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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Brittany Allen |Julia Sanches |Heather Cleary |Sean Cotter
The longlist for this year’s International Booker Prize 2025 has been announced. The annually given prize recognizes international literature in translation. The winning book will receive a £50,000 purse, divided equally between author and translator(s). Shortlisted titles receive £5,000. This year’s judging panel was chaired by the author Max Porter, and included a prize-winning poet, a photographer, esteemed translators, and the singer-songwriter Beth Orton.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
everand.com | Yásnaya Elena Gil |Valeria Luiselli |Heather Cleary
Photo by Mario Castañeda Sánchez / Wikimedia Commons Guest editor’s introduction:In this reflection, Mixe scholar and activist Yásnaya Elena Gil turns her powerful intellect on the concept of innovation, revealing how mainstream notions of technological progress are conditioned by the values of capitalism and proposing an alternative model.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
guernicamag.com | Yásnaya Elena Gil |Heather Cleary |Valeria Luiselli
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Fernanda Trías |Heather Cleary |Pola Oloixarac |Adam Morris
Horror novels function as a way of controlling our fears and the unknown, transforming it into something tangible and… temporary. There’s something comforting about picking up a book, feeling terrified and setting it back down, the fear always contained in the pages. During Covid, while some people turned to baking, I sought out Latina writers from across the Americas who are bringing on a new renaissance in dark thrillers in both familiar and innovative ways.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Julia Sanches |Heather Cleary
(Author) (Translator) (Translator) & 1 more FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival. "Life's a bitch.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Fernanda Trías |Heather Cleary
In a coastal city reeling from a new and dangerous climate catastrophe, a woman finds herself unmoored from the life she knew and from a certain future. As ill winds and waters beat about her hometown, she plans to escape but remains there due to obligations and logistical challenges. PINK SLIME, a slim and quietly powerful novel by Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías and translated into English by Heather Cleary, follows her as she navigates a dark reality.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Heather Cleary
(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick MOST ANTICIPATED by Los Angeles Times, LitHub, Polygon, Fangoria, and Paste A harrowing, intimate novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them teeters on the edge--marking an award-winning Latin American author's US...
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Fernanda Trías |Heather Cleary
PINK SLIME, by Fernanda Trías. Translated by Heather Cleary. The Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trías's second novel to be published in English, "Pink Slime" - which was the winner of several literary awards in Uruguay and is elegantly translated here by Heather Cleary - is a well-imagined, often poetically beautiful plague story. The tale takes place in a small coastal city where an environmental disaster has unspooled.
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May 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Heather Cleary |Kristin Hannah
Though Hilderbrand threatens to kill all our darlings with this last laugh, her acknowledgments say it’s just “for now.”A stranger comes to town, and a beloved storyteller plays this creative-writing standby for all it’s worth. Hilderbrand fans, a vast and devoted legion, will remember Blond Sharon, the notorious island gossip. In what is purportedly the last of the Nantucket novels, Blond Sharon decides to pursue her lifelong dream of fiction writing.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Marina Yuszczuk |Heather Cleary
Named Most Anticipated by Autostraddle, The Millions, Electric Literature, Read Between the Spines, Write or Die, HipLatina, Polygon, fandomentals, and Chill Subs "This gripping tale is full of queer representation and lush, lyrical passages, all while exploring death with an air of nihilism...Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel." --The New York Times Book Review "Mesmerizingly translated by Cleary, Yuszczuk's prose is meticulous,...
