Katherine Gregor
@scribedoll.bsky.social
Literary translator, writer, amateur cartoonist and photographer, Qi Gong practitioner. Blog on scribedoll.com
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✨ Great news! ✨
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
The Sebald Lecture 2025: Elif Shafak
This lecture took place at the British Library, London, on 1 December 2025
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and storyteller. She has published 21 books, 13 of which are…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
✨ Great news! ✨
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
My Sunday scribblings: scribedoll.com/2025/12/07/s...
Season Lag
What kind of person says she misses the Norwich winter when she lives in Nice? Yes, Nice. That place on the Côte d’Azur, with the perennially cyan sky and soft, golden haze that sets th…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
My Sunday scribblings: scribedoll.com/2025/12/07/s...
Apparently, humans aren't the only creatures who vandalise their habitat.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Apparently, humans aren't the only creatures who vandalise their habitat.
Say hello to Luna, an East London rescue who moved in with us on Saturday.
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Say hello to Luna, an East London rescue who moved in with us on Saturday.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
POLITE REMINDER: No offence intended, but because of previous (negative) experience with followers who turned out to be nasty bots, I automatically block any new follower I don't know personally, or someone I know doesn't know personally.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I recently had the pleasure and privilege to translate Nathacha Appanah's 'La mémoire délavée'. She is a wonderful writer. I am delighted she has now received this accolade: www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
Avec Nathacha Appanah, le prix Femina couronne une œuvre habitée par la question des origines, de la violence et de l’enfermement
L’écrivaine mauricienne, née en 1973, est distinguée pour son treizième livre, « La Nuit au cœur », une enquête bouleversante sur les violences conjugales.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I recently had the pleasure and privilege to translate Nathacha Appanah's 'La mémoire délavée'. She is a wonderful writer. I am delighted she has now received this accolade: www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
Norwich colours at sunset.
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Norwich colours at sunset.
For lovers of Venice, my latest co-translation with Howard Curtis:
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October 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
For lovers of Venice, my latest co-translation with Howard Curtis:
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This is truly frightening. The harrowing experience of author and friend Alexis Ragougneau (whose novel, La Madone de Notre-Dame, I translated) at the hands of the medical establishment. Please contact me in private if you wish to read the whole article.
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« Tout le monde peut être victime d’une grave erreur médicale et le parcours pour essayer de la faire reconnaître est kafkaïen » : l’écrivain Alexis Ragougneau, patient en mal de justice
Opéré d’une hernie inguinale en 2020, le romancier et auteur de théâtre est resté lourdement handicapé, ne peut marcher plus de trente minutes et souffre de douleurs quasi incessantes. Le quinquagénai...
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October 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is truly frightening. The harrowing experience of author and friend Alexis Ragougneau (whose novel, La Madone de Notre-Dame, I translated) at the hands of the medical establishment. Please contact me in private if you wish to read the whole article.
www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
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Congratulations to Dame Sarah Mullally DBE on her historic appointment as the Archbishop of Canterbury.
As Bishop of London for the past seven years, she has shown remarkable leadership and dedication to our city - I know she’ll continue this vital work in her new role.
As Bishop of London for the past seven years, she has shown remarkable leadership and dedication to our city - I know she’ll continue this vital work in her new role.
October 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Congratulations to Dame Sarah Mullally DBE on her historic appointment as the Archbishop of Canterbury.
As Bishop of London for the past seven years, she has shown remarkable leadership and dedication to our city - I know she’ll continue this vital work in her new role.
As Bishop of London for the past seven years, she has shown remarkable leadership and dedication to our city - I know she’ll continue this vital work in her new role.
A WOMAN! AT LAST!
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Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A WOMAN! AT LAST!
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
A starling in Dún Laoghaire.
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A starling in Dún Laoghaire.
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Come and join our #Skychat tomorrow! If you're unfamiliar with #Skychats, find out more via our #WomenWritersNet link, here: www.womenwritersnetwork.com/blueskychats...
Our #WomenWritersNet chat on #WomenWriters and Social Media is this Thursday, 18 Sept at 6pm BST.
New to live chats on Bluesky? You can find out how to join our #Skychat here: www.womenwritersnetwork.com/blueskychats...
New to live chats on Bluesky? You can find out how to join our #Skychat here: www.womenwritersnetwork.com/blueskychats...
September 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Come and join our #Skychat tomorrow! If you're unfamiliar with #Skychats, find out more via our #WomenWritersNet link, here: www.womenwritersnetwork.com/blueskychats...
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"Yes your Majesty, my hat was inspired by the President's bouffant"
September 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Yes your Majesty, my hat was inspired by the President's bouffant"
The power of storytelling in a child's life. This is a beautiful clip: youtube.com/shorts/wwqgn...
Remembering Robert Redford - a lifelong lover of stories
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
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September 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The power of storytelling in a child's life. This is a beautiful clip: youtube.com/shorts/wwqgn...
Go, girls! Woo-hoo!
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Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
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September 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Go, girls! Woo-hoo!
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@leiataillefur.bsky.social Hello. Won't you please tell us about St
Cuthbert today?
Cuthbert today?
September 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@leiataillefur.bsky.social Hello. Won't you please tell us about St
Cuthbert today?
Cuthbert today?
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RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for Bucheon's Residency Program in 2025! Open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are from a City of Literature.
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
August 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for Bucheon's Residency Program in 2025! Open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are from a City of Literature.
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
Mild culture shock no. 1 on returning to England from France: People don't greet you automatically as soon as you walk into a shop, or when they come into a waiting room, or when you pass them in corridors.
(picture of a sign on the door of a shop in Nice)
(picture of a sign on the door of a shop in Nice)
August 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Mild culture shock no. 1 on returning to England from France: People don't greet you automatically as soon as you walk into a shop, or when they come into a waiting room, or when you pass them in corridors.
(picture of a sign on the door of a shop in Nice)
(picture of a sign on the door of a shop in Nice)
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At the Gatto Nero, of course.
July 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
At the Gatto Nero, of course.