The Emerging Translators Network is a UK-based network for early-career literary translators, primarily working into the English language. Join via link below
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Are you an early-career literary translator who would like to connect with other colleagues also starting out?
Do you have questions about projects, courses, contracts and more?
Want to sign up for upcoming ETN events?
Then join our google group!
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“I crave freedom, irresponsibility and adventure.” Celebrate the wonderful Geetanjali Shree’s birthday (6/12) by reading her stirring Lancaster International Fiction Lecture, on the necessity of creativity during dark times. buff.ly/3XpfgL8
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Black Swans delves into the emotions and ethical dilemmas of introducing AI into human caregiving, all through the lens of two sisters and their mother. It's a story that's close to our hearts, and we're excited to bring it to life.
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Black Swans Opens Next Week – German theatre in translation!
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Friends in America, just to let you know 'The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories' is now available in the USA, via Amazon amazon.com/Penguin-Book-Beng…
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🎉 @PENamerica's 2024 literary grant winners have been announced! Congratulations to all, including ALTA mentee @subhashree_b, member @JackDHargreaves, and past Lucien Stryk Prize judges @PoetDongLi & Soje on receiving PEN/Heim Translation Fund grants! bit.ly/3PJEYpc
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Want to help out at Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair? We're on the look-out for volunteers!
If you're interested, send an email with your CV to Ali on execassist[at]poetrysociety[dot]org[dot]uk.
We'll pay expenses and make sure you have a great time!
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Congratulations to Maureen Freely on being named the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Winner 2023 by @bookcritics for her translation of Tezer Özlü’s 'Cold Nights of Childhood' (@transitbooks).
📰 PRESS RELEASE: 🏆National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics award prestigious translation prize to the @Uniofwarwick Professor Maureen Freely 📚
@maureenfreely @WarwickPrizeWiT @SCAPVC
#Author #journorequest #AWARD #NBCCAwards
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ALT Images from Karen Robinson/the Observer & NBCC Twitter
The ETNer’s Guide to Peer Workshopping!
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Three literary translation workshops by leading translators from Dutch to English.
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Scattered All Over the Earth, by Yoko Tawada, tr. by Margaret Mitsutani.
Welcome to the not-too-distant future.
Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ‘the land of sushi’.
Longlisted for the 2023 @DublinLitAward.
#JapaneseLit #WITMonth #WIT
ALT Scattered All Over the Earth, by Yoko Tawada, tr. by Margaret Mitsutani.
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Today’s #WITMonth story: When a young woman takes her partner home to her parents, mother/daughter tensions boil over. “Anna and Her Daughter’s Partner” is by Laksmi Pamuntjak and translated by Annie Tucker. buff.ly/441Hco7
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Sensational Thai poetry on our website by Angkarn Chanthathip !
Read his poem 'The Heart’s Fifth Chamber' here: bit.ly/3Kt5Ln1
Translated by Tracey Martin alongside PTC workshop attendees in December 2013, with notes by the facilitator at the time Sarah Maguire.
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There are just a handful of slots left for the popular annual Bilingual Reading Series at ALTA46: The Place of Translation this November! The remaining categories are: Germanic Languages Poetry, Memoir. Be sure to sign up before they're all gone! bit.ly/3MBB6nU
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Just a handful of slots left for the Summer Multilingual Translation Workshops! This is your chance to get specialized feedback on a translation in a small group of translators. The workshops will be held August 21-26. Register before they're all gone! eventbrite.com/e/2023-summer…
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Only 1 week left to submit to #SSTPoetryPrize2023!
Want to translate an #Urdu poem? @RawaneeCreative has created a new booklet full of wonderful suggestions for your #SSTPoetryPrize entry!
stephen-spender.org/listing/…
#poetrytwt #xl8 @MUNIBAMAHMUD @AkhtarSascha
ALT Front cover of the Aks-e-Rawanee booklet. Photo of a stream with woodland on the left and hazy mountains ahead. Heading in Urdu top right. Heading in English below reads "Aks-e-Rawanee: A Selection of Urdu Poetry". Subheading reads "Compiled by Rawanee in collaboration with the Stephen Spender Trust".
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A fascinating article on the art of #translation featuring #SSTPoetryPrize2023 judge @SamanthaSchnee!
“No two translators would ever create the same translation from the same text.”
#SSTPoetryPrize #xl8
The Times asked translators to discuss their work. “The idea that translation is a collaborative process, that the author and the translator are building something together, doesn’t really get as much airtime as I would like,” Jeremy Tiang says. nyti.ms/3CMWhPj
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🫦This beauty is now in your bookshop and online ready to order❤️
A perfect summer reading 🏖️
@frenchbooksuk @Read_WIT @womenwritersnet @WaterstonesRose @WstonesKingston #literaryfiction #womenwriters #womenstories
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