"But her body of work—spanning fiction, drama, poetry, and more—was, until recently, mostly out of print in Spanish and untranslated into English." Great piece on the publication of THE QUEEN OF SWORDS and THE WEEK OF COLORS in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ⚔️🌈 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Last day of our year-end fundraiser. So far we’ve raised $35.2K, unlocked a $25K match, and welcomed 25 new donors. Will you help us reach our $40K stretch goal before midnight? Your support allows us to continue building audiences for literary translation. Join here www.catranslation.org/donate/!

Need a last-minute present? Give the gift of literature in translation with a Two Lines Press membership--it includes every book we publish plus exclusive member gifts and perks, like totebags, chapbooks, and more! 📚 🎁 www.catranslation.org/shop/members...

If you love literary translation and haven't made a tax-deductible donation to support the work of the Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press before, now is the time! Donate today in any amount to help us reach our goal of 10 new supporters. www.catranslation.org/donate/

Attn: emerging translators from Vietnamese to English! The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US) is open for entries until 2/1/26! Learn more about this year's title, Bảo tàng lông [Museum of Hair] by Maik Cây here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2026-prize

📣 Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is 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...

Buy yourself a book. Even if you don’t need another book.

I’ve been sitting on this news for so long I can hardly believe it’s finally ‘out the bag’… If you’ve read the trade press you may already have spotted that @twolinespress.com will be launching in the UK next April! In case you missed it, read here: www.thebookseller.com/news/two-lin...

Want to give the gift of literature in translation? Today's the last day to order books for arrival by December 25th! Use the coupon code BYAWHISKER for 30% off all our books! 🎁 🐈 📚

Education Program Manager Maggie Vlietstra loved MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai Chu (tr. @jacqlyy.bsky.social ) published by @twolinespress.com :

"Her writing seems to see into this future, playing with the in-between, ambiguous, and fog." Leah von Essen's review of “The Week of Colors” by Elena Garro, translated by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/10/t...

Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm... @twolinespress.com

"But of course, I should say about Pirkko Saisio: people call her a living legend." Jordan Barger interviews Mia Spangenberg, translator from the Finnish of Pirkko Saisio's "Helsinki Trilogy." @twolinespress.com clereviewofbooks.com/mia-spangenb...

This #GivingTuesday we’d love to send you a thank you gift! Our CAT tote, designed by Lan Truong, is available to supporters who make a tax-deductible donation of $100 or more. This tote is not for sale, so now is your chance to show your love for literary translators! www.catranslation.org/donate/

It's the LAST DAY of our holiday sale--don't miss 30% off all our books (40% off for Two Lines Press members, select $12 hardcovers, and free shipping for U.S. orders over $50!📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

Psst! Our one-week-only holiday sale goes until December 1. Now's a great time to give the gift of translated literature with 30% off all of our books (40% off for Two Lines Press members), special $12 hardcovers, and free shipping for U.S. orders over $50! www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

Excellent recent book mail from @twolinespress.com Ghost Stories: I was Alive Here Once coming in early 2026 from their Calico imprint. A collection of ghost stories from around the world.

Today's Featured Poem: "Shadow" by Mariam Meetra, translated by Samantha Cosentino & Sabrina Nouri from Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets published by @twolinespress.com Read here: poems.com/poem/shadow/

bookish friends: two lines press publishes *so* much great stuff! don't miss this sale!! 💙📚

Give the gift of literary translation with our 1 week Holiday Sale! 🎁 For one-week-only we're offering 30% off all our books (40% off for Two Lines Press members), special $12 hardcovers, and free shipping on U.S. orders over $50! 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

As of today, the publishers with the most #SFinTranslation in 2025 are: @ndbooks.bsky.social (6) @twolinespress.com (4) @honfordstar.bsky.social (4) Thanks for all the great books!!! 🎉

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...

🎉 The committee for the Cercador Prize confers this year’s prize to Christina MacSweeney for her translation of ‘The Queen of Swords’ by Jazmina Barrera (Two Lines Press). Congratulations to Christina, Jazmina, and @twolinespress.com!

I love this prize (the only one run by booksellers! or at least the only translation prize run by booksellers!) and this is a very very good decision by this year's jury.

Congratulations to the always excellent Christina MacSweeney winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize for her translation of The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera! The Queen of Swords is one of my favorite books of 2025.

Congratulations to Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeny—the English translation of THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, just published with Two Lines Press, is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! 🎉 @twolinespress.com

🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com

#SFinTranslation out today (1/2): THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)

love this book mail from @twolinespress.com

The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com

This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...

SEA NOW hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey. Read the book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews... @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org

Jazmina Barrera's THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, translated by Christins MacSweeney (11/11/25) is in great company on Ms. Magazines November Reads for the Rest of Us! msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...

“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @catranslation.org @twolinespress.com

Check out our newest NBA interview with author Mohamed Kheir and translator Robin Moger! Together, they discuss SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature: buff.ly/tlaTIqr @twolinespress.com

Our Calico Series is open for submissions for 🐾 animal stories 🐾 in translation! Open to translations from any language into English, word count between 2k to 10k words, deadline January 15, 2026! Full submission details here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TOMORROW 10/17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

We interviewed author Jazmina Barrera and translator Christina MacSweeney about their National Book Award-longlisted novel, THE QUEEN OF SWORDS. Read the interview: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @twolinespress.com

some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨

Through the mail slot today. Sea Now by Eva Meijer, translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo. And an excellent tote bag. www.catranslation.org/shop/book/se... @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org

"In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence." 🌊🐃 🐋

For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...

Bay Area folks, this one sounds fun!

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TONIGHT @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 11 @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan Poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!

NO EDGES: SWAHILI STORIES (@twolinespress.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list! These eight stories from East African writers feature “tales of sorcerers, Nairobi junkyards, cross-country bus rides, and spaceships that blast prisoners into eternity”: bookshop.org/p/books/no-e...

In SLEEP PHASE, Mohamed Kheir “uses his characters’ ever-shifting perception of their surroundings to probe the truths around globalization and its consequences.” A @twolinespress.bsky.social novel (transl. by Robin Moger) from our #TranslationMonth list: www.catranslation.org/shop/book/sl...