Anne Thompson Melo
@anne-t-melo.bsky.social
Edinburgh-based translator (NL/DE -> EN) and museum volunteer. Peirene Stevns Translation Prize 2024
The Christmassy demise of the dinosaurs is almost complete...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Christmassy demise of the dinosaurs is almost complete...
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At the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, this coming weekend: The World's Most Boring Card Trick
#Edinburgh #Magic
At the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, this coming weekend: The World's Most Boring Card Trick
#Edinburgh #Magic
Richard Wiseman – The World’s Most Boring Card Trick
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December 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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At the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, this coming weekend: The World's Most Boring Card Trick
#Edinburgh #Magic
At the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, this coming weekend: The World's Most Boring Card Trick
#Edinburgh #Magic
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I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.9: Niall Harrison
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025 by Niall Harrison When I sat down to think about the pleasures I gained ...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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This is easily one of the best books I've read this year: haunting, smart, funny. Highly recommended.
Never-Ebbing Story: @casella.bsky.social reviews Eva Meijer's SEA NOW, translated by Anne Thompson Melo (@catransitnerd.bsky.social)
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Never-Ebbing Story: Review of Eva Meijer’s Sea Now
Jake Casella Brookins Under Review:Sea Now. Eva Meijer, translated by Anne Thompson Melo. Two Lines Press, October 2025. Ironically, it’s the very dry humor of Eva Meijer’s Sea Now—a story entirely…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is easily one of the best books I've read this year: haunting, smart, funny. Highly recommended.
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Coming to the Filmhouse from Friday. Huge recommend. Soooo good ❤️
#ItWasJustAnAccident #Edinburgh
Coming to the Filmhouse from Friday. Huge recommend. Soooo good ❤️
#ItWasJustAnAccident #Edinburgh
It Was Just An Accident
Jafar Panahi’s critically acclaimed and deserving Palme d’Or winner is a muscular thriller and an engaging morality tale for our times.
A minor traffic accident reunites two men with a shared past. O...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Coming to the Filmhouse from Friday. Huge recommend. Soooo good ❤️
#ItWasJustAnAccident #Edinburgh
Coming to the Filmhouse from Friday. Huge recommend. Soooo good ❤️
#ItWasJustAnAccident #Edinburgh
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Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished.
If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
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If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
The Unbearable Torment of Bear Bear Bear
Concerning an unexpected window, an unchristmassy fuhrer, an unlucky publisher, and an unaware bear.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished.
If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
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Annual Xmas fitness recommendation 😁 Great music, a cheesy Last Xmas routine and a chance to tune into some Swiss German ❤️
Annual Xmas fitness recommendation 😁 Great music, a cheesy Last Xmas routine and a chance to tune into some Swiss German ❤️
Unisport Online-Kurs Fitness Dance mit Claudia und Bayardo
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December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Annual Xmas fitness recommendation 😁 Great music, a cheesy Last Xmas routine and a chance to tune into some Swiss German ❤️
Annual Xmas fitness recommendation 😁 Great music, a cheesy Last Xmas routine and a chance to tune into some Swiss German ❤️
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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
📖 The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
📖 Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann
📖 Iran+100, edited by various
📖 Sea Now by Eva Meijer
#FictionFriday #BookchatWeekly
📖 The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
📖 Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann
📖 Iran+100, edited by various
📖 Sea Now by Eva Meijer
#FictionFriday #BookchatWeekly
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva Meijer
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November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
📖 The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
📖 Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann
📖 Iran+100, edited by various
📖 Sea Now by Eva Meijer
#FictionFriday #BookchatWeekly
📖 The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
📖 Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann
📖 Iran+100, edited by various
📖 Sea Now by Eva Meijer
#FictionFriday #BookchatWeekly
'...one if the unanticipated highlights of my reading year' 😍
“SEA NOW is not a novel without hope, but it is a novel in which hope is tempered.” @niallharrison reviews new work from Eva Meijer
Sea Now by Eva Meijer: Review by Niall Harrison
Sea Now, Eva Meijer (Two Lines 978-1-94964-185-1, $18.00, 180pp, tp) October 2025. One of the few Northern European countries not visited in Yoko Tawada’s trilogy is the Netherlands, so it was brie…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
'...one if the unanticipated highlights of my reading year' 😍
Eva Meijer's Sea Now tour gets underway in Edinburgh next Monday (1 December). I'll be joining Eva at Toppings for the first event (details at www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...).
