📚️ Your bookshelves need some sprucing up? @wwborders.bsky.social has just the thing! Check out The Watchlist featuring works translated from Montenegrin, Spanish, Vietnamese, Persian, and French: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

📆 There are just 2 weeks left to propose a panel or workshop for our conference this fall, ALTA49: Give and Take, which will take place October 21-24 in Portland, OR! See the full call for proposals and be sure to get yours in by June 15! buff.ly/GEby5RB

Hey, PNW literary translators! Submit your presentation proposals for #ALTA49 (in Portland, OR!) by June 15 ⏰

✍️ We at ALTA want to know what being part of ALTA's community has meant for YOU. Whether you've been a member for years or are completely new (welcome!), we want to hear from you. Fill out this very short survey (there's an emoji question!) and help us learn more: forms.gle/T3VKebT4xQzq...

📢 Calling all translators - we need your views and insights on our #TranslatorsOnTheCover campaign. Five years on from its launch, we’re working with Dr Pete Freeth (London Metropolitan University) to find out more about the campaign’s impact. buff.ly/uRuoZ1O

📆 There are just under 3 weeks left to propose a panel or workshop for our conference this fall, ALTA49: Give and Take, which will take place October 21-24 in Portland, OR! See the full call for proposals and be sure to get yours in by June 15! buff.ly/GEby5RB

The Griffin Poetry Prize is one of the world’s most generous awards (C$130,000) for a 1st edition poetry collection written in or translated into English. The 2026 shortlisted poets & translators will read on 6/3, 7pm ET at Toronto’s Koerner Hall. Set a reminder & tune in on YouTube: buff.ly/qHjvzIE

🎟️ Today's the LAST DAY to get your tix to our Multilingual Translation Workshops! There are 3 workshops with slots left: - How to Get Started in Literary Translation - Making a Living as a Literary Translator - Marketing and Publicity for Translators Learn more & book today! buff.ly/wh09ylU

🎟️ Just a few days left to get your tix to our Multilingual Translation Workshops! There are 3 workshops with slots left: - How to Get Started in Literary Translation - Making a Living as a Literary Translator - Marketing and Publicity for Translators Learn more & book by May 25: buff.ly/wh09ylU

"Before I started translating the book Mer de Glace by Polish poet Małgorzata Lebda, I made a list." Grammatical trickiness, tactile awareness, and inserting articles: Don't miss this essay by ALTA member Mira Rosenthal at Poetry Daily!

"By writing about a culture minister, Bošković hammers home the point that art is an effective way to counteract misinformation." At @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, don't miss this review of THE MINISTER by Stefan Bošković, trans. from Montenegrin by Will Firth, pub. Sandorf Passage:

Congrats to MR Prose in Translation editor Corine Tachtiris on her election as the new board president of @littranslate.bsky.social! Read more here: literarytranslators.org/alta-welcome...

🎉 Huge congratulations to ALTA mentor Lin King on winning the 2026 International Booker Prize for her translation of TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (which also won the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize)! This is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the Booker. buff.ly/XwCpBQx

"...reading disorders the state of mind in the right ways." International Booker Prize judge Sophie Hughes discusses reading as a cure for split attention - and offers some ways to make more time for reading.

🎟️ Just 1 week left to get your tix to our Multilingual Translation Workshops! There are 3 workshops with slots left: - How to Get Started in Literary Translation - Making a Living as a Literary Translator - Marketing and Publicity for Translators Learn more & book by May 25: buff.ly/wh09ylU

It is your last chance! ALTA members, today is the last day to propose events for AWP27 (held next March in Chicago) to be featured as part of our literary partnership with AWP, and showcase what's going on at the forefront of literary translation. Learn more here: buff.ly/ucMQGUo

📝 @littranslate.bsky.social is open for session proposals for their 49th annual conference, ALTA49: Give and Take, which will take place October 21-24 in Portland, OR. The deadline to propose sessions is June 15.

