Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad is the next Poet Laureate of the Netherlands 🥳 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

J'en profite pour récapituler le projet, je publie depuis le 5 novembre mon livre de réflexions sur la traduction littéraire, sur ma plateforme de recherche et de pratique artistique City in Translation, infos sur ma démarche ici : www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph...

Je viens de publier les deux derniers chapitres dans "Traduire avec la musique". Ainsi, tous les chapitres des deux premières parties de "Une biographie européenne : réflexions sur la traduction littéraire" sont en ligne sur le site de City in Translation: www.cityintranslation.com/publications...

Et voici « Traduire avec la musique », que j’avais initialement écrit en anglais pour une publication Routledge. “Écouter de la musique est le geste qui traverse la peau, et la transforme d’une frontière en une connexion. ” — (vilèm flusser, ma traduction) www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph...

Je continue de publier les chapitres d’ « Une biographie européenne : réflexions sur la traduction littéraire ». La partie Traduire avec sa biographie est entièrement en ligne. Retrouvez tous les chapitres ici : www.cityintranslation.com/publications...

Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees. For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

Cette première partie du livre contient six chapitres et s’intitule « traduire avec sa biographie ». Je propose de parler des six chapitres, ensemble, en ligne, le 10 décembre à 10h: www.cityintranslation.com/agenda/renco...

« appellation d’origine controlée », le 5ème chapitre de mon livre de réflexions sur la traduction littéraire « une biographie européenne » est en ligne: www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph...

Deux nouveaux chapitres d'une biographie européenne : réflexions sur la traduction littéraire, sont en ligne www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph... Pas encore lu les premiers chapitres ? Commencez ici : www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph...

Interesting conference organised by the universities of Ghent, Leuven and Liège: "Putting Translators on the Map: Literary (Self-)Representation in Translations from and into French.". Sorry I missed it. I hope some of the papers will be available to read online: www.arts.kuleuven.be/vertaalweten...

Les deux premiers chapitres d’Une biographie européenne : réflexions sur la traduction littéraire, sont en ligne : www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph... Lisez, n’hésitez pas à commenter, et notez déjà la rencontre en ligne du 10 décembre pour discuter de tous les thèmes du livre.

Lieve vertalers, het Cultuurfonds en de De Auteursbond nodigen je van harte uit voor een inspirerende lezing door Grâce Ndjako. ⏱️ op donderdag 13 november om 14:00 uur 📍 in de Kleine Zaal van De Nieuwe Liefde (Da Costakade 102, Amsterdam) 📩 aanmelden: form.jotform.com/252853081153...

Mercredi, je publierai les 2 premiers chapitres d'Une biographie européenne : réflexions sur la traduction littéraire, un livre sur lequel je travaille depuis 2017. Vous pouvez déjà jeter un œil sur la table des matières et la bibliographie : www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph...

Merci @guillaumecingal.bsky.social pour ce billet "Sans Barbara Bray, pas de “Vie matérielle” pour Deborah Levy" sur l'importance, l'urgence même, de nommer les traducteurices #namethetranslator tourainesereine.hautetfort.com/archive/2025...

#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?

notez aussi déjà le 10 décembre dans vos agendas pour une première rencontre en ligne afin de discuter des thèmes des premiers chapitres publiés. Infos & inscription : www.cityintranslation.com/agenda/renco...

me revoilà... à partir du 5 novembre, je vais publier les chapitres de mon livre de réflexions sur la traduction littéraire de façon hebdomadaire, et chaque mois, je propose une session en ligne pour en parler. j'explique tout ici : www.cityintranslation.com/une-biograph...

Historicus en hoogleraar Holocaust- en Genocidestudies Uğur Ümit Üngör is de vierde gast in 'VPRO Zomergasten'. Griet Op de Beeck interviewt Üngör over zijn favoriete televisieavond. Kijk op zondag 17 augustus om 20.15 uur op NPO 2. Lees meer op vpro.nl/zomergasten

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o left an immense legacy. May he rest in peace and power 🤍 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

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.

"Celui qui combat peut perdre, mais celui qui ne combat pas a déjà perdu." Bertolt Brecht

Tens of thousands of people in the Hague protesting the Dutch government’s failure to respond meaningfully to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Dressed in red to mark the ‘red line’ that has been crossed. (📸 ANP) nos.nl/l/2567762

Celebrate the art, politics & labour of feminist, decolonial publishing & translation with 20% off our books #riverinanocean & #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar Visit tracepress.org & use discount code at checkout: ReadTheWorld #ReadTheWorld ALTA : May 12-27 @littranslate.bsky.social

leaving Bali today. i’m humbled by all the beauty i’ve seen here.

I learned gum oil printing today. it’s quite a process, I loved it and would like to explore this technique some more (here at Devfto Printmaking Institute in Bali).

it is a beautiful morning today in Bali, and i’m about to go join a gum oil printing workshop 💚

is it still flaneusing if you’re waking on a beach 🤗

sharing some beauty from my morning swim in Bali. it is stunning here 💚

Yesterday, I visited Salihara Arts Center in South Jakarta, a space shaped by connections and a collective vision of the arts and culture. Even its own architecture was designed collaboratively by Andra Matin, Adi Purnomo, Marco Kusumawijaya, and Danny Wicaksono.

just as i was posting stories on rising sea levels in Indonesia, this announcement was published. send stories and poetry if you have anything related to climate change modernpoetryintranslation.com/call-for-sub...

i love being in Jakarta, i’m meeting genuinely kind people, and all my encounters have been positive so far 🧿 the city is impossible to navigate without a car so no flaneusing this time. a worrying reality is the rising sea levels-Jakarta has been called a sinking city for years, (📷 Ancient Port)

visited independent English-language Transit Bookstore today, their careful curation includes books in translation, queer, feminist, decolonial themes, in fiction, poetry and non fiction. And it’s lovely

Boys of Freedom, Jakarta, April 2025

Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta. My late grandmother would have loved to pray there. I have never seen such a mosque. The architecture is stunning, it can hold 200.000 worshippers, and it’s built in front of the Cathedral. “İstiklal” means “Independence” in Arabic (we also use it in Turkish) 💚

spent an incredible day exploring Jakarta today: Istiqlal Mosque, the cathedral, Chinatown, Toasebio temple, Old Town, Sunda Kepala (ancient port of Jakarta), Aldy Sanjaya’s puppet workshop… and even a shopping mall. It’s such a vibrant city, with kind people. I’m happy i’m here.

safely arrived in Jakarta. happy to say I already went swimming twice. I mean, can you resist this? 💚

The final part of my San Francisco Diary series comes out this Wednesday, April 16. In this fourth and final instalment, I weave together art, history, and nature —

Sight and Sound auteurs series on Chantal Akerman www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Cultural professionals and institutions in the Netherlands are invited, along with Moroccan partners, to submit project proposals in the field of cultural collaboration between the Netherlands and Morocco: www.netherlandsandyou.nl/web/morocco/...

Join the book launch 𝐴𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛: 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑢𝑏𝑎’𝑠 𝑂𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎, 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 (OSPAAAL) 16 April @framerframed.nl Co-editor Lani Hanna has invited me, Sanjukta Sunderason and Mikki Stelder to have a conversation bit.ly/3E4msVQ

quelle joie immense de rencontrer Maboula Soumahoro à Amsterdam ce soir, lors de la soirée preview du festival Read My World. J’aurais voulu lui parler pendant des heures de traduction 😅 Hâte de voir le programme en septembre www.readmyworld.nl

Submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 are now open! Publishers, submit here: tinyurl.com/46j57f54 There is no limit on number of entries per publisher and no fee to enter - send all your eligible titles! @thebookseller.com @rsliterature.bsky.social @wwborders.bsky.social

PhD position @unigroningen.bsky.social Mediatizing the Homeland: Diasporic Imaginaries of Palestine (1.0 FTE) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

I wrote about Chinatown in the third part of my San Francisco diary, published in the attention span newsletter. I will send out one more issue focused on San Francisco, coming up 16 April. After that, I'll get back to my monthly schedule.

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Cejna Remezanê pîroz be! / Eyda Remezanê piroz u bimbarek be! (Kurdish) more languages? do share 💚

eid mubarak ramazan bayramınız mübarek olsun bajram šerif mubarek olsun selamat idul fitri ✨ happy bayram in all the languages and all the homes where we celebrate Eid al-fitr ✨

Must watch video of a Fulbright scholar with a legal visa being taken abruptly by masked agents — who don’t even show an ID. There is no claim she committed any crimes. She co-wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper. They could have just served notice to her to leave the country.

Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even simply American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. (1/3)

I’m traveling to Indonesia in 3 weeks, I’ll be a few days in Jakarta then Bali. And I’ve of course started reading David Van Reybrouck’s magnus opus “Revolusi” - translated to many languages, here’s a link to the English translation by David Colmer and David McKay: www.penguin.co.uk/books/445781...