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Literary Translator. Tor Ulven, Leander Djønne, Synne Sun Løes, Yahya Hassan, Svein Jarvoll, Steinar Løding, et alia Published translations in bio link \/

 Philadelphia, PA
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Joined July 2010
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Ecstatic to finally announce that my translation of Tor Ulven’s “Consumption: Prose Pieces” will be coming out on Wakefield Press early next year. This is the beginning of my commitment to seeing his ten other books translated.
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In mind, many critters
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Woo! Honored to be this year’s @WritersCentre Emerging Translator for Norwegian. Beyond appreciative of everyone helping keeping this dream alive.
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If you feel so inclined, you can spot me and the other translators in this intro video. I was reporting from my lovely Ulvik fjord youtu.be/km9J7jpvN68?si=U1xO…

International Translation Day 2026: Meet the Emerging Translator...

We are delighted to reveal the mentees selected for the prestigious...

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Something special about your Nana pointing at a house and saying “Man who used to live there got electrocuted.”
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Any opportunity to post Glissant
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i despise all three vegetables - Bitter gourd, Ivy gourd, Pointed gourd
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shameless appeal to @deadmoten
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really truly deeply on my bullsh*t right now
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Hell yeah Jon Fosse
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This one’s really good too
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my Bergen-Appalachia bar will be called Reivers and Folks
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Faulkner absolutely freakin it
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Really glad Movietone is getting more attention these days. outsideleft.com/main.php?sto…

Movietone: Turning Night into Day — Jonathan Thornton catches up with Kate Wright on the long-awa...

Outsideleft.com — Movietone: Turning Night into Day

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Finished. 🤯🤯🤯 I did not know what to expect. But what I least expected was to discover that Thomas Bernhard and Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Martin Heidegger made a Norwegian baby who grew up to write one of the most insane, weird novels I've ever had the pleasure to read.
𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡 𝐾. 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟@realMattKParkerOct 9
Finished. 👊😵‍💫🖤 My fourth Ariana Harwicz and I think this might be the wildest of her works I've read yet. Wall to wall delirium and violence and sex and easily some of the most poetically visceral imagery of anything I've ever read. READ ARIANA HARWICZ.
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A.V. Marraccini@saintsoftnessOct 12
For the Poetry Foundation— “Breathing At the End on the World” — on Auden, Aalto, and a visit to Helsinki in the Dog Days poetryfoundation.org/article…

Breathing at the End of the World

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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maxime garcia diaz@maximegarcOct 9
I've been really enjoying my own fiction. I'm writing some really good fiction
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navya@nvyshrm8Oct 7
you are not what you tweet. you are what you save to drafts.
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Laureate in all
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love that a translator won the Nobel Prize
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ANNE CARSON
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 8
WATCH LIVE: Join us for the announcement of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hear the breaking news first. Where are you watching from? #NobelPrize xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qGoNYrWP…
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The Nobel Prize

Announcement of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

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