Ootlin. Scotland→Mexico City→Berlin. Translator. Senior editor @charcopress Winner Premio Valle Inclán 2021 for A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti.
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Fionn Petch retweeted
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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A pianist inherits a patch of land outside Buenos Aires — and the community of former revolutionaries living on it.
Hudson by Hernán Ronsino, tr. Mallory Craig-Kuhn. Out now.
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German silences, Gaza and international law timothygartonash.substack.co…
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Can anyone remember the last time @BBCNews interviewed a Palestinian about their experience of the racism of Zionism? Having spent the last two weeks interviewing elderly Nakba survivors in Jordan, driven off their land in their teens because of their ethnicity and religion, I'd be happy to suggest some astonishingly articulate victims of Israeli racism who would be only too happy to tell their tragic stories of eviction, slaughter and dispossession. It is like reporting on the Civil Rights movement in the US and only interviewing outraged Whites
@bbclaurak @bbcnickrobinson @JustinOnWeb
@BBCr4today
“[Saying] ‘Zionism is racism’ is offensive, it’s antisemitic and it’s dangerous”
Broadcaster Jo Coburn says she “watched in horror” as the Green Party passed its motion on Zionism and criticises leader Zack Polanski's defence in his #BBCLauraK interview
bbc.co.uk/news/live/c64gv8k2…
Fionn Petch retweeted
BERLIN
ft. @elusiveword Alex Booth, Ryan Ruby @laurenoyler @hering_david @MortenHoiJensen @LucyKulwiec Jared Pollen @MinxMarple Gabriel Flynn, @AUTOMARTZWEI Donna Stonecipher, May-Lan Tan, James Conway, Ann Cotten, Susan Finlay & @benlibman
My 12-year-old daughter at dinner today, asking if we are going to get kicked out of Germany. 🇩🇪
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Fionn Petch retweeted
For today's publication of ANIMAL SPIRAL, a lovely interview with Luis Othoniel Rosa! asymptotejournal.com/intervi…
Fionn Petch retweeted
This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1
Fionn Petch retweeted
This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.
If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.
Fionn Petch retweeted
I'm just so so sick of ignorant media Islamophobes in senior positions of the UK & US media viciously going after anyone that dares stand up against the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
Trevor Phillips notoriously got suspended from the Labour Party for Islamophobia, and you get the feeling, watching this astonishingly rude & sneary interview with @ZackPolanski, virtually the only senior British politician to show any sympathy for the Gazans, that Phillips frankly wouldn't lose a wink of sleep if every last Palestinian was erased from the face of the earth. He certainly can't see anything positive about protesting their genocide.
Which raises the question: how and why did someone with such a record of toxic divisiveness ever get offered a Prime Time show in the first place?
When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed?
And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic.
youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?si=OQy1…
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Our non-fiction Xmas bundle: anthology on Latin American Feminism, La Lucha, translation theory made fun by the brilliant Daniel Hahn, and a revolutionary reflection on the politics of Indigenous languages by Yásnaya Elena A. Gil.
charcopress.com/bookstore/xm…
Team @CharcoPress last night at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, with outstanding Colombian writers Velia Vidal and Cristina Bendek. Thank you to Curator in Residence Cristina Rivera Garza for the invitation. 💙💚
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Our own @elusiveword will be talking to Velia Vidal this weekend at Berlin's International Lit Festival! She will discuss her autofictional text and her work for a literary festival in Chocó, a region of tropical forests in northwestern Colombia.
Tix: literaturfestival.com/en/eve…
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“Uncompromising (…). A rousing story of migration and identity.” Brilliant review of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (tr. Fionn Petch @elusiveword) in the @IrishTimes. Thanks always to @KatyaTaylor
irishtimes.com/culture/books…
“In Gaza, the world is watching the most heinous acts of violence that I have witnessed in my lifetime. It is as if the skin has been ripped off the face of humanity to reveal terrifying depths of sadism and depravity.”
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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