I serve on the Conference Committee for the American Literary Translators Association (@littranslate.bsky.social), and we want to see your panel & workshop proposals for ALTA’s upcoming conference, #ALTA49: Give and Take, on 10/21-24 in Portland, OR! Learn more & submit here: buff.ly/0BgEo3x

“The world whirls like a spinning top; feathery / Shadows alight from on high to cast a dotted line.” Padma Thornlyre translates five visually stunning poems from Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Diadchenko. At Asymptote: buff.ly/9Fntpw5

🗓️ Mark your calendars: There is just ONE MONTH LEFT to propose panels and workshops for the ALTA conference this fall, ALTA49: Give and Take, which will take place October 21-24 in Portland, OR! Read about this year's theme here, and make your proposals by June 15! buff.ly/8Of1W0N

“Within these limitations, linguistic limitations, [a translator is] definitely trying to engage in an artistic practice.” ALTA member Padma Viswanathan, who was recently shortlisted for the International Booker, speaks about the art of translation. At University of Arkansas: buff.ly/ukrZzd7

Need a mid-week pick-me-up? This compilation of quotes from classical Greek texts, translated by James Romm, reminds us that “happiness remains within our grasp.” At Lit Hub:

“Inside me, the foreign woman rests. A phantasm hovers over Greece—it’s the foreign woman. She’s very young and she’s old.” ALTA member paparouna translates a chapter on refugee women in Greece, from a novella by Giota Tempridou. At Asymptote: buff.ly/agRFyzc

Join us online for PETRA-E’s 3rd International Conference: Creative Translation in the Age of AI 🧑‍💻 The PETRA-E Network is delighted to hold its third conference on literary translation, hosted by BCLT. Register now 👉️ www.bclt.org.uk/events/Creat...

As part of our literary partnership with AWP (the Association of Writers & Writing Programs), we have reserved slots for 5 literary translation events proposed by ALTA members! Help us showcase what's going on at the forefront of literary translation: Submit a proposal by May 18! buff.ly/ucMQGUo

“It is certainly true that, in order to find what little remains that is peculiar to us, one must leave the lowlands and head up into the hills, into the highlands…” Read Vanessa Gutiérrez's stunning work about life in rural Asturias, translated by Scott Emblen-Jarrett. At WWB: buff.ly/fXYPkbQ

Sharing because I contributed—and Helen Vassallo is someone whose work I value and respect. With @willforrest.bsky.social, Nicholas Glastonbury, Daniel Hahn, Sawad Hussein, Sophie Lewis, Ros Schwartz, Nichola Smalley, Corine Tachtiris & @tiffanytsao.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Getting-Star...

“My connection with literature really has become so much more intense after winning the International Booker Prize.”  Celebrate 10 years of the International Booker Prize with some former prizewinners, including ALTA members Daisy Rockwell and Anna Moschovakis. At Booker Prizes:

From @wwborders.bsky.social job openings to @littranslate.bsky.social's virtual workshops. Catch up on the latest opportunities in our monthly literary translation roundup. Do you have exciting translation news to share? DM or tag us. We'd love to hear from you! buff.ly/8BQClwR

“[Literary translation is] very much an artistic process, an artistic expression.” Check out this interview with writer and translator Padma Viswanathan about the art of literary translation and how it differs in practice from creative writing. At Arkansas News:

“Armitage’s Gilgamesh retains a thrilling sense of the strange and unfamiliar, but its characters can also feel out of reach at times, hard to understand individually…” Nicolas Liney reviews Simon Armitage’s resplendent new verse translation of the EPIC OF GILGAMESH. At LARB:

ALTA is pleased to welcome its new Board President, Corine Tachtiris! Join us in giving heartfelt thanks to Chenxin Jiang for serving as ALTA President from November 2023 till yesterday, and welcoming Corine as our new President! Learn more about this transition at the link: buff.ly/Rf51Edd

