Kira Josefsson

Speaking of... This is such a clear-sighted, freeing take on the issue: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

I finally got around to reading this v helpful guide to the Anthropic lawsuit. Highly recommended if you think you might be among the countless whose work was stolen by the company to "train" its LLM chatbot Claude. Translators very much included! nwu.org/anthropic/

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THE MARATHON POET (@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list!

Åke Hodell’s poems, translated from the Swedish by Fia Backström, “unmask and satirize oppression’s many guises.” Order it here: uglyducklingpresse.org/product/the-...

💛 L2 translators continue to remind the world that the concept of a mother tongue is, in fact, not so straightforward in large parts of the world, and that many of us translate into a language that is not our first!

”Hela Bologna står stilla på ett sätt vi inte sett på 40 år”.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

once again, respectfully tapping the "support local, worker-owned, billionaire-free independent media" sign

I can't wait for you to read Hanna's brilliant lesbian thriller--taut and autumnal where her ANTIQUITY is lush and summery, richly intertextual, about desire and belonging and also sort of obliquely about translation... BODY DOUBLE is out in April!

big week for Marianna news--love this!

tänkte samma: välkommen till usa

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

🎉 The 2025 longlist for the @nationalbook.bsky.social Award for Translated Literature has arrived! Congratulations to all on this stellar list - including ALTA members Shelley Fairweather-Vega, David McKay, Paige Aniyah Morris, and Robin Myers! www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

PEN America: "we've listened to our community, we're learning and changing"
Also PEN America: come to the event we're hosting at the 92Y, the zionist venue that cancelled Viet Thanh Nguyen's appearance after he criticized israel! we love free speech

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

You can search here to see if your book was copied: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

And translators, make sure to search for your authors and not just your own name--your name might not bring up all your books.

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.

If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: AIkilledmyjob@pm.me

See you in Tucson!!

USA har aldrig varit särskilt liberalt | Kira Josefsson De kallar sig för ”land of the free”, men mycket tyder på att USA blir allt mer ofritt – om det nu någonsin varit jämlikt och liberalt. Historikern Steven Hahn menar att självbilden är falsk.

Skrev om vem som görs förtjänt av rättigheter och var gemenskapens gränser går, via en bok om USA:s illiberala historia:

www.svd.se/a/GydGM9/rec...

"Keep going Anas, you're our voice" - and now they've killed him. Almost 200 journalists murdered by Israel since the war on Gaza started.

ALTA A L T A

New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:

I won’t be able to write from the grave
so let me tell you what I love:
oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter,
cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace,
the children nearby, poems and songs,
a friend sleeping in my bed—
and the short northern nights.

RIP to a true north.

I'm facilitating one of these workshops in August and there are still a few spots left! Come think about puns and the music of prose with us: www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-summe...

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

Book cover for Antiquity by Hanna Johannson, trans. Kira Josefsson (Catapult), with a blonde person lightly touching the space immediately under their lower lip. Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her thirties upends the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter. Lust and admiration for Helena, a chic older artist, brings Antiquity’s unnamed narrator to Ermoupoli, where Helena’s daughter, Olga, seems at first like an obstacle and a nuisance. But the unpredictable forces of ego and desire take over, leading our narrator down a more dangerous path, and causing the roles of lover and beloved, child and adult, stranger and intimate to become distorted. As the months go by, the fragile web connecting the three women nears rupture, and the ominous consequences of their entanglement loom just beyond a summer that must end. https://books.catapult.co/books/antiquity/

Book cover for The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy ‬ (Feminist Press), with a bower of saplings surrounding a skull on a throne in a decorative style. In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in a powerful story of trans witchcraft. Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them. There’s only one problem: all witches are women, and she was born a boy. When the coven comes to claim her best friend, Lorel disguises herself in a dress and joins in her friend’s place, leaving home and her old self behind. She soon discovers the dark powers threatening the kingdom: a magical blight scars the land, and the power-mad Duchess Helte is crushing everything between her and the crown. In spite of these dangers, Lorel makes friends and begins learning magic from the powerful witches in her coven. However, she fears that her new friends and mentors will find out her secret and kick her out of the coven, or worse. https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/the-sapling-cage

1/4 A short 🧵 for daily(ish) #DSPBposts #PrideMonth #books: Antiquity by Hanna Johannson, trans. @kirajosefsson.bsky.social, @catapultbooks.bsky.social books.catapult.co/books/antiqu... & The Sapling Cage by @margaret.bsky.social, @feministpress.bsky.social www.feministpress.org/news/sapling...

USA är helt beroende av papperslösa arbetare KIRA JOSEFSSON:

Skrev om Trumps räder och när lagen är både omoralisk och orealistisk: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/B0P...

another solidarity drop-in coming up with the Translators Organizing Committee! Join us 🏃‍♂️

Zohran Mamdani Crashes the Party The mayoral candidate is selling the dream of a socialist New York. The picture inside the Democratic Party is more complicated.

yes but for the love of g-d can people stop calling social democratic politics socialism... last time i checked zohran was not looking to abolish private property nor was bernie
nymag.com/intelligence...

So many good prizes in NWU's fundraiser raffle for Palestinian journalists: bit.ly/PJSraffle

Judith Kiros Presents Two Poems from O The work of Judith Kiros is "boundary-pushing poetry rich with references, as intellectual as it is playful."

Judith Kiros on O: "it asks itself, can poetry find a way out of tragedy?" feat. two poems from my translation of the book. Thanks @markaz-review.bsky.social ! themarkaz.org/judith-kiros...

That's so special 🌷We're currently in edits for Ia's 2018 novel Small Comfort, to be published by Wildfire Books in March!

She picked up two additional friends from our class, they were ‘brilliant super women’, ‘the world’s loveliest people’, had ‘the kindness of bodhisattvas’, until one of them reminded Niki to return the records she’d borrowed a couple of weeks earlier. The fact that she said this at a café, in front of other friends, made Niki furious; she’d been ‘dishonoured with the world as witness’ by this little rat who she never wished to see again, so when Niki got home that day she tossed the records into a plastic bag, bare vinyl and sleeves all in one jumble, took the subway to the home of their owner, and hung the bag on the door to the building; ciao.

I love a long sentence and here are two beauties, one after the other, traversing the whole duration of a friendship, clear as a brook over pebbles

From: Ia Genberg, The Details, beautifully translated by @kjokjokjo.bsky.social