London Book Fair wildlife report: two pigs, but so far zero indoor pigeons. Do better tomorrow, pigeons!

🗓️ Happening in one week! Don't miss this (free!) event we are so pleased to partner on with the Fine Arts Work Center: "Human Translators in the Age of AI," feat. Chenxin Jiang, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Ian Giles, Umair Kazi & Kristen Renee Miller. Learn more and register here: buff.ly/zzGTHgf

Attendees of this year’s London Book Fair, held 10th to 12th March at London Olympia, have described the fair as “high energy” and “really busy” and a reminder that “books are a place where people have refuge” 👇 #LBF

We’re delighted that English PEN & @writerscentre.bsky.social are collaborating again this year to highlight and promote events and activities taking place across the UK and online in celebration of International Translation Day 2025. #ITD2025 View the programme ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/translation/...

👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans... 🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 [email protected]

Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside

APPLY: Lithuanian is one of the languages of the wonderful Emerging Translator Mentorship @writerscentre.bsky.social this year, and I’m v happy to return as a mentor. Please share this opportunity with people interested in translation, literature and languages ✍️📚🇱🇹 Deadline: 31 Aug. Link below!

I had a wonderful time leading a dialect translation workshop @bristoltranslates.bsky.social. It was so active with over 100 participants in the Zoom room, and their contributions have been simply brilliant! Dialect sparks the best kinds of conversations. Great to see & meet you all 📚✍️💙

Member and former chair of the Translators Association Vineet Lal will be welcoming emerging translators at The Literary Centre at 10 today with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social , Nasim Luczaj & Dr Kotryna Garanasvili. #LBF25

Meet the future of literary translation: the winners of this year’s Emerging Translator Mentorship will read from their brilliant work in this live showcase, hosted by @writerscentre.bsky.social 📚✍️🎤 9 mentees, 9 mentors, 8 languages, on 10 April! More details&booking here: tinyurl.com/4kbct5zv

Un traductor literario hace mucho más que traducir textos. La lista de tareas es casi abrumadora. Este excelente artículo de @kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social basado en una encuesta demuestra, sin embargo, que el común de los lectores tiene una idea demasiado básica de lo que implica nuestro trabajo.

www.thebookseller.com/comment/tran... it's hard not to get jaded with this kind of invisible unpaid workload.

"Translators are the Clark Kent of the publishing industry." @kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social on the @the-bookseller.bsky.social explores how the work of literary translators is perceived by readers. #literarytranslation www.thebookseller.com/comment/tran...

In "The Bookseller," a lovely abridged version of Kotryna Garanasvili's recent WWB essay "Translation-adjacent"! www.thebookseller.com/comment/tran...

Great article by @kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social about the various things literary translators actually do www.thebookseller.com/comment/tran...

@kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social on everything we translators do that goes above and beyond actual translating. Nailed it, Kotryna. Thanks for advocating for the amazing work we all do! 👏 @wwborders.bsky.social

Great essay by @kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social on all the unpaid/unackowledged things that befall translators in addition to and beyond translating itself. #xl8 #langsky

An excellent piece on misperceptions around what the job of literary translator involves. By @kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Today on WWB: Kotryna Garanasvili on “translation-adjacent” tasks, from pitching to editing—and on the necessity of acknowledging this labor. Read her essay here: https://buff.ly/3Daeols