Hannah Weber

I'M NOT HERE. Find me on IG @ hhansolo (yes, really) or send me an email.
Writing about other people's books. Photographing everything.

[Peirene Press @PeirenePress]

Great podcast from @SpiracleHQ with the peerless Sophie Lewis, who has translated Peirene books from both French AND Portuguese. Sophie reflects on the changing role of translators in the industry 👇

https://t.co/NKJEjvhg17

[SalemLitFest @SalemLitFest]

TONIGHT! FREE! VIRTUAL! Join writer/translators @jenniferlcroft (THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY) & @hannahswebster for FOUND IN TRANSLATION, mod. by award-winning news anchor @dianestern10, TONIGHT Sep 5, 7pm EDT. Register for link at https://t.co/Q3mvV4M9wE.

[minor literature[s] @MinorLits]

and remember we are open for fiction, essay and experimental submissions throughout August ...

guidelines and more info here:

https://t.co/92NoCaCtqM

[SalemLitFest @SalemLitFest]

In @jenniferlcroft’s THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA RAY, 8 translators search for an author gone missing in a primeval Polish forest. Join Jennifer, @hannahsweber & moderator @dianestern10 online for FOUND IN TRANSLATION, Thu, Sep 5, 7pm EDT. Virtual. Sign up at https://t.co/Q3mvV4LBH6.

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

We are seeking submissions for a British Latinx special issue of Wasafiri, to be guest co-edited by Leonardo Boix (@leoboix) and Karina Lickorish Quinn (@KLickorishQuinn), and published in winter 2025.

[Claudia Durastanti @CDurastanti]

Raised in a household where nobody had a job, I believed a steady income would keep my novels “free” from financial constraints. Then I wrote a book about my life, money came in. Was this extraction “cheap”?

On literary work and class https://t.co/fuEzPWUUEY (I love this mag)

[Charlotte England @CharlottEngland]

‘The more they keep coming back, the bigger the resistance seems to be getting.’

I spoke to some of the dozens of protesters who successfully blocked a coach from taking asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm today.
https://t.co/bo8ohZ6bVq

[Hannah Weber @HannahSWeber]

shout out to @adalva's tweet about @GarthGreenwell's Small Rain, which led me to his Substack... where I plan to lose myself for a while. 🙏

[Hannah Weber @HannahSWeber]

Got so much out of this essay on Victor Heringer by @GarthGreenwell. (And particularly loved the parenthetical notes)
https://t.co/N3FLwAcCHi

[Hannah Weber @HannahSWeber]

Something about Heringer and his regard/disregard for form made me think about Dubravka Ugrešić (I suppose I was thinking of her anyway).

Though they shared neither language nor subject (grief aside), I made the happy chance discovery that they shared a birthday - March 27th.

[WordsWithoutBorders @wwborders]

Today, we’re remembering Dubravka Ugrešić, who died on 3/17/2023. She was one of our first authors, and we’re thrilled that @open_letter will publish two more of her books this year.

[National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics]

The NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book goes to “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night” by Tahir Hamut Izgil (@TahirIzgil), translated by Joshua L. Freeman (@jlfreeman6)! @penguinpress #NBCCAwards

[National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics]

The NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize goes to Maureen Freely’s translation of Tezer Özlü’s “Cold Nights of Childhood”! @transitbooks #NBCCAwards

[Hannah Weber @HannahSWeber]

@Tamiko_Dooley @TheatreRoyalHay @DorianGrayPlay Oooh, seeing this in a couple weeks! What an endorsement!! :)

[WorldLiteratureToday @worldlittoday]

“Croft has reinvented ecofiction with this seductive, erudite, and terribly funny tale about ‘book people.’” @HannahSWeber reviews Jennifer Croft’s debut novel in our March issue’s featured review.

https://t.co/rw14PLBRe1

[WorldLiteratureToday @worldlittoday]

The March issue is out! “Writing the Polycrisis” headlines+ Tsotsil filmmaker María Sojob, Mai Al-Nakib, Bora Chung, Patrícia Melo, Erica N. Cardwell, and more. Check out the table of contents and begin reading!

https://t.co/VTCePcINjz

[octavia bright @octaviabright_]

This piece from @sirin_kale (& all her reporting on stalking) is so important. I was watched obsessively by a neighbour for years who then became verbally abusive & the police were sympathetic but ultimately useless https://t.co/tPxww23YNp

[Hannah Weber @HannahSWeber]

Very, very moved by this essay on parenthood in The Common Reader @TCRWUSTL - thanks to @MichaelSimsBook for writing and sharing it

[Michael Sims @MichaelSimsBook]

https://t.co/UVT29HfMge?

An essay about how much my son has taught me about myself and about life and #parenting and #fatherhood and #Autism , just up in The Common Reader @TCRWUSTL .

[National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics]

The finalists for the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize are Kareem Abdulrahman and Bachtyar Ali, Natascha Bruce and Dorothy Tse, Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon, Todd Fredso and Azo Vauguy, Maureen Freely and Tezer Özlü, and Tiffany Tsao and Norman Erikson Pasaribu.