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Translator. Raitán. Swappin' yarns tae cowe the gowan. https://linktr.ee/robinmunby
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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · Oct 1
Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org

uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-re...
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Event with translator @robmunb.bsky.social in Madrid
#xl8
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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libripotens.bsky.social
any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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asls.org.uk
☝️ Ian Hamilton Finlay’s “Fox” was first published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961)
Page from Ian Hamilton Finlay's GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961) The page is printed in a red-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, sleekit, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem: see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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asls.org.uk
Wan o the 1%:

Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d
Heads up: if you are describing a fox, there’s like a 99% chance that you will use the adjective ‘sly.’
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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bethangharad.bsky.social
I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature.

I’d love you to give it a read!

modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the archive: Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Modern Poetry in Translation
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
modernpoetryintranslation.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
robmunb.bsky.social
Lovely piece from @mptmagazine.bsky.social and @bethangharad.bsky.social, who puts an ear to the archive and walks us through the Darkness with Ana Luísa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa 👂

(don't forget to read the poem at the end!)
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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calume.bsky.social
Mural escomanáu dedicáu a Conceiçāo Evaristo na Pequena África (Rio de Janeiro), cerca del puertu pel que se diz que foi la mayor entrada d'esclavos. Y ye que d'esclavitú tamién se fala en 'Caleyos de la memoria', la novela que traduxo @hefacuriella.bsky.social pa Ediciones Trabe.
#BookSky #calume
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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marrrtha.bsky.social
Three years of work on this — my new translation of the poetry and selected prose of sixteen-century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross for Penguin Classics.

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You can preorder it via all the usual bookshops or links here. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137...
Penguin Books webpage showing the cover of Dark Night: Poetry and Selected Prose of St John of the Cross, with a cover detail by El Greco. A quote from one of the poems: ‘Oh living flame of love, how tenderly you scorch me’ The blurb text: The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T.S. Eliot. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Cross’s complete poems and a selection of his prose, including from his extended commentary on the poem ‘Dark Night’. In his immediate, sensual writing, we see a soul searching for meaning and union with the divine: both meek and bold, deserving and undeserving, oscillating between light and dark, soaring and falling, desperation and salvation. Dark Night gives us a picture of faith at once confronting and inspiriting, and of the power of words as a means of spiritual transcendence. Translated by Martha Sprackland, with an introduction by Colin Thompson.
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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latinamericabureau.bsky.social
PEN Presents: Translators around the world are invited to submit proposals for English sample translations of previously untranslated works of contemporary Brazilian literature, of any form/genre, originally published in any language of Brazil! @englishpen.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social
Apply to PEN Presents - Grants for translators - English PEN
PEN Presents: Brazil open until 30 November 2025.
www.englishpen.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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ignaciopato.bsky.social
Vallecas anoche con Palestina. Si la frase os suena musical es porque es un guiño al "nadie puede abrir semillas en el corazón del sueño" de Lorca cantado por Camarón en La leyenda del tiempo.
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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galleybeggars.bsky.social
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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nicknasev.bsky.social
Sign the petition to get the UK Home Office to listen to translation experts before they blindly implement automated (AI-based) translation for asylum cases.

If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.
Sign the Petition
Home Office: before automating translation, please listen to the experts
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October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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wasafirimag.bsky.social
Catch award-winning writer and translator, @antonhur.com, deliver a public lecture in London this Wednesday, 29 October.

Anton will contemplate Han Kang's 2024 Nobel Prize win, alongside a wider discussion on literary prizes, translation, and the Anglophone publishing landscape.

buff.ly/2L3Apbb
Cream background with dark purple down either side. Heading in black reads 'Prizing Korean Literature'. To the bottom right is a photo of Anton, a man with short dark hair, wearing a purple polo shirt. To the right is text in black reading: When: 29 October, 7-8.30pm Where: BLOC, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road Tickets: £10. Concessions available
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
A photograph of the 14 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The books are stood on a wooden table against a brick wall with their spines facing the camera.
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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jencalleja.bsky.social
New long-form interview with me in Asymptote!
October 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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inquilinatomad.bsky.social
Maricarmen lleva 70 años en su casa del barrio de Retiro. Urbagesa compró la vivienda y quiso subirle el alquiler a 2.650 €, cuando su pensión es de 1.400 €.

Ha resistido defendiendo su hogar y el derecho a la vivienda. A sus 87 años, quieren desahuciarla el 29 de octubre ⚠️
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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jonathancampion.com
I'd love to make more videos from Central Asia – but how do I go viral?

🫓 Blind ranking plates of baursaki?

🌙 Stay quiet until you see a better Uzbek mosque?

🇹🇯 Five times Dushanbe's murals broke the internet?

🎤 Could I sing Kyrgyz songs, and call myself an akynfluencer?

jonathancampion.com
EURASIAN ECHOES
Stories and photographs from Eastern Europe to Central Asia
jonathancampion.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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antonhur.com
Day 5 of the UK tour for CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon and MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE by Bora Chung.

Can an AI translator tour for their authors and make the audience laugh every night?

NO
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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suchmayer.bsky.social
AI is fascism.
gregegansf.bsky.social Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 26d
“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
www.technologyreview.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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traficantes.bsky.social
#MarujaMallo

A 30 años de su fallecimiento, la figura de Maruja Mallo reaparece a través de diferentes libros.
Pintora de talento, excéntrica y ferviente republicana, encarnó a la nueva mujer libre y emancipada, siendo una de las principales figuras de la generación del 27.  🧵
October 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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fonsiloaizap.bsky.social
Hoy, el Grupo Planeta ha concedido el premio Planeta a Juan del Val, que trabaja en El Hormiguero de Atresmedia, propiedad del Grupo Planeta. Es íntimo amigo de Juanma Moreno Bonilla y llamó "fraude" a las elecciones que hicieron presidente a Pedro Sánchez.
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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smallpublishers.bsky.social
Founded in 2019 by poet, writer and translator Ghazal Mosadeq, @pamenarpress.bsky.social publishes books of poetry, hybrid and critical writing forms which are cross-cultural and multilingual. You can find their new and recent titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October
October 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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nortes1.bsky.social
🟡Hoja de Lata publica la novela de uno de los presos palestinos que liberará Israel
El militante comunista Basim Khandaqji es el autor de la laureda "Una máscara del color del cielo", que edita en España este sello asturiano. #Asturias

Por @diegodiaz1981.bsky.social

www.nortes.me/2025/10/13/h...
Hoja de Lata publica la novela de uno de los presos palestinos que liberará Israel - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia
El militante comunista Basim Khandaqji es el autor de la laureda "Una máscara del color del cielo", que edita en España este sello asturiano.
www.nortes.me
October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM