Kasia Szymanska

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📣 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.✨

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Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire by Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

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

Congratulations! But then... who else but you?

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
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A photo of three IKEA Billy bookcases crammed with books and magazines. (With a few decorative bits and bobs as well, separating sections.) The bookcase in the middle are all works I've translated. The other bookcases are, to the left, books written by me or anthologies edited by me, and to the right, anthologies containing work by me.

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.

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#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

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EXCELLENCE AWARD The ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research has been awarded since 2021 for an outstanding edited volume that makes an original contribution to the field of comparative literature. The awa…

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
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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/...

Looks brilliant, congrats!

Promotional image for Atelier International magazine, Issue 4. Blue background with white text. Large bold heading reads ‘COMING SOON’. Two columns list contributor names. Bottom text says ‘Issue 4 / Numero 4’. A small logo with a stylised letter ‘A’ and the word ‘INTERNATIONAL’ appears in the top right corner.

✨COVER REVEAL✨

My 1st co-edited multilingual poetry magazine, coming soon…

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Russia is not the sea Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today not only in Russia's attitude towards its neighbourhood, but also in the way eastern ...

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...

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How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem Twenty-four years have passed since the publication of what would become Adam Zagajewski’s most famous poem in the United States. It was “by accident,” he said, that “Try to Praise the Mutilated Wo…

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:
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@commapress.bsky.social

👊🏻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 ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org

Congratulations, Gabriela!

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...

Matt Frei on LBC UK - Catch Up | Global Player Catch up on the last 7 days of shows from Matt Frei on LBC UK

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/...