FAIR & VEHICLE (@PrototypePubs); GOBLINHOOD (@RoughTradeBooks); DUST SUCKER (Makina Books); translator of German-language lit, co-publisher @PrasparPress.
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ALT 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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Kind of tickled that my interviews with @AntonHur and @niewview were the second, and third most read in @asymptotejrnl in 2025! Here's to a 2026 of more fun conversations - thank you to everyone who took the time to chat with me! asymptotejournal.com/blog/20…
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29 Dec 2025
Our countdown continues!
Coming in at #3: Our interview with Jen Calleja on why literary translation is more than just language: “Translation is this human-to-human thing—someone’s telling me a story, and I’m going to have to retell it.” tinyurl.com/2n6yn7kj
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28 Nov 2025
FAIR by Jen Calleja - really excellent
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23 Oct 2025
“I see translation [...] as a human collaboration. Someone’s telling me a story. I’m going to have to retell it.”
A highlight of our brand-new Fall issue, don’t miss our interview with Jen Calleja—on translator rights, AI, and the power of collaboration: tinyurl.com/yy2wjxaf
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21 Oct 2025
‘On the wall in my grandmother’s kitchen there is a mortadella-coloured rotary telephone. It rings.’
💅 Favorita proofs are in 💅
Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy, this wild novel from Michelle Steinbeck, translated by Jen Calleja, is out 12 February.
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30 Sep 2025
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS
📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.
🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Jen Calleja retweeted
18 Sep 2025
Want to know more about the magical world of #Translating & #Translators? Read Fair by Jen Calleja.Startlingly well written in a playful form that grabs & maintains attention& has a fresh,original style that's entertaining, interesting, informative, witty, considered & forthright
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12 Sep 2025
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS
📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.
🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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I'm currently reading the copy of "Fair" that I bought at @edbookfest, and my blood is boiling at the unfairness of it all, not only what @niewview recounts about her own journey as a literary #translator, but also the parts of it that apply to my work as a commercial translator
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"#Translators are [...] required to [...] sign up to the idea that invisibility is hard-wired into their value, and that a truly great translation is the one that the reader fails to notice"
@AlexClark3 reviews @niewview's "Fair" (pub. by @prototypepubs)
theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
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10 Sep 2025
Tonight in London at Brick Lane Bookshop!
5 Sep 2025
Autumn book tour dates for FAIR, see you there! @BrickLaneBooks @vocebooks @CollectedDurham @prototypepubs
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10 Sep 2025
I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here: jencalleja.com/writing/
Voting is for SoA members and is done by post. Votes must arrive by 22 October.
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5 Sep 2025
Autumn book tour dates for FAIR, see you there! @BrickLaneBooks @vocebooks @CollectedDurham @prototypepubs
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21 Aug 2025
Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode by Jen Calleja
ALT For Mum. who built herself a grotto, and Shelley Duvall.
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Jen Calleja retweeted
12 Aug 2025
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS
📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.
🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Jen Calleja retweeted
29 Jul 2025
We’ve raised over $50K in the last ten days for @sameerproject 🙏🙏🙏 We are not and never will be a “501c3” we have no fiscal sponsor this has all been done by a small group of friends and comrades. Dont underestimate what you can do with the people around you.
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Jen Calleja retweeted
25 Jul 2025
✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨ theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
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