Charlotte Collins
@cctranslates.bsky.social
Literary translator (DE-EN). Cambridge, UK.
New translation: THE LACK OF LIGHT by Nino Haratischwili, out Sept 9 (US) / Oct 23 (UK)
New translation: THE LACK OF LIGHT by Nino Haratischwili, out Sept 9 (US) / Oct 23 (UK)
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Whoop whoop! Coming soon: #NinoHaratischwili 's #TheLackOfLight, tr. Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin.
HarperVia: "This immersive, character-driven epic is one to get lost in, especially for fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, Isabel Allende, and stories that centre female friendship."
HarperVia: "This immersive, character-driven epic is one to get lost in, especially for fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, Isabel Allende, and stories that centre female friendship."
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‘Michel de Montaigne had it right: companionship’s only value is itself. Seek out company because of its usefulness to you, and it is not companionship you will be getting. When asked what makes a true friendship, Montaigne said: “because it was he; because it was me”.’
December 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
‘Michel de Montaigne had it right: companionship’s only value is itself. Seek out company because of its usefulness to you, and it is not companionship you will be getting. When asked what makes a true friendship, Montaigne said: “because it was he; because it was me”.’
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Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Hero.
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hero.
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And last but not least, Anna Claire Weber, Marketing and Communications Manager, picked THE LACK OF LIGHT by Nino Haratischwili (tr. @cctranslates.bsky.social & @dances-with-voles.bsky.social ) @harpercollins.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/169/978006...
The Lack of Light: A Novel of Georgia
A Novel of Georgia
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December 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And last but not least, Anna Claire Weber, Marketing and Communications Manager, picked THE LACK OF LIGHT by Nino Haratischwili (tr. @cctranslates.bsky.social & @dances-with-voles.bsky.social ) @harpercollins.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/169/978006...
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The Lack of Light by Nino Haratischwili, translated by @cctranslates.bsky.social and @dances-with-voles.bsky.social is a captivating tale of friendship, loss, & redemption set against Georgia's turbulent history. Join Nene, Ira, Dina, & Keto as they navigate love, betrayal, and life's complexities!
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Lack of Light by Nino Haratischwili, translated by @cctranslates.bsky.social and @dances-with-voles.bsky.social is a captivating tale of friendship, loss, & redemption set against Georgia's turbulent history. Join Nene, Ira, Dina, & Keto as they navigate love, betrayal, and life's complexities!
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Next we have the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German works of literary merit and general interest.
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Next we have the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German works of literary merit and general interest.
Really delighted to find myself on the @societyofauthors.bsky.social Schlegel-Tieck Prize shortlist for both DARKENBLOOM and THE GRANDDAUGHTER! And to see my friends and colleagues @racheltranslates.bsky.social and @roesch6-alex.bsky.social there with me. 🤗
societyofauthors.org/prizes/trans...
societyofauthors.org/prizes/trans...
German - Schlegel-Tieck Prize - The Society of Authors
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize is an annual award for translations into English of full length German works of literary merit and general interest. The winner is awarded £3,000 and a runner-up...
societyofauthors.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Really delighted to find myself on the @societyofauthors.bsky.social Schlegel-Tieck Prize shortlist for both DARKENBLOOM and THE GRANDDAUGHTER! And to see my friends and colleagues @racheltranslates.bsky.social and @roesch6-alex.bsky.social there with me. 🤗
societyofauthors.org/prizes/trans...
societyofauthors.org/prizes/trans...
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This year, I reviewed 19 books, all in translation.
18 of the reviews were for The Irish Times, and one was published in the TLS.
In an especially grim year, publishing fiction by writers from around the world was more important than ever. I am grateful to the authors, publishers and translators.
18 of the reviews were for The Irish Times, and one was published in the TLS.
In an especially grim year, publishing fiction by writers from around the world was more important than ever. I am grateful to the authors, publishers and translators.
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This year, I reviewed 19 books, all in translation.
18 of the reviews were for The Irish Times, and one was published in the TLS.
In an especially grim year, publishing fiction by writers from around the world was more important than ever. I am grateful to the authors, publishers and translators.
18 of the reviews were for The Irish Times, and one was published in the TLS.
In an especially grim year, publishing fiction by writers from around the world was more important than ever. I am grateful to the authors, publishers and translators.
