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[Maya Jaggi @MayaJaggi]

Warm congratulations to our 3 finalist authors and translators for the @EBRD Literature Prize 2025, and huge thanks to my fellow judges @fergalkeane47 @SelmaDabbagh & @BlackerUilleam!

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

Today @GirlGoneIntl launches its Global Book Club with the 1st selected title, FROM SAVAGERY, by @AlejBanca, translated by @DrKatieBrown. GGI's 1M members represent the many reasons 112M women live outside their country of origin. In April they're reading 1 book across the world.

[MK Lit Fest @MKlitfest]

Enjoying this morning's #R4moreorless about #freespeech? Join us online tonight as we look at free speech, #translation + #Censorship
https://t.co/BF5TrMFaxX
@OU_Literature @OUPolitics @chernydar @MonicaCure @sawadhussain @7StoriesPressuk @restlessbooks @SelkiesHouse

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

EBRD Unveils Diverse Short List for Prestigious Literature Prize Across Seven Investment Regions - https://t.co/H8DoWKFz09

[stu the reader @stujallen]

Just ordered the list to read

[Maya Jaggi @MayaJaggi]

The wait is over! Follow @EBRD for the unveiled shortlist for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 - with a strong showing for #womenintranslation. It's a privilege
to discuss #literatureintranslation with such perceptive judges, @fergalkeane47 @SelmaDabbagh & @BlackerUilleam. @Read_WIT

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

@MKlitfest @OU_Literature Important #censorship event. Congrats to @monicacure for her #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 shortlist yesterday and to our translator of #TheGuardianofSurfaces @sawadhussain on your many achievements with @Bothayna_AlEssa & Ranya Abdelrahman @enjoybooksdxb . “Follow the White Rabbit.”

[MK Lit Fest @MKlitfest]

Free Speech & Literature Episode 4: Sawad Hussain + Monica Cure discuss #Translation and #Censorship with Daria Chernysheva. 31 March: 7.30pm: Online: Free.

Bookings: https://t.co/751D5lYdjD
#CancelCulture @OU_Literature #FreeSpeech #literature #censors #translators

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

Congratulations to @selkieshouse author of #CELEBRATION #DamirKarakaš for being honoured with the #CityofZagrebAward yesterday! https://t.co/8oPWfE5Xut

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

Congratulations to our #author #DamirKarakaš on being honoured with the #CityofZagrebAward! https://t.co/uHenjoErbe

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

@thebookseller Thrilled to have #Celebration by #DamirKarakaš in exemplary translation from #Croatian by #EllenEliasBursać appear in this powerful #EBRDLiteraturePrize25 selection by @EBRD independent jury @MayaJaggi @fergalkeane47 @SelmaDabbagh @BlackerUilleam

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Ten books in English translation reflecting “some of the most exciting, innovative and boundary-pushing fiction anywhere” have been shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 👇 https://t.co/pdQk0vMFxd

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

Delighted to see the anticipation for #DamirKarakaš 2nd book to be published in English… @SelkiesHouse #BLUEMOON translated from the Croatian by #EllenEliasBursac — the power of translated literature https://t.co/Mf7E6QBizT

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

@EBRD Hooray! Our author #DamirKarakas add his translator from the #Croatian #EllenEliasBursać are thrilled. @selkieshouse we can’t wait to read the other shortlisted books for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025. Thank you @EBRD

[The EBRD @EBRD]

👏Celebration by Damir Karakaš, translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać and published by Selkies House Limited @SelkiesHouse

#EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 #shortlist

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

@EBRD @MayaJaggi @SelmaDabbagh @fergalkeane47 @BlackerUilleam Thank you @EBRD on behalf of #DamirKarakaš and #EllenEliasBursać for including CELEBRATION. @MayaJaggi @fergalkeane47 @SelmaDabbagh @uilleamblacker you have selected a powerful shortlist! Our congratulations to all the authors and translators here. x

[The EBRD @EBRD]

🥁📚The #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 shortlist is here!

10 brilliant books carefully chosen by our independent judges @MayaJaggi, @SelmaDabbagh, @fergalkeane47, @BlackerUilleam.

https://t.co/cJjehfOcOX

🧵Read the shortlist 👇

[SYP Scotland @SYPScotland]

Thank you to Publishing Scotland for helping to sponsor this conference! Find them @/booksfromscotland in Instagram

Find out more here ⟶ https://t.co/MOUiNfdQz8

#sypscotcon25 #sypscotland #literatureconference #publishingconference

[Selkies House @SelkiesHouse]

So happy to see this new Royal Mail stamp of a #Selkie — they inhabit the shoreline between sea and land, that border between worlds and cultures. Our own ⁦@SelkiesHouse⁩ logo was illustrated by ⁦@nickhayesillus1⁩ and designed by #peneparkerdesign