I am thrilled that my translation of Atsushi Sato’s Family of the Wasteland is one of the PEN Translates Award winners! This will support its publication by the fabulous Akoya Publishing next year. Congratulations to all the other winners too ❤️ #translation #booksky #literarytranslation

Submissions welcome through July 31 for the #SCBWI Pitch-Perfect Translation Grant! Assists children’s book translators in the development of a specific #translation project into English, which is not currently under contract. Up to 2 winners selected annually: www.scbwi.org/pitch-perfec... #kidlit

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

Our latest rescue - a very sweet, healthy young boy. Vet says probably not yet 2 years old, maybe only just 1. We’ll be delivering him to his foster mama on Sunday, if all goes well.

The latest buzzword from Japan 🙄 (For those who don’t speak the language, it’s pronounced nah-tsu-bah-tay, not a more intuitive English pronunciation that rhymes with, well, you know..😬)

There is a very serious move from the Japanese government to have domestic cats declared an invasive species, opening the door for wide spread destruction of cats by animal control, who still use inhumane methods such as CO2 gassing. Please sign the petition, and share as widely as possible.

Minjie Chen of the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton, has requested that a library database field called #MARC041 about #translation be made visible. Please consider sharing this with your local library team, especially those working in #metadata: www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

@ginnytkmr.bsky.social suggested another Murata story—“Faith” (trans Takemori). Murata’s at her best when she makes us question basic assumptions. Here, she asks— Why do we judge people for some beliefs and praise them for others? What’s the difference between a dupe and a person of faith?

RJL Episode 50 is now available! - The history of new religions in Japan, inc Aum Shinrikyo - Haruki Murakami's Underground - 7 stories show Aum's continuing influence Translations by @brianbergstrom.bsky.social + @ginnytkmr.bsky.social readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Epis...

One of these is being built in my back yard, and this is how I feel about it.

YouTube’s response to this piracy is infuriating. They are absolutely complicit in providing these pirated works a platform. Please don’t listen to audiobooks on YouTube - support authors by buying a copy, listening on an accredited streaming service, or borrowing it from your library. #booksky

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Wherever you are in the world (providing you've got an Internet connection) you can hear me talk about the History of Manga on 16 June. If you're in London, you can get a signed copy of the book. Please share this post to spread the word! Tickets via EventBrite, click the poster below.

Absolutely honoured that Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings is included on this list. #translation #booksky

Repeat after me: authors/translators have moral rights, which include the right to be attributed, and the right to integrity, which means not having their works changed without permission. Rights are rights, which means they are not optional, conditional, or selectively applied.

The latest report on translated fiction in the UK from the Booker Prizes. #translation #booksky

The day before yesterday I woke up to the devastating news that the brilliant literary translator Juliet Winters Carpenter had passed away. I am still processing her loss, but I shared some thoughts on FB #translation #booksky #japanese www.facebook.com/share/18UPmT...

Ume on my tree 😋

This has to be about the coolest ever free book promotion! Thank you @iainmaloney.bsky.social #translation #booksky #sayakamurata #earthlings #eddievedder www.facebook.com/share/p/17GN...

It was T’s last day at work today. The admin ladies presented him with this adorable illustration of him with his wife (me) and our three cats ❤️

Such lovely cats #adoptdon’tshop www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dfp...

Okay, that's hilarious. Iran has phenomenal timing.

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

By the author of Blossoms In The Wind (about kamikaze pilots), Hiroshima, and Nagasaki - three must-read books. #booksky #japan

Birds love munching on the unopened buds on our kobushi magnolia tree - this hiyodori has been having a feast! (just a couple of metres away from the bird feeder 🙄)

So glad to see Kanako Nishi published in English, translated by Allison Markin Powell, at long last. Do read Sakura, it’s wonderful - I couldn’t put it down! #translation #booksky #japaneseliterature

Japan friends, this Sunday March 1st, from 1pm we’ll be celebrating Japanese literature in translation at Human Arts Studio in Tsukuba. Some of my literary translator friends have kindly agreed to come along and read from their work - free and open to all, so do join us! #translation #literature

Two down, how many more to go? #epsteinfiles

“Yuzuki believes that books about the struggle of insecure work, including Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) and Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job (translated by Barton), opened doors to Western readers.” #translation #booksky #japan

And still on 猫の日, these are our four foster kitties (mom and 3 kittens). They are much better behaved than our other three.

In honour of 猫の日 National Cat Day in Japan, here are our three, Nemu, Tigger, and Chibi. And yes, they are judging me.

Happy release day to Jose Ando’s Jackson Alone, trans. Kalou Almony. “Four Black Japanese gay men team up against a culture where discrimination is deep-seated and revenge is just a click away. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize–winning author.”

The cat’s out of the bag! I was so delighted the judges - all women I admire greatly - chose my translation. Thank you! #translation #literarytranslation #booksky

View from hotel this evening 💕

Thank you Maki Ishihara for the interview, published in the Tokyo Shinbun the other day!

Look what just arrived! Publishing February 12. #translation #literarytranslation #japaneseliterature #booksky

“Paper book estimated sales remained steady at roughly the same level as the previous year to total ¥593.9 billion, thanks to bestsellers including the paperback edition of Shuichi Yoshida’s “Kokuho” (“National Treasure”), which was adapted into a major hit film of the same title.”

Readers and bookshops: please boycott any publisher that replaces literary translators with the non-reading, uncultured, lying, manipulative plagiarism regurgitator.

Delighted to have been shortlisted for the Sasakawa prize for my translation of Mayumi Inaba’s Mornings With My Cat Mii, and honoured to share the spot with Stephen Snyder, Polly Barton and Bryan Karetnyk!

Please donate! All donations TODAY will be matched. Please help this important cat rescue group continue their life saving work. #cats #catrescue #japan

🚨 “A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from musicians to train its language models” A landmark European ruling! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I’m absolutely delighted that Sayaka Murata has won the Noma Literary Prize for 「世界99」 (World 99), the novel published earlier this year that started as a serialized story in Subaru magazine and turned into a bigger beast than anyone had anticipated, including Sayaka herself.

Excellent essay by Dorothy Potter Snyder

For those of you who use Spotify, you might want to reconsider… www.instagram.com/reel/DQG1P6P...

Something we did a little while ago has finally gone live #translation #japanesewomenauthors #literarytranslation #japanesefiction #booksky

Tokyo friends, this is happening on Saturday - please come and join us! #translation #literarytranslation #booksky peatix.com/event/4568298

I guess my job is secure for a while, then!