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Kasia Szymanska
@kaszyma.bsky.social
Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
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More events feat. Translation Multiples (also online!):
📢Thurs, 13 Nov, 2-4pm: a triple book showcase (with Delphine Grass & Anna Lanfranchi) on recent books in literary translation: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
📢Friday, 14 Nov, 5-6.30pm: a multiples workshop www.kcl.ac.uk/events/works...
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Very happy to guest edit a special issue on "Media Ecologies of Translation" in Translation Matters 9.1 (Spring 2027)! The call is available at drive.google.com/file/d/14yBk.... Submission deadline for full articles: July 15, 2026.

Thank you for sharing widely!
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Join us for a cultural event about Kurdish storytelling and history, to celebrate the launch of 'The Last Pomegranate Tree' by Bachtyar Ali

📅 Thursday 27 November
⏰ 4.45-6pm
📍 Samuel Alexander Building, SG16
🎟 Free entry, all welcome, no booking required
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Tomorrow (14 November) at 5-6:30 pm (GMT), join this virtual @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more about this free event here: buff.ly/R362wXY.
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Tomorrow (Thursday, 13 November) at 2-3:30 pm (GMT), join this hybrid @ctis-manchester.bsky.social event where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more here: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:....
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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So glad to share with you the inaugural special issue of Feminist Translation Studies 'Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/2/1 @olgacastro80.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social
Feminist Translation Studies
Special Issue: Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation. Guest Editors: Şebnem Susam-Saraeva and Carolyn Shread. Volume 2, Issue 1 of Feminist Translation Studies
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
More events feat. Translation Multiples (also online!):
📢Thurs, 13 Nov, 2-4pm: a triple book showcase (with Delphine Grass & Anna Lanfranchi) on recent books in literary translation: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
📢Friday, 14 Nov, 5-6.30pm: a multiples workshop www.kcl.ac.uk/events/works...
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Tomorrow (22 October) at 4pm BST, please join this in-person @soasuni.bsky.social event, where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy.

Register for this event here: buff.ly/LMF5SGy.
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.
October 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🎉 Wonderful news! Huge congratulations to László Krasznahorkai - whose book SPADEWORK FOR A PALACE, translated by John Batki, was shortlisted for the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose! - on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature! 🥳🎊 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
www.nobelprize.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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📢📢📢 CfP for a special issue in @transpaces.bsky.social (2027) on the topic of Translator Norms, co-edited by our very own Anna Strowe, Richard Mansell & Helle V. Dam.

Abstracts due 24 Nov; notification of successful proposals by 15 Dec; articles due 30 May 2026.

More details: t.co/gVJ29PBTDm
https://benjamins.com/series/ts/callforpapers.pdf
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October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format.

The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

@princetonupress.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Slavic Comparativist
Assistant Professor - Slavic Comparativist
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October 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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📣 Translators! Don't miss your chance - VSC's open call will offer 2, 3, and 4-week residencies in 2026, and ✨translators are eligible for them.✨

Get in your application by the end of the day today! 👇
Autumn is arriving on campus! 🍁 🍂 Applications are open for Summer & Fall 2026 residencies at VSC. Join us on campus next year! Apply until September 30th at buff.ly/pYktysz
September 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Congratulations to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay whose book, Required Reading, was named the Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the @yalemacmillan.bsky.social!

Learn more about this fascinating book here: hubs.ly/Q03LqQ500
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...
Home - lifewritingtranslation - UNIGE
www.unige.ch
September 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Here is an #InternationalTranslationDay #shelfie of most of the 200+ books I've translated (the top 4 shelves), plus some anthologies containing works I've translated, and then some magazines likewise containing works I've translated.

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#booksky #xl8
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Happy International Translation Day!

Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.

(Written out in replies)
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Happy International Translation Day, everyone! Best time to save the dates for our CTIS research seminars in the upcoming months.
Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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This workshop w/@kaszyma.bsky.social asks how can we use languages to effect change? What's the difference between translation as activism & translation as art? & much more...

🗓️20 Oct Manchester Poetry Library, M15 6BG

🎟️FREE places for MMU & UoM Students

🔗 englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/057fe075
September 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM