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. 

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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!

“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...