Writer-slash-translator. Edit @ShortFiction8, run @hastingswrites.
Hastings via Belfast & Brazil
Joined November 2011
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Extremely grateful and honoured by this, and so pleased for Victor Heringer's incredible novel to receive further recognition. Thanks to the @Soc_of_Authors and all the judges, and congratulations to all the winners and shortlistees at last night's awards!
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Amazing! @seeadarkness’s translation is immaculate 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@PELTAtweets @PeirenePress
@PremioJabuti
And the Jabuti Prize for ‘Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad’ goes to THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN 🐢🏆
Congratulations to the translator James Young and to @cialetras
Thank you @CBL_oficial for having us.
We love you São Paulo ❤️
Chester super-chickens, the smell of men in martial arts gyms, and a disturbing amount of decorations: it can only be 'Pax Domestica', Victor Heringer's strange, unsettling & entirely brilliant 'Christmas story'. Read it here now, courtesy of @GrantaMag! granta.com/pax-domestica/
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Thank you so much to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of The Stinging Fly Issue 51 Volume Two last week in @hensteethstudio.
It was a great night and we were delighted to host readings from some of the brilliant writers featured in the issue — pictures (by @GHollandPhoto) in the 🧵 below
What a thrill to see Victor Heringer's unforgettable 'The Love of Singular Men' shortlisted for the @Soc_of_Authors First Translation Prize! Congratulations to all the other translators, authors & publishers nominated societyofauthors.org/2024/12… #TranslationPrizes
Delighted to have a story in the winter edition of the magnificent @stingingfly, alongside too many ridiculously brilliant writers to mention. Get it now!
Winter is kicking in and we’re all feeling it today.
Happily, there’s also this:
stingingfly.org/product/wint…
James Young retweeted
And the Jabuti Prize for ‘Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad’ goes to THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN 🐢🏆
Congratulations to the translator James Young and to @cialetras
Thank you @CBL_oficial for having us.
We love you São Paulo ❤️
James Young retweeted
Very lovely review of Duets in @GuardianBooks today!
“a unique and brave collection of stories, all of which zing with unexpectedness and a delight in literary collaboration.”
theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
Thrilled The Love of Singular Men, by the great, and greatly missed, Victor Heringer, is the winner of this year's Jabuti Prize/Prêmio Jabuti for Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad! Proud & honoured to have translated this astonishing novel: if you haven't already, read it now!
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Hastings! This is tomorrow! 😈
Join @annielmcd as she talks to @hastingsbooks about the thrills and challenges of translating Mario Levrero’s THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE, a co-translation with Kit Schluter.
October 24. Tickets available now.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/mario-lev…
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Join @annielmcd as she talks to @hastingsbooks about the thrills and challenges of translating Mario Levrero’s THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE, a co-translation with Kit Schluter.
October 24. Tickets available now.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/mario-lev…
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Listen to @seeadarkness read out loud on @LoudTranslators, and read an excerpt from his translation of Victor Heringer's THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN here: wordswithoutborders.org/read…
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Congratulations to Han Kang, winner of the 2024 @NobelPrize in Literature!
In honour of this achievement we have lifted the paywall on her writing for Granta.
granta.com/contributor/han-k…
If you haven't read Victor Heringer - 'ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme' says Zadie Smith - 'Lígia', free at @GrantaMag in Oct, is a great place to start (then get The Love of Singular Men & Glória from @PeirenePress)
‘Sr Mendes thinks I’m his wife. He speaks to me like he spoke to her, and even calls me “petal” and “my angel”. His wife, Lígia, has been dead for twenty years.’
Fiction by Victor Heringer, tr. James Young.
granta.com/ligia/
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My copy of Victor Heringer’s GLÓRIA (@PeirenePress) made it from the UK! THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN is incredible (as are Heringer’s poems—stay tuned!), so I can’t wait to get into this translation by @sophietimes and @seeadarkness
Delighted to see my translation of Victor Heringer's unique & unforgettable The Love of Singular Men shortlisted for the ALTA First Translation Prize - thanks to @LitTranslate & the judges, & congrats to the other writers & translators on the list! @NewDirections @PeirenePress
The ALTA First Translation Prize, now in its inaugural year, recognizes the work of emerging literary translators and their editors. This prize awards one debut literary translation from any other language into English.
Congratulations to the 2024 shortlistees!
ALT A gold banner with the covers of the books shortlisted for the 2024 ALTA First Translation Prize.
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Happy pub day to WWB-ers @sophietimes and @seeadarkness. We're so glad there's a new book by Victor Heringer in the world. If you don't know Heringer's work, we suggest you read this story: wordswithoutborders.org/read…
Happy publication day to GLÓRIA by Victor Heringer, translated by Sophie Lewis (@sophietimes) & James Young (@seeadarkness)!!!
We're so proud to be the UK publisher of V.H., a remarkable & unique writer. Thank you to everyone who was a part of bringing this book into English.
