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Made the Best Literary Translations 2026 longlist! My first ever longlist! 💙

This is super good!!!!!

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Just got a voice message from my editor in Nigeria that my two children's books are scheduled for the last quarter of this year. Very exciting: my first translations into Yoruba! Translated by none other than @kolatubosun.bsky.social 😍 #xl8 #kidlit #worldkidlit

Transnational solidarities across disciplines. All kinds of cool people. This exciting event will debut in New York in just a few days

The powerful lineup at this conference is exhilarating to read. So much intelligence, creativity and excellence rising up through our terrible moment. Makes me roll up my sleeves to get to work

For @flaminghydra.com I talked to @jessesword.com, a lexicographer and, full disclosure, my friend, about the perfect word "clankers" and the extremely imperfect story that's being told about where it came from: flaminghydra.com/clank-clank/

TODAY: @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social visits the Getty Villa, “which felt a bit like wandering through your rich friend’s mansion, in which there is always another room around the corner, except here every room contains surprise antiquities.” flaminghydra.com/the-getty-vi...

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with Efe Paul Azino, the founder of the brand new New York Black and African Literature Festival. " We want a mix of the established and the emerging, the canonical and the disruptive." flaminghydra.com/a-new-black-...

. @kolatubosun.bsky.social presents a gorgeously illustrated account of his long and painstaking creation of a public archive of BLACK ORPHEUS, a legendary mid-century Nigerian journal of the arts that “helped bridge a crucial gap between Francophone, Anglophone, and Afro-American literatures.”

ALSO TODAY: Three new poems from @kolatubosun.bsky.social. flaminghydra.com/three-summer...

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The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate. mamdanitimes.com

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TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social considers the mysteries and contradictions of the Minnesota character flaminghydra.com/r/e484371c?m...

Ngugi and the Geology of Memory - Olongo Africa olongoafrica.com/ngugi-and-th...

Interesting find while I was doing a little streamsearch.

The Black American journalists who went to Nigeria in the eighties! 🦋 www.cjr.org/the_feature/...

Tsitsi Ella Jaji has shared the most beautiful way I've ever heard translation described. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún encouraged all of us to push publishers to sell translation rights INTO African/other local languages, as a surprisingly simple way to support literary production and exchange. Today is great. 💜

Got my copy of BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2025, guest edited by Cristina Rivera Garza (& series editors Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, & Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún), with my #translation of Paloma Chen's poem "Obscenity," originally published in World Literature Today (who nominated it for the anthology).

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The Archaeology of Writing: A Conversation with the Mauritanian Writer Ahmed Vall Dine - Olongo Africa olongoafrica.com/the-archeolo...

What a great discussion. To stay in the know, follow @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, @kolatubosun.bsky.social, and @naravive.bsky.social. #WriteTheWorld #translation #xl8 #Africa #AfricanLiterature

I could kiss @flaminghydra.com for running this piece. it is a deep pleasure to read, it talks about stuf I'm really passionate about, it's a conversation so worth your time. read it! give them your email address to do so if you have to! very worth it!! flaminghydra.com/issue-324/

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with writer and translator Ibrahim Fawzy. "Translation taught me that the world is not one fixed thing, but a chorus. It reconnected me to everything I hold dear in my lineage—as an African, an Arab, and a human being." flaminghydra.com/r/55dbcbc0?m...

Sure journalist-owned media protects freedom of information, but ALSO you can read about the old Hollywood star whose penthouse at the Ambassador Hotel had snakeskin walls, Miracle Whip, and new frontiers in Egyptian literature in translation @flaminghydra.com $3/month flaminghydra.com/issue-324/

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Congratulations to NER translators whose work will appear in the 2025 Best Literary Translations anthology, guest edited by Cristina Rivera Garza: Slava Faybysh Will Morningstar & to Emily Graham, whose work received a notable mention!

Congratulations to Ibrahim Fawzy for being included in @deepvellum.bsky.social Best Literary Translations 2025 for his translation of Hassan Akrm’s A Plan to Save the World. We’re thrilled to be publishing this Iraqi novel next year. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXEq...

Congratulations @danielnemo.bsky.social on having this stunning translation long-listed for @deepvellum.bsky.social’s Best Literary Translations Anthology! Secret Transfusion by Marin Sorescu, in RHINO 2024 #poetry #writingcommunity #translations

Last week, Deep Vellum released Best Literary Translations 2025. On WWB, guest editor Cristina Rivera Garza introduces the anthology, dwelling on translation's complexities and its generative power.

なんと、嬉しいニュースがまだこの世に存在していた！大前粟生の「回転草」が僕の英訳で Deep Vellum の Best Literary Translations 2025 （ベスト文芸翻訳2025年）に入っています！😭🥳4月29日発売です。最初掲載して、その上に応募してくださった The Kenyon Review に深く感謝しています💖

Thank you to @deepvellum.bsky.social for including this translation from ANMLY in Best Literary Translations 2025, and to Alex Niemi for providing these pictures!

Parker Molloy on comic book burnings, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún on an old academic crisis flaminghydra.com/issue-294/

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social considers previous dictatorships. "What’s the purpose of history and memory if not to warn and prepare? And what’s the purpose of that warning and preparation if, when the moment comes, all the parallels are useless?" flaminghydra.com/certain-para...

If you can believe it, I have some good news: My translation of "Tumbleweed" by Ao Omae is included in Best Literary Translations 2025 from @deepvellum.bsky.social, which goes on sale April 29 😭🥳 Thank you so much to @kenyonreview.bsky.social for originally publishing the story and submitting it 💖

We are, as my father would say, "way out where the busses don't run"

Black Orpheus online! Poetry, fiction and beautiful covers olongoafrica.com/presenting-t... #Nigeria

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Toward a global culture worth building and preserving. Something good to think on, from @kolatubosun.bsky.social today at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-276/

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social with a fascinating account of gendered language (or the lack thereof). “The Yorùbá reader would know that the pronoun ó in the source material has no gender. The gender has to be derived from context.” flaminghydra.com/the-gendered...

Oh man. I love that book and the way it puts you into an almost trance with the names where you don't really know who anyone is any more. I wasn't going to ruin it by watching an adaptation, which would make all the people real. But maybe I should rethink

New adaptation? Sounds like January would be the perfect time to join BS Bookclub📖 in reading One Hundred Years of Solitude!