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What is lost and found in translation?
Before the @WarwickPrizeWiT winner is announced at The Shard, join us a week before live on Zoom to discuss the 2026 shortlist with Maureen Freely, Ruth Martin, Charlotte Collins. Mon 9 Nov 7pm 🎟 free but register to join us 🔗Link in bio
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Near-future France. Books are banned. Bookseller Mitch served five years for a secret reading room in his cellar. Now he’s out, and torn between revenge and love.
Marc Levy’s #TheBookshopOfForbiddenBooks tr. Tina Kover BookBlast® Diary review
🔗 bookblast.org/blog/the-books…
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Even the most gruelling factory labour fails to crush a poet’s true calling. What was formerly ‘just rubbish’ becomes a site for creative transformation.
Adrift in the South, Xiao Hai, tr. Tony Hao @grantabooks
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A wildfire is burning but the mayoral candidates only worry about it interrupting their electoral debate. Small-town Puglia, where every vote has a price.
Pity Piety Mercy, Antonio Galetta, tr. Antonella Lettieri @FoundryEditions
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‘Unsilencing The Female Voice’ was up for discussion last week at @verandabooks when Maureen Freely, co-founder of the @WarwickPrizeWiT took on this year’s shortlist with Ruth Martin & Charlotte Collins. What an evening! Link in bio to discover the long and shortlists
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In 1999 Thure Erik Lund wrote: ‘It won’t be long before every citizen will be forced to express themselves.’ His narrator insults the Norwegian Culture Minister, then goes feral.
The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch, tr. David M. Smith @andothertweets
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Storm outside, stories inside.
There was nowhere better to be on a rain-lashed Saturday than the Alternative Book Fair. Thank you to everyone who made it happen.
Epoque Press Sinoist Books Istros Books Weatherglass Books Renard Press Heloise Press Linden Editions et al
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Six books. Six languages. One prize. The most well-travelled shortlist of the season!
@WarwickPrizeWiT
More at linktr.ee/bookblast
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‘Never marry a widow unless her husband was hanged.’
Mineke Schipper, a widow herself, gathers 4,000 years of such sayings. Includes the widow who turned a noodle stall into a chilli-crisp empire.
Widows: The Last Feminist Taboo @saqibooks
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Hello readers! See you at one or both? Go for it! 🎟️📚👏
We are running 2 events to celebrate the shortlist with
@bookblast.
‘Unsilencing The Female Voice’, Veranda Books London, 29 October, get a free ticket tinyurl.com/mr35jf6z
‘A Multitude of Voices: Translating the Female Experience’, online 9 November tinyurl.com/yutdthwd
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10, even 5, years ago, indie presses didn’t get a night at @SouthbankCentre. On Friday, they did. Hosted by Okechukwu Nzelu & Eliza Clark. Grounds for hope.
@mack_publishing @watkinsbooks @hajarpress @daseditions
@speechdebelle @djinn_t0nic @jackiethomae linktree/bookblast
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You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 has spent 50 years fighting for consumers against scams and bad service. Now its future is at risk. We can't let the BBC axe it or push it online where vulnerable people will lose out. Please sign to save it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
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Join us Thurs 29 Oct for a @warwickprizewomenintranslation shortlist event chaired by Maureen Freely with Ruth Martin and Charlotte Collins at Veranda Bookshop. On Mon 9 Nov BookBlast is hosting an online discussion. Free but register via Eventbrite linktr.ee/bookblast
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Following last week’s @ebrd Knowledge Hub event with Stefan Çapaliku and his translator the poet Vlora Konushevci, we’re reading his novel Sarajevo Saga @istros_books
Full review coming soon to the Diary. Great writing doesn't stop at the border!
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A piece written in 2018 … plus ça change!
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Discover 4 more books from our three-part tour of this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist, the most multilingual in the prize’s history.
@WarwickPrizeWiT
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Discover the first 4 titles on this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist. 167 submissions. 37 languages. 13 books longlisted
@WarwickPrizeWiT
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Night of a Thousand Hells out with @EuropaEditions reviewed by Nick Caistor for BookBlast Diary
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BookBlast® Official Home of World Literature retweeted
Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026!
The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir.
For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6
ALT The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a bookshelf with their spines facing the camera.
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What a TBR list! Lookie here folks! 👀
The list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 is now available on our webpage. The prize is in its 10th year and we're delighted to have received a record number of submissions from a record number of languages! 🎉 tinyurl.com/32ms3tsy
ALT An image of a pile of books on a blue background with the text at the top: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; List of Submissions 2026.
ALT Orange and dark blue text on a blue background which reads: Record submissions in our 10th year; 164 titles; 37 languages; link in bio.
ALT Dark blue and orange text on a blue background, reading: The languages: French 23; Spanish 23; Japanese 15; Danish 11; Korean 11; German 10; Chinese 8; Italian 8; Swedish 8; Dutch 6; Norwegian 5; Portuguese 4; Czech 3; Russian 3; Arabic 2; Catalan 2; Finnish 2; Hindi 2; Hungarian 2; Slovak 2; Asturian 1; Belarusian 1; Bulgarian 1; Croatian 1; Didxazá 1; Farsi 1; Greek 1; Kannada 1; Macedonian 1; Maltese 1; Mapudungun 1; Persian 1; Polish 1; Taiwanese Mandarin 1; Tamil 1; Ukrainian 1; Vietnamese 1.
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