Jason Grunebaum
@jasongrunebaum.bsky.social
Translator of Hindi lit / @SALTatChicago / @ArmorySqPrize / Fiction writer / #FacultyForward and proud member of #SEIULocal73
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Friends of SALT in the Chicago area!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
Translating South Asia: An evening in Chicago — South Asia Institute
Join International Booker Prize winning translator Daisy Rockwell, PEN/Heim Translation Grant winner Shabnam Nadiya, Sahitya Akademi winner Srinath Perur and others read from their translations from Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Telugu, and Urdu. After the success of last year's inaug
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November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Friends of SALT in the Chicago area!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
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Calling all publishers and emerging translators of South Asian literature!
We have two important deadlines coming up this month, don't forget to apply!
www.englishpen.org/translation/...
literarytranslators.org/2026-alta-em...
We have two important deadlines coming up this month, don't forget to apply!
www.englishpen.org/translation/...
literarytranslators.org/2026-alta-em...
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Calling all publishers and emerging translators of South Asian literature!
We have two important deadlines coming up this month, don't forget to apply!
www.englishpen.org/translation/...
literarytranslators.org/2026-alta-em...
We have two important deadlines coming up this month, don't forget to apply!
www.englishpen.org/translation/...
literarytranslators.org/2026-alta-em...
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The reason people started protesting about Israel committing genocide in Gaza early on is because Israeli leaders began openly declaring genocidal intent early on.
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The reason people started protesting about Israel committing genocide in Gaza early on is because Israeli leaders began openly declaring genocidal intent early on.
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PEN Translates x SALT grants are open!
Are you a publisher looking to fund a translation project from a South Asian language?
Apply by November 30th!
Are you a publisher looking to fund a translation project from a South Asian language?
Apply by November 30th!
PEN Translates - Translation grants for publishers - English PEN
PEN Translates – English PEN's grant for publishers is now open. Deadline: 31 May 2025. Open to UK publishers for new books in translation from any language and region. Awarding the best contemporary literature in translation.
www.englishpen.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
PEN Translates x SALT grants are open!
Are you a publisher looking to fund a translation project from a South Asian language?
Apply by November 30th!
Are you a publisher looking to fund a translation project from a South Asian language?
Apply by November 30th!
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Reminder that SALT Travel Grant applications are due TOMORROW September 30th!
Also, don't forget to apply for ALTA x SALT Emerging Translator Mentorships by November 30th!
Check out all of our current opportunities and news here:
salt.humanities.uchi...
Also, don't forget to apply for ALTA x SALT Emerging Translator Mentorships by November 30th!
Check out all of our current opportunities and news here:
salt.humanities.uchi...
September 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reminder that SALT Travel Grant applications are due TOMORROW September 30th!
Also, don't forget to apply for ALTA x SALT Emerging Translator Mentorships by November 30th!
Check out all of our current opportunities and news here:
salt.humanities.uchi...
Also, don't forget to apply for ALTA x SALT Emerging Translator Mentorships by November 30th!
Check out all of our current opportunities and news here:
salt.humanities.uchi...
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Two Month Review, from our friends @openletterbooks.bsky.social, spent the summer reading jury member @shreedaisy.bsky.social's translation of Tomb of Sand.
Jury chair @jasongrunebaum.bsky.social & prize founder Pia Sawhney came by these episodes to chat all things translation. Give them a listen!
Jury chair @jasongrunebaum.bsky.social & prize founder Pia Sawhney came by these episodes to chat all things translation. Give them a listen!
September 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Two Month Review, from our friends @openletterbooks.bsky.social, spent the summer reading jury member @shreedaisy.bsky.social's translation of Tomb of Sand.
Jury chair @jasongrunebaum.bsky.social & prize founder Pia Sawhney came by these episodes to chat all things translation. Give them a listen!
Jury chair @jasongrunebaum.bsky.social & prize founder Pia Sawhney came by these episodes to chat all things translation. Give them a listen!
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📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open!
The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.
Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69
The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.
Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open!
The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.
Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69
The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.
Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69
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Congratulations to Mehdi Khawaja, winner of this year's Armory Square Prize! His translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin's To Each Their Own Hell was chosen by our jury as this year's top entry in a very impressive field of translated works.
June 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Congratulations to Mehdi Khawaja, winner of this year's Armory Square Prize! His translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin's To Each Their Own Hell was chosen by our jury as this year's top entry in a very impressive field of translated works.
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Our 2025 shortlist and winner were announced this morning during a joint livestream event with our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social! Our thanks to the folks at Himal and to our five finalists for sharing their work and time with us.
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
2025 Armory Square Prize Winner and Shortlist — Armory Square Ventures
Launched in July of 2022, the Armory Square Prize is an effort to remedy the stark disparities in literary translation worldwide and support compelling storytellers from the Indian Subcontinent by rai...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Our 2025 shortlist and winner were announced this morning during a joint livestream event with our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social! Our thanks to the folks at Himal and to our five finalists for sharing their work and time with us.
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
June 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
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“A grammar of Khowar: descriptive and comparative analysis” by Elena Bashir (June *30* 2025) uclpress.co.uk/book/a-gramm...
