Tweets for ERC-funded project “The Dark Side of Translation: 20th and 21st Century Translation from Russian as Political Phenomenon in the UK, Ireland, & USA”.
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6 Apr 2023
So great to present a panel with the entire #RusTrans project team about our research at #BASEES2023 @BASEES @UofGlasgow @ERC_Research @AMaslenova @CathyMcAteer1 @sgear23 @chriskap7 @ExeterModLangs. Thank you to everyone who came!
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Delighted that this groundbreaking monograph by @CathyMcAteer1 is out & available #OpenAccess! Many thanks @ERC_Research and @UniofExeter - another great study of #translation #politics and #gender from the @Rustransdark project! Please RT @aseeestudies @BASEES @ExeterModLangs
3 Dec 2024
Cold War Women by Cathy McAteer presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to the reception of Russian and Soviet literature throughout the English-speaking world.
🔓 bit.ly/3BmxTGV
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11 Apr 2024
A wonderful companion to Russian literature that makes me proud to contribute. 👏👏🍀🧿 Our editors Cathy and Muireann did a great job on connecting researchers from all the continents together. @Rustransdark Rus edebiyatı nerede, nasıl, kimlerle çevrilmiş, merak edenler için...
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4 Apr 2024
Thank you, Peter!
4 Apr 2024
How exciting! Congratulations!
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4 Apr 2024
📢 Now hear this!! Our edited volume "#Translating #Russian #Literature in the Global Context", published by @OpenBookPublish and funded by @ERC_Research is *here* and available in Open Access! Come, feast your eyes! openbookpublishers.com/books…
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19 Mar 2024
Irish scholar of Russian Maighréad Nic Mhaicín has been honoured with a #blueplaque in Belfast. @tcddublin’s first Russian teacher, she translated Chekhov into Irish. irishnews.com/news/northern-…
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7 Mar 2024
“No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be”-Russian poet Anna Akhmatova depicted as “St Anna” in mosaic by Boris Anrep in Mullingar Cathedral🇮🇪#WorldBookDay #WomensHistoryMonth
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10 Nov 2023
Thrilled to be shortlisted for the #FutureBook23 Excellence Award for our new series design, #puttingwordsfirst, which we announced in August.
Congratulations to the other shortlistees and thanks to the judges and @thebookseller! 💫
10 Nov 2023
Shortlisted for the #FutureBook23 Excellence Award: And Other Stories (@andothertweets)’ new series design.
“A masterclass in iconic, impactful and sustainable book design, the publisher’s revamped covers demonstrated fresh thinking and careful execution at every step.”
bit.ly/3MDE6Rd
ALT A blue background with And Other Stories' logo and copy: Shortlisted FutureBook Excellence Award.
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10 Nov 2023
One thing that struck last night was how Vika had a habit of gathering extraordinary women around her. @sasha_weirdsley, @emmashercliff, @chiggi, @christinalamb, Tetyana Teren, @OKhromeychuk, @BeeRowlatt, thank you for your beautiful tributes & for making this happen. @PenUkraine
9 Nov 2023
Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina was killed in a ru missile strike before she could finish her latest book, ‘Looking at Women Looking at War’. Tonight journalist @christinalamb read an extract at a moving tribute to Victoria’s life and extraordinary work at @britishlibrary
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9 Nov 2023
Today's announcement of the @WarwickPrizeWiT seems like a great opportunity to share that World Editions just acquired rights to publish #StateofEmergency, written by @JeremyTiang, in the US and UK. We are over the moon to publish Jeremy's original work!
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10 Nov 2023
Baku is ready for a 5-day celebration of #books! Hope to see many friends at the #BakuInternationalBookFair at the Expo Centre. I'll be at the launch of new English editions of Kamal Abdulla's Incomplete Manuscript and Valley of the Sorcerers at 12.00 tomorrow (Saturday).
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9 Nov 2023
Ivan Turgenev is 205 today. An article on Turgenev and Britain in @AfishaLondon : afisha.london/en/2023/11/09/…
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8 Nov 2023
“Many English people thought that the revolution would splash elixir of life on Russia...what infantile ignorance!” - Ivan Bunin, first Russian writer to get a Nobel Prize (died #OTD 70 years ago). He was a brilliant translator from English though his spoken language was poor.
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18 Oct 2023
Hard copy is HERE! So happy that three of the RusTrans team feature in Modern Language Review 118:4, with articles (funded by @ERC_Researc) from PDRA @CathyMcAteer1 & PhD @AMaslenova. Even @Muireann is there as a book reviewer (& as Slavonic Editor!) #mhrahurray @ExeterModLangs
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10 Oct 2023
📢 The latest Modern Language Review is out!
👉mhra.org.uk/publications/mlr…
Articles by Peter Yoonsuk Paik, Kathryn Bryan, Lachlan Hughes, Samuel Donoghue, Daphne Maria Seemann, Anna Maslenova, Cathy McAteer & Book Reviews.
Access via @ProjectMUSE 👉muse.jhu.edu/issue/51211
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11 Oct 2023
I am so pleased to have contributed to the MLR with my article on the translator Marian Fell! muse.jhu.edu/article/907836
Also @CathyMcAteer1 on Olga Carlisle! @ExeterModLangs @Rustransdark @ExeModLangsPGs @UCFLangs_ECA
10 Oct 2023
📢 The latest Modern Language Review is out!
👉mhra.org.uk/publications/mlr…
Articles by Peter Yoonsuk Paik, Kathryn Bryan, Lachlan Hughes, Samuel Donoghue, Daphne Maria Seemann, Anna Maslenova, Cathy McAteer & Book Reviews.
Access via @ProjectMUSE 👉muse.jhu.edu/issue/51211
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2 Oct 2023
Yes! Book in to hear how Mark Aldanov became a bestselling author for #Scribner's in 20th century US, helped along by fellow emigre Nicholas Wreden. #bookhistory #literatureintrans #publishing @SHARPorgNews
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30 Sep 2023
📅 30 September: is International Translation Day! 🥳
The patron saint of #translators, librarians and encyclopedists - Saint Jerome - died 1603 years ago today. Be proud of what you do and learn work-life balance from him 📷
#xl8 #EDLangs #proudtobeatranslator
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We will announce the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation on 20th October. On this #InternationalTranslationDay, we would love to hear your recommendations from the 153 titles submitted in 2023. What #womenintranslation have you been reading and enjoying?
We are pleased to publish the list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023
tinyurl.com/3bpxj9eb
It includes a record 153 entries from 32 languages. Ancient Greek, Bosnian, Gun, Romansh & Vietnamese are represented for 1st time in our 7-year history.
ALT A photograph of copies of the 153 titles submitted to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023.
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