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If you’re anything like us and Radio 4 is the background soundtrack to your existence, listen in at 3.45 today. I wrote a short story for Short Works about a wild boar release, rural ideologies and searching for balance in an environment that is intrinsically off-kilter
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, The Sounder by Jade Angeles Fitton
An original short work for Radio 4 by Jade Angeles Fitton
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
If you’re anything like us and Radio 4 is the background soundtrack to your existence, listen in at 3.45 today. I wrote a short story for Short Works about a wild boar release, rural ideologies and searching for balance in an environment that is intrinsically off-kilter
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
It's just occurred to me that, in my pre-German days, I thought the piano piece was called 'Fur Elise'. I don't think I *ever* wondered why. Even more bizarrely, I pictured fir trees.
I think this belongs with 'what nonsense have you unthinkingly chirped when singing along to pop songs'.
I think this belongs with 'what nonsense have you unthinkingly chirped when singing along to pop songs'.
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's just occurred to me that, in my pre-German days, I thought the piano piece was called 'Fur Elise'. I don't think I *ever* wondered why. Even more bizarrely, I pictured fir trees.
I think this belongs with 'what nonsense have you unthinkingly chirped when singing along to pop songs'.
I think this belongs with 'what nonsense have you unthinkingly chirped when singing along to pop songs'.
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It is a beautiful formulation
"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It is a beautiful formulation
Nino!! 😲
Ich bewundere dich.
Ich bewundere dich.
1/Gestern hielt in Leipzig in der Nikolaikirche Nino Haratischwili die alljährliche Revolutionsrede. Ich wünschte, irgendwer hätte den Einfluss, diese Rede so zu verbreiten, dass sich mit ihr wirklich auseinandergesetzt wird, auch in den Kreisen, in denen man bis jetzt nicht
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Nino!! 😲
Ich bewundere dich.
Ich bewundere dich.
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It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
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Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.
Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins
Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins
Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.
Shout out to all of Krasznahorkai's #translators who have made it possible for readers all over the world to access his work and his worlds. Congratulations especially to @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social and George Szirtes, for their translations (from Hungarian) into English.
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Shout out to all of Krasznahorkai's #translators who have made it possible for readers all over the world to access his work and his worlds. Congratulations especially to @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social and George Szirtes, for their translations (from Hungarian) into English.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Next Thurs, I'll be talking to co-translators @cctranslates.bsky.social and @dances-with-voles.bsky.social as part of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #SoAatHome events. We'll be talking translation & celebrating the release of their co-translation of Nino Haratischwili's "The Lack of Light".
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Next Thurs, I'll be talking to co-translators @cctranslates.bsky.social and @dances-with-voles.bsky.social as part of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #SoAatHome events. We'll be talking translation & celebrating the release of their co-translation of Nino Haratischwili's "The Lack of Light".
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Happy International Translation Day!
Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.
(Written out in replies)
Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.
(Written out in replies)
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Happy International Translation Day!
Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.
(Written out in replies)
Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.
(Written out in replies)
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How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness www.theguardian.com/technology/2... via @theguardian.com
How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter
Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness www.theguardian.com/technology/2... via @theguardian.com
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National epics aren't written so often these days, but Georgian author Nino Haratischwili has made them her stock-in-trade. This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with her big, operatic, immersive latest, 'The Lack of Light,' a story of friendship in a broken country. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: ‘The Lack of Light’ by Nino Haratischwili
Plus Angela Flournoy’s “The Wilderness.”
www.wsj.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
National epics aren't written so often these days, but Georgian author Nino Haratischwili has made them her stock-in-trade. This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with her big, operatic, immersive latest, 'The Lack of Light,' a story of friendship in a broken country. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Nino Haratischwili and Morgan Leigh Davies discuss her new novel “The Lack of Light,” nostalgia for hard times, and post-Soviet corruption.
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The Sadomasochistic Chain of Post-Soviet Society - Electric Literature
Nino Haratischwili discusses nostalgia and the chaos of 1990s Georgia in her epic novel “The Lack of Light”
electricliterature.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Nino Haratischwili and Morgan Leigh Davies discuss her new novel “The Lack of Light,” nostalgia for hard times, and post-Soviet corruption.
buff.ly/ATHw5ba
buff.ly/ATHw5ba
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I just read my tenth #COVID19 research study in the past month or so that demonstrates COVID infections cause brain changes that may accelerate Alzheimer's disease, are associated with cognitive decline, and cause fatigue, memory impairment, and sleep disorders. (1/?)
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I just read my tenth #COVID19 research study in the past month or so that demonstrates COVID infections cause brain changes that may accelerate Alzheimer's disease, are associated with cognitive decline, and cause fatigue, memory impairment, and sleep disorders. (1/?)