Join Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne and In Other Words for a conversation around Balkan women’s writing, exile, and translation, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody! 🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...

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

Can we take this opportunity to say how much we also love the work of Krisztina Tóth? @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social

It's essential that we recognize the work of his many translators who brought his literature to life around the world, including his translators to English: John Bakti, and our contributors George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ! 💙

It's a great day to remember how important a translator like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social is for those of us who can only read in English. Without her superb translations, we would have missed so much of the great work of László Krasznahorkai.

Many congratulations to @georgeszirtes.bsky.social and all translators of László Krasznahorkai! We would not be able to read him without their labour!

"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon" LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com

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!

On October 26th, author Park Seolyeon and translator Anton Hur will join In Other Words at Tills Bookshop in a conversation about writing and translating political fiction, explored through their latest novel: Capitalists Must Starve. @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @antonhur.com

What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.

Tonight (!) we are hosting the Edinburgh launch of Laura Vogt’s wonderful choral novel ‘Woman, Idle’, her latest to be translated into English by Caroline Waight and published by Héloïse Press. 🎟️Last tickets here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

We can't wait to read this! Congratulations @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ✨

Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

Autumn book tour dates for FAIR! See you there! @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social

Earlier this summer we hosted three sold-out sessions of our seminar series ‘Our Brilliant Friends’, focusing on the Neapolitan Novels written by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein. Held at Tills Bookshop, we gathered to discuss how these novels have shaped our lives.

ALT Book Fringe 2025 4–29 Aug, Edinburgh Entirely run & curated by 3 of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – @argonautbooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social & @typewronger.bsky.social – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-...

Doing two events at Edinburgh International Book Festival on 15 August: Jen Calleja & Annelise Finegan: Life in Translation www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... Lanre Bakare, Jen Calleja & Ash Sarkar: Changing the Culture www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Edinburgh International Book Festival: Meet the International Booker Prize 2025 winners. 📍Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF 🗓️ Friday, 15 August 2025, 12:15pm 🎟️⤵️ https://edbookfest.pulse.ly/il4kiwiu6h

We're so excited to have three incredible Welsh and Gaelic poets coming to read their work and speak about it at Oxford Translation Day! Remember to register! ⏰: 14 June 2025, 14:00-15:15 📍: Seminar Room 8, St Anne's College 🌐: shorturl.at/ldqYS

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld. Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!

🚨Emerging writers & translators🚨: there's only ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, open to entries in Poetry, Fiction, and Life Writing, including translated work. Deadline: 30 June. buff.ly/6exj3ty

'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.' @antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social

First Ferrante seminar of the summer coming up! 🧿 Some tickets still available. Come talk about friendship with us!

TOMORROW! Join us in @portybooks.bsky.social tomorrow to launch Issue Nine of Extra Teeth! We have a bumper evening of readings from Nazaret Ranea, Julie Galante and @jacquestsiantar.bsky.social Also ft Smith and Gertrude’s delectable wine 🍷

And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Ten! Submissions will be open from JUNE 1st - JUNE 14th. We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.

We are also OPEN for mentorship applications! Two mentorships are available with our fiction editors Cal Bannerman and Anna Walsh.

‘Let the dark days of unpaid labour come to an end!’ @wasafirimag.bsky.social @sawadhussain.bsky.social

‘I have come to appreciate the beauty of the musicality of all languages’ We are sad to hear that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of African fiction’s most significant figures, has died. Among many accolades, he was nominated for the International Booker Prize twice, in 2009 and 2021.

Apply: Two Free Spots in ‘Bristol Translates’ Summer School An anonymous donor is sponsoring two spots for the Arabic-English strand with Sawad Hussain in the Bristol Translates summer school taking place this July 7th-11th.

R.I.P. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...

If you love Kate Briggs' work, pair this essay in Aeon with Lauren Goldenberg's interview on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Translated by Ann Goldstein! 💫 Alba de Céspedes is a favourite of ours, too. @pushkinpress.com

We will be joining many of these, online or in person! 💫 (featuring a Kate Briggs/Jen Calleja event of our dreams)

"Fifteen years ago, Arabic literature in translation was mostly published with an anthropological lens by university presses. The influx of new translators has shifted the landscape." WWB Executive Director @lissiejaquette.bsky.social in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Congratulations are in order to Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, and Deepa Bhashti, who translated the winning collection.

Submissions are open! We are looking for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico collection. Find out more here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

‘Translated literature is a way of communicating over a border, under a wall, beyond an algorithm’s reach’ Listen to Max Porter’s wonderful speech from the International Booker Prize 2025 ceremony last night. youtu.be/fc80efFKK6o

We’re thrilled that #PENPresents & #PENTranslates award-winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, trans. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi has won the #InternationalBooker2025, the first work translated from Kannada to appear on the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to the winners!

Peruse our reading guide for Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi Featuring info about the book, discussion points, insights from our judges and critics — and more! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Sneaky, not a love story and a mystery - we asked the translators shortlisted for #InternationalBooker2025 to describe their books. Which will you be picking up first? youtu.be/pIFuP6yw3NM?...

Congratulations!! 💐💐 @andotherstories.bsky.social

We might be biased, but we don't think there are many better ways to spend the summer than reading Elena Ferrante books and talking about them with other people. 🎟️🎟️🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...

We were lucky enough to read Fair and let us tell you - it is something special! Out on May 29th. 📚 @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jencalleja.bsky.social

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS tr. is an international literary journal that celebrates and highlights the cultural power and vital contributions of literature in translation to the english-speaking world. ​ tr. publishes poetry and prose translated from any language. www.trreview.com

Edinburgh folks! 📚 For a second summer in a row, we are delving into the world of Elena Ferrante. This time around, our series of seminars will focus on the Neapolitan Novels. Join us for another Ferrante summer! @europaeditions.bsky.social

Wrote about writing about literary translation in this opinion/review for ArtReview

ALSO! only a few days left to send us stuff for ANONYMOU[S], a series of texts selected, published and promoted anonymously ... submissions close April 30th details here: oleada.io/publication/...

Thank you, @terribleman.com, for this wonderful review of Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year!