Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏
@ruthdiver.bsky.social
Literary translator, reformed academic, tangata tiriti, she/her.
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FULL HOUSE @foylesforbooks.bsky.social last night for the charismatic, incredible Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse talking to
@fergalkeane.bsky.social about their shared experiences and memories of her escape from #Rwanda at the age of 15, and her IMMENSE, moving #memoir #TheConvoy t @ruthdiver.bsky.social
@fergalkeane.bsky.social about their shared experiences and memories of her escape from #Rwanda at the age of 15, and her IMMENSE, moving #memoir #TheConvoy t @ruthdiver.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
FULL HOUSE @foylesforbooks.bsky.social last night for the charismatic, incredible Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse talking to
@fergalkeane.bsky.social about their shared experiences and memories of her escape from #Rwanda at the age of 15, and her IMMENSE, moving #memoir #TheConvoy t @ruthdiver.bsky.social
@fergalkeane.bsky.social about their shared experiences and memories of her escape from #Rwanda at the age of 15, and her IMMENSE, moving #memoir #TheConvoy t @ruthdiver.bsky.social
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#PublicationDay
One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read…
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda
#translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social
📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE
📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv
#BookSky #memoir
One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read…
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda
#translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social
📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE
📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv
#BookSky #memoir
February 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
#PublicationDay
One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read…
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda
#translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social
📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE
📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv
#BookSky #memoir
One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read…
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda
#translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social
📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE
📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv
#BookSky #memoir
Today, [...] the US delegation to the UN voted against a resolution condemning Russia for its aggression in Ukraine and calling for it to end its occupation. That is, the U.S. voted against a resolution that reiterated that one nation must not invade another[...].
February 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Today, [...] the US delegation to the UN voted against a resolution condemning Russia for its aggression in Ukraine and calling for it to end its occupation. That is, the U.S. voted against a resolution that reiterated that one nation must not invade another[...].
THE CONVOY, by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, tells the story of her search for documentary evidence of her escape from the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in June 1994. She wat 15 at the time.
For friends in the UK, the author will be making several presentations of her work.
For friends in the UK, the author will be making several presentations of her work.
February 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
THE CONVOY, by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, tells the story of her search for documentary evidence of her escape from the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in June 1994. She wat 15 at the time.
For friends in the UK, the author will be making several presentations of her work.
For friends in the UK, the author will be making several presentations of her work.
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February 2, 2025
February 2, 2025
Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
February 2, 2025
Wonderful to see Charif Majdalani's A History of the Big House reviewed in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...
Book Review: ‘A History of the Big House,’ by Charif Majdalani
The first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Wonderful to see Charif Majdalani's A History of the Big House reviewed in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...
Thrilled to get my translator's copies! Charif Majdalani's delightful reimagining of his family history in the orange groves of Mount Lebanon, from the time of the Ottoman empire through the French mandate to the present day, a lesson in resistance & resilience. Publishing w Other Press in Dec/Jan.
November 13, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Thrilled to get my translator's copies! Charif Majdalani's delightful reimagining of his family history in the orange groves of Mount Lebanon, from the time of the Ottoman empire through the French mandate to the present day, a lesson in resistance & resilience. Publishing w Other Press in Dec/Jan.
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I wrote this, and it's from the heart. And I'm scared of putting it out in the world.
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November 5, 2023 at 4:25 AM
I wrote this, and it's from the heart. And I'm scared of putting it out in the world.
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For any readers of Russian out there, an interview with Iegor Gran, given in French to Radio France International and translated into Russian, entitled 'For me, "great Russian culture" is the Gulag.'
www.rfi.fr/ru/%D0%BE%D0...
www.rfi.fr/ru/%D0%BE%D0...
Егор Гран: «Для меня „великая русская культура“ — это...
Большой разговор с Егором Граном, французским писателем и сыном советского диссидента и писателя Андрея Син�...
www.rfi.fr
October 31, 2023 at 8:47 AM
For any readers of Russian out there, an interview with Iegor Gran, given in French to Radio France International and translated into Russian, entitled 'For me, "great Russian culture" is the Gulag.'
www.rfi.fr/ru/%D0%BE%D0...
www.rfi.fr/ru/%D0%BE%D0...
Brimming with excitement! Tomorrow is UK pub day for THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY, Iegor Gran's novel about his father, the dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, whose notorious trial in 1966, for the contents of hid literary works published abroad under a pseudonym, marked the end of the Thaw.
October 25, 2023 at 9:40 AM
Brimming with excitement! Tomorrow is UK pub day for THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY, Iegor Gran's novel about his father, the dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, whose notorious trial in 1966, for the contents of hid literary works published abroad under a pseudonym, marked the end of the Thaw.