🤦 Did you miss our fall newsletter? The tens of photos 📸, the practice group invite 📫, the big news 🤩? Not to worry! You can still catch it all (and catch up) today at notisnet.org/resources/Em... #xl8 #1nt #NWLinguists

🎶 NEW BLOG: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑱𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏🔖 notisnet.org/Blog/13556878 🎶 This week on 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑡, we’re featuring an article by 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻-𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹, of Vancouver, WA, who translates songs and poems into English from German, Hungarian, Romanian, and Russian! 🤹‍♂️ #xl8 #NOTIS

💙 LOVE a small press that loves literature in #translation!

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

Just 1 more week till the winners are announced! 😬 Will Hamid Ismailov & Shelley Fairweather-Vega (tr.) win for We Computers? 🦾 Register to watch the Natl. Book Awards Ceremony (11/19, 8 pm EST) at: www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/ @nationalbook.bsky.social @littranslate.bsky.social @atanet.org #xl8

They made it to the finals! 🤩 Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov and #NWLiteraryTranslator Shelley Fairweather-Vega are on the National Book Award shortlist for their latest ✨ BRILLIANT ✨ collab: “We Computers: A Ghazal Novel.” Eeee!

Fascinating! I wonder in how many languages the word for “umbrella” is a compound of two words or roots that define its function, such as the Spanish "paraguas" ("stop" + "rain") and the Portuguese "guarda-chuva" (protect against + rain). "Pluie" is "rain" in French, yes? But "para"? From Latin?

Uzbek?! Hey! 🤩 That's former NOTIS President ✨ Shelley Fairweather-Vega's ✨ awe-inspiring #translation of Hamid Ismailov's WE COMPUTERS: A GHAZAL NOVEL. Shelley never ceases to impress us... 🦾💪🦾 (P.S. You can catch her this weekend peddling translations by the #NWLiteraryTranslators at #NOTIS2025!)

At the risk of self-adulating... I'm quite fond of the graphics I created for the #NOTIS2025 Conference! This handsome line-up of speakers certainly played a part... (🧵3-4/4) ... .. . #marketing #freelance #translator #design #xl8

At the risk of self-adulating... I'm quite fond of the graphics I created for the #NOTIS2025 Annual Conference! (🧵2/4) ... .. . #marketing #freelance #translator #design #xl8

At the risk of coming off as self-adulatory... I'm quite fond of the graphics I created for the #NOTIS2025 Annual Conference! The colors and fonts, the photo 🛟, the crab 🦀 (🧵1/4) ... .. . #marketing #freelance #translator #design #xl8 #1nt

A simple but important way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. A helpful list is in the link below but please do explore @arablit.bsky.social more widely as well as publishers like @commapress.bsky.social

L'artiste #Banksy a peint une fresque sur la Haute Cour de Londres représentant un juge frappant un manifestant, présumée être une réponse aux récentes arrestations de centaines de manifestants soutenant le groupe #Palestine Action. Mais les autorités ont déjà camouflé l'oeuvre.

💙 Register now for #NOTIS2025 — the foremost conference for T&I professionals in the Pacific NW — where you'll learn, connect, inspire (and BE inspired) alongside the best in the business! 💫 Visit notisnet.org/NOTIS-2025 for more exciting details! Early-bird rates apply! 🪱 #1nt #xl8 🙏 @atanet.org

An interesting list for #WIT month (and yes, it includes a nice notice for Dilemmas! My other pick from this list is Good and Evil and Other Stories, by Samanta Schweblin (Megan McDowell, trans.) #womenintranslation #translation #translatedliterature #japaneseliterature

📢 Esta semana, infoLibre es de todos Abrimos nuestros contenidos del 28 de julio al 3 de agosto En infoLibre creemos que hay otra manera de hacer periodismo y que no basta con decirlo: hay que demostrarlo 👇👇👇 ow.ly/2pq850WvXHf

⚠️ We're accepting member applications through July 31 (link below)! Also... 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡! Details now available for #NOTIS2025: our own, star-studded annual T&I conference. Learn more at notisnet.org/event-6016978 ✨

New app warns users when ICE is near! How? When someone sees ICE activity, they drop a pin to notify everyone w/in a 5 to 10-mile radius. Others then confirm it, share pics, and coordinate safe next steps. "It's fast, local, & built on trust." www.newsweek.com/new-app-coqu... #Idrinkmyhorchatawarm

If you live in the U.S., please share widely!

“We were here. We loved, we mourned, we thought. We built language from ruin, shaped stories from ash, and held onto memory even as it slipped through our hands like water. And when the world finally turns the page—if it ever does—let it not say that Gaza was silent.”

