Polly Mackintosh

editor @gallicbooks | translations @gallicbooks @thewhitereview
occasional blogging person

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

@BethAngharad @TheWhiteReview 💕💕💕💕

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

Such an honour to be a part of this! Thank you to @TheWhiteReview and everyone who came.

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

@elizabethbrookb @GallicBooks Thank you so much for having me! It was great to talk to you guys from all the way across the pond :)

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

Attention all translation and podcast fans!

Hear me chatting CLARA READS PROUST, AI and the funny old world of translating the pet news on the wonderful All Books Aloud podcast. Available now via a platform near you 🎧

[Elizabeth Brookbank @elizabethbrookb]

We have a really cool episode of the All Books Aloud podcast out today: an interview with @pollymack95 about her work translating the novel, Clara Reads Proust by Stephane Carlier (forthcoming in the US on May 21st, by @gallicbooks) Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

@thebooksdesk @shawliterary Congratulations, Martin! Happy 4th birthday 🥳

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

@BethAngharad Thank you Beth!!

[bookanista.com @bookanista]

"The more she reads, the better she understands him. He doesn’t use complicated words – it’s just that his sentences often wander elsewhere." Extract from #ClaraReadsProust by Stéphane Carlier, translated by @pollymack95 Out now from @GallicBooks #Proust https://t.co/TZ2mz5iBJ7

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

Tomorrow!! Such a joy to translate this one 💕

[Gallic Books @GallicBooks]

Officially out tomorrow: CLARA READS PROUST by Stéphane Carlier, transl. by Polly Mackintosh.
Don't miss this gem of a novel!

[Cogito Books @CogitoBooks]

Some recent Cogito favourites to perhaps put on your #Easter reading lists: 'Clara Reads Proust' by #StephaneCarlier (trs. Polly Mackintosh) from wonderful @GallicBooks, 'Clear' by sublime #CarysDavies from @GrantaBooks + masterful 'Old God's Time' by #SebastianBarry @FaberBooks

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

Really quite lovely. Some very digestible food for thought here

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

I wrote this about the "loneliness epidemic" and the absurd modern belief that happiness and fulfilment are found in ourselves not in other people

https://t.co/tJNR5gw5rh

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

@LLalaurie @GallicBooks Thanks, Louise!

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

Super excited to have my translation of an extract from Seynabou Sonko's fantastic DJINNS printed in @TheWhiteReview's Writing in Translation Anthology! Available now.

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

@BethAngharad @pagesofhackney @TheWhiteReview @CMCTranslations @nellatranslates Wooo! Super exciting - thanks Beth

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

[monthly Twitter log-in to like everything on my feed and retweet things about books]

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

It's out in the wild!

[The Debut Digest 💌 @TheDebutDigest]

💌 Review: She's a Killer by @CursesMcD (@GallicBooks
5.10.23)

Happy belated #PublicationDay, Kirsten 💕

'McDougall utilising satire and Alice’s witty and tepid disposition, She’s A Killer is a hilarious yet dark exploration of morality in the modern age.'

💌 Review by Adaeze

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

@RobbieTimes @TheTimesBooks From @GallicBooks
New Zealand sensation ARMS & LEGS by Chloe Lane (07/09) and the darkly funny cli-fi thriller SHE'S A KILLER by Kirsten McDougall (05/10)🍍

Plus GOOD TASTE, the first memoir/manifesto from chef Alain Ducasse! (14/09)

[Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @WarwickPrizeWiT]

We are pleased to publish the list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023
https://t.co/6XeSxBdhvi

It includes a record 153 entries from 32 languages. Ancient Greek, Bosnian, Gun, Romansh & Vietnamese are represented for 1st time in our 7-year history.

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

Tiny Horse is sometimes wise!

[Alaina Gougoulis @radiomoderation]

me to other publishing employees contemplating working through their lunch break

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

thank you so very much to @bief_France for the opportunity to see the wonderful world of French publishing last week and hang out with some fun fellow publishers! vraiment très cool💫

[Polly Mackintosh @pollymack95]

👀👀 very exciting things coming in September! @BelgraviaB @editionsLattes
https://t.co/Dp2pPFO0J1