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#WomenInTranslationMonth Let's take a moment to celebrate Carmen Boullosa and translator Samantha Schnee for the wondrous novel, THE BOOK OF ANNA. Russia. 1915. Boullosa tells a polyphonic and subversive tale of the Russian revolution through the lens of Tolstoy’s most beloved work.

Books by people vs books by AI Announcing a new book certification scheme that enables publishers to prove their books are written by humans

Announcing a new tool to fight AI slop in the book world - and authenticate that the books we publish are written by, you know, humans.

Books by people vs books by AI
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Fair: The Life-Art of Translation by Jen Calleja Review by Liz Dexter When we talk about women's safety, it’s health and safety; when we talk about activist translation, we’re really talking about good translation. Jen Calleja is a

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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

In 2012, Natsuko Kuroda (1937- ) became Japan’s oldest-ever Akutagawa winner for her story ab sango (untranslated) at the age of 75.

Enjoy her story “Waymarkers” (trans Asa Yoneda).

Women in Translation #WIT #Read_WIT Women in Translation playlist. Translations of women authors read by their literary translators. #Women #WIT #WITMonth #womenintranslation #womenwriters #IWD...

August is Women in Translation Month! Celebrate the work of the world's best female writers, read by the incredibly talented women (and men) who translate them, with our dedicated playlist--currently 323 videos strong (!!!) and always growing. #WITmonth

YouTube video by Translators Aloud Kathy Saranpa reads from Gun-Britt Sundström's ENGAGEMENT (Penguin Modern Classics, 2025)

Delighted to see #translator Kathy Saranpa and #Swedish author #Gun-Britt #Sundström in the spotlight for #WITmonth with ENGAGEMENT, the classic #anti-marriage novel now available in English translation from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Watch a reading from ENGAGEMENT here:
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Since I'm seeing a lot of talk about covers and what's on them: I love a good cover (maybe more than most!) But from my own experience, and the lived experience of many translators I know, wildly unethical practices can lurk behind a pretty cover, too. Good on the grid ≠ good labor practices

(SO WHAT) IF I'M A PUTA: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire, starting #WITMonth with a, umm, bang (SO WHAT) IF I'M A PUTA: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire AMARA MOIRA (edited and tr. Amanda De Lisio & tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato) ...

(SO WHAT) IF I'M A PUTA: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire, starting #WITMonth with a, umm, bang via The Feminist Press. Edited and tr. Amanda De Lisio & tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato #Booksky 🌈📚
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Jorge Isaacs, María, A South American Romance (1867) José Eustasio Rivera, The Vortex (1927). Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude (1967) Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Gonzalo Arango Arias, Nadaismo (1958-1970) Andrés Caicedo, ¡Que viva la música! (Liveforever) (1977). Albalucía Ángel Marulanda, stories inc. “The Guerrilla Fighter” & “May as Well Call It Quits” (1979) Alvaro Mutis, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (1986-1991) Marvel Moreno, December Breeze, (1987). Eduardo Garcia Aguilar, Boulevard of Heroes (1993). Fanny Buitrago, Señora Honeycomb (1993). Fernando Vallejo, The Abyss (2003). Laura Restrepo, Delirium (2004). James Cañón, Tales from the Town of Widows (2007) Evelio Rosero, The Armies (2009). Tomás González, The Storm (2018) or Difficult Light (2020). Héctor Abad (Faciolince), The Joy of Being Awake (1996) or Oblivion: A Memoir (2010) or Recipes for Sad Women (2012) or The Farm (2018) Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Secret History of Costaguana (2007) or The Sound of Things Falling (2011) or The Shape of the Ruins (2018). Pilar Quintana, The Bitch (2020) or Abyss (2023). Eliana Hernández-Pachón, The Brush (2024).

sketch for reading plan for the fall---have reached South America at last in my 'round the world' reading journey & starting w/Colombia. anyone up on Colombian fiction/histories, please let me know recommendations:

Links, tips and suggestions Reading suggestions, interesting links and important ideas from the literary world. (III)

Another edition of Links, Tips and Suggestions is live: samj.substack.com/p/links-tips...

