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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“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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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 warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/…
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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
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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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The Lake, by Bianca Bellová, tr. by Alex Zucker. A dystopian page-turner about the coming-of-age of a young hero. EU Prize for Literature, 2017. EBRD Prize for Literature, 2023. #CzechLit #Dystopia #WIT
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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
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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 @translatewomen
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A world without fair compensation for translators and writers is a world without much literary translation. And we don’t want to live in that kind of world. Join us as we raise our contributor pay. Any amount helps! wwborders.live/donate.
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Passionate about world literature? Then come join the fun at Asymptote! Let us show you how virtual communities—comprising staff members united by a passion for literary discovery—like ours can be a force for the good. Deadline July 1: asymptotejournal.com/join
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Did you know? Registration is OPEN for the summer Multilingual Translation Workshops, which will take place August 21-26! This is your chance to get individualized feedback on a translation. Several session have already filled, so secure your slot today! bit.ly/3IAYssB
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Calling budding poets of all ages! The 2023 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation is open for entries! Translate ANY poem from ANY language into English and win publication and cash prizes. Deadline 14 July! Full details at stephen-spender.org/stephen-… #SSTPoetryPrize2023
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Everyone is welcome to our Keynote Conversation between Daniel Hahn and Sarah Ardizzone on Translator Activism, with guests @BibiBakareyusuf and @styleatthetime of @CassavaRepublic. Register here to join us online on Monday 3 July, 5-6pm BST: tinyurl.com/yc3akwk9
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2023 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Honor goes to , "Alice on the Run: One Child’s Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War", by Gaspard Talmasse, trans. by Nanette McGuinness, published by Life Drawn. #2023GLLITranslatedYABookPrizeHonorBook @NanetteMcG @GaspardTa
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