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In 1999 Thure Erik Lund wrote: ‘It won’t be long before every citizen will be forced to express themselves.’ His narrator insults the Norwegian Culture Minister, then goes feral.
The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch, tr. David M. Smith @andothertweets
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Storm outside, stories inside.
There was nowhere better to be on a rain-lashed Saturday than the Alternative Book Fair. Thank you to everyone who made it happen.
Epoque Press Sinoist Books Istros Books Weatherglass Books Renard Press Heloise Press Linden Editions et al
Six books. Six languages. One prize. The most well-travelled shortlist of the season!
@WarwickPrizeWiT
More at linktr.ee/bookblast
‘Never marry a widow unless her husband was hanged.’
Mineke Schipper, a widow herself, gathers 4,000 years of such sayings. Includes the widow who turned a noodle stall into a chilli-crisp empire.
Widows: The Last Feminist Taboo @saqibooks
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Hello readers! See you at one or both? Go for it! 🎟️📚👏
We are running 2 events to celebrate the shortlist with
@bookblast.
‘Unsilencing The Female Voice’, Veranda Books London, 29 October, get a free ticket tinyurl.com/mr35jf6z
‘A Multitude of Voices: Translating the Female Experience’, online 9 November tinyurl.com/yutdthwd
10, even 5, years ago, indie presses didn’t get a night at @SouthbankCentre. On Friday, they did. Hosted by Okechukwu Nzelu & Eliza Clark. Grounds for hope.
@mack_publishing @watkinsbooks @hajarpress @daseditions
@speechdebelle @djinn_t0nic @jackiethomae linktree/bookblast
You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 has spent 50 years fighting for consumers against scams and bad service. Now its future is at risk. We can't let the BBC axe it or push it online where vulnerable people will lose out. Please sign to save it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
Join us Thurs 29 Oct for a @warwickprizewomenintranslation shortlist event chaired by Maureen Freely with Ruth Martin and Charlotte Collins at Veranda Bookshop. On Mon 9 Nov BookBlast is hosting an online discussion. Free but register via Eventbrite linktr.ee/bookblast
Following last week’s @ebrd Knowledge Hub event with Stefan Çapaliku and his translator the poet Vlora Konushevci, we’re reading his novel Sarajevo Saga @istros_books
Full review coming soon to the Diary. Great writing doesn't stop at the border!
A piece written in 2018 … plus ça change!
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Discover 4 more books from our three-part tour of this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist, the most multilingual in the prize’s history.
@WarwickPrizeWiT
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Discover the first 4 titles on this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist. 167 submissions. 37 languages. 13 books longlisted
@WarwickPrizeWiT
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Night of a Thousand Hells out with @EuropaEditions reviewed by Nick Caistor for BookBlast Diary
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Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026!
The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir.
For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6
ALT The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a bookshelf with their spines facing the camera.
What a TBR list! Lookie here folks! 👀
The list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 is now available on our webpage. The prize is in its 10th year and we're delighted to have received a record number of submissions from a record number of languages! 🎉 tinyurl.com/32ms3tsy
ALT An image of a pile of books on a blue background with the text at the top: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; List of Submissions 2026.
ALT Orange and dark blue text on a blue background which reads: Record submissions in our 10th year; 164 titles; 37 languages; link in bio.
ALT Dark blue and orange text on a blue background, reading: The languages: French 23; Spanish 23; Japanese 15; Danish 11; Korean 11; German 10; Chinese 8; Italian 8; Swedish 8; Dutch 6; Norwegian 5; Portuguese 4; Czech 3; Russian 3; Arabic 2; Catalan 2; Finnish 2; Hindi 2; Hungarian 2; Slovak 2; Asturian 1; Belarusian 1; Bulgarian 1; Croatian 1; Didxazá 1; Farsi 1; Greek 1; Kannada 1; Macedonian 1; Maltese 1; Mapudungun 1; Persian 1; Polish 1; Taiwanese Mandarin 1; Tamil 1; Ukrainian 1; Vietnamese 1.
We’re thrilled to partner with Maureen Freely and her team to champion the @WarwickPrizeWiT celebrating exceptional translated literature from around the world by women across all genres.
Read the full feature on our site & shop the collection via the link in bio! 🔗
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I’ve just heard a man breaking down as he described trying to save his home from the raging Inferno which engulfed Stourbridge, UK.
Meanwhile, the UK PM meekly hopes he can “persuade retailers to temporarily stop selling disposable barbecues”
The UK is dangerously unprepared for what’s coming.
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Made a cup of tea and sat down in the garden… then suddenly we could smell burning.
As a farmer, there are few smells more frightening in weather like this.
We’ve spent the last hour driving around our fields, checking hedges and boundaries, trying to work out where it’s coming from and whether there’s anything we can do. We can’t see anything but the smell is in the air in the village. The countryside is a tinderbox at the moment one tiny spark could destroy crops, hedgerows, wildlife and habitat in minutes.
Please, please don’t light barbecues or fires in the countryside. And do make sure your children know just how dangerous fire can be in these conditions.
Our countryside is precious. At the moment, it needs all of us to look after it. @FarmersWeekly @wheat_daddy @loosecollie @NoFarmsNoFoods
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Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t plans to increase resources for the fire service, max workplace temperature, community cool spaces & ban on new fossil fuels independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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📢 Job alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies at @Vassar invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning Fall 2027. Details > vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com… #francophonestudies #teachingjobs #Mediterraneanworld
