Preti Taneja

Writer, Prof, FRSL. Contributing Editor, And Other Stories. Co-chair @englishpen TAG. Kumkum Malhotra + We That Are Young + Aftermath

[Preti Taneja @PretiTaneja]

Making my @ftweekend debut reviewing a novel I totally loved. 'Before the Queen Falls Asleep' is a moving masterpiece by Palestinian writer Huzama Habayeb, trans. by Kay Heikkinen. W/ thanks @andydickson. Everyone + their mother needs to read this book. https://t.co/5oILFCgyB6

[ابتسام عازم @IbtisamAzem]

Honored that “The Book of Disappearance” is longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2025! Thanks to everyone at And Other Stories @andothertweets, especially @taraktobler, @stefantobler, and @PretiTaneja and grateful to @sinanantoon for his wonderful translation!

[And Other Stories @andothertweets]

Congratulations to @IbtisamAzem and @sinanantoon, as The Book of Disappearance is longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2025! ✨

An unforgettable glimpse into contemporary Palestine as it grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory
https://t.co/kEY6qHZXYb

[New Writing North @NewWritingNorth]

📝 The Finchale Award for Short Fiction offers £1000 to the writer of a single, unpublished short story. This award was established by @BenMyers1, and this year will be judged by @paulsmithmusic and @PretiTaneja.

[Preti Taneja @PretiTaneja]

@NamitaGokhale_ Thank you so much ☺️

[Preti Taneja @PretiTaneja]

Publishing Aftermath in India this month with @sayantansunnyg @SimonSchusterIN, grateful always for the courageous editors and radical publishers, and all the readers who believe in this book 🙏🏾

[Sayantan Ghosh @sayantansunnyg]

So proud to be able to publish @PretiTaneja's vital, profound book in India this month — a work that seamlessly blurs genre and form, and presents readers an experience both unforgettable and boundary-pushing.

@SimonSchusterIN

[New Writing North @NewWritingNorth]

Entrepreneur, housewife, partner, mother – it can happen to all four.

@PretiTaneja explores domestic abuse in the North East by speaking to charities and services who work with women across social strata and age groups.

Read Preti's North East Now essay: https://t.co/b0cS2zhPzY

[English PEN @englishpen]

Publishers: #PENTranslates is open for submissions until 30 November!

The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works into English, while ensuring translators are acknowledged and paid properly for their work.
https://t.co/UJvLAGScoi

[Will Forrester @official_foz]

PEN Presents x International Booker Prize is open!

This round of our samples grant is in partnership with @TheBookerPrizes, & is open to translators from the Global Majority working from any language & region.

Apply by 30 November, & spread the word.

https://t.co/XkHzToiStA

[PEN International @pen_int]

Tonight at our #PENCongress Opening Ceremony , we will honour the life and work of Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian writer, poet, and academic, who was killed alongside his family in an Israeli airstrike on 7 December 2023.

Alareer dedicated his life to amplifying the voices of Gazans through literature, promoting their struggle for liberation and human dignity. His powerful collections, Gaza Writes Back and Gaza Unsilenced, serve as testaments to the resilience of a people under occupation.

Watch live as we commemorate the life of Alareer via the livestream from 19:30 BST: https://t.co/p1XSxAlRgS

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

Join us as we launch our 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, on 28 September @MuseumoftheHome, London –– featuring readings from contributors @Malikabooker, @PretiTaneja, and @anniezaidi 😍

https://t.co/Ach21Nh0YH

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

Swedish PEN awards the 2024 Tucholsky Prize to the Yemeni writer and journalist Bushra al-Maqtari.

https://t.co/4N5TXbkVEj

You can read her beautiful, devastating "What Have You Left Behind?" tr. @sawadhussain

[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @HaSSFacultyNCL]

Brand new programme for the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA)!
Join @NCLA_tweets for the first in this exciting scheudule.
🗓️3 October @TanTwanEng in conversation with
@PretiTaneja to discuss his celebrated work, 'The House of Doors'. Book > https://t.co/usFih0oOw2

[The Yale Review @yalereview]

“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe.

Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. https://t.co/txBmjMAdIp

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Over £60,000 has been raised for a carer who finished a 12hr shift to find his car had been flipped & burned during riots in Middlesborough on Sunday. Brendan Nwabichie, 33, said he had been saving for 12 months to buy the vehicle https://t.co/wWTAa9iq86

[Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @NickHartley]

The love, hope, strength and solidarity of the people of Newcastle is once again a wonder to behold!

[joseph🪩 @oomfitos]

the antifascist crowd is MASSIVE in newcastle tonight!

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Now’s the time to please check in on your Black, Brown and minority friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.

In many parts of the country, they don’t feel safe. A thread:

[English PEN @englishpen]

Our thoughts and solidarity are with all affected by the racist and Islamophobic attacks taking place across the UK.

We stand together against far-right violence and in support of all of our members and wider communities affected by these attacks.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Our elders were invited to this country after hundreds of years of colonial rule that contributed to the industrial revolution. They worked the most difficult jobs in factories for paltry pay. We contribute billions to the economy today. We built Britain and we aren't going away.

[English PEN @englishpen]

We’re delighted to announce that 16 titles from 11 regions and 10 languages have won #PENTranslates awards.

They include, for the first time, titles from Cameroon and Singapore and translations from Greenlandic and Kannada.

Discover the winners ⬇️
https://t.co/l3dfoz21YG