This Saturday! 🚂 Don’t miss NIGHT TRAIN translator @jeremytiang.bsky.social in conversation with poet and translator Eleanor Goodman at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social 7pm ET. RSVP here: buff.ly/7c1Ih3m

At 1:30pm, join us for the panel "Dark Nights of the Soul: Mental Health in Translation" with NIGHT TRAIN translator @jeremytiang.bsky.social and Tatiana Țîbuleac, moderated by Rita Bullwinkel. More info here: buff.ly/XKjMoKf

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King have won this year’s International Booker Prize with TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE! Congratulations to both author and translator! This marks our second International Booker win in a row, following the success of Deepa Bhasthi’s translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP in 2025.

The US version of beloved VIOLENT PHENOMENA antho of essays on translation is out today! With a foreword from Bruna Dantas Lobato. Congrats @jeremytiang.bsky.social Kavita Bhanot, and all fellow contributors. www.harpercollins.com/products/vio...

Zhang Yueran on why Western readers are finally embracing Chinese stories reut.rs/4dgduUc

It's PUB DAY for @jeremytiang.bsky.social's translation of Xu Zenchen's NIGHT TRAIN (@twolinespress.com). Here's an unmissable reading from this tale of social disparity, and the devastating consequences of lies told by foolish young men. Enjoy! buff.ly/vrTIjPL

At 1:30pm, join us for the panel "Dark Nights of the Soul: Mental Health in Translation" with NIGHT TRAIN translator @jeremytiang.bsky.social and Tatiana Țîbuleac, moderated by Rita Bullwinkel. buff.ly/8tWfv5C

We hope to see you at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley 📚️ on May 31, 11 am-5 pm. Stop by our table for discounts on all @twolinespress titles and meet our team to learn more about our public events, education program, publisher, and our new building (coming soon to downtown SF!) buff.ly/8tWfv5C

My translation of ADRIFT IN THE SOUTH, the debut memoir of Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai 小海, out with Granta Magazine Editions today. A landmark work of the migrant worker literature movement, it showcases one of China’s liveliest emerging voices. #XiaoHai #chineseliterature #translatedliterature

Don't miss this exciting event at @penamerica.bsky.social World Voices Festival with @jeremytiang.bsky.social! Writing Across Forms: A Conversation With Author-Playwrights on Fri. May 1, 7pm at Goethe-Institut New York. worldvoices.pen.org/event/writin...

✊ People of the Book, come through to support! Rally on April 29, Wednesday, 12:30 pm, at the public plaza on 52nd St between Fifth and Sixth avenues “We're asking folks to show up wearing union swag, if you have it!”

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We are thrilled to share that TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE has been shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize! Congratulations to author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translator @linkinglionking.bsky.social, and our publishing partners in the UK @andotherstories.bsky.social 🎉🎉 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Check it out! @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @marianatravacio.bsky.social @willmorningstar.bsky.social @jeremytiang.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

We are so excited to launch our new READ THE WORLD A TO Z series. Travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia! @marianatravacio.bsky.social @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @willmorningstar.bsky.social @jeremytiang.bsky.social

Madeleine Thien speaks to @jeremytiang.bsky.social about her latest novel, THE BOOK OF RECORDS, and explores earlier books, grief, and the impact of genocide on her thinking and practice. Read an extract: buff.ly/k6lLfnh Access the full interview for free during March: buff.ly/iv6jFDk

Early career translators, get yourself a grant right here! #Translation

📣 Opportunity for early-career translators: @wwborders.bsky.social's Momentum Grant is open for submissions. The contest will be judged by @jeremytiang.bsky.social and the editors of Words Without Borders. 

Learn more here:

Please read and share. There is also widely-circulating video of the unlawful arrests of these Minnesota activists (and U.S. citizens).

Aspiring editors! Fancy joining our team? jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28558...

Thank you for this thought-provoking and wide-ranging interview, @crampell.bsky.social!

Chuffed to be in the Asian Review of Books covering a novel that pulled me right in (tr by @jeremytiang.bsky.social 👑) It's about a nanny stuck caring for a boy while his ultra rich parents flee a corruption investigation 🇨🇳 Plus there is a goose 🦢 and it's loose

Dec 10 at Yu & Me yuandmebooks.com/products/boo...

⏱️ 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

"All of this feels tremendously demoralizing. The meaning and power of language is in the process of being flushed away." ~Zhang Yueran on declining readership in China thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

"I like it edgy, I love it dark, some anger in there. I've been talking about really liking to publish the voices of disobedient women." @worldedbooks.bsky.social's Christine Swedowsky and Michelle Mirabella on Chad Post's Three Percent podcast threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/three-perc...

today!

Pleased to announce these authors as featured guests for #VWF2025! Officially D-11 days from the 2025 Festival. • Saeed Teebi • Souvankham Thammavongsa • Madeleine Thien • Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social • Miriam Toews @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social • Georgia Toews

looking forward to Krasznahorkai's single-sentence acceptance speech

Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

Philadelphia: worldeditions.org/event/jeremy... Pittsburgh: cityofasylum.org/litfest-2025/ Vancouver: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva... Toronto: festivalofauthors.ca/festival-202...

"She held nothing back, writing with such force that it felt as if she were ripping through the paper. When I began writing fiction, I felt that only by tearing the paper could I leave evidence that I had existed in this world." ~Zhang Yueran on Eileen Chang www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

new translator aspiration just dropped www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Granny Liu squats by the grave and says, ‘Look, say you’re right and women do live longer, then fine—you can die first, but you’re making lunch tomorrow.’ “ From “Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky” by Yan Lianke, translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social. buff.ly/RtunfjN

3 days left to apply!

📣 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!