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Academic and translator, from Co. Kerry. Likes dinosaurs, cakes, and long-distance running. New book, White Magic: https://t.co/NYAQpCjNnm

Exeter, England
Joined January 2009
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Friends, readers, and Kindle owners! I am so happy this #TranslationThursday that my book White Magic is now available for purchase in the UK at a reasonable price (£12) without the bugbear of transatlantic postage, and only a fiver on Kindle!
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RT @thejosevergara: Very happy to have written a few words about @drpollyjones' excellent new book on Gulag fiction for @TheTLS. Really ter…
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RT @BloomsburyHist: In Russian Culture under Putin Eliot Borenstein explores the key phenomena of Russian cultural life in the 21st century…
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@FrancescoGoglia @ExeterModLangs Well done, Francesco!
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RT @TheTLS: 'Chekhov saw both the value and the threat in self-assurance, which, when coupled with ignorance and unchecked emotion, could p…
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By complete coincidence I was invited to talk about this on BBC Radio 4 ((#TodayProgramme) this morning. As usual, I shared a fraction of what I would have liked to say! I'm on at about 8.55 am... #Dostoevsky #translation #reading
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Fyodor fever: how Dostoevsky became a social media sensation
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@AAlexanderRose Thank you!
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RT @BorisDralyuk: Many thanks to the team at @ToppingsStAs, which I visited nearly every day during my time in Fife!
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Delighted that this groundbreaking monograph by @CathyMcAteer1 is out & available #OpenAccess! Many thanks @ERC_Research and @UniofExeter - another great study of #translation #politics and #gender from the @Rustransdark project! Please RT @aseeestudies @BASEES @ExeterModLangs
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Cold War Women by Cathy McAteer presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to the reception of Russian and Soviet literature throughout the English-speaking world. 🔓
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@CathyMcAteer1 Congratulations, Cathy!
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RT @TheTLS: 'Until now the English-language translators of Ulitskaya’s prose have been critically well regarded, but not necessarily well k…
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RT @TheTLS: Muireann Maguire: Dispatches from the highway
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RT @TheTLS: Muireann Maguire on the return of Raufarhöfn's self-appointed sheriff
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RT @TheTLS: ‘There is a fissure. A crack. Which Tolstoy refuses to ignore – where irony gets in, the serious joke we acknowledge ruefully,…
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RT @TheTLS: ‘Here is a novel with a weight of cultural capital, then, that still provides inspiration and creative opportunities for a rema…
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RT @TheTLS: 'Mathews, on the group’s radar from the mid-1960s although he did not formally become a member until 1973, was undoubtedly best…
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RT @TheTLS: ‘As long as she devoted herself to the search for truth, to the cultivating of rigorous attention, her life had value.’ Karen…
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RT @TheTLS: 'Chain bookstores made certain genres more easily available to readers who would have had trouble finding them in a bookstore o…
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RT @TheTLS: 'In my Narnia-like dream, I called it cremeschnitte as I gobbled it up; but once awake I realized I’d got the name wrong.' Iri…
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@CathyMcAteer1 Time to update this pinned post methinks, Dr McAteer... 📚
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