Rebecca DeWald

International Translation Day - English PEN Every year on the 30th September, English PEN holds events in celebration of International Translation Day, alongside a nationwide programme delivered in partnership with the National Centre for Writi...

📣 Publishers, orgs, bookshops, festivals, institutions, & collectives can apply for their International Translation Day events to be featured in this year's Nationwide programme with @writerscentre.bsky.social. #ITD2025

Apply & join us ⬇️⬇️ (deadline 28 Aug)
www.englishpen.org/translation/...

Honoured to join @englishpen.bsky.social to talk about translating in a hostile world, with Meera @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social, Nariman @poetrytranslation.bsky.social and others this week for #ITD2025

Emerging Translator Mentorships The Emerging Translator Mentorships scheme matches experienced translators with emerging translators for a six-month period during which they work together on practical translation projects, developin...

Applications are now open for the Emerging Translator Mentorships Programme @writerscentre.bsky.social
Languages this year: Arabic, Dutch from Flanders, Faroese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish or a Language of India into English — D/L 31/8/25! nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/get-involved...

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’.

Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

Absolutely *loved* taking part in yesterday's panel on Gender in Translation and AI for @bristoltranslates.bsky.social with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social, and being reunited with @roselab.bsky.social, the French translator of #Blutbuch, for the first time since our Swiss workshop ❤️

Feminist Translation and its Audiences What is feminist translation and whom is it for? Join Josephine Balmer, Rebecca DeWald, Jennifer Ingleheart, Fran Olivares Medina, Eva Megias and Sophie Stevens in a roundtable discussion about the pl...

Tickets now available for roundtable w/ Josephine Balmer, @rebeccadewald.bsky.social, Jennifer Ingleheart, Fran Olivares Medina, Eva Megias & Sophie Stevens, co-organised w/ @writerscentre.bsky.social & @bcltuea.bsky.social, 30 July, 2pm, NCW Norwich: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/femin...

Ooh, exciting! Must pick up that research again

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Member and former chair of the Translators Association Vineet Lal will be welcoming emerging translators at The Literary Centre at 10 today with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social , Nasim Luczaj & Dr Kotryna Garanasvili. #LBF25

Hello! Yes, happy to. DM me to arrange a time (Tue PM or Wed AM)

A white cottage sitting at the bottom a hill. The photo is taken from the back of the garden so flowers and lawn are in the foreground

There’s currently 10% off website prices if you’d like to book a writing retreat in Feb or March. Contact us for details and get your 2025 projects going! Www.kalewatercottage.co.uk

@rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch has always been a holiday in my house but it’ll be extra special this year: first time counting birds with our wee boy, who already loves bird-spotting! @rspbscotland.bsky.social @samueltongue.bsky.social

Hello, #Poetry and #Translation people of Bluesky!

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Events | Goethe-Institut UK Thu, 12.12.2024

On Thursday, @annierutherford.bsky.social, Vineet Lal and I will battle it out with the machines to determine who is the better translator. Can't wait to show AI who is boss! @goetheinstitut.bsky.social Glasgow www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

A 1970s/80s classic by Michael Ende. First published in German as Die unendliche Geschichte in 1979, published in English translation by Ralph Manheim in 1983, followed by a movie in 1984 directed by Wolfgang Petersen. For many the first taste of #worldkidlit!

What was your first translated read?

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It's that time of year! Sign up to receive a poem a day by email throughout advent, with poems by some fantastic contemporary poets. Sign-ups are by donation, with all money going to Medicins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (@MSF_uk).
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