It's a privilege to share translator David McKay's reading from Astrid Roemer's OFF-WHITE, a family saga set amid themes of male violence, colonialism, & the dismantling of racial identity, marking the return of a celebrated Surinamese author after two decades. Don't miss this one!
It's a delight to share another reading from translator Antonella Lettieri, this one with author Simone Torino, from MACACO, a prizewinning story of nature, love, friendship, ecology, poetry, and life on the margins--and at the heart of it all. Seeking an English-language publisher! buff.ly/HOhIryq
It's our privilege to share translator Nancy Naomi Carlson's reading from French-Senegalese poet Sylvie KandΓ©'s GESTUARY, a timely and timeless collection inspired by unexpected sources including jazz, sculpture, the legacy of the slave trade, proverbs, and elements of Diola culture.
We've got a special Sunday treat for you! Here's Antonella Lettieri reading from THE DUKE, a sweeping feat of literary imagination that asks some big twenty-first-century questions about our relationships with privilege, the past, the natural world, and each other. Enjoy!
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That would be incredible--but I too am saving my pennies for LBF; Charlie and I are both going! Can't wait to see you there!
Woot woot! Here's hoping your fantastic translation finds an English-language home VERY SOON!
Oh #crimefiction lovers, have we got a treat for you! Here's translator @alannahjrpurslow.bsky.social reading from RED MOON, a novel out of Spain, a #mystery of many crimes and many suspects...is the madness linked to the moon? Rights available! #seekingapublisher
I (Tina) am absolutely desperate to go! Norwich is a tough day trip from Durham though.
"If you use AI thereβs a loss of processβart process, theatre making, translation....Process is where you build knowledge. Just going from A to B without process, you gain no knowledge, no human experience. You gain zero opportunity because you are not having to engage with anybody else..."
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Don't miss this week's powerful bilingual reading by celebrated translator Richard Dixon and author Gianni Solla from THERE WAS A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD, a gripping debut, an all too timely novel about friendships forged in times of inhumanity, and a love story of overwhelming power.
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What an honor: my translation of Anne Berest's THE POSTCARD, published by @europaeditions.bsky.social, is a finalist for the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, amid very august company! Sign up to join us on 12 February for translator readings and a celebration of the prize.
We are so delighted to share this beautiful translation by Oumayma Oueghlani, from Fares Al Anwar's "A story of the trees", a single moment under a microscope: trees, a river, streets, and a hospital blurring into one field of perception; a confrontation with mortality and origin. buff.ly/zd8lImh
We usher in 2026 with this fabulous reading by translator @ilzeduarte.bskysocial from THE CABBAGE WOMAN (seeking a #publisher!), a beautifully illustrated Grimm brothers-style fairy tale of prejudice and exclusion in a small village, and a young stranger who changes everything.
As the year comes to a close, we want to wish you all a very happy festive season. π
See you in 2026 for lots more readings in translation.
The Translators Aloud team, Tina & Charlie x
Since 2022, Translators Aloud has been contributing to a bursary for the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School, either helping to fund a full place, or to cover travel costs... In 2025 the recipient was Irma Iliana Franco Alvarenga
who joined the Spanish/Guarani workshop. πΈ: buff.ly/ZQDvWgd
Gina Stamm reads from Antoine Volodine's THE INNER HARBOUR (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), a beguiling, perspective-shifting story of obsession and loss set in the grimy, late-colonial decadence of Macau at the end of the twentieth century.
Thank YOU for your wonderful translation!
Welcome back to our brilliant friend, the rhyming translator-poet Timothy Adès, here with the poetry of Gerrit Engelke (1890-1918), whose work raged against industrialisation and war, and who died of wounds on 13 October 1918, soon before the Armistice, in a British field hospital.
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 #Ethiopiaβs literary heartbeat, where everyday gestures carry philosophical weight and history lingers in intimate lives.
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.
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A mountain town thatβs not on any map, a messy bookstore with infinite doors, and a spoiled prince under a forgetful wizardβs curse. Sound interesting? Here's translator @averyudagawa.bsky.social reading from Sachiko Kashiwaba's classic THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST, on sale now! youtu.be/gEwEcM0aKtA
One daughter and I went out to lunch today, and she happened to snap a pic of my #TranslatorsAloud merch in the wild. Grab yours! π
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.
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World sci-fi fans, assemble! Here's translator @isabeltranslates.bsky.social reading from Czech author Jan KotouΔ's UNHOLY COMPROMISES (Nazca Press, 2025), which David Weber calls "grand-scale science fiction, with a storyteller's eye for both character and action". Psst: this one's NSFW!
We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880β1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbonβs modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk
Dear friends, we're so sorry about the audio issue with the Telugu-to-English author/translator reading we posted on 30 Sept to mark #ITD! Here's the corrected video by translator @subhashri.bsky.social & author Mohammed Khadeer Babu, from THAT'S A FIRE ANT RIGHT THERE. Enjoy!
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Vivid, joyful, raw, tender, Andrev Walden's BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins & ends; and above all, about men. Sound interesting? Here's a taste, read by translator @iangiles.bsky.social himself! youtu.be/ruwop7t0dME?...