Eva will also be visiting Leeds, Exeter and London.
Eva will also be visiting Leeds, Exeter and London.
Eva Meijer for Sea Now at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh
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November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Eva Meijer's Sea Now tour gets underway in Edinburgh next Monday (1 December). I'll be joining Eva at Toppings for the first event (details at www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...).
Eva will also be visiting Leeds, Exeter and London.
Eva will also be visiting Leeds, Exeter and London.
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The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com
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Push the Boat Out 2025 is here! You can browse our programme, download a brochure, and book now 📣 🛶🎫
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
October 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Push the Boat Out 2025 is here! You can browse our programme, download a brochure, and book now 📣 🛶🎫
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
Today's workshop recommendation: blackmithing with Sandy at Athelstane Forge in Newbridge. I made a bottle opener 😊
#Edinburgh #CraftClasses #Blacksmithing
#Edinburgh #CraftClasses #Blacksmithing
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Today's workshop recommendation: blackmithing with Sandy at Athelstane Forge in Newbridge. I made a bottle opener 😊
#Edinburgh #CraftClasses #Blacksmithing
#Edinburgh #CraftClasses #Blacksmithing
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“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS
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October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS
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@catranslation.org
@twolinespress.com
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For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
Ta-da!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
English translation of Eva Meijer's SEA NOW available now!
Published by Peirene in UK and Two Lines in US.
With beautiful covers 😍 by Jack Smyth and Jared Bartman.
A huge thank you to everyone involved! 😊😊😊
#Translation #LiteraryTranslation #PublicationDay
English translation of Eva Meijer's SEA NOW available now!
Published by Peirene in UK and Two Lines in US.
With beautiful covers 😍 by Jack Smyth and Jared Bartman.
A huge thank you to everyone involved! 😊😊😊
#Translation #LiteraryTranslation #PublicationDay
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ta-da!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
English translation of Eva Meijer's SEA NOW available now!
Published by Peirene in UK and Two Lines in US.
With beautiful covers 😍 by Jack Smyth and Jared Bartman.
A huge thank you to everyone involved! 😊😊😊
#Translation #LiteraryTranslation #PublicationDay
English translation of Eva Meijer's SEA NOW available now!
Published by Peirene in UK and Two Lines in US.
With beautiful covers 😍 by Jack Smyth and Jared Bartman.
A huge thank you to everyone involved! 😊😊😊
#Translation #LiteraryTranslation #PublicationDay
August 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
August 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our latest newsletter has just gone out. These will be weekly now that it’s only FIVE WEEKS until the festival. Don’t miss exciting updates about Spotlights, Pitch Perfect, McIlvanney Prize finalists and much, much more! Sign up here: bloodyscotland.com/mailchimp-si...
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New joint exhibition - From Pit to Pitch - now open at the Scottish Football Museum and the National Mining Museum Scotland.
New joint exhibition - From Pit to Pitch - now open at the Scottish Football Museum and the National Mining Museum Scotland.
From Pit to Pitch: A Story of Coal Seams & Football Dreams | Scottish Football Museum
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July 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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New joint exhibition - From Pit to Pitch - now open at the Scottish Football Museum and the National Mining Museum Scotland.
New joint exhibition - From Pit to Pitch - now open at the Scottish Football Museum and the National Mining Museum Scotland.
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Gretna 110 exhibition and research room at Out Of The Blue Drill Hall in Leith until 24 May. Curated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum. Remembering the 1915 Quintinshill rail disaster that resulted in the death of over 200 Royal Scots.
Gretna 110 exhibition and research room at Out Of The Blue Drill Hall in Leith until 24 May. Curated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum. Remembering the 1915 Quintinshill rail disaster that resulted in the death of over 200 Royal Scots.
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May 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Gretna 110 exhibition and research room at Out Of The Blue Drill Hall in Leith until 24 May. Curated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum. Remembering the 1915 Quintinshill rail disaster that resulted in the death of over 200 Royal Scots.
Gretna 110 exhibition and research room at Out Of The Blue Drill Hall in Leith until 24 May. Curated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum. Remembering the 1915 Quintinshill rail disaster that resulted in the death of over 200 Royal Scots.