If u ask me what’s the situation in gaza :

🌤️ Join NOTIS on Sat., Aug. 8, for our 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗻𝗶𝗰 & 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸 — the ideal opportunity to connect with colleagues and friends over drinks, snacks, fun, and games 🎯 Please bring a dish for the 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸 and consider entering the cooking contest! 🧑‍🍳 Info + RSVP: notisnet.org/event-6016969 📥

So leave. But leave to where? The roads are closed, The sea is locked, The sky is a border drawn in fire. You say, leave to yourself, But where is the self When the pieces have been scattered? From "In Praise of What Is No Longer Ours" By Alaa Alqaisi 🕊️

Want to study with @alinaetc.bsky.social? Of course, you do! Can't WAIT for this session. I've been eyeing it on my calendar for months. What a mind. Join us! www.mayacpopa.com/onlineclasse...

🎊 NOTIS is NOW taking applications for our next round of conference grants — designed to help up to 10 of our #members attend a T&I conference of their choosing (examples below 🧵) with considerable financial support from NOTIS 💸 Learn more at notisnet.org/2025-Confere... #xl8 #1nt 💙

🤗 Hey, members! 📻 STAY TUNED tomorrow, July 1, for an exciting announcement from NOTIS ⚡️ #xl8 #1nt #NOTIS #NWlinguists

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

One Big Beautiful Fucking Disaster.

"Throughout history, intellectuals have exposed lies, challenged power, and helped shape freer, more just societies. When they are silenced—and when the institutions that protect them are weakened—critical thinking begins to vanish, and with it, the foundation of a free republic."

Join ALTA today for a win-win! 🏆 🏆 #literarytranslation #xl8

El plazo de presentación para el PREMIO DE TRADUCCIÓN ÁNGEL CRESPO convocado por la Associació Col·legial d'Escriptors está abierto hasta el 30 de junio. ES: www.acec-web.org/spa... CAT: www.acec-web.org/cat...?

The May-June Issue of The ATA Chronicle is now available! Members can log in and find it on the Chronicle-Online site at www.ata-chronicle.online. Check it out to stay up to date with the world of T&I and language services! 🤩 . . . #Translation #Interpreting #Ai #Certification #xl8 #1nt #atanet

Apropos of everything

I’ve never met @davidnaimon.bsky.social, and yet his manner is such that I feel like we’re old friends. And I don’t listen to podcasts except for Between the Covers. This week’s is a doozy. Very highly recommended. tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...

Join NOTIS's NW Literary Translators for ➡️ A RUSSIAN COMIC TRANSLATION SLAM 💥 on Wed. June 4 at Folio (downtown Seattle)! This year, 4* intrepid translators battle over an excerpt of a 2009 #comic by Russian artist Lena Uzhinova. $5 members, $15 nonmembers. Details at notisnet.org/event-6133341 🧵1/2

Lately on the blog (ICYMI) 🔖 4 poems by 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒂, translated from Romanian by UW Professor & Northwest Literary Translator 𝑰𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏 🫧 Read all 4 translations, the Romanian originals, and the authors' bios on the NW Linguist Blog 🔗 notisnet.org/Blog/13490556 #xl8 #literarytranslation

🌠 Mia Spangenberg to present her latest translation from Pirkko Saisio's celebrated autofiction trilogy ‘Backlight’ on June 10 at Third Place Books Ravenna. Joining Mia in conversation is fellow #NWLiteraryTranslator Elizabeth DeNoma. RSVP here 🔗 www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/mia-sp...

Support Husam's publishing house: arablit.org/2025/05/17/h...

"Mayar is among the more than 9,000 children in Gaza who have been treated for malnutrition this year..." Israel starving Palestinians is a war crime. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

📕 Join us over Zoom (alongside the ATA's Spanish Division) on Saturday, June 14th, starting at 11:00 am (PST) to discuss "La hija de la española" by Venezuelan author Karina Sainz Borgo. ⏩ Please don't forget to register to confirm your spot: ncta.org/event/ncta-a...

If you're concerned about how federal funding cuts will affect Washington state’s libraries, listen to this KUOW story, Which includes a message from The Seattle Public Library Foundation's Brian Lawrence: “Support your local libraries as they are coming under attack." www.kuow.org/stories/wash...

Esto resume todo extremadamente bien y tendría que tenerlo todo el mundo grabado a fuego en la cabeza:

#quiénvaatraducir por Noemí Sabugal @elpais.com elpais.com/cultura/2025...

Read our letter to Meta, sent last week, condemning their unlicensed use of authors' work to train AI. #DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves - societyofauthors.org/2025/04/04/t...

Thanks for the support over my NEH grant cancelation. I + my collaborator are “lucky”: we were in the final months of our 2-year grant, finished most of the work to submit our book to @stanfordpress.bsky.social—so “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” will be published. Far more devastating for so many.

Modernidad y holocausto paso a paso.

"Working at PEN America has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices." mondoweiss.net/2025/03/why-...

Walter Benjamin writing about fascism in 1936 "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves."

¡Os recordamos que hoy tenéis una cita en la Librería Antonio Machado donde presentamos esta nueva edición de #TiempoDeSilencio ilustrada por El Roto! ¡Os esperamos! 👇