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Alice Banks
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Midlander/Madrileña
Literary Translator from French and Spanish into English

http://alicebankstranslator.com
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tripfiction.bsky.social
Novel set in #London and #Paris

"This is a terrific novel of grief and loss and what happens when the trauma becomes deeply buried and insurmountable..."
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Double Room by Anne Sénès
Published by @orendabooks.bsky.social

#blueskybooks #booksky
Novel set in LONDON and PARIS - TripFiction
Double Room by Anne Sénès, novel set in London and Paris. TR: Alice Banks 1990s. Stan is a promising French composer who has landed in London. He is
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July 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Publication day! 🥳
It was a joy to work on this beautiful novel with @annesenes.bsky.social and @orendabooks.bsky.social

From lengthy, bilingual exchanges with Anne, to delighting in
@westcamel.bsky.social 's incredible edits, Double Room is finally in the hands of readers!

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June 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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orendabooks.bsky.social
📖 PUBLICATION DAY 💔

The greatest #LoveStory ever told... Then tragedy strikes💔📖

#DoubleRoom by @annesenes.bsky.social #Translated by A Banks is a beautiful, tender and haunting read - UNFORGETTABLE!

Pick up your copy today!

📖 bit.ly/4khxIOD
📱 bit.ly/4kTQcEH

#NewReleases #BookSky
June 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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HIGH praise for fab #translator @alice-banks.bsky.social!

'The excellent translation by Alice Banks … keeps you immersed so utterly in all the lovely misdirection and emotional melodrama conjured by Sénès in her original novel. I was floored!'

#DoubleRoom @annesenes.bsky.social

#BookSky
June 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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annesenes.bsky.social
In 9 days, #doubleroom will be in bookshops and available to you all.
It’s time to say a massive thank you to @alice-banks.bsky.social for her amazing work on the translation.

#doubleroom #translation #literature #novel

@orendabooks.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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What a beautiful review of Double Room! Thank you so much @bethsy.bsky.social

"Sénès’ prose dances between notes and hues, creating a tapestry that is at once vivid and haunting."

@annesenes.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social
bethsy.bsky.social Mary Picken @bethsy.bsky.social · Jun 9
Double Room by Anne Sénès trs Alice Banks  ‪@annesenes.bsky.social  @orendabooks.bsky.social @alice-banks.bsky.social @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours

Source: Review copyPublication: 19 June 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1916788565 When his life falls apart after a horrific tragedy, a…
Double Room by Anne Sénès trs Alice Banks  ‪@annesenes.bsky.social  @orendabooks.bsky.social @alice-banks.bsky.social @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 19 June 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1916788565 When his life falls apart after a horrific tragedy, a composer returns to his native France, where he creates an AI machine with his dead wife’s voice, with unexpected, devastating consequences… London, late 1990s. Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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orendabooks.bsky.social
When his life falls apart after a tragedy, a composer returns to his native #France, where he creates an #AI machine with his dead wife's voice, with devastating consequences…

#DoubleRoom, the exquisite BREAKOUT #Bestseller from @annesenes.bsky.social T A Banks out in JUNE 🎵📖

🎵 bit.ly/4khxIOD
May 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Excerpts from Little Animals, by Lucía Alba Martínez, in my translation, published in The Los Angeles review...

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Excerpts From Little Animals by Lucía Alba Martínez, Translated by Alice Banks - The Los Angeles Review
Fish _   I’m a little girl. Not just any little girl, I am myself as a little girl. Héctor is holding my hand. This is how I know I’m a little girl in the dream, also because we’re in Cabo de Gata, th...
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May 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Exciting to see another one of my translations from Raquel Delgado’s short story collection, Ser de fuera, published, this time in the wonderful Asymptote!

www.asymptotejournal.com/fiction/men-...
April 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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😍 So excited for you (and Pebbles!!) to read
bethangharad.bsky.social Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social · Apr 9
Exciting book post today! 📕📦
Can’t wait to get stuck into DOUBLE ROOM by @annesenes.bsky.social, translated by @alice-banks.bsky.social!
Pebbles is excited too. Thank you so much @orendabooks.bsky.social—out 19th June! ✨
Small Romanian rescue dog sitting on a checked blanket with a copy of the book ‘Double Room’ next to her.
April 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...

— @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social in conversation

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— fiction from Raquel Delgado, translated from the Spanish by @alice-banks.bsky.social

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Tell Me About It — Raquel Delgado (tr. Alice Banks)
The story begins the moment the Mother tells the Grandmother that there is going to be a baby: the Baby.          Lie: the story began a few months earlier, …
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April 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Delighted to have my translation of Raquel Delgado’s short story, “Tell Me About It” from From Outside published with @minorliteratures.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Excited to read @alice-banks.bsky.social translation of DOUBLE ROOM by Anne Sénè, pub. @orendabooks.bsky.social

👀 📚 🇫🇷
March 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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wwborders.bsky.social
In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read  "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: https://buff.ly/42OdRR3
A lightbulb hanging over an empty couch with the quote “And meanwhile, if we are secure as translators, I propose that we are able to read and understand the source text, to see and appreciate what it is doing, and then to take a few steps away, like the child in Ainsworth’s experiment, and play on our own in a corner...” and the text “'Is That a Familiar Feeling?' by Rosalind Harvey"
February 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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englishpen.bsky.social
We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland.

Discover the winners ⬇️
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PEN Translates winners announced - English PEN
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February 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Today on WWB: Kotryna Garanasvili on “translation-adjacent” tasks, from pitching to editing—and on the necessity of acknowledging this labor. Read her essay here: https://buff.ly/3Daeols
Pencils and shavings scattered over a surface with the quote “Translation-adjacent tasks are a mission, and it’s translators who very often end up with this mission. Why? Well, if anything, because no one else is willing to take it on. Even if they are, they won’t necessarily be able to do it” and the text “'Translation-adjacent' by Kotryna Garanas
December 19, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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mptmagazine.bsky.social
Hello Blue Sky!

Celebrating our first post with the launch of our new issue: 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan.'

In the words of Ronald Puppo, 'Catalan, as this selection of poems makes clear, is very much alive – a language of life.'

Find out more: tinyurl.com/mter9erv
Cover image that shows a transparent green tunnel stretches across the page, from the top right section winding round to the bottom. The tunnel is held up by wooden scaffolding, contrasted against a cloudy sky. Inside the tubes are four opaque human figures, in various states of sliding down. At the same time, a black and yellow fox gingerly climbs up the outside of the tunnel. In the top left is the MPT logo with smaller capitalised text below that reads 'No. 3 2024: The Best of World Poetry.' Underneath this is the title of the issue: 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan.'
December 6, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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arablit.bsky.social
Through December 5 at publishersforpalestine.org
Select free ebooks, available at publishersforpalestine.org
November 30, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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societyofauthors.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the John Calder Translation Prize, an annual award for translations into English of full-length ambitious, ground-breaking works.

Thanks to sponsors Alma Books and Sheila Colvin-Calder.
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Introducing the John Calder Translation Prize - The Society of Authors
An annual award for English translations of ‘ambitious, groundbreaking’ works opens for submissions in January
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November 28, 2024 at 9:07 AM