilean writer Infante's penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother.…

Next, from @worldedbooks.bsky.social , is THE CRACKS WE BEAR by Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. @michellemirabella.bsky.social ), Executive Director Elisabeth Jaquette’s choice: bookshop.org/a/169/978164...

11.12.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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November 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2025.

The feminists are heading to NWSA in Puerto Rico this month! We're reading books by these folks (and more):

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @justjessp.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @ayanagray.bsky.social

msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...

12.11.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Congratulations, Michelle!!! The advent of a great translator!!!

05.11.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just published!
"Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch." @publisherswkly.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social

05.11.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much, Anton!!

05.11.2025 21:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of the book The Cracks We Bear

The cover of the book The Cracks We Bear

Can’t believe it’s finally pub day for The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante out today from @worldedbooks.bsky.social!! Thank you to Catalina, our publisher Christine Swedowsky, my editor Shimanto Reza, and my family, friends, and colleagues for their support!

05.11.2025 04:01 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Michelle Mirabella and author Catalina Infante Beovic's THE CRACKS WE BEAR (World Editions, 2025)
Michelle Mirabella and author Catalina Infante Beovic's THE CRACKS WE BEAR (World Editions, 2025) What opens as a story on matrescence reveals itself to be an exploration of memory, trauma, and griefβ€”personal, familial, and nationalβ€”as the protagonist, Laura, struggling in her new motherhood,…

Don't miss this reading by translator @michellemirabella.bsky.social from #Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (@worldedbooks.bsky.social, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.

30.10.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With less than two weeks until pub day for #TheCracksWeBear by Catalina Infante (@worldedbooks.bsky.social), it is so special to have this essay out in @worldlittoday.bsky.social, the home of our original debut together as author and translator.

22.10.2025 20:13 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Want reads to finish out Aug. and Women in Translation month? Check out @michellemirabella.bsky.social's review of THE BOOK OF AFFECTS by MarΓ­lia Arnaud, trans. by Ilze Duarte! Aug. may be at a close but keep opening books by women writers and translators!

hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/08/26/q...

28.08.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0