Translating László Krasznahorkai; the humor and music in his prose; and the current political moment: Don’t miss this conversation with past National Translation Award judge @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social at Lit Hub! @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/ottilie-mulz...

"I try to resist the notion that educating the reader is my responsibility, as it’s harmful to treat readers as passive, disengaged consumers hungry for entertainment dressed up as instruction." Check out this interview with past ALTA Travel Fellow @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social:

🎉 The finalists for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature are here! Congratulations to all the finalists, including ALTA members Shelley Fairweather-Vega, David McKay, and Robin Myers!

Very grateful to @littranslate.bsky.social, @kelsivanada.bsky.social, and my brilliant, kind, and generous mentor @shreedaisy.bsky.social for my translation mentorship this year. Here are a few photos from our readings at Tucson last week.

ICYMI: The longlist for the 2025 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has been announced! Congrats to all, including ALTA members Jon Cho-Polizzi, Kevin Gerry Dunn, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paige Aniyah Morris, Katie Whittemore, and past ALTA award winners Don Mee Choi & Jenny McPhee! buff.ly/XRnY1wd

So great to catch up with wonderful translation friends and to meet new ones. Here's to other great @littranslate.bsky.social conference! #ALTA48 🎉 See everyone next year in Portland 😁 #ALTA49

Great reading last night to end the @littranslate.bsky.social conference. Thanks to Sarabande & @roberteshoe.bsky.social for organizing! Such a pleasure to read with fellow Third Coast Translators Collective translators Alta L. Price, Sarah A Rae, Kathleen Maris Paltrineri, and Andrea Avey.

Our deepest thanks to ALTA @littranslate.bsky.social and the jurors for their enthusiasm for SAND-CATCHER. Our congratulations to Omar Khalifah and Barbara Romaine.

🎤 Happening soon! Don't miss the ALTA48 Keynote Address with Karen Emmerich, held 10:45am - 12:00pm in Sabino-Pima (1st floor of the conference hotel). We look forward to seeing you there! Learn more about Karen Emmerich here: buff.ly/tFNLxMg

Tonight at 7:30pm is the staged reading at the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre of "The Precursors," winner of the 5th Annual Plays-in-Translation Contest! Tickets are FREE for ALTA48 attendees. buff.ly/WUTx34G Not in Tucson? It will be livestreamed via HowlRound Theatre Commons at buff.ly/vwVJh78!

Really honored to receive this for my translation of Michele's beautiful and thrilling book, and very grateful to ALTA and to the judges for what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who's read this one so far – this slug's trail is a long one! 💚🐛

"Crossing waters", la traducción al inglés de "Cruzar el agua", ganadora del Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award. Enhorabuena a Lilit Thwaites por su gran trabajo. @littranslate.bsky.social #LilitThwaites @columbiaup.bsky.social @nocturnaed.bsky.social literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

And the winner is…! Barbara Romaine’s translation of Omar Khalifa’s novel Sand-Catcher. Do read it. It was an honour, and a pleasure, for me to serve on the five-person jury for the National Translation Award in Prose this year.

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!

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...

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose: SAND-CATCHER by Omar Khalifah, translated from Arabic by Barbara Romaine, pub. Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King @linkinglionking.bsky.social, ed. Yuka Igarashi, pub. Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA): CROSSING WATERS by Luisa Etxenike, translated from Spanish by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites @lzt-zhuk.bsky.social, pub. Sundial House! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize: JUST LIKE by Lee Sumyeong, translated from Korean by Colin Leemarshall, pub. Black Ocean @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA): VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, pub. And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

📣 Publishers! Don't miss your chance: Sign up to present about your publication tomorrow at 9:00am at #ALTA48!

Grateful for the opportunity to read at @littranslate.bsky.social conference today, in illustrious company🖤📚

Help us celebrate this year's ALTA Travel Fellows! L to R: 📚 Elete Nelson-Fearon (Arabic, Spanish) 📚 Mariana Ortigão (European Portuguese, Spanish) 📚 Marianna Suleymanova (Russian) 📚 Catherine Xinxin Yu, 2025 Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Chinese, Italian) + Fellows Mentor Russell Valentino!

Welcome translators and readers to the ALTA @littranslate.bsky.social conference! We’re set up and selling at the book fair!

