✨ Applications are open for the John Dryden Translation Competition ✨ Sponsored by the BCLA and the BCLT, the competition awards prizes for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. bcla.org/prizes-award...

New interview on Hopscotch! In "Blooming to the Surface," Michelle Mirabella @michellemirabella.bsky.social interviews Edith Adams on her Debut Book-length Translation of Daniela Catrileo’s GUERILLA BLOOMS. Read the full interview here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/01/27/b... #translation #poetry

Looking for new fiction to read? Check out this January Watchlist, featuring ALTA member Maren Baudet-Lackner’s translation of THE AQUATICS by Osvalde Lewat. At Words Without Borders / @wwborders.bsky.social: buff.ly/dsBoLng

Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

Our first review of 2026: "The Demistification of Elegy: Review of Emmanuel Hocquard’s ELEGIES, translated by Cole Swensen," review by Samuel E. Martin, is up now on Hopscotch! Check it out at the link below: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/01/13/t... #translation #bookreview

Best wishes for 2026 from Hopscotch! The Hopscotch editorial team are glad to share some of their reading highlights in translation from 2025 and anticipate a few things to come in 2026. Happy reading; we’ll look forward to seeing you in the new year! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/12/23/h...

Latest on Hopscotch: Santiago Artozqui's "Translations Come and Go, Racism Remains," a review and reflection on French translation and retranslation of GONE WITH THE WIND, by Margaret Mitchell. Read now at: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/12/09/t... #translation

New on Hopscotch! Samuel E. Martin's review of ENEMY OF THE SUN: POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE, edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb. Check it out at the link below! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/11/25/r... #poetry #translation

Why is metaphor so often used to describe the process of translation? Read translator Talbot Hook's thoughtful insights on this question in the latest article on HS, "Translation is Like..." hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/11/11/t... #translation

Hopscotch Throwback! Bradley Harmon's thoughtful reflection on his translation of Katarina Frostenson's THE SPACE OF TIME. Check it out at the link below! hopscotchtranslation.com/2024/11/26/a... #translation #poetry #poem #poems

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry: DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen, pub. World Poetry Books! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

Congratulations to Omar Khalifa and translator Barbara Romaine. This year's winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in prose. Our first book translated from Arabic!

Read "Translating the Elliptical" now on HS. Shushan Avagyan interrogates the translation of Armenian writer Zabel Yesayan's narratives on the Massacres of Cilicia through a thoughtful examination of Yesayan’s style and use of ellipses. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/10/28/t... #translation

Just in on HS! "Post-War, Lesbian, Heretic: A Review of Selma Asotić’s SAY FIRE, Translated and Reworked by the Author." Review by Denis Ferhatović Check it out here! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/10/14/p... SAY FIRE is out now from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social #translation #poetry

“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.” Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social

Check out this workshop with Kasia Szymanska! Her recent book, TRANSLATION MULTIPLES: FROM GLOBAL CULTURE TO POSTCOMMUNIST DEMOCRACY, was recently reviewed on Hopscotch by Jess Jensen Mitchell.

Putting this one on the calendar.

New on HS: James Richie's @jameslrichie.bsky.social insightful reflections on translating Víctor Cabrera’s collection of poems, A VILLAGE DEVASTATED BY GODZILLA. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/09/23/b... #poems #poetry #poem #translation

Hopscotch throwback: "Like a Simile," by Zeynep Özer. Have you read it yet? Zeynep Özer excavates the linguistic and emotional intricacies of Alice Oswald’s long poem «Memorial», which she takes to be emblematic of the practice of creative translation. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/04/08/l...

Check out this interview with former ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima as they discuss balancing professional translation projects with a broader love of and excitement for literature. At Hindustan Times: buff.ly/k0kVfZS @hindustan-times.bsky.social @yukitejima.bsky.social

✨ Betty author @ilzeduarte.bsky.social’s translation of The Book of Affects by Marília Arnaud is featured on @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social! The review explores how Duarte captures the text’s emotional depth and brings its lyrical power to readers. Read the full review here: bit.ly/41VvxsX

"Bold acts of translation are the lifeblood of Kasia Szymanska’s book, TRANSLATION MULTIPLES: FROM GLOBAL CULTURE TO POSTCOMMUNIST DEMOCRACY." Check out Jess Jensen Mitchell's review on HS of @kaszyma.bsky.social's TRANSLATION MULTIPLES here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/09/09/r... #translation

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Want reads to finish out Aug. and Women in Translation month? Check out @michellemirabella.bsky.social's review of THE BOOK OF AFFECTS by Marília Arnaud, trans. by Ilze Duarte! Aug. may be at a close but keep opening books by women writers and translators! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/08/26/q...

In "The Visitor Peering over My Shoulder," Jean-Yves Masson reflects on the notion of "hauntology." Originally published in French on Poesibao, www.poesibao.fr, Hopscotch is pleased to present Masson’s essay in English translation. hopscotchtranslation.com/.../the-visi... #translation

New online! 'From the Archive': Daniel Kramb writers on Swiss Francophone poet and translator Philippe Jaccottet, in translations by Alastair Thomson from French First published in MPT 'Frontiers' (2009) modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

New on Hopscotch: "Re: (Not) Capitulating" In this follow-up on his recent review of 48 KG, Samuel Martin reflects further on Batool Abu Akleen's poems and on time spent in the archives of the National Library in Scotland. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/07/22/r... #translation #poetry

Recent fiction in translation: “Someone to Watch Over You” by Kumi Kimura, “Elephant Herd” by Zhang Guixing, “Old Kiln” by Jia Pingwa asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/translat...

"Batool Abu Akleen writes of amputation and dismemberment, unbearable suffering and sorrow, in order that she, her people, and her land may yet be re-membered with the love, care, and urgency they deserve." Samuel Martin's review of Batool Abu Akleen’s 48KG: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/07/08/2...

"The thought struck me recently that every translated book, too, is a ship of Theseus." - Kit Schluter This meme got us thinking about Kit Schluter's "Calling the Ship by a Different Name" on Hopscotch! You can check it out below (no CAPTCHA required)! hopscotchtranslation.com/2021/05/21/b...

New on Hopscotch! Michelle Mirabella interviews Emily Hunsberger on her translation of Melanie Márquez Adams’s WONDERLAND: CRÓNICAS OF BELONGING IN AMÉRICA. Check it out here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/06/24/d... #translation

Savoring these beautiful poems by Simone Lappert, translated from the German by Fabienne Rink, today! #translation #poetry #poems #poem

New translations for the reading list!

Have you read Addison Bale's "On Translation, Codification, and Something in Between: Language in the Paintings of Martin Wong" published recently on Hopscotch? Find it here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/03/25/o... #translation #painting

"What Brings Us to a Halt (PART 2)" is up, and features Taylor's essay, "A Perennial Hereness," a response to Franca Mancinelli's "Flowers and Hell: On Poetry and Authenticity," published in Taylor's translation in Part One on Hopscotch. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/06/10/w... #translation #poetry

Happy pub day to The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, edited by WWB contributor @antonialloydjones.bsky.social !

Looking for a fresh read? Check out Suzana Vuljevic's conversation with Yana Ellis, published recently on Hopscotch, on Ellis' Translation of Zdravka Evtimova’s THE WOLVES OF STARO SELO. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/05/13/t... #translation

HS has been home to dialogues on writing and translation between Franca Mancinelli and John Taylor since 2021. Part 1 of "What Brings Us to a Halt," features Taylor's translation of Mancinelli's "Flowers and Hell: On Poetry and Authenticity." hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/05/27/w... #translation

New on Hopscotch, a lovely conversation about the launch of the new ALTA website from Sean Gasper Bye, Sophia Marisa Lucas, and Rachael Daum! @littranslate.bsky.social

Hopscotch has made the move to Bluesky and Instagram! For our first post, a wonderful review by Elena Schafer: https://buff.ly/40DtoBL @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social