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Next we have the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German works of literary merit and general interest.

and #djinns is back again with a spot on the shortlist for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social’s #schlegeltieckprize 😱 alongside some other heavy-hitters. congrats to all the translators shortlisted for #societyofauthors awards this year, it’s a real pleasure to be in your good company!

honored to have my #translation of fatma aydemir’s #djinns make the longlist 💞

really grateful for the opportunity to take part in this and excited about the ongoing work of building our community of #bipoc #translators in and beyond #alta48

Some interesting books on this longlist! I’ve been enjoying reading Kurdish writer Fatma Aydemir’s ‘Djinns’ lately (translated from German by @jpolizei.bsky.social). Looks like there are some other titles I need to add to my ever-growing “to read” pile!

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

Maha also discusses our 'Disrupting Translation' event with @jpolizei.bsky.social and Thalia Ostendorf, which you can still watch here: www.goethe.de/prj/vor/en/a...

Melody Makeda Ledwon will receive the 2025 Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators, Words Without Borders announced today. The grant recognizes Ledwon’s translation from German of the novel Knives, Tongues by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner. Learn more here:

Thrilled to have gotten to co-translate this beautiful short story by Sharon Dodua Otoo. It starts off innocently enough, and then things quickly spiral into ever more reality-bending complexity. (Also check out her novel ADA'S ROOM, trans. @jpolizei.bsky.social.) thebaffler.com/fiction/tim-otoo

Ela Gezen and I did a thing… allow me to promote our new #bookseries on #German Literatures in (Post)Migration! we‘ve already got exciting projects in the works but please hit us up with proposals, we want to know what you‘re working on (literary #translation of hard-to-place projects welcome, too!)

👻 Elena Pare reviews “Djinns” by Fatma Aydemir, a gripping family saga set between Germany and Istanbul, where silence conceals generations of trauma and migration. @jpolizei.bsky.social 
 bit.ly/djinns-unvei...

wonderfully detailed review of my #translation of Fatma Aydemir’s #Djinns in @markaz-review.bsky.social #booksintranslation #booksky themarkaz.org/djinns-unvei...

bay area #translation peoples come hang out! www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/st...

now more than ever we need more brave voices like @timmohr.bsky.social to advocate for the polyphony of this world www.europaeditions.com/news/2657/in... rest in power ✊🏽

The English translations need no less than two skeets - the UK and Commonwealth translation is called "Ada's Realm" and was published by MacLehose Press Shout out to the award-winning and truly beautiful soul of a translator Jon Cho-Polizzi (@jpolizei.bsky.social) 🌹 Thank you so, so much! 5.

Excellent statement from @aaupcu.bsky.social

wrote my first blurb and landed with the best of company 😍 @translationista.bsky.social

this happened! hugely honored to give the keynote for the german area of inquiry at #NeMLA. massive thanks to all the organizers and attendees 💚

got a copy of my translation of fatma aydemir’s djinns the uk edition 😍 peirene press 💚 #booksintranslation

stoked to be part of ALTA‘s multilingual #translation workshop team again this year! there are so many amazing #translators in the lineup; sign up & tell your friends! www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-sprin...

such a pleasure talking with and listening to this amazing group of #translators yesterday

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

Congrats to all the longlisted books and a special shout-out to the authors and #translators nominated for works in #translation!

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

not just in deutschland, brother 😮‍💨

to round off the year, the recording of our summer event "disrupting translation" with thalia ostendorf and @jpolizei.bsky.social is now live! co-curated and hosted by @mahaelhissy.bsky.social and me as part of her #vorzeichen series and my veni project: youtu.be/JkUjUM9Ot5E

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

still very much in awe of @translationista.bsky.social‘s @thebaffler.com review of Djinns 📖

Kultur nicht zu fördern, weil Kultur angeblich elitär & was für Reiche ist, ist ne self-fulfilling prophecy: Weniger Förderung heißt Kunst machen wird schlechter bezahlt & nur Wohlhabende können sich leisten in diese Berufe zu gehen.

little late on the update, but this happened #booksintranslation #djinns

German studies postdoctoral fellow Jeannette Oholi researches Black European authors whose work has been underrepresented—and she helped organize a reading TONIGHT at Norwich Bookstore with @jpolizei.bsky.social, a celebrated translator of German Black authors. ⤵️

I recommended @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social's Ada's Room, trans. by @jpolizei.bsky.social: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

Es ist eine große Herausforderung, bei all der menschlichen Kälte, die gerade um sich greift, den eigenen Humanismus nicht zu verlieren. Und dafür braucht es Freud*innen und Verbündete mehr denn je. Darum lasst nicht zu, dass ihr einander verliert. Gerade jetzt.

se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yennkyi 💚

so when does this thing build up the critical mass for us to leave the bird for good? 🧐

this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Welcome to Bluesky Professor Cho-Polizzi, mein lieber Freune, Übersetzer und Partner im Struggle. Schön, dass du jetzt hier bist @jpolizei.bsky.social!

is the sky still blue somewhere out there?