Of course the first faculty to do a work stoppage in protest comes from a state school 🫶

One last thing then I'll shut up about this: Michele Mari recently debuted in English, but his story (which hasn't aged a day) was written before I was born. Now it'll be in the Best Short Stories *2024*. Great literature can have a long life, translators can ensure that it does.

And ICYMI, several translator friends and I are trying to raise funds for young poet Nadine Murtaja & her family to evacuate from Gaza. We'd love to reach at least $23,000: the equivalent of 4 PEN translation awards since we started fundraising 🤞

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Holy shit.

'The $75,000 prize accompanying the PEN/Stein award will be donated, this year, to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the direction of the Literary Estate of Jean Stein.'

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Watching history tonight in Chattanooga, as Volkswagen workers voted in a landslide to join the UAW.

Despite pressure from Gov. Lee, this is the first auto plant in the South to unionize since the 1940s.

This incredible victory for labor will transform Tennessee and the South!

I am outraged. Today the president of my university called in NYPD to put 100 of our students in handcuffs and *arrest* them for engaging in a political protest on campus, illegitimately criminalizing political dissent. columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…

The Republic of Consciousness Prize event last night was such fun, and I was so delighted to see my pal Zoë Perry receive the honor for her masterful translation of Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia. It was a joy to be shortlisted—thank you to all the judges and organizers for all you do.

Congratulations to Ana Paula Maia, and translator Zoë Perry Zoë Perry – we are delighted to count you as a Bristol Translates alumna, and a speaker at Bristol Translates 2024.

Zoë will be speaking with Julia Sanches on TRANSLATING COLLABORATIVELY. One not to miss!

Enormous congratulations to Ana Paula Maia and PELTA member Zoë Perry (Zoë Perry), author and translator of the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024-winning Of Cattle and Men - and to Sheyla Smanioto, PELTA's Sophie Lewis, and Laura Garmeson for the special mention for Sheyla's Out of Earth!!!

We are justly proud of the recognition our very own Starling Zoë Perry has received for her wonderful translation! Congratulations to the other finalists! We appreciate you all. #translatorsrule

actually you know what’s more frustrating than this? when translators (or authors) who work for this press but are treated well aren’t prepared to even acknowledge the bad behaviour. solidarity is an alien concept to some people and it shows

Reminder that, while many small presses do good and important work, small isn’t necessarily synonymous with ethical, or better treatment for workers/translators, or really better practice in any way!

Excited to celebrate all things small presses tonight with the Republic of Consciousness Prize! 🥳

Proud to have our own Non-practising Zimbabwean☝️🏾😌's debut #AvenuesByTrain shortlisted along such great titles and presses!

Why 29 writers and translators (1 in 3 of the total nominees), myself included, have withdrawn from participation in this year's PEN America Awards. Thanks to Dan Sheehan for his thoughtful, thorough work in Literary Hub. (1/

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Of benevolent bovines and other sentient brings...

Thoughts on 'Of Cattle and Men' by #AnaPaulaMaia
translated by #ZoePerry

Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024 winner announced tomorrow.

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We were at $11,000 last week, now we're at $16,900--that's a hundo from TWO PEN translation prizes. Thanks to everyone who's shared and donated! Can we get it up and past 17K?
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Translators, one of our own, Khalid from Gaza, who joined us virtually at the action lab at the ALTA conference, is trying to evacuate his family after their home was bombed. I know there are so many fundraisers, but your support would mean a lot.
gofundme.com/f/assist-my-fa…