@norsk.bsky.social
Translator. Norwegian literature enthusiast. Iowa MFA.
Backlight is out and the trilogy is all together! Wooo! Thanks to @catranslation.bsky.social for putting out these masterpieces.
24.06.2025 23:32 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
HE TOOK A SMOKE IN HIS MOUTH GIVE ME ONE UNCLE I SAID WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT YOU ARE STILL A LITTLE BOY I ALSO LEARNED THAT IN DENMARK UNCLE HE KISSED ME ON THE CHEEK AND THE SUN KISSED HIM I DROVE AROUND IN CIRCLES AND BLEW OUT SMOKE
An uncle giraffe & a smaller giraffe, in front of the very sun that kissed the uncle in Yahya Hassan’s poem.
mountain poem 2/31: “Holiday 1” by Yahya Hassan, translated by @norsk.bsky.social. Yahya Hassan was a marvelous poet I’m excited for more people to read!
full text of this and a couple other YH poems: actionbooks.org/2021/06/thre...
& the interview with YH quoted in ALFTM: youtu.be/1HE6ZsH8ldU?...
Working with the @khoreo.bsky.social team on the production of the audio version of my translation from issue 5.1 (out as a pod soon) has been a dream experience. Talented, refreshingly diverse roster of voice actors, unparalleled attention to detail. Vote for them if you can🖤📚
10.06.2025 11:17 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
The Anchorite Anthony and the pig ate from the same barrel The first year he thought: Don't my holy toes look like a sow suckling four piglets? The second year he thought: I used to be a pinecone on the branch: green, heavy and closed off. Now I am a pinecone on the forest floor: brown, light and opened up. Thinking about death had held him up for many years One day he thought: the smell of turpentine is a lot like the smell of turpentine.
Svein Jarvoll, translated by Jordan Barger @norsk.bsky.social
13.05.2025 01:09 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The British Centre for Literary Translation is now part of Bluesky 🎉 We're looking forward to connecting with new and old followers. Help us spread the word and stay tuned for updates! #BCLT #Bluesky #literarytranslation
09.04.2025 11:28 — 👍 41 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0Follow @circumferencemag.bsky.social for the best in poetry in translation!
03.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bloody thrilled to share my translation of Evgenia Nekrasova’s horned tale on the perils of patriarchy. Deep gratitude to @theoffingmag.bsky.social for giving this banger a home🖤🩸
25.03.2025 15:18 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Sorry Hai Rui Bhagwan :(
15.03.2025 16:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
RIP Dag Solstad
15.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
15 years he's been gone now. Still think about his music most days...
youtu.be/meDCjtfDk4c?...
No way! Cool! I’ll check it out :)
26.02.2025 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My range
25.02.2025 00:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Advice from two of my favorite writers (Hesselholdt + Lutz) for everyone to stop being so specific and stringent
24.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Think about this essay all the time. She has been translated into German since, don’t know anyone who’s read it though. Nor do I know if there are other translations
18.02.2025 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your work is awesome! Love these lil guys
13.02.2025 21:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Suuuper excited for this
09.02.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ok touché this is a lot of words at once
ambrosiaurealised, hvad?
Pulling out the tome to check
07.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ours is a poor sort of language that only allows one word at a time
06.02.2025 19:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My least favorite medium (podcast) about my favorite music (Movietone + Flying Saucer Attack + Crescent)
Wooo!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
lol, the Tallests are the elite members of the aliens in Invader Zim
24.01.2025 19:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beyond honored to contribute a Yahya Hassan translation to this landmark anthology of Palestinian Poetry.
Heaven Looks Like Us, available from @haymarketbooks.org in mid May 2025.
Some homemade hurdy gurdy action here to brighten a dull Wednesday…
22.01.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fishing for the Little Pike, by Juhani Karila, translated by yours truly, is a Dublin Literary Award Longlist finalist. : )
God bless the librarians. #juhanikarila
Steel Diver 2 ???????
16.01.2025 21:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just played a French scrabble tournament in Bordeaux. Went 2-3, very happy. But omg am I tired. One of the harder things I’ve ever done with my languages
12.01.2025 19:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She’s good.
11.01.2025 06:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited about finding three Vesaas books in French
11.01.2025 06:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Translation Meme
10.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Interesting article about the intersection of translation, poetry, disability.
10.01.2025 15:48 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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