There are still some slots left for the ALTA Multilingual Translation Workshops taking place next month! These workshops bring together a small group of translators with a leader to receive feedback on a brief excerpt of work in translation. Learn more and register here by May 25! buff.ly/Y6LsGhA

“There’s no way to acquire a language without time, circumstance, and happenstance: whether mother tongue or other tongue, the languages I translate expose a part of my individual and familial history.” ALTA President Chenxin Jiang on multilingualism and mother tongues. At Lit Hub:

“What happened to this body?” I ask. There’s a tremble of the femur, an emptiness in the solar plexus.” ALTA member Michelle Mirabella translates hauntingly beautiful prose from Catalina Infante Beovic. At World Literature Today:

⏱️Attention, emerging BIPOC translators! It's your last chance to apply for the Building Our Future Workshop to be held 6/26-27. This is a free, weekend-long program meant to empower literary translators of color as they begin to navigate the field. Apply by the end of the day today! buff.ly/sP48NSp

“The wind picked up, and rainwater poured off the trees onto the hoods of their jackets. Figs caught in the grooves of their tires: flattened, fragrant, mixing with the scent of the rain.” View this languid Hong Kong work, translated by ALTA President Chenxin Jiang and ALTA Intern Fion Tse. At WWB:

📣 Attention, emerging BIPOC translators! Don't miss your chance to apply for the Building Our Future Workshop to be held 6/26-27. This is a free, weekend-long program meant to empower literary translators of color as they begin to navigate the field. Apply by this Sunday, May 3! buff.ly/sP48NSp

“I think a successful translated work leaves no trace of what the writer Lina Mounzer once described to me as the “the laboured agony” of translation.” Translator and International Booker Prize judge Sophie Hughes reflects on the art of literary translation. At Euronews: buff.ly/6gk36XY

Laurence Laluyaux, head of RCW International at the RCW Literary Agency and an agent for renowned authors including 3Nobel laureates, will receive the 2026 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, Words Without Borders announced today: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

“Here matters are complicated not only by grammatical structure and what a language allows, but also the exigencies of performance—making lines that an actor can follow.” Translator Daniel Hahn discusses the magic of translating (and punctuating) Shakespeare in different languages:

As part of our literary partnership with AWP (the Association of Writers & Writing Programs), we have reserved slots for 5 literary translation events proposed by ALTA members! Help us showcase what's going on at the forefront of literary translation: Submit a proposal by May 18!

“The best literature produced in India […] tend to be those that evolve styles and dictions that are as much influenced by their classical roots as they are by the Western tradition...” Suchitra Ramachandran reflects on THE ABYSS and India’s literary tradition. At Lit Hub:

“So often what we’re trying to do is reanimate the kinds of choices that the author is making in the original language in the English that we’re writing.” Check out this KQED discussion on translation, featuring Daniel Levy, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and ALTA member Olivia Sears:

“What matters [...] is not making the writing immediately classifiable, but immediately true [...] one’s voice might be fractured, imperfect, cacophonous and a bit unhinged.” Chiara Barzini and Jhumpa Lahiri discuss multilingual third spaces and escaping editorial norms. At Lit Hub:

“loneliness that turned its back in fog thick as meat broth, instead of closing its eyes, because of what it saw behind closed eyes” Check out these four translations of Kim Eon Hee’s visceral and uncompromising poems, translated from Korean by Soje. At the Offing:

“I believe firmly that nothing is untranslatable. It’s just that sometimes a word might take a whole book to translate.” Lisa Lee reflects on emotions and lives lived across languages in her novel AMERICAN HAN. At Lit Hub: lithub.com/lisa-lee-on-...

“Coffee grounds still clung to my cup. Now it’s clean, like a wail in my mouth that protects each word of the lies I utter.” Loved Afrizal Malna's 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry Winner DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM, translated by Daniel Owen? Check out these new poems at WWB: buff.ly/Uf8aVsF

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