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Last two days of our Spring Sale! 30% off all print and ebook titles. Perfect for #WorldBookDay! charcopress.com/bookstore

It's Small Press Month and @literaryhub.bsky.social is doing a press/book a day—and I knew I had to start with @charcopress.com, a press I've adored from the very start, and a book that's all the more eerie and timely now: THE PRESIDENT'S ROOM. lithub.com/a-small-pres...

Exciting looking #bookpost courtesy of @charcopress.com’s 2025 Fiction Bundle

This is so exciting! Booksellers, you can contact your Inpress rep to get your pre-orders in now 📚

There's been a lot of shouting lately, so: SPRING SALE!! 30% OFF!! SHOUTING!! You know what to do... charcopress.com/bookstore

🏆 I'M STILL HERE wins Best International Feature Film at the Oscars! You'll be hearing much more from us about this incredible story when we publish the translation towards the end of the year.

The best post is book post and the best book post is unexpected book post. Delighted to get these today from my @charcopress.com subscription...

⚡ #FLASHBACKFRIDAY ⚡ Every week we take a fresh look at a reading from the #translatorsaloud archives. Treat yourself all over again to one of our brilliant features, or discover your next translated read here. buff.ly/3XgBeiu #translation #xl8 #books #reading

Looking forward to this event @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 'Time of the Flies' is a phenomenal read @charcopress.com ! www.foyles.co.uk/events/claud...

@charcopress.com thank you for the latest, The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, which I was able to read stereoscopically in the Spanish original and its magnificent translation into English by Frank Wynne.

I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

"Few films have depicted the devastating effects of politics on individuals in such an intimate, visceral or timely way, arriving at a moment when the rise of authoritarianism has become a global concern." www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

We're finalists for the #BritishBookAwards! 🎊

Monday 10th March at Hatchards Piccadilly: Join Georgia de Chamberet, Claudia Piñeiro, and Carolina Orloff to discuss Piñeiro's "Elena Knows" translated by Frances Riddle. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookblast-...

"Few films have depicted the devastating effects of politics on individuals in such an intimate, visceral or timely way, arriving at a moment when the rise of authoritarianism has become a global concern." www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

We're finalists for the #BritishBookAwards! 🎊

This sounds ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, oh my gods.

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🦥 OUT NOW: The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy & translated by Frank Wynne. "***** An Argentinian satirical science fiction novel unlike anything you’ve ever read" - @theskinnymag.bsky.social charcopress.com/bookstore/th... Edición Español: charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

We recently announced that we will be publishing Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s I'M STILL HERE in late 2025, translated by Daniel Hahn & Alison Entrekin, but while you wait, the 3x Oscar-nominated film adaptation begins screening in the UK this weekend! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDun...

🦥 OUT NOW: The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy & translated by Frank Wynne. "***** An Argentinian satirical science fiction novel unlike anything you’ve ever read" - @theskinnymag.bsky.social charcopress.com/bookstore/th... Edición Español: charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

Delighted that Not a River is on the @dublinlitaward.bsky.social 2025 longlist! dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...

Just arrived! - These two confounding and beautiful artifacts of Uruguayan experimental poetics (what is it about Uruguay that produces the strangest and most fascinating writers in the world?) by the extraordinary Ida Vitale in the exquisite translation by Sean Manning. ” @charcopress.com

Celebrating last day of the sales tax holiday with translated fiction from Type Books in Toronto @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @transitbooks.bsky.social @nybooks.com @charcopress.com #BookSky 📚

Great find in my local library. Inhaled. NOT A RIVER by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott, published by @charcopress.com

Insightful discussion @hatchardspiccadilly on Fathers and Fugitives by S.J. Naudé ; editors from Europa Editions UK shared insights. Up next: Elena Knows with author Claudia Piñeiro & her publisher @charcopress.com joining us in person! 6PM Mon 10 March, tickets via linktr.ee/bookblast

"A graphic, acerbic work of satirical science fiction unlike anything you’re likely to have ever read." First 5 star review for THE NATIONAL TELEPATHY by Roque Larraquy (tr. @terribleman.com)! Thanks to @theskinnymag and @louis_cammell. Book out next Tues! www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

Landschaft. Garten. Hühner. Vergangenes. Einsamkeit. Metaphern. Lest ‘The Plains’ von Federico Falco in der Übersetzung von Jennifer Croft @charcopress.com 📚 #booksky

"A vibrant and playful memoir-in-dictionary-form… A joyous celebration of a life well lived, with entries that range from the simple to the titanic." —Literary Hub. LEXICON OF AFFINITIES by Ida Vitale (tr. Sean Manning). Out today. charcopress.com/bookstore/le...

Lexicon of Affinities is out in January, in which a prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos. Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life: charcopress.com/bookstore/le...

My interview with Mateo García Elizondo for Asymptote is out! We talked about translation, liminal spaces, Mexican Spanish, and his literary inspirations. Curious to read more? @charcopress.com recently published the English translation of his debut novel, Una cita con la Lady.

So excited to host a new book club at Spell Books in 2025 focusing on two of my literary loves: small presses and translated fiction. What do you think of our first three books? If you’re local, I hope you’ll join us! @charcopress.com @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

There's still time! The Charco elves are busy, busy, busy, but we are keeping them running with gingerbread and mulled wine. So grab some gifts from us - like our 2025 Fiction Bundle, and have books arrive all year long! charcopress.com/bookstore

this is best looking B&N I've ever seen (Philly) and it's not (just) because they have a whole shelf to display @charcopress.com

Happy Friday you all lovely readers! Don't forget to your Christmas orders in as soon as you can. Our exclusive Xmas Bundles and of course our brilliant 2025 Bundle will make perfect choices this year. charcopress.com/bookstore

What's in Dua Lipa’s bag when asked by Vogue Magazine? Why, a Charco book, of course! See the full video, including this lovely shoutout for NOT A RIVER by Selva Almada (tr. Annie McDermott) and for Charco itself, here: www.vogue.com/article/in-t... @dualipa.bsky.social @vogue.com.web.brid.gy

What better way to launch the new Charco Classics series, than with one of the defining works of LatAm literature. Celebrating the centenary of THE VORTEX by José Eustasio Rivera, with a new translation by Daniel Hahn and Victor Meadowcroft. También disponible en castellano!