Come through!!

anyway in totally unrelated news, huge congrats to the brilliant Zoë Perry for her work on OF CATTLE AND MEN, winner of the republic of consciousness prize! I'm about to order it from my local library, and you should too 😊

Imagine saying 'can't we all get along' in response to genocide

Jenny Offill in The Paris Review

Please read/sign this petition calling for CUNY to reinstate adjuncts who have been fired for speaking out against genocide and in support of Palestinian liberation. One of them is my friend, the brilliant writer, translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda: t.ly/GvlF7 CUNY4Palestine

I'm looking ideally for a Black British translator of Brazilian Portuguese -> English for a book. No need to have much literary translation experience yet, but ideally they'll be a good with words in English and know Brazil.
I've been asking around and am drawing blanks. RT pls?

Submissions are now open for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024. The deadline for sending entries is Friday 3 May. For rules and how to submit, see: tinyurl.com/mryz788w

#womenintranslation Translating Women WordsWithoutBorders The Bookseller American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Society of Authors ITI Official site

The Novel Prize is now open for submissions through June 1st, 2024. Winners, chosen biannually, are published simultaneously by New Directions, Giramondo Publishing, and Fitzcarraldo Editions. Entrants residing in the Americas should submit via our portal: newdirections.submittable.com/submit

All-around Cercador maestro and committee chair Spencer Ruchti joined the Lost in Redonda pod to talk, what else, translated literature. Includes glowing praise for Zoë Perry's 2023 Cercador Prize-winning translation of Ana Paula Maia's OF CATTLE AND MEN (@CharcoPress), plus more.

I'm 40 years old today, in lieu of gifts or casting me as an 80-year-old woman in a movie please buy my novel so they will let me publish more novels bookshop.org/p/books/mobili…

look i’m not saying that two Turkish books in translation winning major prizes in North America means that publishers would do well to acquire more Turkish-language authors, but —— actually no that is exactly what i’m saying

Galleys have landed in Vermont!!! ❄️❄️💙

We stand in support of Jeferson Tenório's work, and against censorship. We know that this support is shared by agents Laurence Laluyaux/RCW Literary Agency and Jeferson's Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras. (2/3)

Appalled that THE DARK SIDE OF SKIN by Jeferson Tenório (tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato) is at the centre of a censorship row in Brazil, with some schools ordered to remove copies. This is a book that deserves to be explored, discussed and cherished - not hidden away. (1/3)

Minha primeira entrevista em português! Obrigada a Isabelle Moreira Lima pelo papo excelente

Same, in principle. But in practice, the author's voice isn't foreign to me and I'm not entirely American and I don't believe in pretending I'm not in the text

I could keep going. These are just the ones I was closest too. Most queer people my age have a list like this. But sure, it's too early to speculate about why Nex Benedict killed themselves. How could we know? Truly a mystery. Thoughts & prayers & dead kids, that's America

A short list of my queer friends who killed themselves before the age of 30, in roughly chronological order, to the best of my memory: