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Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
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#SFinTranslation out today (1/2):

THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com)

NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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
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SEA NOW hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey. Read the book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

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How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s Sea Now - Words Without Borders
Sea Now hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Jazmina Barrera's THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, translated by Christins MacSweeney (11/11/25) is in great company on Ms. Magazines November Reads for the Rest of Us! msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
November 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2025.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS
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BOOK REVIEW“They—all of us—are way behind, stuck in the old, familiar, small ways of thinking and unable to grasp the vast changes going on around us. ”**"How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s 'Sea Now'"**by Rebecca Hussey. Image: Book cover, drawing of cow on top of rock on water.
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Check out our newest NBA interview with author Mohamed Kheir and translator Robin Moger! Together, they discuss SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature: buff.ly/tlaTIqr
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“And I think though the book has a certain degree of cultural specificity, in terms of the geography or topography of a city, it is essentially a generous one: it invites you to match its lyricism, find the right balance and weight for its images and ideas.”— Robin Moger Words Without Borders National Book Award Interviews: Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger on National Book Award Interviews: Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger Sleep Phase. Image: Black background with blue and white lettering. Cover of SLEEP PHASE, and circular author photos of Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger
October 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Our Calico Series is open for submissions for 🐾 animal stories 🐾 in translation! Open to translations from any language into English, word count between 2k to 10k words, deadline January 15, 2026! Full submission details here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TOMORROW 10/17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Unbound Translations: A Listening Party
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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We interviewed author Jazmina Barrera and translator Christina MacSweeney about their National Book Award-longlisted novel, THE QUEEN OF SWORDS. Read the interview: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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As a translator, one of the major challenges was the variety of different voices included in this portrait of Elena, many of them of celebrated authors, writing in their own individual styles at a particular period in the past." — Christina MacSweeney, Words Without Borders. National Book Awards Interviews: Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney on National Book Awards Interviews: Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney The Queen of Swords. Image: Black background with text on the far left, book cover on top right, followed by Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney circular author photos.”
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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nichollsm86.bsky.social
some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Through the mail slot today. Sea Now
by Eva Meijer, translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo. And an excellent tote bag. www.catranslation.org/shop/book/se... @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence." 🌊🐃 🐋
mandysuzannewong.bsky.social Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · Oct 14
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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worldpoetryreview.bsky.social
Bay Area folks, this one sounds fun!
twolinespress.com Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Oct 6
Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Unbound Translations: A Listening Party
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TONIGHT @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Litquake: Hair on Fire event in San Francisco
October 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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joiedevivre9.bsky.social
I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!
CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. Aidan Rooney) THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (tr. Alex Niemi) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin GRACE PERIOD by Maria Judite de Carvalho (tr. Margaret Jull Costa) ANIMAL STORIES by Kate Zambreno INTO THE WEEDS by Lydia Davis THE WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn (tr. Martin Aitken) HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman DREAMING OF DEAD PEOPLE by Rosalind Belben GOOSE OF HERMOGENES by Ithell Colquhoun IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore) RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones & Robin Myers) MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf ORLANDA by Jacqueline Harpman (tr. Ros Schwartz) THE OTHER GIRL by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) SAY FIRE by Selma Asotić LITTLE WORLD by Josephine Rowe THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY by Edward Mendelson ALPHA AND OMEGA by Jane Ellen Harrison
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Unbound Translations: A Listening Party
October 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
twolinespress.com
Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 11 @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan Poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Litquake: Hair on Fire event in San Francisco
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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tobiascarroll.bsky.social
I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!
The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders
This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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NO EDGES: SWAHILI STORIES (@twolinespress.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list!

These eight stories from East African writers feature “tales of sorcerers, Nairobi junkyards, cross-country bus rides, and spaceships that blast prisoners into eternity”: bookshop.org/p/books/no-e...
No Edges: Swahili Stories
Swahili Stories
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September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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In SLEEP PHASE, Mohamed Kheir “uses his characters’ ever-shifting perception of their surroundings to probe the truths around globalization and its consequences.”

A @twolinespress.bsky.social novel (transl. by Robin Moger) from our #TranslationMonth list: www.catranslation.org/shop/book/sl...
SLEEP PHASE
Mohamed Kheir
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September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Thank you for helping us reach our goal of 75 new Two Line Press memberships which helps us cover 50% of our printing costs for an entire year! We have a few tote bags left, and you can still get one if you sign up as an annual member (U.S. based only!) ...while supplies last!
twolinespress.com Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Sep 19
Come see us this Sunday at booth #626 at the @bkbookfest.bsky.social! We'll have our latest books, backlist favorites, and...our brand new membership tote bag available for anyone who joins as a Two Lines Press member! www.catranslation.org/books/member...
September 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Queen of Swords is less a biography & more the record of Jazmina Barrera being haunted by the ghost/spirit/idea of Mexican author Elena Garro. Told in weaving vignettes drawn from deep research in Garro's archives, you'll probably feel haunted by the end too. Out on 11/11
Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera translated by Christina Macsweeny
In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera's deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM