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📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator. Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69

“How does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold War’s forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?” Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/

State of Emergency + Delicious Hunger reviewed in LARB by Darren Wan lareviewofbooks.org/article/emer...

Shuang Xuetao's HUNTER in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

"In recent years, East Asian authors have begun to break the stranglehold that European writers have previously exerted over translated literature... Strikingly, however, Chinese authors have mostly been absent from this cultural conversation." www.jezebel.com/women-seated...

“I’ve always been interested in writing about nannies, perhaps because their existence is a study in contrasts.” ～Zhang Yueran lithub.com/a-study-in-c...

"For a long time, the perception of Chinese literature among Western readers has been quite fixed. It's often seen as either heavily influenced by Chinese culture, or focused on people living rural, impoverished lives. Which has nothing to do with our lives today." www.npr.org/2025/08/15/n...

applications now open for the 2025 Translating Taiwan Literature workshop, a (free!) literary translaltion workshop by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in Tainan/ Taitung apply by Sept 7 event.culture.tw/mocweb/reg/N...

🥳🥳🥳 Plus, Nov 5 at Sky Bar: Come drink and dish with the Translators Organizing Committee, a division of the @nwu.org and the United States’ first ever literary translators’ union! Open to members, prospective members, and the solidarity-inclined. literarytranslators.org/event/nwupre...

✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48 ✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in ✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons ✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More *better working conditions 4 literary translators*

“It’s time to get excited about reading Chinese fiction, and Zhang Yueran and @jeremytiang.bsky.social are two of the biggest reasons why.” @readbookpage.bsky.social 🌟 Get your copy of this “vivid, smart, suspenseful” thriller (Mo Yan) + head to Yu & Me's NYC book launch of WOMEN, SEATED tonight!

“I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad” variety.com/2025/film/ne...

next week www.yuandmebooks.com/products/boo...

"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year." Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

pre-orders now open for the next issue of Mynah 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ www.indiegogo.com/projects/myn...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

It’d be useful to have more coverage of Michelle Wu as a progressive Democrat with good policies who is extremely popular. It isn’t just Zohran Mamdani. Voters approve Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu pushing back on GOP www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

My translation of poetry and prose by Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, the late Taiwanese transgender poet and writer whose life was tragically cut short by a mountain trekking incident at age 19. from “Before the Snowmelt” 我所告訴你關於那座山的一切

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow and Jeremy Tiang discuss what drew him to write and translate fiction about these political movements, why women are such significant characters in his latest works, and how these stories might inform our understanding of the current political moment. buff.ly/4ZvICm1

The @americanbookseller.bsky.social booksellers weighed in and selected WOMEN, SEATED by Zhang Yueran (translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social) as an August Indie Next Pick! 🥳🥳🥳 Pick up this propulsive page-turner ‼️NEXT MONTH‼️ bit.ly/3PWKLY3

come hang out if you're in boston next thursday www.eventbrite.com/e/transnatio...

Tomorrow at 7pm at KGB bar in NYC! @jeremytiang.bsky.social double Book launch hosted by Singapore Unbound! singaporeunbound.org/event-list/j...

Writing represents an act of resistance: it militates against all that is base and hateful, against death and annihilation. If writing is life, and life itself has turned into war, what more is left for us to write? ~Nasser Rabah, interviewed by Alex Tan proteanmag.com/2025/06/16/t...

Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in the WSJ www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

My review of @jeremytiang.bsky.social’s fabulous translation of HUNTER, short story collection by Dongbei (Northeastern Chinese) writer Shuang Xuetao. Thank you @fullstopmag.bsky.social www.full-stop.net/2025/06/04/r...

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2025...

Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

I have already forgotten what I said on this podcast and will not be listening back because I hate the sound of my own voice, but YOU might enjoy me going on about Communists in the rainforest mynahmag.substack.com/p/survivor-t...

Zheng Zhi interviewed in @parisreview.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04...

RIP to a real one www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...

a ⟡starred⟡ review for DELICIOUS HUNGER in Publishers Weekly, this is a victory for Communism ☆☭☆ www.publishersweekly.com/9781917126021

my translation of The Hedgehog by Zheng Zhi 郑执 is in The Paris Review www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8386...

The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open to works in translation for the very first time. Editor @sanagoyal.bsky.social outlines why and how this is a major step for the prize and Wasafiri more widely, in our efforts to be as global as can be. buff.ly/BdwZnzn

Take Action for Amanda Echanis this International Women’s Day! 📢 Unjustly detained since 2020, stand with her this #IWD25 & demand her right to a fair trial today. #FreeAmandaEchanis #InternationalWomensDay 🔗 Take action: www.pen-international.org/news/pen-int...

vigil for Pannir Selvam Pranthaman

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“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” Thank you Alexandra Alter & @nytimes.com for spotlighting our work! bit.ly/3X6h1fh

this Friday afternoon: in conversation at the NYPL with Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King about their amazing NBA-winning book TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE www.nypl.org/events/progr...

an excellent start to the Year of the Snake ~~ www.obieawards.com/events/2020s...

NWU is a Sanctuary Union

Written by Zhang Yueran, translated to English by @jeremytiang.bsky.social, and edited by @ohanzhang.bsky.social, this enthralling page-turner delves into the pressures faced by women in China that cut across class lines. You won't want to miss WOMEN, SEATED on shelves August 12th: bit.ly/3PWKLY3

Whether its workshops, our online bookstore, direct support to organizations like The Sameer Project, or Crips for eSims, adopting a fund from Palestine Asdiqa (palestineasdiqa on X) or Gaza Funds (gazafunds on X) keep sending money. Now is the time to intensify our efforts, not slow down.

Announcement for all early-career translators: submissions to this year’s Momentum Grant, judged by Julia Sanches, are due 2/28! Learn more about eligibility, submissions, and the Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators: https://buff.ly/3CnAgK5