📣Beginning literary translators--it's the last day to apply to this workshop!

Now 4/10 of the PEN/Jean Stein longlisters have said no to the $75K prize in protest of PEN America. Camonghne Felix Ordinary Notes Maya Binyam Alejandro Varela. 3/10 so far for Poetry. Many more in other categories. PEN’s current leadership is untrustworthy & has compromised its mission.

ahhhh this thread is making me miss living in london 🥲

when you send off 2 bits of work and it’s (just) sunny enough to clock off early and have a glass of wine in the garden

Possibly the best joke ever.

Heads-up, literary translators! Read on to learn how & why you should attend a solidarity drop-in session with our new Translators Organizing Committee -->

We’re looking at the first ‘year without harvest’ on my farm, with only c.10-15% currently cropped & surviving, but very low quality after winter.

Heavy 🌧️ again today. Extreme weather overcoming decades of investment in healthier soils. A real crisis point & wake up call.

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fun fact the stereotype that all librarians wear cardigans actually comes from the fact that libraries tend to be colder places, due to the hauntings

Despite the pain and ongoing aggression, the children of Gaza celebrate Eid.

Let's order books!

Specifically the ones withdrawn from PEN America's book awards this year!

Starting with Antonio di Benedetto X Esther Allen's THE SILENTIARY: 'A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book' nyrb.com/products/the-s…

random things i have learned from my translation research today: when men get facelifts, they have to shave behind their ears forever more because that’s where the beard-growing skin has been relocated to 😬

NEWS!

We are delighted to announce that Janani Ambikapathy will be joining MPT as our new Editor, succeeding Dr Khairani Barokka:

modernpoetryintranslation.com/announcing-jan…

📢We've officially opened our doors again! Or, we're now receiving applications for our Open Doors Project 📢

If you're from a traditionally under-represented background, looking for a publishing role, please consider applying before 25.04 :

blakefriedmann.co.uk/carole-blake-o…

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APPLY NOW for our Advanced Translation Workshop: Publishing Literature from Taiwan. Led by Jeremy Tiang, this 3-day workshop in November 2024 will focus on writing sample translations and pitches.

Find out more & apply:
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Happy birthday to Gabriela Mistral, #BOTD in 1889. The first LatAm author to be awarded the Nobel for literature, and still the only LatAm woman to have received the honor, she wrote beautifully for children. Here is one of her poems for little ones, translated by Ursula Le Guin.

Haven’t seen this shared on Twitter so putting it out there. Funding for Ukrainian literary translators.

Women end up doing the academic housework kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

ATTENTION #THEATRE TRANSLATORS! The deadline for #BCLT2024 Summer School Multilingual Theatre workshop applications is extended to 14 April - Suitable for translators from ANY language into English. William Gregory

Don't miss your chance to apply: buff.ly/3lDmPx2