FAIR & VEHICLE (@PrototypePubs); GOBLINHOOD (@RoughTradeBooks); DUST SUCKER (Makina Books); translator of German-language lit, co-publisher @PrasparPress.
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ALT A selection of books viewed from@above on a white table including Goblinhood: Goblinhood as a Mode, I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For, Vehicle and Dust Sucker
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Kind of tickled that my interviews with @AntonHur and @niewview were the second, and third most read in @asymptotejrnl in 2025! Here's to a 2026 of more fun conversations - thank you to everyone who took the time to chat with me! asymptotejournal.com/blog/20…
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Our countdown continues!
Coming in at #3: Our interview with Jen Calleja on why literary translation is more than just language: “Translation is this human-to-human thing—someone’s telling me a story, and I’m going to have to retell it.” tinyurl.com/2n6yn7kj
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“I see translation [...] as a human collaboration. Someone’s telling me a story. I’m going to have to retell it.”
A highlight of our brand-new Fall issue, don’t miss our interview with Jen Calleja—on translator rights, AI, and the power of collaboration: tinyurl.com/yy2wjxaf
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‘On the wall in my grandmother’s kitchen there is a mortadella-coloured rotary telephone. It rings.’
💅 Favorita proofs are in 💅
Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy, this wild novel from Michelle Steinbeck, translated by Jen Calleja, is out 12 February.
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I'm only halfway through but this book by @niewview is soooo good - it makes the invisible visible by taking the reader through various stands and activities at a fair to experience being a translator.
I feel like we need something as fun and engaging for ME.
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Want to know more about the magical world of #Translating & #Translators? Read Fair by Jen Calleja.Startlingly well written in a playful form that grabs & maintains attention& has a fresh,original style that's entertaining, interesting, informative, witty, considered & forthright
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I'm currently reading the copy of "Fair" that I bought at @edbookfest, and my blood is boiling at the unfairness of it all, not only what @niewview recounts about her own journey as a literary #translator, but also the parts of it that apply to my work as a commercial translator
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"#Translators are [...] required to [...] sign up to the idea that invisibility is hard-wired into their value, and that a truly great translation is the one that the reader fails to notice"
@AlexClark3 reviews @niewview's "Fair" (pub. by @prototypepubs)
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I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here: jencalleja.com/writing/
Voting is for SoA members and is done by post. Votes must arrive by 22 October.
Autumn book tour dates for FAIR, see you there! @BrickLaneBooks @vocebooks @CollectedDurham @prototypepubs
