Ah, terrific! My translation - FORTY DAYS WITHOUT SHADOW - was critically acclaimed and shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association International Dagger, but for reasons unknown, no further titles were commissioned. We're considering ways to reboot the series in English now! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🦌
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... A jolly nice thumbs up here at 7'38", to all literary translators, from @richardosman1.bsky.social And an excellent overview of what we do :) Lovely, too, to hear him rattle off the names of some of his, and trounce AI while he's at it. Proper perked me up!
airmail.news/sh/DXhdzq An enjoyable piece about Knausgaard, but whose author genuinely seems to think he writes in English? Please credit the translator, Martin Aitken. 🙏🏻 @airmail.news
Precisely what jailing him in NYC is all about, rather than an attic maid's room at Mar a Lago...
Also, note that Maduro is in a detention centre *in New York* (NYC?) and not, as might have been imagined, in a closely guarded attic maid's room at Mar a Lago. Is this calculated to try and put a thorn in Mamdani's side?
So Trump stamped his feet & shook his tiny fists & hollered long & loud that he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize but they gave it to an opponent of Maduro in Venezuela & then Trump arrests Maduro & says *he'll* be in charge, not her. Seems likely that's at least as important to him as petrodollars etc?
And very delighted to be there! Subscribers can read the full piece, but as with practically all Wittkop's writing, don't say we didn't warn you ...
Haha, 4 months later - what did I say??
Well, the reviewer is v kind & tolerant to stick w a genre he detests 🙏🏻 I'm reminded of a review a while ago of a historical crime novel I translated, by a blogger/self-confessed hater of crime & historical fiction 🤣 Really wonder sometimes why publishers think blogosphere freebies are worth it...!
So sad to hear this yesterday. Laurent was my neighbour across the water, I enjoy the view of the beautiful modernist house he restored every day. RIP
I seemed to remember seeing Mafalda in French, and checked, and she is indeed big in France! So glad @terribleman.com is bringing her into English ☺️
So glad I caught not only the author & translator but also International Booker judge Anton Hur & Prizes director Gaby Wood at @hayfestival.bsky.social on Saturday! Loved Banu Mushtaq's unexpectedly hilarious anecdote of how her clearly not bothersome husband thwarted a fatwa attack at their home 🤣
Did #MetGala guests take "Tailoring Black Style" too literally? The theme celebrates a Congolese (& Congolese Parisian) tradition, "La Sape", and Les Sappeurs are all about COLOUR! Clearly, though, black's the fall-back colour when cultural appropriation looms... www.ouest-france.fr/leditionduso...
...and without irony, too.
Did I just hear Amol Rajan literally tell Gary Lineker "This is the BBC, you can't criticise government policy..."? Yes, I did 😯
So now mine will be " by the fairly frequently shortlisted..." 🤣
Ooh, "by the award-winning..."!! 👏👏
The @societyofauthors.bsky.social just shared some pictures etc. About 70-100 people? Maybe a few more?
It's fairly unbelievable, isn't it? I mean nothing shouts acknowledged guilt & fear than refusing even to open the door...! Did they even misunderstand and think something was being served on them??
Can the letter now be sent by post? (NB @societyofauthors.bsky.social, don't ask for a signature/proof of delivery, they won't sign for it). Note to Meta: it's just a letter, it won't bite, you're not being served court papers or anything... (Or did you think you were?).
Society of Authors and Writers Guild protest outside Meta headquarters in London.
The irony, that Meta wouldn’t open its doors to take a 500 word letter of complaint from writers, when they’d already taken millions of words from us.
Apparently they’ve got enough now. Thanks.
META could afford to do otherwise but *chose* to steal all our work. They must be made to compensate for the theft, and only use copyrighted work with express written permission going forward.
The Society of Authors image of diverse writers calling on Meta to do the Write Thing.
Meta, directed by Mark Zuckerberg, stole the work of millions of authors - including me - to train its AI. Truly outrageous theft. #MetaBookThieves #MakeItFair #SOADayOfAction
Graphic for the Society of Authors' day of action against Meta. Stop Thief! Meta must #DoTheRightThing
If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished. All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves
Society of Authors poster: Stop thief! Meta must #DoTheWriteThing
Meta can afford it. They just prefer to steal.
On my way to protest at Meta’s London office. Why? Pirate site LibGen ripped 7.5 million books. Meta used this stolen content to train AI systems to write books
#campaigning #makeITfair #DotheWriteThing @alcs.co.uk @writersguildgb.bsky.social @authorsguild.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social
...but I think the FN/RN can still field a candidate in 2027, if they can find one (Bardella), and today's ruling will probably boost support, so... #France #LePen
Scented daffs from Gwen at #shirehallmonmouth market & my aunt's banana loaf recipe: she told me she'd lost it, I remembered she gave me a copy decades ago, found that, photographed it, sent it from France to her lovely neighbour on Facebook 😊
