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Just finished reading this haunting crime novel in translation from @corylusbooks.bsky.social 🗡️🩸 From Icelandic, the translation by Quentin Bates leaves intact a flavor of otherworldliness. The red herrings and plots twists read naturally, as human nature reveals itself right up to the final page…

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Controversial West Berlin architect and entrepreneur Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach makes a quick appearance in #NightingaleandCo amid the many ongoing building projects in 1960s Berlin www.amazon.co.uk/Nightingale-...

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A new #StellaBlómkvist on the way AND this belter from Jón Atli?! @corylusbooks.bsky.social Ambassador you are spoiling us! Pre-order fingers at the ready, my fellow Icelandophiles, it's gonna be a good year for us! #Broken #Iceland 🇮🇸 #IcelandicNoir #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙

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So very exciting to see this in the flesh, as it were...

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RofC Prize for Small Presses, Short List 2025 open.substack.com/pub/therepub...

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Sometimes life is a sh*t sandwich, as Mother said, but a new book out from #StellaBlómkvist, translated by the brilliant @graskeggur.bsky.social, never is! Get those preorders in folks; if you've met Stella before you know you won't regret it! Thanks to @corylusbooks.bsky.social for sharing her! 💙📚🇮🇸

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Who's looking forward to more #StellaBlomkvist mischief, chaos... oh, and solving of crimes? Pre-order www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWBRKHTR

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This is really sad... A lot of translators are good at it and more could be good at it...

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Who's at #GraniteNoir? Don't miss the Lost in Translation panel with @graskeggur.bsky.social Teresa Solana and and Ørjan Karlsson, bound to be very amusing and frank! www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/gra...

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Happy Mother Language Day 2025! To celebrate, we’ve selected five poems from the pages of MPT to celebrate multilingualism. We’re focusing on translators that translate into English from their mother tongue, and in some cases, self-translate their own poetry or work ‘between languages’.

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'It might be hard to believe, but actually 30% of private detectives in 1960s Germany were women, partly because it was far easier for women to infiltrate private households or businesses without being too conspicuous' #CharlottePrintz #NightingaleandCo crimefictionlover.com/2025/01/inte...

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And you can read Shiori’s book about the case, Black Box, translated by Allison Markin Powell.

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The Outlook for an Endangered Species Japanese-to-English translation work is ending for almost all freelance translators, and working translators are not the only people who need to be concerned – William Lise kirameki-translation.co.jp/wordpress/?p...

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We are delighted to welcome Dr Diana Coromines i Calders to Lancaster University School of Global Affairs as our Translator in Residence for 2025. All are welcome to this public talk on 18th March. Details below. Please visit our event page to register: www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

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Can't wait, I love this series peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/m...

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Excellent news! @corylusbooks.bsky.social is releasing the third Stella Blómkvist novel; "Murder Tide" will be out in July. Catch up on the first two in the series before then. Here's my review of "Murder at the Residence", the first: www.angryalgonquin.com/murder-at-th...

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#ReadIndies: Some Corylus Books Recommendations findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/r...

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The first in a tense thriller trilogy set in Reykjavik by one of Iceland's best-known playwrights and scriptwriters Out in June, available to pre-order now #Broken #CapitalCrime www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7/

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We're ready and waiting @foylesforbooks.bsky.social

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Delighted to be featured with author Teresa Solana and translator Quentin Bates for Granite Noir. Such a great programme to look forward to! liveanddeadly.net/2025/02/17/g...

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🚨PSA: STELLA IS BRILLIANT!🚨 Get your mitts on these and thank me later! #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #NordicNoir

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Welcome to the third Stella novel in our fold! Murder Tide will be out in July. Catch up on the first two in the series before then www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3

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And this is one more reason why we'll never use AI instead of human translators...

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"The Cafe with No Name" by Robert Seethaler, and by the translator with no name, apparently 🙄 Got this promotional email in my inbox today, with not one mention of @katyderbyshire.bsky.social in the whole text. Why does Europa keep doing this? It drives me up the wall... #namethetranslator

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Is there still such a thing as #TranslationThursday? 'I would be remiss if I did not single out Marina Sofia's translation... skillfully captures the book's dry wit, unforgettable events, and larger-than-life personalities' www.angryalgonquin.com/nightingale-...

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#NightingaleandCo #Berlin #historicalcrimefiction

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#NightingaleandCo takes place in 1961 but the Berlin Airlift plays a crucial part nevertheless. Watch this short video about it youtu.be/UVAaVEoxqmg?... and then read the first in cosy historical crime series by German author Charlotte Printz

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Congratulations to all!

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The different faces of ‘Asura’ through the generations www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...

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Rosalind Harvey on translation: 'we make it our own, all while throwing the occasional loving, respectful glance back at our mother-text, to make sure she is still there, to remind both her and ourselves that this is a relationship built on trust and the belief that the other can cope on their own'

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Why did a successful businessman find himself tied and gagged, left to drown by the rising tide? Murder, revenge, betrayal – and the unexpected with the ever-fiery Stella Blomkvist amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWBRKHTR Coming out in July, available now for pre-order...

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She's also a film star, in the guise of Heida Reed

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Have you met #StellaBlomkvist yet? Closely-guarded secret identity of Icelandic author, fiery lawyer and detective, with an appetite for trouble and a wisecrack for every situation www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

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Not long until we reveal the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist…! Here's a reminder to mark Tuesday 25 February in your calendars. 🗓️

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This seems to be SUCH a cool event!

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Ooh all my #Iceland book buddies, you're going to want to get hold of this one! @angryalgonquin.bsky.social @suekelsoryan.bsky.social @suemetal.bsky.social @loopyk.bsky.social @brownflopsy.bsky.social @bethreadscrime.com @lavieenprose.bsky.social to name but a few! #Booksky 🔎💀📚💙 #IcelandicNoir

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@ewashe.bsky.social So excited that today is my day on the tour for the charming "Nightingale & Co." by Charlotte Printz, trans. by @marinasofia.bsky.social, & published by @corylusbooks.bsky.social. An unusual detective agency solves cases in post-war Berlin. www.angryalgonquin.com/nightingale-...

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@translatorsaloud.bsky.social I've written an article/essay about AI and the consolidation of the translation industry, and how it might affect literary translators. It may be downloaded at: www.kfkronenberg.com/Are_Translators_Necessary.pdf Please feel free to send to others.

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'This fascinating and engaging mystery is set in a singular time and place during one of the greatest upheavals of the post-war period. Nightingale & Co. affords an intimate look at the people in Berlin whose lives were turned upside-down by the building of the Wall.' Super review TY! 😍

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Very excited to present first book in English by a new author from Iceland - Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is now available for pre-order www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7/

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From one in the know...

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