Reviewers! Get in touch if you’d like us to send you Before the Rocket 🚀 Out this September 🚀

BEASTS OF CARNAVAL, debut Caribbean-set Taíno mythology-centered fantasy novel BEASTS OF CARNAVAL ROSÁLIA RODRIGO MIRA Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available for pre-order with delivery ...

BEASTS OF CARNAVAL: MIRA Books published this debut Caribbean-set Taíno mythology-centered fantasy novel by Rosalia Rodrigo. #Booksky
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A Carnival of Atrocities (Natalia García Freire, 2022)

Oneiric and brutal series of vignettes about a small village in the Andes, mixing collective paranoia, mob behaviour, and supernatural vengeance. Quite a unique little book from 🇪🇨

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Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction

✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨

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These Two Books Spotlight Guerrilla Soldiers in Malaya’s Forgotten War - Electric Literature Writer and translator Jeremy Tiang discusses the connections between his debut novel, “State of Emergency,” and his translation of Hai Fan’s “Delicious Hunger”

Check out this interview with @jeremytiang.bsky.social on @electricliterature.com!

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Here's to the latest from WWB contributor Frances Riddle:
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'The Book of Sana'a, for outsiders, is a way in. But for people who know it, it brings it alive.'✍️

In the latest Comma blog, editor Laura Kasinof talks first impressions, Yemen's overlooked role in the region, & engaging with a place through fiction.

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Books by or about Leonora Carrington.

Preparing to record the next episode of @backlisted.bsky.social or the one after or the one after that, to be honest I’ve lost track. But it’s definitely about Leonora Carrington. 🐴

Over the moon that Tertulia bookstore has selected my translation of Evelio Rosero's 'House of Fury' (ndbooks.bsky.social) for their list of 'Best Translated Fiction of 2025', along with several other favourites!

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An interview with Michael Hofmann - Asymptote Michael Hofmann’s arch figurations of the translation process seem almost as prolific as the nearly 80 books he has rendered into English from the German. For him, the act is imagined as: litera...

Who become the best translators? Not many will like Michael Hoffmann's reply: 'the best ones are accidents of migration and biography, who’ve come through the trauma of bilingualism. It’s always better not to have learned a language' 😉
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A crisis of sex and money | The Secret Author | The Critic Magazine Not long back, the Society of Authors’ journal, The Author, printed what can only be called a jeremiad by a small publisher named Sam Jordison.

Flattered by this article and grateful for the kind words. Although I must insist I am not at all horrified by the suggestions it contains. (Except, I guess, that I'd prefer the rich donors to spend money on actual art.)
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Early-career comms professionals, this is your chance to run this Bluesky account (and all our social media accounts)! Come promote WWB’s mission as our next social media coordinator. Apply for this remote, part-time role before July 20:

Gaza Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing ...

Now available for preorder - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro

An urgent collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage that bear witness to the vast destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people

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Our sixth Praspar Press title is the speculative epic BEFORE THE ROCKET by Loranne Vella translated from
Maltese by Kat Storace.

Winner of the National Book Prize of Malta

Winner of a PEN Translates Award

Out this September 🚀

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“Guerrilla Warfare” is a living document of revolutionary strategy, revised by Che Guevara during his lifetime to incorporate new findings from recent anti-imperialist struggles, and updated in death by his editors to reflect his plans for subsequent editions.
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Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations | BookBlast® Victor Meadowcroft reflects on the cultural and stylistic challenges of translating A Carnival of Atrocities by Ecuadorean author Natalia García Freire in an exclsuvie f efature for BookBlast Diary

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An Orgiastic Outburst of Violence and Bloodshed | Evelio Rosero's House of Fury By Cory Oldweiler

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed "House of Fury," written by Evelio Rosero and translated from the Spanish by Victor Meadowcroft:

We are taking some time off from posting readings for a couple of months, to focus on our own translation projects over the summer. 😎 But you can still submit your readings (translatorsaloud@gmail.com); we will be posting again from early September onwards. Have a great summer, folks! 🍦