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Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉
@bethangharad.bsky.social
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Literary translator 🇧🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 to EN. Words pub/forthcoming in MPT, Circumference, Wasafiri, LatAmLit Today, Asymptote, The Hooghly Review. PEN Grant Winner 2025 ✨

Languages are my jam🫙🍒, opinions my own. Send dog pics. 🐕

www.bethhicklingmoore.com
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Very excited to be translating CASAS LIMPIAS by María Agúndez, out spring 2027 from @manillapress.bsky.social as CLEAN HOUSES!

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A book with a pink cover and 1950s-style illustration of women cleaning in green dresses, on a teak wooden table with a cup of coffee and the leaves of a spider plant creeping into the frame.
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Just finished ANIMA FATUA by Ana Lidia Vega Serova, tr. @robmunb.bsky.social and pub. @amaurea-press.bsky.social 🕊️

I’ve never read a book like this: it traces the story of a young Cuban-Russian girl growing up in the USSR. Brutal, tender & utterly memorable. Wonderful translation, Robin!
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August 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Finally got my hands on this beauty from @amaurea-press.bsky.social, tr. the very talented @robmunb.bsky.social! 🕊️
A copy of ANIMA FATUA, its cover in blues, red and pinks and featuring a bird in flight, held up against the background of an East London street.
June 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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I’m about 70 pages into @jencalleja.bsky.social’s FAIR from @prototypepubs.bsky.social and I can already confirm that it (checks Gen Z lingo dictionary) SLAPS.

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A copy of Jen Calleja’s FAIR, with a bright blue cover, on a coffee table with a vase of pink peonies.
May 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Excited to share that this week I’ll be starting my translation of THE SEVENTH OATH by Mozambican legend (& Premio Camões winner 2021) Paulina Chiziane, for the wonderful @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
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Just shy of 2 years ago I was in Mozambique, so this feels like a very full-circle moment.
April 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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 6:17 PM
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What a glorious morn in east London 🌞 🐾
Picture of a park with blue sky and trees, and a small dog some distance away sniffing at the grass.
April 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Reading books set in Berlin, while in Berlin. Obvs 📚 🇩🇪

@penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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International Booker 2/13:
There’s a monster behind the door by Gaëlle Bélem, tr. Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert.
@bullaunpress.bsky.social
I got such a sense of place and history of Réunion 🇷🇪 in this book, I feel like I’ve been there!
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social
Picture of a book with a hot pink title and orange plants on the cover, on the background of an orange printed quilt.
March 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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When your walk turns into a sit 😂
With Oluwaseun Olayiwola & @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 🌞
A small dog with a book sitting on a quilted blanket in the park.
March 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Sunday reading courtesy of @serpents-tail.bsky.social, Michel Nieva & @rrrahul.bsky.social, as well as @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social & Oluwaseun Olayiwola
📚☕️🫖
March 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Still pinching myself about winning the @penamerica.bsky.social grant for the translation of Italian literature! ✨ 🇮🇹 📚

I’ll be donating part of my grant to Gaza, so if anyone knows of any organisations other than PAL that would benefit, please let me know 🇵🇸 🍉
February 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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‘Helping’ with my reader’s reports 🐾
February 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Saturday 📚
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
A copy of Yael Van Der Wouden’s THE SAFEKEEP with a background of a safe green duvet and coral patterned quilt.
January 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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@mptmagazine.bsky.social archive is free to read online until mid Jan!
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Have a read of the wonderful world poetry they so beautifully curate, including my translations of some of @carlanyman.bsky.social visceral corporeal words 👀
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Happy 2025 to all!
January 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Just landed in cold, dark London. Can’t believe that 24 hours ago I was on the beach!
December 9, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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That’s a wrap on @filguadalajara.bsky.social! 5 great days meeting, chatting and hearing about books. See you all next time! 🇲🇽📚🌮🍷
December 5, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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My last day @filguadalajara.bsky.social 📚
December 4, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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¡Viva Mexico! 🇲🇽

#bestworktripever
November 28, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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What Sundays are made for
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A library copy of ‘James’ by Percival Everett open on my lap as I lie in bed, small dog at my feet, autumn light pouring in through the window.
November 24, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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I’ve had tonsillitis, iPhone. Don’t be that guy
November 22, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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Book people! 🔈 📚

I’ve just added a ‘now pitching’ page to my website.

Lmk if you want more information on/ a sample of any of these incredible books! World English rights available for all titles.

📚 👀

#literatureintranslation
#translatedlit

bethhicklingmoore.com/now-pitching/
November 18, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Seem to have caught some kind of achey body sore throat lurgy, but at least I’m still in bed with this book.
Copy of ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey’ by Jennifer Croft with an orange floral quilt in the background.
November 17, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Apparently Bluesky is for dog pics. And I’m here for it. Pebbles is, too 🐾
A small brown and black dog with pointy ears lies in a sun-bathed room with an elephant ear plant and a framed painting of an otter in the background.
November 16, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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Marching for Gaza & Palestine in London yesterday 🇵🇸❤️🖤🤍💚
October 22, 2023 at 7:35 AM