Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov at the Uni of Manchester (@uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social) on his latest novel Three Years on Fire, but also talking about his morbid humour inspired by the 'childhood medical fantasies' he developped when growing up in a house full of medical doctors.

Very happy to guest edit a special issue on "Media Ecologies of Translation" in Translation Matters 9.1 (Spring 2027)! The call is available at drive.google.com/file/d/14yBk.... Submission deadline for full articles: July 15, 2026. Thank you for sharing widely!

A statement about David Bellos just issued by his department: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.

RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...

RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.

Join us for a cultural event about Kurdish storytelling and history, to celebrate the launch of 'The Last Pomegranate Tree' by Bachtyar Ali 📅 Thursday 27 November ⏰ 4.45-6pm 📍 Samuel Alexander Building, SG16 🎟 Free entry, all welcome, no booking required

Tomorrow (14 November) at 5-6:30 pm (GMT), join this virtual @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more about this free event here: buff.ly/R362wXY.

Tomorrow (Thursday, 13 November) at 2-3:30 pm (GMT), join this hybrid @ctis-manchester.bsky.social event where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more here: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:....

So glad to share with you the inaugural special issue of Feminist Translation Studies 'Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/2/1 @olgacastro80.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social

More events feat. Translation Multiples (also online!): 📢Thurs, 13 Nov, 2-4pm: a triple book showcase (with Delphine Grass & Anna Lanfranchi) on recent books in literary translation: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... 📢Friday, 14 Nov, 5-6.30pm: a multiples workshop www.kcl.ac.uk/events/works...

Tomorrow (22 October) at 4pm BST, please join this in-person @soasuni.bsky.social event, where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Register for this event here: buff.ly/LMF5SGy.

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

🎉 Wonderful news! Huge congratulations to László Krasznahorkai - whose book SPADEWORK FOR A PALACE, translated by John Batki, was shortlisted for the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose! - on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature! 🥳🎊 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

📢📢📢 CfP for a special issue in @transpaces.bsky.social (2027) on the topic of Translator Norms, co-edited by our very own Anna Strowe, Richard Mansell & Helle V. Dam. Abstracts due 24 Nov; notification of successful proposals by 15 Dec; articles due 30 May 2026. More details: t.co/gVJ29PBTDm

Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format. The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @princetonupress.bsky.social

We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

📣 Translators! Don't miss your chance - VSC's open call will offer 2, 3, and 4-week residencies in 2026, and ✨translators are eligible for them.✨ Get in your application by the end of the day today! 👇

Congratulations to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay whose book, Required Reading, was named the Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the @yalemacmillan.bsky.social! Learn more about this fascinating book here: hubs.ly/Q03LqQ500

Looking forward to taking part! 13 November 2025 at @officialuom.bsky.social

Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025 www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...

Here is an #InternationalTranslationDay #shelfie of most of the 200+ books I've translated (the top 4 shelves), plus some anthologies containing works I've translated, and then some magazines likewise containing works I've translated. 🥰🥰 #booksky #xl8

Happy International Translation Day! Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation. (Written out in replies)

Happy International Translation Day, everyone! Best time to save the dates for our CTIS research seminars in the upcoming months.

This workshop w/@kaszyma.bsky.social asks how can we use languages to effect change? What's the difference between translation as activism & translation as art? & much more... 🗓️20 Oct Manchester Poetry Library, M15 6BG 🎟️FREE places for MMU & UoM Students 🔗 englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/057fe075

Call for the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026. It adresses edited books published between July 2023 and July 2025. Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2025. @eurocomplit.bsky.social Find more at: escl-selc.eu/excellence-a...

There were at least 400 translations of E. M. Forster's works - books and collections of short stories - between the Swedish translation of A Passage to India in 1925 and the Ukrainian translation of A Room with a View in 2025. More details in my book which has just been sent to the publisher.

Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.

13 November: Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social, Anna Lafranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social @warwicktranslation.bsky.social & Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social CTIS A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research zoom.us/meeting/regi...

As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb! 3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom £120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words 📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com

Tickets for the Dear Diaspora book launch, trilingual reading and fundraiser for Palestine are for sale here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...

✨COVER REVEAL✨ My 1st co-edited multilingual poetry magazine, coming soon… www.instagram.com/atelier.intl...

Brilliant, thought-provoking essay by my colleague @uilleamblacker.bsky.social - as a russianist who fully accepts that I have contributed this problem, I’d welcome the sort of institutional change Uilleam argues for here, and am trying to work towards that. www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

"Bold acts of translation are the lifeblood of Kasia Szymanska’s book, TRANSLATION MULTIPLES: FROM GLOBAL CULTURE TO POSTCOMMUNIST DEMOCRACY." Check out Jess Jensen Mitchell's review on HS of @kaszyma.bsky.social's TRANSLATION MULTIPLES here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/09/09/r... #translation

Elaine L. Wang looks at “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” Adam Zagajewski’s (accidentally) definitive 9/11 poem.

Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote. Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...

Book talk in Manchester! Come for a night at Queer Lit to talk with other book lovers & curious folks! Find out why queer women are leading the movement to ‘speak in tongues’ 😍 See you there! Get your tix: www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...

👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans... 🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 [email protected]

The deadline for a number of prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies has been extended until 10 September 2025; see here for more information & eligibility: awsshome.org/awards/ I especially encourage current and recent PhDs in the field to apply for the Graduate Essay Prize!

🎟️ALL TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR #MLF25🎟️ We celebrate 20 years of stories, ideas and inspiration this autumn with an incredible line-up of award-winning authors, cultural icons and bold new voices, plus a host of family fun! www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Highlights include:

Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...

Was pleased to represent @ucflangs.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk today in conversation with Matt Frei about the crisis for languages & their importance for global Britain, following the @hepi-news.bsky.social report by Megan Bowler. Listen at c.10.50am: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... @prototypepubs.bsky.social @theguardian.com

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (Newcastle University) as our keynote speaker at #IPCITI2025, 18th International #Postgraduate #Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting 📢 Don’t forget – the deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod... (1/5)

This thick tome on multilingual poet & translator Uljana Wolf (ed. Áine McMurtry) is forthcoming w/@degruyterbrill.bsky.social! Feat. Wolf(!), Yoko Tawada @translationista.bsky.social Brigitte Rath, Jana Weiß & myself on the German-Polish kochanie. Can't wait! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

The Opposite of Seduction: New Poetry in German, Alexander Kappe, Nicola Thomas & Jana Maria Weiß (eds)(Shearsman) WINNER, English PEN Award. Translated by various hands. First major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for 40 years +. www.shearsman.com/store/alexan...

Happiness is EST2025, the 11th Congress of the Society for Translation Studies in Leeds: wonderful organisers Sara Ramos Pinto and Callum Walker, great panels and keynotes and lovely discussions on the next research steps and the private and behind-the-scenes stuff.

On Sunday August 10th, I'll be leading a walking tour of New York's East Side for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, focused on sites related to Jewish dancing and literature about New York Jewish dancing. @jewishstudies.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.yivo.org/Dance-Guided...

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...