Well this was eye-opening. Yikes

On WWB, Cory Oldweiler reviews Nino Haratischvili’s “Juja” (tr. Ruth Martin, from Scribe Publications), which explores the “freighted desire for inspiration, purpose, and identity” that surrounds art. buff.ly/4d6GOdC

8 May, if you're in London and you're interested in bleakly funny satirical writing about the shallows of the internet and bullshit jobs, why not come to this (it's free!) acflondon.org/events/content…

I loved this book so much and I'm so thrilled it's now out in English in Ruth Martin's brilliant translation. Read it if you like unreliable narrators, beautifully observed humour, razorsharp dissections of racism, and friendships which hold everything together.

There is just ONE WEEK left to apply for our Bristol Translates 2024 Bursaries.

Low-income applicants from across the world are encouraged to apply before the 29th February.

Search 'Bristol Translates' 👉 rb.gy/w09xjk

If you're in London on 7 March, why not come to this Encounter with me and fantastic Austrian writer Ursula Knoll? It's free! There will be drinks! Book here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/encount…

The final programme for the Assembly of Literary Translators is now fully confirmed – and just in time to register at the early bird rate which is available until Sunday night. Join us in London on 11 March! …literary-translators.eventbrite.co.uk

A fantastic event tonight at Goethe-Institut London, with author Shida Bazyar, translator Ruth Martin and Sarah Hemens from New Books in German, celebrating Sisters In Arms

If you're outraged at the potential loss of many arts and humanities subjects at the University of Kent (including the whole of Modern Languages) there is a petition to the VC you can sign here: chng.it/TbxLW7C8JY

Congratulations to the winner of the 2023 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German language works.

🇪🇺 Jamie Bulloch for Hinterland by Arno Geiger (@picadorbooks, Pan Macmillan)

#TranslationPrizes

Translation and Race is already available open access!
routledge.com/Translation-an…
(Grant received last week, contract signed this afternoon, e-pubbed within hours!)

Does anyone have a mnemonic (or similar) for remembering anything about ancient Greece? Gods, muses, monsters, literally anything.

Join SISTERS IN ARMS author Shida Bazyar next week at Goethe-Institut London where she'll be talking to Ruth Martin (@the_germanist) and Sarah Hemens (@NBG_sarah) about her explosive and moving new novel.

🗓️ Thurs 8th Feb, 7pm.
For tickets and more info: goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.…

Bristol Translates offers partial and full bursaries for participants on a low income.

As part of a regular application,

✒️ submit a brief personal statement and financial information
⏰ by 29th February to be considered for a bursary.

Here's a number for the BBC More or Less team: 3 is how many times you totally freaked my cat out this afternoon (not a complaint, I thought it was quite funny)

Hello and happy new year 🎆

We're back with good news... applications to Bristol Translates 2024 are now open!

Taking place online, 1-5 July

And this year, for the first time, we're offering workshops out of English as well as into English

Find out more and apply below👇

Shida Bazyar will be at the Goethe-Institut London on 8 February, talking about her incredible novel SISTERS IN ARMS, with me and NBG-Sarah. Please come! More info here:
goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.…
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Congratulations to all the shortlistees (the Schlegel-Tieck prize shortlist in particular is 🔥)

Another free-to-access story on the Granta website, this one by Lukas Maisel, perfect coffee-break length, quite satisfying... granta.com/beginning-and-…

On 7 Nov, we held an #AITranslationSlam to celebrate literary translation forces and a healthy dose of competition with AI 🤖

Freelance literary translator Ruth Martin wrote an article about her reflections of the event #WomanVersusMachine ✍️

Read now 👇
goethe.de/ins/gb/en/kul/…