A delight to have Egana Djabbarova in the U.S. to present MY DREADFUL BODY, translated @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. Thank you The Harriman Institute at Columbia, U of Pennsylvania, @thenewschool.bsky.social, Amherst College + @rhondakg.bsky.social for hosting.
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"A monumental feat . . . a book of rare elemental power that lays bare the dark forces driving Putin's Russia today."—Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People
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Join Russian author Sergei Lebedev and translator Antonina W. Bouis for an online discussion of his novel THE LADY OF THE MINE, Thursday, April 23, 13:00 Eastern time, sponsored by @t2diplomacy.bsky.social Free registration:
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I have loved, loved My Dreadful Body x Egana Egana Djabbarova, tr. by Lisa C. Hayden. From @newvesselpress.bsky.social 😍
"The pieces in this collection, published in Italian in 1953, skip lightly across the line between fiction and non-fiction, and offer an extraordinarily vivid and precise portrait of postwar Italy."
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Acclaimed novelist @katiekitamura.bsky.social calls Anna Maria Ortese's NEAPOLITAN CHRONICLES her favorite book by "an underrated author." Speaking @thetimes.com about the book which inspired Elena Ferrante, Kitamura says: "Ortese is a giant of Italian letters."
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Sergei Lebedev has been awarded the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté for his writings aimed at ending impunity for Russian state crimes. It was presented at the former Lyon prison where Nazis incarcerated and tortured French resistance fighters and Jews.
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Come hear Egana Djabbarova discuss MY DREADFUL BODY with NY Times columnist @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m.—"prose marked by intimacy, restraint, and terror . . . a writer of astounding intelligence and power." Free registration: event.newschool.edu/mydreadfulbody
Welcoming Egana Djabbarova to New York City to celebrate publication of her novel MY DREADFUL BODY.
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Another 5*/5 read from @newvesselpress.bsky.social, this time a novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky
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Join a discussion of A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, @rizzolibooks.bsky.social. A conversation with Chiara Benetollo, Alessandro Giammei , and Iuri Moscardi, co-sponsored by the Bridge Book Award.
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Egana Djabbarova interviewed @codastory.com about MY DREADFUL BODY, a "powerful account of the pressures on one woman growing up among the strict codes of an Azerbaijani family living in Russia. A sense of surveillance ... defines the narrator’s upbringing."
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Another 5*/5 read from @newvesselpress.bsky.social, this time a novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky
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MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is published today. Come hear this "writer of astounding intelligence and power" discuss her new book with New York Times columnist @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m. @thenewschool.bsky.social. Free registration:
event.newschool.edu/mydreadfulbody
We’re celebrating today the arrival of an eagerly anticipated novel by Egana Djabbarova that portrays the life of a young woman from a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. Read an excerpt on Punctured Lines and buy the book from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
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Thank you very much to Punctured Lines for running this excerpt from my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body! I'm happy to add that today's our publication day, thanks to @newvesselpress.bsky.social!
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, a "stunning novel" by Anjet Daanje and translated from the Dutch by David McKay, is a Staff Pick @politicsprose.bsky.social bookstore in Washington, DC. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize and a National Book Award Finalist.
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UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal is a Staff Pick @barnesandnoble.com on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Why are we afraid of ugliness? A deep dive into unrealistic beauty standards and their effects on our self-image.” Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer.
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“According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Read from Egana Djabbarova’s novel My Dreadful Body, translated by Lisa C Hayden.
MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova excerpted @literaryhub.bsky.social, translated by Lisa C. Hayden: "According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked . . . because I was unmarried."
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UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal considered @vox.com in light of current fascination with "looksmaxxers." While looksmaxxers undertake extreme measures to alter their appearance, Vox notes Afghan-born author Hilal has no such aim. "Startling and exciting." newvesselpress.com/books/ugline...
An excerpt from THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, in Latin American Literature Today. Maciel’s multiracial characters write poetry and discourse on soccer, insects, samba, and climate change.
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Come hear Russian author Egana Djabbarova discuss her riveting new book MY DREADFUL BODY with New York Times columnist and Hofstra Professor Rhonda Garelick @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m. @thenewschool.bsky.social in NYC. Free registration here:
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"The first time I read the first paragraph," translator David McKay says of THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje, "I sensed that this is great literature, the work of a master wielding her powers to plumb the depths of the human psyche." @thebookerprizes.com
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The Remembered Soldier, written by Anjet Daanje and translated by David McKay, is an extraordinary love story about the power of memory and imagination.
Find out more about this #InternationalBooker2026 longlisted book: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/ivo9bse08l
"Prepare to be mesmerized by writing the likes of which I have never known. This is a book which I will never forget ... the only true contender for the International Booker Prize 2026." —Dolce Bellezza @bellezzamjs.bsky.social on THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER.
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Screen capture of new release from blog (https://www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news): Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada Announces Its 2025 Winner FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2026 New Vessel Press Wins Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada The fourth annual Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada, which celebrates the commitment of independent presses to fiction of exceptional literary merit, has announced its 2025 winner: The Remembered Soldier, by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay, published by New Vessel Press. (3 images in a row: hand holding winning book, author's portrait, translator's portrait)
2025 US/Canada Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize (@usrofc.bsky.social) Winner:
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje,
translated by David McKay,
published by New Vessel Press (@newvesselpress.bsky.social)
#booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature #bookprizes
Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS and THE HEBREW TEACHER, + other leading voices in Jewish literature: Allegra Goodman, Rachel Kadish, and Tova Mirvis. Wed, March 18, @miamibookfair.bsky.social @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social at Miami Dade College. RSVP:
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER allows Flemish writer ANJET DAANJE with translator David McKay to explore the Great War's breakage in intimate detail via @newvesselpress.bsky.social #Booksky
WINNER of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada, 2025!
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