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Jen Calleja
@niewview
FAIR & VEHICLE (@PrototypePubs); GOBLINHOOD (@RoughTradeBooks); DUST SUCKER (Makina Books); translator of German-language lit, co-publisher @PrasparPress.
Hastings, England
Joined November 2012
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    Substack: substack.com/@jencalleja Instagram/Threads: jencalleja_ Bluesky: @jencalleja.bsky.social jencalleja.com IRL 👋🏼
    A selection of books viewed from@above on a white table including Goblinhood: Goblinhood as a Mode, I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For, Vehicle and Dust Sucker
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    It’s International Translation Day! It’s a highly skilled, highly creative, underpaid job! Don’t take translators for granted! Pay them fairly & on time! If you wouldn’t rush or stress out an author, don’t do it to translators! Credit our work in pr & reviews! Send us gifts!🎁
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    Mate. What a week. I've been awarded a Doctoral studentship to study for a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA from October. I'll be writing a memoir through the lens of translation & a thesis on women translators who've written creative non-fiction about their practice. !.
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    Me: OF COURSE poetry can be translated!!! Me, translating poetry:
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    I hope you won’t begrudge me celebrating something I’ve been looking forward to for a long while during this discombobulating time - my debut book of short stories is out today from @prototypepubs. I’m wearing my new intellectual frog shirt to celebrate.
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    So... Marion & I have been longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize?!?!?!?!
    We are pleased to announce our #MBI2019 longlist. Watch what our judges had to say. Read more bit.ly/2J5FH3R #FinestFiction
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    Good morning I’ve just finished jumping on the sofa & am now crying because I’ve been awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from @Soc_of_Authors so I can work on my novel for 3+ months. Thank you SoA I love you.
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    That’s *Dr* Jen to you.
    A woman wearing all black does a peace sign while smiling and taking a selfie in a bathroom mirror
    A passionate fruit cocktail!
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    ‘In the last four weeks language has deserted me’: Adania Shibli on being shut down - Speaking out since the cancellation of her award ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Palestinian author sheds light on her work & the power of linguistics & erasure
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    It’s just hitting me how exciting/wild 2023 is going to be. I have a novel, a poetry collection, a collection of personal essays + my 13th & 14th book translations coming out + I’ll be finishing my PhD (on hybrid translator memoir + my own hybrid translator memoir)…
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    *Vehicle: a verse novel* coming from @prototypepubs this November !!! Can’t believe this book is finally coming out! And looking so handsome 🧡
    An angled away freestanding book cover. Block orange upper half, block white lower half. Vehicle by Jen Calleja.
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    A guy in a suit outside Euston station just said ‘wow, hello there’ to me and when I gave him a withering look he said ‘eurgh, what a dog’ so I followed him growling and barking and he literally jogged away from me #iwillbiteyou
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    Cat’s out of the bag… I have a new book coming out in November from the beloved @prototypepubs - Vehicle: a verse novel. It’s been many years in the making. Already had some messages about it this morning, you lot pay attention to newsletters! More soon…
    A screengrab from an E-newsletter that reads: we’re also thrilled to announce that in November we will be publishing the first full-length prose work by Jen Calleja, called ‘Vehicle: a verse novel’, a hybrid work of speculative fiction about personal testimony, the life of archives and the impossibility or possibility of biography and translation.
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    Feeling a bit emotional: I've been longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize! My submission was an extract from my experimental literary translator memoir, which I'm writing as part of my PhD at UEA. Thank you to the judges & congrats to the other longlisted writers/artists.
    We're delighted to announce the longlist for the Ivan Juritz Prize 2020! ivanjuritzprize.co.uk Congratulations to all those listed, and thank you to everyone who entered, we had so many really strong submissions. We look forward to sharing the shortlist & winners soon!