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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

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

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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