Thea Hawlin

Thanks Jo!

Studio visits, shell door details, spiral staircases, sunsets. Spring feels like it’s finally in the air.

I wrote a little short story about Venice for the wonderful team over at Laguna B Magazine and feel absurdly privileged to have had my words illustrated by the genius that is Simone Carraro. Read, read, read.

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years, review finds Despite fall in trade, LSE study says overall impact was more limited than OBR forecasters first estimated

This surprises absolutely no one who lives in mainland Europe. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rouen’s Municipal Library, 1959–1964 (or, The Formative Years) - The Paris Review “With a certain measure of pride, I felt myself becoming an ‘intellectual.’ ”

The real question is where can I read Annie’s thesis on women and love in surrealism? 👀 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/12...

Still thinking about one of my first reads of 2024 thanks to Fitzcarraldo Editions.

As of this week, none of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are fully functional, according to the WHO. Only 15 remain open with severely limited services, and many of them are so overwhelmed with casualties that they are running at 200 percent capacity.

Remember when there was a debate over whether hospitals were being bombed? 100 days later, NONE of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are fully functional, according to the World Health Organization.

A colour photograph portrait of the Italian writer Lalla Romano brushing her hair at home in Milan.

I can't wait for more people to read + recognise the brilliance of Lalla Romano thanks to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social + @womenintranslation.bsky.social "A Silence Shared" is just the start...

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We Invent the People We Love: On Lalla Romano’s “A Silence Shared” Thea Hawlin reviews Lalla Romano’s novel “A Silence Shared,” translated by Brian Robert Moore....

So happy to hear that Lalla Romano translated by
@brianrobmoore.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social! I was lucky enough to review it for the LA Review of Books + I've still not recovered.
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This is wonderful news! I remember reviewing a translation of Rosselli's 'Hospital Series' many moons ago. I can't wait to read the poems she wrote in English!

Thea Hawlin: Louise Glück is a poet to guide us through our frightening world At a time where the impending threat of winter looms large, where death feels evermore present, the Nobel Prize committee’s decision feels something like an honouring of hope

“I loved those poems that seemed so small on the page but that swelled in the mind.” RIP Louise Glück. When she won the Nobel Prize back in 2020 I was lucky enough to write about her poetry for @theindependent.bsky.social. Her words will live on.

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Excited to fly in this new blue sky.