“Many visitors came to offer Kheto marriage proposals for his beautiful, accomplished Anju. Kheto would always reply, ‘My daughter is still too young.’ ”
A story by Jhaverchand Meghani, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt. buff.ly/R1lWe61
02.07.2025 20:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Mepo had worked hard to plow the field and make it as pliable as a soft mattress. Forget about weeds; he did not leave even a single stray blade of grass standing.”
A story by Jhaverchand Meghani, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt @jennybhatt. buff.ly/R1lWe61
03.07.2025 18:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“Mepo stood still. He stood still forever. With just the slightest tug, that Ranavav-whetted sickle sank deep into his neck.”
A story by Jhaverchand Meghani, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt. buff.ly/R1lWe61
04.07.2025 21:19 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Van Gogh the Translator
“When I entered the room in Hôtel Drouot where [drawings] by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)] were exhibited, I felt something akin to: Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou...
@jennybhattwriter.bsky.social This article is fascinating--translation from one visual artist to another. We are all derivative of our forebears, even though being "derivative" is frowned upon. *Translation* is a much better concept! Congratulations! libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
10.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks for sharing, Martha. I'm not online much these days, so I'm sorry I missed this earlier.
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Please join us for this virtual reading on April 17th at 5.30 PM Pacific Time. Details in the link below. I'm looking forward to reading with these stellar translators and writers.
11.04.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet the Translation Fellows
Congrats to WWB contributors and NEA translation grantees Kalau Almony, Elina Alter, @jennybhattwriter.bsky.social,
@soleildahveed.bsky.social, @gayadorno.bsky.social, @larissakyzer.bsky.social, Mara Faye Lethem
Alta Price, @mahmudwriter.bsky.social...🧵
www.arts.gov/impact/liter...
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Thank you.
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Jenny Bhatt
Profile of 2025 NEA Translation Projects Fellowship recipient Jenny Bhatt.
huge congrats to @jennybhattwriter.bsky.social bhattwriter.bsky.social, a literature phd student
@utdallas.bsky.social, who's received an NEA grant to support her translation of Crossroad by Varsha Adalja, an important work of contemporary Indian fiction! www.arts.gov/impact/liter...
14.01.2025 19:54 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you so much, Dr. Greer!
14.01.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” -OEB
Assistant Professor @SMU.
I study #AfricanAmericanLiterature #Post45AmericanLit #EnvironmentalHumanities
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Translator & writer. Based in Berlin, she/her. Here for books recs in English and German to read and translate
Resident wound care expert, chauffeur, cat feeder. Married to the inimitable Derek Mong. Translator of Olena Stiazhkina, AIex Averbuch, Ilf and Petrov, Ksenia Buksha, Ilya Danishevsky, Shura Burtin, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky... read more at anneofisher.com
Poet Laureate emerita, Arlington, VA. Translator of Akram Aylisli (fiction), Anna Starobinets (memoir), & Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. https://katherine-young-poet.com/
writer & translator of Ia Genberg, Hanna Johansson, Judith Kiros and others // that's Karin Broos in the header
Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Writer, translator, and dabbler in film.
Tin House Fiction 2025.
Writing in The Polis Project, The Cult Collective, Brownies Zine, etc
Literary translator from Russian
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Journalist, educator and literary critic. I write for Kirkus Reviews, Hindustan Times, Himal Southasian, Queerbeat, Business Standard, The Hindu, Frontline, Teacher Plus, Deccan Herald, Scroll.in, ArtIndia and OPEN. Email: chintan.writing@gmail.com
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Irish literary translator, editor, writer, advisory editor to the Stinging Fly, and The Paris Review, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
she/them. freelance book editor, literary
translator (Hindi-English) and writer. Prev. @SpeakingTigerBooks @PanMacmillanIndia. Winner of @EnglishPEN’s PEN Presents 2022. #translating political fiction from Hindi 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇶
Bengali-English-Bengali #literarytranslator ~ #nowtranslating a literary novel by day, a detective novel by night ~ All posts are strictly personal views. arunavasinha.in