Come see us in the bookfair at #ALTA48! @littranslate.bsky.social

Hello from the American Literary Translators Association conference in Arizona! Tonight was the annual theater-translation event: "Cold Beers and Cold Readings," including part of my translation of "Women on Radio" by Cristina Clemente. Some people are so good at unrehearsed performances! #ALTA48

The wonderful Stine An (@stine.bsky.social) & Marian Schwartz (@mbs51.bsky.social) talking to first-time attendees at #ALTA48. #translation

Tucson, AZ & @littranslate.bsky.social, here I come! Going as fast as I can. I assume 402 knots is fast 🤷‍♂️ . . . translation, please 🙏 #xl8 #ALTA48

We're wishing everybody making their way to Tucson for ALTA48: Visions and Versions over the next few days pleasant, safe, and smooth travels! We can't wait to welcome you here soon. 🌵 literarytranslators.org/event/alta-48/

We're delighted today to shout out to the Authors Guild for being a sponsor of our annual conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, which starts this Weds! This crucial support helps make this gathering - the largest in the US dedicated to literary translation - possible. Thank you! buff.ly/zmgk0eH

Can't make it to the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre in Tucson on 11/7 for the staged reading of "The Precursors," the winner of the 5th Annual Plays-in-Translation Contest? The reading and talkback will be livestreamed via HowlRound (and available as a recording later)! Learn more here:

“It makes you want to be playful and clever like him, to carry that feeling into your text, and it just requires a bit of caution.” Translator Robin Moger on Mohamed Kheir’s SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. At @wwborders.bsky.social

⏱️ 1 month left! Emerging translators: Apply for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program for your chance to work closely with an experienced translator on a project of your choosing! Program offered at no cost to the translators selected. Learn more and apply by 11/30! buff.ly/npHAOBE

"With a minority language like Welsh you also have people who maybe like the idea of reading in Welsh, but don't know where to start." Translators Anna Gruffydd and Adam Pearce bring new life to two of George Orwell’s classics through Welsh translations. At the BBC:

“You inhabit the work itself, not necessarily the author, but the vision — the conceptual world that the author is creating.” ALTA member Christina Kramer and co-translator Rawley Grau discuss the translation that earned them the International Dragi Award. At @utoronto.ca:

Translators! Submissions are open for Fence issue number 44 - deadline is this Friday, 10/31! Check it out 👇

Folks, it’s your last call to get tickets to our annual gala on 10/29 in NYC! Fund WWB's work and gift yourself a night of celebration with others who love global lit. It’s a win-win: just get a ticket at the link. secure.givelively.org/event/words-...

Check out this interview about the creation and translation of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III), shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. At @wwborders.bsky.social:

Take a look at this conversation with ALTA member Robin Myers about translating the music of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s novel WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING, shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. At @wwborders.bsky.social:

“Again I fingered the strings, first one, then all four, without plucking, slowly, to drink in every unevenness under the tips of my fingers." Check out former ALTA President Ellen Elias-Bursać’s translation of THE DOG AND THE DOUBLE BASS by Saša Ilić, available on Asymptote: buff.ly/jRJuwyb

Don't sleep on the WWB gala! 🎉👇

📣 Today is the LAST DAY to register ahead of time for our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, which will take place Nov 5-8 in Tucson! If you don't register by end of day today, you will have to wait to register onsite (at a higher rate!). Learn more & register here: buff.ly/yhpOdPt

Interested to see what events our community has planned during ALTA48? See the list of off-site community events during the conference: buff.ly/C91z7p7 Are you planning an off-site event during the conference? Let us know (email us at info[a]literarytranslators.org) so we can help spread the word!

In case you missed it, ALTA member Robin Myers is the featured translator in the latest issue of Latin American Literature Today! Check out her cover, interviews, and reflections on translation. latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/issue/issue-...

📣 Check out this job opportunity with the amazing @catranslation.org! ✨👇✨

Time is running out to register ahead of time for our conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, which will take place Nov 5-8 in Tucson, AZ! If you don't register by THIS WEDNESDAY, October 22, you'll have to wait to register onsite (at a higher rate!). Learn more & register here: buff.ly/yhpOdPt

Are you attending ALTA’s conference for the first time this year? Or are you a seasoned attendee of ALTA conferences? If you are looking for an “in” to this year’s programming, or if you want to be someone else’s, the Wayfinders program is for you! Register by 10/22:

“Now I was beginning to feel beholden to a third place, Taiwan, to which I could claim neither blood nor citizenship.” Kevin Wang explores how translating Terao Tetsuya’s SPENT BULLETS helped him to better understand Taiwan’s legacy. At Lit Hub: buff.ly/6LNlUGF @literaryhub.bsky.social

Translated from the French by ALTA member Allison Charette, notable author Raharimanana shares his thoughts on past and present revolutions in Madagascar in this essay response to book burnings and other restrictions on language in the country. At Lit Hub: buff.ly/StJggcs

⏱️ Time's running out! Online registration for the annual ALTA conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, closes next Wednesday, 10/22! If you do not register by then, you will have to wait to register onsite at the conference (at a higher rate!). See the rates and register here: