@prasparpress

UK small press for Maltese literature in English & English translation. Eds @katztorace & @niewview

 London, England
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UK readers! You can now buy Scintillas: New Maltese Writing 3 from our website! praspar.com/product/scintill… We’re also sending copies to our brilliant and supportive stockists over the next week 🌞
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Our flash sale ends today at 5pm (UK time) !⚡️
Praspar Press@prasparpress3 Dec 2024
We’re having a FLASH SALE on our three available titles ❄️ 50% off until Thursday 5 December at 5pm praspar.com/products
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Praspar Press@prasparpress3 Dec 2024
We’re having a FLASH SALE on our three available titles ❄️ 50% off until Thursday 5 December at 5pm praspar.com/products
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We’re having a FLASH SALE on our three available titles ❄️ 50% off until Thursday 5 December at 5pm praspar.com/products
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This is a UK only offer ❄️
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We are delighted to announce the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024! The list celebrates work by women writers past and present from across the globe, artfully translated from 10 languages, and includes a wide range of genres. tinyurl.com/3yn4nfz8
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Our co-publisher & translator Kat @katztorace has moved to Paris! Jen @niewview, the other PP publisher, accidentally-on-purpose went to hang out with her this week while on holiday…
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…Jen also managed to catch the free exhibition about Corto Maltese - the half-Maltese graphic novel anti-hero! - at the Centre Pompidou completely by chance. Praspar has been having a quiet summer, but things are about to get exciting !
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The brilliant Maltese film Luzzu (2021) is currently available on BBC iPlayer bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kjg…

BBC Four - Luzzu

A poor fisherman discovers that his son needs specialist medical attention.

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English PEN@englishpen18 Jul 2024
We’re delighted to announce that 16 titles from 11 regions and 10 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, titles from Cameroon and Singapore and translations from Greenlandic and Kannada. Discover the winners ⬇️ englishpen.org/posts/news/pe…

PEN Translates winners announced - News & Events - English PEN

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Praspar editor & translator Kat @katztorace in @hastingsbooks with the @TheWhiteReview translation anthology, which includes her translation of an excerpt from Marta Marta by @loranne_vella 💫 thewhitereview.bigcartel.com…
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Which book are you hoping will win the #InternationalBooker2024? Be the first to find out by joining our livestream, hosted by @jackbenedwards, tomorrow night. 🔜 Tune in at 9:30pm BST / 4:30pm EDT / 2am IST. youtube.com/watch?v=wkPtCvLR…
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Jen Calleja@niewview8 May 2024
👏 @katztorace
Praspar Press@prasparpress8 May 2024
Congratulations to our co-publisher Kat Storace who has been awarded a Ulysses’ Shelter 3 residency! Kat will be spending time in Belgrade hosted by literary organisation Krokodil in early 2025 to work on her translation of Loranne Vella’s Rokit, which we’re publishing next year.
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Kat Storace@katztorace8 May 2024
Some nice news!
Praspar Press@prasparpress8 May 2024
Congratulations to our co-publisher Kat Storace who has been awarded a Ulysses’ Shelter 3 residency! Kat will be spending time in Belgrade hosted by literary organisation Krokodil in early 2025 to work on her translation of Loranne Vella’s Rokit, which we’re publishing next year.
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Congratulations to our co-publisher Kat Storace who has been awarded a Ulysses’ Shelter 3 residency! Kat will be spending time in Belgrade hosted by literary organisation Krokodil in early 2025 to work on her translation of Loranne Vella’s Rokit, which we’re publishing next year.
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Kat’s translation of Loranne Vella’s stories - what will it take for me to leave - was shortlisted for the Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize. Her translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation & The White Review. She recently won a PEN Translates Award.
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Here’s Praspar co-publisher Jen standing in for Praspar co-publisher Kat reading Kat’s translation of an excerpt from Loranne Vella’s ‘Marta Marta’ at the launch of the amazing @TheWhiteReview Writing in Translation anthology in London last night 💫 Photo of Jen: @BethAngharad
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Jen Calleja@niewview11 Apr 2024
…Through our small press @prasparpress, Kat & I publish Loranne’s short story collection ‘what will it take for me to leave’ (tr. Kat, First Translation Prize-shortlisted), next year we’ll publish her other National Book Prize-winning novel ‘Rokit’ again in Kat’s translation.
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Jen Calleja@niewview11 Apr 2024
I’m reading at this tonight as @katztorace’s representative! Reading Kat’s translation of an excerpt from @loranne_vella’s National Book Prize of Malta-winning novel, ‘Marta Marta’. Loranne will be there tonight too…
The White Review@TheWhiteReview5 Mar 2024
We’ll be launching the anthology @tankmagazine on April 11th – you can grab a free ticket here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-th…

Launch: The White Review Writing in Translation Anthology

Join us at TANK to celebrate the launch of The White Review's third anthology. We'll have readings from contributors as well as drinks.

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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Digital Games at Uni of Malta (publications: um.edu.mt/profile/danielmvel…), @d_nielv is a narrative designer at @mighty_boards. He has contributed to two New Maltese Writing anthologies from @prasparpress, where his debut novel will be released in 2025.
Scintillas: New Maltese Writing 1, edited by Jen Calleja and Kat Storace (Praspar Press, 2021). Cover: beige background with several shapes (coloured pale blue, deep yellow and orange, with white borders) containing / overlapping the title and editor names.

ALT Scintillas: New Maltese Writing 1, edited by Jen Calleja and Kat Storace (Praspar Press, 2021). Cover: beige background with several shapes (coloured pale blue, deep yellow and orange, with white borders) containing / overlapping the title and editor names.

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