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Alice Flinta
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📚 Doctoral Candidate for Euterpe: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. euterpeproject.eu
Centre for Women's Studies & Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
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🌊 In becoming
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Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher. Read “A Primer on Pitching Translation (or Why We Should Throw Books at the Evil Machines)" on WWB:
A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders
Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.
wordswithoutborders.org
August 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🎧This week the euterpeproject.eu has launched its #Podcast Library!

Listen to my conversation with Prof. Kimberly Campanello #UniOfLeeds on transnational belongings, #translation and writing here: euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/kimberly-campanello

#academicsky #booksky #writingcommunity
October 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
📚 Looking for a graphic novel read?

"Medea, Medes, Marjane and Me: Reflections on colonialism, war, and migration"
📖 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, trans. Mattias Ripa.

Read Ninutsa Nadirashvili's full #bookreview: www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky
Medea, Medes, Marjane and Me: Reflections on colonialism, war, and migration in Marjane Satrapi’s 'Persepolis' | Euterpeproject Eu
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August 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📚Been reading this whilst all sorts of genocidal, political, social, intellectual atrocities are going on.
Whilst I witnessed an intimate wedding proposal in #York Museum Gardens.
This is not "le meilleur des mondes possibles". But we do behold hopeful potential.

#booksky
#Humankind
#literature
August 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
📖 Honoured to be taking part to Black Europe Summer School BESS2025 in Amsterdam, presenting on Afroitalian #literature and the #Mediterranean.
💡 In awe of the incredibly groundbreaking research going on in the field of Black European studies
June 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Can't ask for anything else
#York
June 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
💬To all who who picked up a pen, thread and needle, and felt their way through #feminism and #migration, thank you for your shared memories, wishes, discomfort, concerns and infinite hope.
🪢We make meaning together.
‪Thank you to @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social‬ and #York Explore Library for having us!
June 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Erratic, I walked into Waterstones thinking "Trees. I need trees" Walked out with this.
To the virtue of seeing the common ground in the eye of a deer, in the texture of a chrysalis's shell, in writing in the abstraction of time and humanness, to become more-than-human

#booksky #Yorkshire #nature
June 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📚 Looking for 🧛 and contemporary political critique?

"A narrative which probes issues of xenophobia and racism in contemporary British society"
📖 White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. Picador, 2009.

Full #bookreview by Séamus O’Kane www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky
June 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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June 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
📚 Looking for an #italianliterature read?

"Like blood. Like a human sacrifice to the gods for some rain. Like a bride."
📖 Rosso come una sposa by Anilda Ibrahimi. #Einaudieditore, 2008.

Read my full #bookreview www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky
May 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Il diritto al voto è una responsabilità
#Referendum2025
#8e9Giugno
#ReferendumCittadinanza
May 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"It's the sudden jolt of finding yourself at the margins where humans and nature step outside the neat categories we give them"
📖 Rob Cowen, Common Ground, Windmill Books, 2015

#booksky
#nature
#Yorkshire
May 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
💡TODAY💡

🗯️A Collision with Truth: #Palestinian British Voices, with Nada Shawa, Mohammed Ghalayini, Azhar Herez, Ra Page, in collaboration with @commapress.bsky.social

📍Bowland Auditorium #UoY #York
🕔5pm UK time🔗Hybrid event
🍷Wine reception

Free ticket: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
📚 Looking for a contemporary #Oulipo-feel read?

"The margins are not merely experimental additions"
📖 Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy. Atlantic Books, 2019.

Reed the full #bookreview by Samriddhi Pandey www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky
May 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
💡TODAY💡

Don't miss the chance to experience the incredible Prof. Kimberly Campanello #UniversityofLeeds

📚Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need

📍Bowland Auditorium #UniversityofYork #York
🕔5pm UK time🔗Hybrid event
🍷Wine reception to follow

Free ticket www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
💡 TODAY 💡

euterpeproject.eu invites you to:

📘 #Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice

📍 Bowland Auditorium, #UniversityofYork #York
🕔 5pm UK time 🔗 Hybrid event
🍷 Wine reception to follow

Book your free ticket here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
📢Next week

euterpeproject.eu and @commapress.bsky.social invite you to

🗯️A Collision with Truth #Palestinian British Voices, with Nada Shawa, Mohammed Ghalayini, Azhar Herez, Ra Page
📍Bowland Auditorium #UoY #York
🕔5pm UK time🔗Hybrid event
🍷Wine reception

Free entry www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📚 Looking for a non-fiction, well-crafted, elegant read?

📖 Sex and Lies by Leïla Slimani, trans. Sophie Lewis. Faber, 2020.

Read the full #bookreview by Tamara Cvetković www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky
May 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📢Next week!

The euterpeproject.eu invites you to

📚Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need by Prof. Kimberly Campanello #UniversityofLeeds

📍Bowland Auditorium, #UniversityofYork #York
📅20 May 2025
🕔5pm UK time🔗 Hybrid
🍷Wine reception to follow

Free ticket: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Formless, 1983 #artbots #basquiat
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5204
May 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
📢 Next week!

euterpeproject.eu invites you to:

📘 #Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice

📍 Bowland Auditorium, #UniversityofYork #York
📅 19 May 2025
🕔 5pm UK time 🔗 Hybrid event
🍷 Wine reception to follow

Book your free ticket here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM