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Are you an early-career literary translator who would like to connect with other colleagues also starting out?
Do you have questions about projects, courses, contracts and more?
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23 Jun 2024
“I crave freedom, irresponsibility and adventure.” Celebrate the wonderful Geetanjali Shree’s birthday (6/12) by reading her stirring Lancaster International Fiction Lecture, on the necessity of creativity during dark times. buff.ly/3XpfgL8
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Black Swans delves into the emotions and ethical dilemmas of introducing AI into human caregiving, all through the lens of two sisters and their mother. It's a story that's close to our hearts, and we're excited to bring it to life.
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Black Swans Opens Next Week – German theatre in translation!
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29 Mar 2024
Friends in America, just to let you know 'The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories' is now available in the USA, via Amazon amazon.com/Penguin-Book-Beng…
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🎉 @PENamerica's 2024 literary grant winners have been announced! Congratulations to all, including ALTA mentee @subhashree_b, member @JackDHargreaves, and past Lucien Stryk Prize judges @PoetDongLi & Soje on receiving PEN/Heim Translation Fund grants! bit.ly/3PJEYpc
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25 Mar 2024
Want to help out at Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair? We're on the look-out for volunteers!
If you're interested, send an email with your CV to Ali on execassist[at]poetrysociety[dot]org[dot]uk.
We'll pay expenses and make sure you have a great time!
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Congratulations to Maureen Freely on being named the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Winner 2023 by @bookcritics for her translation of Tezer Özlü’s 'Cold Nights of Childhood' (@transitbooks).
22 Mar 2024
📰 PRESS RELEASE: 🏆National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics award prestigious translation prize to the @Uniofwarwick Professor Maureen Freely 📚
@maureenfreely @WarwickPrizeWiT @SCAPVC
#Author #journorequest #AWARD #NBCCAwards
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ALT Images from Karen Robinson/the Observer & NBCC Twitter
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Three literary translation workshops by leading translators from Dutch to English.
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Scattered All Over the Earth, by Yoko Tawada, tr. by Margaret Mitsutani.
Welcome to the not-too-distant future.
Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ‘the land of sushi’.
Longlisted for the 2023 @DublinLitAward.
#JapaneseLit #WITMonth #WIT
ALT Scattered All Over the Earth, by Yoko Tawada, tr. by Margaret Mitsutani.
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12 Aug 2023
Today’s #WITMonth story: When a young woman takes her partner home to her parents, mother/daughter tensions boil over. “Anna and Her Daughter’s Partner” is by Laksmi Pamuntjak and translated by Annie Tucker. buff.ly/441Hco7
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12 Aug 2023
Sensational Thai poetry on our website by Angkarn Chanthathip !
Read his poem 'The Heart’s Fifth Chamber' here: bit.ly/3Kt5Ln1
Translated by Tracey Martin alongside PTC workshop attendees in December 2013, with notes by the facilitator at the time Sarah Maguire.
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The Lake, by Bianca Bellová, tr. by Alex Zucker.
A dystopian page-turner about the coming-of-age of a young hero.
EU Prize for Literature, 2017.
EBRD Prize for Literature, 2023.
#CzechLit #Dystopia #WIT
ALT The Lake, by Bianca Bellová, tr. by Alex Zucker.
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There are just a handful of slots left for the popular annual Bilingual Reading Series at ALTA46: The Place of Translation this November! The remaining categories are: Germanic Languages Poetry, Memoir. Be sure to sign up before they're all gone! bit.ly/3MBB6nU
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Just a handful of slots left for the Summer Multilingual Translation Workshops! This is your chance to get specialized feedback on a translation in a small group of translators. The workshops will be held August 21-26. Register before they're all gone! eventbrite.com/e/2023-summer…
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7 Jul 2023
Only 1 week left to submit to #SSTPoetryPrize2023!
Want to translate an #Urdu poem? @RawaneeCreative has created a new booklet full of wonderful suggestions for your #SSTPoetryPrize entry!
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#poetrytwt #xl8 @MUNIBAMAHMUD @AkhtarSascha
ALT Front cover of the Aks-e-Rawanee booklet. Photo of a stream with woodland on the left and hazy mountains ahead. Heading in Urdu top right. Heading in English below reads "Aks-e-Rawanee: A Selection of Urdu Poetry". Subheading reads "Compiled by Rawanee in collaboration with the Stephen Spender Trust".
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29 Jun 2023
A fascinating article on the art of #translation featuring #SSTPoetryPrize2023 judge @SamanthaSchnee!
“No two translators would ever create the same translation from the same text.”
#SSTPoetryPrize #xl8
28 Jun 2023
The Times asked translators to discuss their work. “The idea that translation is a collaborative process, that the author and the translator are building something together, doesn’t really get as much airtime as I would like,” Jeremy Tiang says. nyti.ms/3CMWhPj
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16 Jun 2023
🫦This beauty is now in your bookshop and online ready to order❤️
A perfect summer reading 🏖️
@frenchbooksuk @Read_WIT @womenwritersnet @WaterstonesRose @WstonesKingston #literaryfiction #womenwriters #womenstories
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