Congratulations to our contributors Évelyne Trouillot, Krisztina Tóth, and Han Kang for being shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! If you're interested in reading more from these fantastic authors— head to our website!

"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..." ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...

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

Event with translator @robmunb.bsky.social in Madrid #xl8

any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?

☝️ Ian Hamilton Finlay’s “Fox” was first published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961)

Wan o the 1%: Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature. I’d love you to give it a read! modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

Lovely piece from @mptmagazine.bsky.social and @bethangharad.bsky.social, who puts an ear to the archive and walks us through the Darkness with Ana Luísa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa 👂 (don't forget to read the poem at the end!)

Mural escomanáu dedicáu a Conceiçāo Evaristo na Pequena África (Rio de Janeiro), cerca del puertu pel que se diz que foi la mayor entrada d'esclavos. Y ye que d'esclavitú tamién se fala en 'Caleyos de la memoria', la novela que traduxo @hefacuriella.bsky.social pa Ediciones Trabe. #BookSky #calume

Three years of work on this — my new translation of the poetry and selected prose of sixteen-century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross for Penguin Classics. • You can preorder it via all the usual bookshops or links here. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137...

PEN Presents: Translators around the world are invited to submit proposals for English sample translations of previously untranslated works of contemporary Brazilian literature, of any form/genre, originally published in any language of Brazil! @englishpen.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social

Vallecas anoche con Palestina. Si la frase os suena musical es porque es un guiño al "nadie puede abrir semillas en el corazón del sueño" de Lorca cantado por Camarón en La leyenda del tiempo.

Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Sign the petition to get the UK Home Office to listen to translation experts before they blindly implement automated (AI-based) translation for asylum cases. If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.

Catch award-winning writer and translator, @antonhur.com, deliver a public lecture in London this Wednesday, 29 October. Anton will contemplate Han Kang's 2024 Nobel Prize win, alongside a wider discussion on literary prizes, translation, and the Anglophone publishing landscape. buff.ly/2L3Apbb

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

New long-form interview with me in Asymptote!

Maricarmen lleva 70 años en su casa del barrio de Retiro. Urbagesa compró la vivienda y quiso subirle el alquiler a 2.650 €, cuando su pensión es de 1.400 €. Ha resistido defendiendo su hogar y el derecho a la vivienda. A sus 87 años, quieren desahuciarla el 29 de octubre ⚠️

I'd love to make more videos from Central Asia – but how do I go viral? 🫓 Blind ranking plates of baursaki? 🌙 Stay quiet until you see a better Uzbek mosque? 🇹🇯 Five times Dushanbe's murals broke the internet? 🎤 Could I sing Kyrgyz songs, and call myself an akynfluencer? jonathancampion.com

Day 5 of the UK tour for CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon and MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE by Bora Chung. Can an AI translator tour for their authors and make the audience laugh every night? NO

AI is fascism.

#MarujaMallo A 30 años de su fallecimiento, la figura de Maruja Mallo reaparece a través de diferentes libros. Pintora de talento, excéntrica y ferviente republicana, encarnó a la nueva mujer libre y emancipada, siendo una de las principales figuras de la generación del 27.  🧵

Hoy, el Grupo Planeta ha concedido el premio Planeta a Juan del Val, que trabaja en El Hormiguero de Atresmedia, propiedad del Grupo Planeta. Es íntimo amigo de Juanma Moreno Bonilla y llamó "fraude" a las elecciones que hicieron presidente a Pedro Sánchez.

Founded in 2019 by poet, writer and translator Ghazal Mosadeq, @pamenarpress.bsky.social publishes books of poetry, hybrid and critical writing forms which are cross-cultural and multilingual. You can find their new and recent titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October

🟡Hoja de Lata publica la novela de uno de los presos palestinos que liberará Israel El militante comunista Basim Khandaqji es el autor de la laureda "Una máscara del color del cielo", que edita en España este sello asturiano. #Asturias Por @diegodiaz1981.bsky.social www.nortes.me/2025/10/13/h...

Join us as our new Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌 We are looking for our third Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland as we move back home to No. 11 Parnell Square. For more details on the role and how to apply visit www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne... Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

Publishing Turkoslavia means having something to celebrate each and every day. Congratulations to contributors Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Hamid Ismailov, @yanaellis.bsky.social, and Zdravka Eftimova for this well-deserved acknowledgement of your brilliant work as writer-translators!

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.

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!

What makes a translated book stand out to publishers? How do Italian titles find their place in the English market? 📚 Join Ruth Clarke, Federico Andornino (Sceptre), Kate Harvey (Akoya) & Richard Village (Foundry Editions) for publisher insights! Register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Event Reminder! Join us in Cork tomorrow at the Irish Centre for Galician Studies at 5pm for What Remains in Translation, an event to mark the launch of our latest title. Don't miss a thought-provoking conversation between Brais Lamela & Jacob Rogers, chaired by Martín Veiga.

🗣️ Recitando nel Antic Teatre de Barcelona col @pencatala.bsky.social #asturianu #català #aragonés #euskara #occitá #galego 📸 Semeyes: Raimon Solà.

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

For #ITD2025 you could do worse than the three new mask-poems by Xaime Martínez, translated from Asturian and available to read at Versopolis, along with several more from his weird and wonderful poetry collection/detective novel Cuerpos perdidos en las morgues www.versopolis.com/poet/606/xai...

Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-re...

I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!

Today! @conwayhall.bsky.social

if it's got Baillie Gifford on the front of it, it's no longer a serious/credible literary institution. this shortlist shows that it's stopped even pretending

Happy Publication Day to What Remains! Out now - online & in bookshops - this award-winning debut from author Brais Lamela, translated by Jacob Rogers, is a powerful meditation on the meaning of home in an uncertain world.

A month in books: September 2025 📚 Literature Ireland's Translation Grant programme invites international publishers to apply for a contribution towards the translation of Irish literature from English or Irish into another language. In September we received copies of 10 titles in 9 languages:

big old October coming up ...

If you're based in London, copies will also be on sale at the Spanish Book and Zine Fair at Conway Hall this Saturday, at the Amaurea Press table (stand 40) www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-re...

Thrilled to have Clare Pollard write our latest #FromTheArchive piece for September! (Includes free access to the whole of our Iran focus issue. Link inside the article 👀)

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

For #ITD2025 you could do worse than the three new mask-poems by Xaime Martínez, translated from Asturian and available to read at Versopolis, along with several more from his weird and wonderful poetry collection/detective novel Cuerpos perdidos en las morgues www.versopolis.com/poet/606/xai...

Justice for the Cammell Laird 37 - KIM JOHNSON MP explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow morningstaronline.co.uk/article/just...

The theme for #ITD2025 highlights the importance of human trust in the art of translation. Translators carry the responsibility of ensuring trustworthy communication — a craft threatened by the rising use of AI-generated and machine translation.