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Esther Karin Mngodo
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jaybossrubin.bsky.social
Newly translated #Swahili fiction from award-winning Tanzanian author Esther Karin Mngodo @koimolove.bsky.social, in the spotlight at @wwborders.bsky.social. From the story collection THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI, coming 12/1 from @hangingloosepress.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Rare Goods - Words Without Borders
The first thing every albino learns is that they are rare goods. And I mean “goods” in the literal sense. We don’t need a special cram course to understand we’re precious commodities; people hunt us d...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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maorthofer.bsky.social
In the mail: pleased to see another translation from Swahili, by @jaybossrubin.bsky.social — Esther Karin Mngodo's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑀𝑣𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑖 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, from @hangingloosepress.bsky.social www.hangingloosepress.com/book/witness...
Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories - Hanging Loose Press
Winner of the 2025 Loose Translation Award, a collaboration between CUNY Queens and Hanging Loose Press.
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September 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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rachelcordasco.bsky.social
Check out her "vampire" story at Asymptote: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/02...

Swahili #SFinTranslation
September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
koimolove.bsky.social
Ni mwaka wa vitabu 🥳🎉
Karibuni.
September 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
koimolove.bsky.social
Happy to finally hold my copy!
"Without Sun" translated from Swahili to English by Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social is now out! Get your copy! @hopkinsreview.bsky.social 🥳
September 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
koimolove.bsky.social
Ahsante Jay
Always a delight working with you, my friend. 🥳🎉
jaybossrubin.bsky.social Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · Aug 20
Excited to share my latest translation, "Without Sun," by the inimitable Esther Karin Mngodo (@koimolove.bsky.social), out now in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social. Read it for free: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... Purchase the print edition, w/ cover art by John Waters (!): hopkinsreview.com/shop/p/volum...
Swahili-English translator Jay Boss Rubin (left) and author Esther Karin Mngodo (right).
August 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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hopkinsreview.bsky.social
And subscribe to The Hopkins Review for @jaybossrubin.bsky.social’s translation of @koimolove.bsky.social’s speculative fiction, forthcoming later this summer in THR 18.3!

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June 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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hopkinsreview.bsky.social
Happy pub day to @jaybossrubin.bsky.social, whose translation of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s ROSE MISTIKA is out today from @yalepress.bsky.social!

Read a chapter of this “controversial Swahili classic” in The Hopkins Review 16.2 on @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social, then get the book!
June 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
koimolove.bsky.social
Congratulations Jay 🎉🥳
June 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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maorthofer.bsky.social
New review: Euphrase Kezilahabi's 1971 novel 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑘𝑎, now coming out in English translation (in The Margellos World Republic of Letters-series) www.complete-review.com/reviews/swah...
Rosa Mistika - Euphrase Kezilahabi
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Rosa Mistika by Euphrase Kezilahabi.
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May 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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jaybossrubin.bsky.social
"Aiskrimu"—a short story by Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by me, published today in @kalaharireview.bsky.social
kalaharireview.bsky.social The Kalahari Review @kalaharireview.bsky.social · May 27
Aiskrimu
A short story about the agony and the ecstasy of eating ice cream — from Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin
Aiskrimu
A short story about the agony and the ecstasy of eating ice cream — from Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin
kalaharireview.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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maorthofer.bsky.social
+ ARC of Euphrase Kezilahabi's 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑘𝑎 ( @yalepress.bsky.social 6/2025; tr. @jaybossrubin.bsky.social ) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... Translations from African languages still all too rare, but w/ this + @ugapress.bsky.social series ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/u... things looking up.
Rosa Mistika
A controversial Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, banned on publication and finally translated into English   Teenage Rosa lives ...
yalebooks.yale.edu
April 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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jaybossrubin.bsky.social
Enormous congratulations to @makafanentlamelle.bsky.social for this brilliant translation from Sesotho / dramatic English-language retelling, in which THE BLIND MAN says to THE LAME MAN, proposing that they work together, "you can be my eyes and I your feet." www.asymptotejournal.com/drama/azarie...
The Blind Man, The Lame Man and the Antelope - Asymptote
LIST OF CHARACTERSTHE CHIEFTHE LAME MANTHE BLIND MANTHE BLIND MAN’S FATHERSouthern Africa, in the turbulent years of the Lifaqane (be
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April 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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commonmag.bsky.social
"Much more remarkable than conventional success, Gurnah suggests, are kindness, humility and the ability to endure."

@jaybossrubin.bsky.social shares his thoughts on THEFT, the new novel from Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, in the latest edition of "What We're Reading".
What We’re Reading: March 2025
JAY BOSS RUBIN <br> To be denied the ability to determine one’s fate and fulfill one’s potential is sometimes a societal theft, sometimes an imperial one, sometimes both. But ambition that holds no…
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March 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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fictionable.bsky.social
On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast we explore connections and disconnections with Esther Karin Mngodo and the translator @jaybossrubin.bsky.social

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A portrait of the writer Esther Karin Mngodo, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'I keep wanting to write the stories I do not see'
January 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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fictionable.bsky.social
Maggie is looking for a partner in Esther Karin Mngodo's story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin. But will her love life ignite?

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#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #comics #translation #podcast
A light shines on an empty chair, with a quote from Esther Karin Mngodo's short story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin: 'If I want an interrogation, I can go to the police…'
December 12, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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fictionable.bsky.social
Maggie is looking for a partner in Esther Karin Mngodo's story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin. But will her love life ignite?

Swipe right at www.fictionable.world/stories/firs...

Image: Yaoqi

#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #comics #translation #podcast
A match burns against a dark background, with a quote from Esther Karin Mngodo's short story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin: 'Ndiyo… like a matchstick…'
November 20, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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udadisi.bsky.social
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Tuzo za uandishi bunifu; mcheza kwao hutuzwa?
Majaji wamekwishachuja miswada bora na kuwasilisha orodha teule ya maandishi bunifu katika nyanja za riwaya, ushairi, tamthiliya na hadithi za watoto.
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April 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
koimolove.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky
What's good? 🌺
June 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM