Marianna Suleymanova
@marsnova.bsky.social
Literary translator from Russian
2024 Words Without Borders Momentum Grant Winner
Third Culture Kid
Gender Coin-flip
📍 Philadelphia
🏠 Houston
🌱 Tashkent
2024 Words Without Borders Momentum Grant Winner
Third Culture Kid
Gender Coin-flip
📍 Philadelphia
🏠 Houston
🌱 Tashkent
Pinned
After a long day at the Moscow circus, a dark-skinned Russian woman is accused of kidnapping her children—then gets revenge on her accusers. Read “Mordovian Cross” by Evgenia Nekrasova, translated by our 2024 Momentum Grant winner @marsnova.bsky.social : wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Deeply grateful to @sawadhussain.bsky.social for selecting my translation for the Momentum Grant and to the team at @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing Mordovian Cross, a tale of racial profiling, revenge, and embroidery. The first story I ever chose to bring into English has found a perfect home🥲
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My Asymptote interview was the second-most widely read article in Asymptote in 2025 🙇🏻♂️💜✨
Our Top Ten Articles of 2025, as Chosen by You: #2 An Interview with Anton Hur - Asymptote Blog
Hur holds language in the highest esteem. Rightly so, for when we all turn to dust, poetry is our final imprint on the universe.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
My Asymptote interview was the second-most widely read article in Asymptote in 2025 🙇🏻♂️💜✨
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🌘 antidote for midwinter gloom: put the first Track Changes of 2026 on your calendar, ft. Devin Kelly (NYC) & Grady Chambers (Philly). join us for a reading, listening, & convo series where writers chat about their favorite records!
🎟️ advance tickets & info: jan-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎟️ advance tickets & info: jan-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🌘 antidote for midwinter gloom: put the first Track Changes of 2026 on your calendar, ft. Devin Kelly (NYC) & Grady Chambers (Philly). join us for a reading, listening, & convo series where writers chat about their favorite records!
🎟️ advance tickets & info: jan-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎟️ advance tickets & info: jan-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com
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Cormac McCarthy line sticking with me this morning, from The Passenger:
“Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”
“Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Cormac McCarthy line sticking with me this morning, from The Passenger:
“Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”
“Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”
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Not sure about the "architects of AI" being the TIME person of the year, but Indie booksellers, librarians, & library workers are def our winners.
They continue to fight book bans and support their communities by creating safe spaces, mutual aid drives, and opportunities for curiosity and escape 🩵
They continue to fight book bans and support their communities by creating safe spaces, mutual aid drives, and opportunities for curiosity and escape 🩵
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Not sure about the "architects of AI" being the TIME person of the year, but Indie booksellers, librarians, & library workers are def our winners.
They continue to fight book bans and support their communities by creating safe spaces, mutual aid drives, and opportunities for curiosity and escape 🩵
They continue to fight book bans and support their communities by creating safe spaces, mutual aid drives, and opportunities for curiosity and escape 🩵
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Head of the Household - F(r)iction
Kristina Ten presents the story of a woman preparing for her high-stakes marriage to an evil immortal lord.
frictionlit.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
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Congratulations to Ia Genberg and our contributor Kira Josefsson. You can read more of Josefsson's work on our website here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congratulations to Ia Genberg and our contributor Kira Josefsson. You can read more of Josefsson's work on our website here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
Philly! This is in exactly one week. We’ll have spooky stories & free hot dogs. Come hang out!🪆🐻
A wonderful talk coming up!
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Philly! This is in exactly one week. We’ll have spooky stories & free hot dogs. Come hang out!🪆🐻
Grateful for the opportunity to read at @littranslate.bsky.social conference today, in illustrious company🖤📚
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Grateful for the opportunity to read at @littranslate.bsky.social conference today, in illustrious company🖤📚
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This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...
The Queen of Swords | Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press
The Center’s publications, events, and educational programming enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture and promote the work of translators, build
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November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...
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In today's Meduza newsletter, I offer you a tease of an episode in the new season of Russia Underground, an excellent podcast from @howardamos.bsky.social and Nina Berezner.
meduza.io/en/brief/202...
meduza.io/en/brief/202...
This was Russia today Monday, November 3, 2025 — Meduza
meduza.io
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
In today's Meduza newsletter, I offer you a tease of an episode in the new season of Russia Underground, an excellent podcast from @howardamos.bsky.social and Nina Berezner.
meduza.io/en/brief/202...
meduza.io/en/brief/202...
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A wonderful talk coming up!
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A wonderful talk coming up!
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⛵️ VAIM by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls, publishes today ⛵️
Jon Fosse’s first novel since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman.
⛵️
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/vaim/
Jon Fosse’s first novel since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman.
⛵️
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/vaim/
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
⛵️ VAIM by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls, publishes today ⛵️
Jon Fosse’s first novel since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman.
⛵️
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/vaim/
Jon Fosse’s first novel since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman.
⛵️
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/vaim/
Philly! I am excited to bring Evgenia Nekrasova to our fair city to talk about folklore in contemporary Russian literature. I’ll be reading some of my translations of her magically pessimist tales as well. Please come, dress on theme if you like, bring friends & nemeses🖤📚🐻
October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Philly! I am excited to bring Evgenia Nekrasova to our fair city to talk about folklore in contemporary Russian literature. I’ll be reading some of my translations of her magically pessimist tales as well. Please come, dress on theme if you like, bring friends & nemeses🖤📚🐻
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I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social
Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
www.thebookseller.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social
You can now listen to the audio version of my translation at kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...
As read by me🐻
As read by me🐻
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
You can now listen to the audio version of my translation at kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...
As read by me🐻
As read by me🐻
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💛 L2 translators continue to remind the world that the concept of a mother tongue is, in fact, not so straightforward in large parts of the world, and that many of us translate into a language that is not our first!
As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...
October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
💛 L2 translators continue to remind the world that the concept of a mother tongue is, in fact, not so straightforward in large parts of the world, and that many of us translate into a language that is not our first!
ICYMI🐻🖤
As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...
October 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ICYMI🐻🖤
Still a few spots left 🙂📚
October 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Still a few spots left 🙂📚
Happy International Translation Day! And if your celebration includes reading some of my translations, I wouldn’t be mad📚🖤
September 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Happy International Translation Day! And if your celebration includes reading some of my translations, I wouldn’t be mad📚🖤
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🎉 Happy pub day to PLAYING WOLF! @catapultbooks.bsky.social
To celebrate, here is a fun clip of Zuzana Říhová and me at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Saturday night.
🙌 Shoutout to Pierce Alquist. L-o-v-e-d her suggestion that we read a section synchronously!
www.youtube.com/live/AcQkRXZ...
To celebrate, here is a fun clip of Zuzana Říhová and me at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Saturday night.
🙌 Shoutout to Pierce Alquist. L-o-v-e-d her suggestion that we read a section synchronously!
www.youtube.com/live/AcQkRXZ...
Brookline Booksmith is live! Transnational Series: Zuzana Říhová and Alex Zucker
YouTube video by Brookline Booksmith
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September 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🎉 Happy pub day to PLAYING WOLF! @catapultbooks.bsky.social
To celebrate, here is a fun clip of Zuzana Říhová and me at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Saturday night.
🙌 Shoutout to Pierce Alquist. L-o-v-e-d her suggestion that we read a section synchronously!
www.youtube.com/live/AcQkRXZ...
To celebrate, here is a fun clip of Zuzana Říhová and me at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Saturday night.
🙌 Shoutout to Pierce Alquist. L-o-v-e-d her suggestion that we read a section synchronously!
www.youtube.com/live/AcQkRXZ...
Boosting one of my favorite pieces, out this week from @kenyonreview.bsky.social , on the life of a human cub who knows more about literature than people. I hope you find some time to spend with this piece, written by Evgenia Nekrasova and inspired by an old folk tale from Perm Krai.🐻📚🖤
As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...
September 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Boosting one of my favorite pieces, out this week from @kenyonreview.bsky.social , on the life of a human cub who knows more about literature than people. I hope you find some time to spend with this piece, written by Evgenia Nekrasova and inspired by an old folk tale from Perm Krai.🐻📚🖤
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“Can you change the minds of pro-Russian conspiracy theorists? Czech director Robin Kvapil tried, driving three of them to Ukraine and filming the outcome.”
This is really worth a read.
www.dw.com/en/czech-fil...
This is really worth a read.
www.dw.com/en/czech-fil...
Czech film highlights Ukraine war conspiracy theories – DW – 08/23/2025
Can you change the minds of pro-Russian conspiracy theorists? Czech director Robin Kvapil tried, driving three of them to Ukraine and filming the outcome. The resulting documentary has proved controve...
www.dw.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“Can you change the minds of pro-Russian conspiracy theorists? Czech director Robin Kvapil tried, driving three of them to Ukraine and filming the outcome.”
This is really worth a read.
www.dw.com/en/czech-fil...
This is really worth a read.
www.dw.com/en/czech-fil...
As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...
September 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...
👀🖤📚excited to read this one!
@fsgbooks.bsky.social published Tash Aw's latest, THE SOUTH, a 2025 Booker-Prize longlisted (shortlist on Tuesday) first queer love story set in Malaysia, against the backdrop of rising Sinophobia and unrest. #Booksky 🌈📚
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
THE SOUTH, Booker-Prize longlisted first queer love in Malaysia
THE SOUTH TASH AW Farrar, Straus and Giroux ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now Longlisted for the 2025 ...
expendablemudge.blogspot.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
👀🖤📚excited to read this one!