A Grammar of Khowar
This book is the first full-length English-language grammar of Khowar, one of the Far Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages. It reflects more than 30 years of field research by the author, and attempts to...
uclpress.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“A grammar of Khowar: descriptive and comparative analysis” by Elena Bashir (June *30* 2025) uclpress.co.uk/book/a-gramm...
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A finalist for the @armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q
April 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A finalist for the @armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q
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Excited to get a shoutout from Geethanjali Shree in this interview on her latest work to appear in English, Our City That Year: pen.org/geentanjali-...
Booker Prize Winner Geetanjali Shree is ‘Untrammeled and Untamed’ - PEN America
In this PEN Ten interview, Geetanjali Shree discusses how fiction operates for her and literature as a political act.
pen.org
April 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Excited to get a shoutout from Geethanjali Shree in this interview on her latest work to appear in English, Our City That Year: pen.org/geentanjali-...
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📣 Applications are OPEN for the ESLT Summer School 📣 Join 25 translators & educators from Europe for 3 days of lectures, seminars & workshops.
Apply by 30 April 2025 ✍️ www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
Apply by 30 April 2025 ✍️ www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
April 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
📣 Applications are OPEN for the ESLT Summer School 📣 Join 25 translators & educators from Europe for 3 days of lectures, seminars & workshops.
Apply by 30 April 2025 ✍️ www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
Apply by 30 April 2025 ✍️ www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
Just noticed the do chashmi he in the Disney logo
April 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just noticed the do chashmi he in the Disney logo
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"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
www.houstonchronicle.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Hey folks, the strike by the NTT faculty union at #Wellesley College is still ongoing. The college administration canceled bargaining last week in bad faith. Unclear what happens next. thewellesleynews.com/21253/news-i...
Bargaining canceled as strike approaches 3-week mark
No new bargaining sessions have been set since the College cancelled the bargaining that was scheduled last Thursday, April 10. Since the WOAW union went on strike March 27, the College and WOAW have ...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Hey folks, the strike by the NTT faculty union at #Wellesley College is still ongoing. The college administration canceled bargaining last week in bad faith. Unclear what happens next. thewellesleynews.com/21253/news-i...
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They won’t be translations. They will be fraudulent text-like things that appear to hold meaning but will not. It’s not benevolent or about access, it’s capitalism.
Unavailable, because they don't hire (and pay) a (human) translator, perchance? www.thebookseller.com/news/taylor-...
Taylor & Francis to use AI translation tools to publish books ‘otherwise unavailable in English’
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books "that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers".
www.thebookseller.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
They won’t be translations. They will be fraudulent text-like things that appear to hold meaning but will not. It’s not benevolent or about access, it’s capitalism.
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Please donate to Rümeysa’s fundraiser which will help cover her legal and medical costs while she is held in detention.
Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:
Justice for Rumeysa Ozturk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Please donate to Rümeysa’s fundraiser which will help cover her legal and medical costs while she is held in detention.
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They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.
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March 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
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🎉 ALTA is very excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program!
There are 19 mentees in 2025. Learn more about them here, and join us in celebrating these promising emerging translators! https://buff.ly/3QbC2Bg
There are 19 mentees in 2025. Learn more about them here, and join us in celebrating these promising emerging translators! https://buff.ly/3QbC2Bg
February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🎉 ALTA is very excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program!
There are 19 mentees in 2025. Learn more about them here, and join us in celebrating these promising emerging translators! https://buff.ly/3QbC2Bg
There are 19 mentees in 2025. Learn more about them here, and join us in celebrating these promising emerging translators! https://buff.ly/3QbC2Bg
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📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language.
Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...
Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...
2025 Submissions Call — Armory Square Ventures
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January 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language.
Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...
Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...
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What we can expect under the Trump FTC: Use antitrust law to attack “DEI” programs, end investigations into empirically sound realities of AI bias & hate speech, go after doctors, hospitals, & therapists, & end half century long use of disparate impact. All under the guise of “ending wokeness.”
December 12, 2024 at 7:44 PM
What we can expect under the Trump FTC: Use antitrust law to attack “DEI” programs, end investigations into empirically sound realities of AI bias & hate speech, go after doctors, hospitals, & therapists, & end half century long use of disparate impact. All under the guise of “ending wokeness.”
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I created a South Asian languages and literatures starter pack! I’m sure I missed many people. If you are a translator, linguist, scholar, or even a dabbler or dilettante, please let me let me know in the comments and I will add you. go.bsky.app/AFjHSX6
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
I created a South Asian languages and literatures starter pack! I’m sure I missed many people. If you are a translator, linguist, scholar, or even a dabbler or dilettante, please let me let me know in the comments and I will add you. go.bsky.app/AFjHSX6
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The Humanities in Translation ( HiT!) Prize is open for submissions! @nupress.bsky.social @buffettinstitute.bsky.social
nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...
nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...
November 17, 2024 at 1:55 PM
The Humanities in Translation ( HiT!) Prize is open for submissions! @nupress.bsky.social @buffettinstitute.bsky.social
nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...
nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...