“All I know is for me translation and disability are inextricable and have been since the beginning,” @amandasarasien.bsky.social writes in @electricliterature.com. +
Amanda Sarasien
@amandasarasien.bsky.social
Writer. Literary translator. Bibliophile. Cinephile. All-around lover of language, in any incarnation. (she/her) amandasarasien.com
What an honor to share this prize with my incredibly talented colleague Elton Uliana! Thank you to @themassreview.bsky.social for giving José Luís Peixoto’s enchanting story a home in your pages, and for your stalwart support of translated literature!
The Massachusetts Review@themassreview.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to @amandasarasien.bsky.social and Elton Uliana, winners of our annual Chametzky Prize for their translation of José Luís Peixoto’s “The Woman Who Dreamed”! massreview.org/2026/08/11/a...
Thrilled my story "The Cicadas" found a home with Strange Pilgrims. Thank you to the editors for the fun and thought-provoking interview on my writing life, and for including an atmospheric audio reading for those who want to listen on the go! www.strangepilgrims.com/p/the-cicada...
The Cicadas by Amanda Sarasien
"Surely the seasons had lost their train of thought." | Short Story #8
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So excited!
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)@catranslation.org · 2mo agoOur 1st panel for Day of Translation 2026 will feature Nichole Gleisner, Paige Aniyah Morris, Amanda Sarasien (@amandasarasien.bsky.social), & Jeffrey Zuckerman (@jmz.bsky.social), THE ART OF EMBODIED TRANSLATION will explore disability in translation as both a lived experience & a creative lens. +
In Állex Leilla’s Springtime in the Bones, the city of Salvador (“obedient Bahian capital”) is a character in its own right. To celebrate the novel’s English-language debut, in my translation, I’ve prepared a photo album in collab with the author. Take a look! www.amandasarasien.com/post/a-liter...
A Literary Tour of Állex Leilla's Salvador
In Állex Leilla's Springtime in the Bones, the city of Salvador, capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, is as much a character as the novel's two protagonists, Luísa and Michel. Storied. Reticent. P...
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What an honor to see my translation of Állex Leilla’s Springtime in the Bones on @wwborders.bsky.social’s April Watchlist, & in such great company. Thank you @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for highlighting the book’s “rapid-fire prose” & nimble dialogue & the feat of translating it! #WomenInTranslation
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis April, Tobias Carroll recommends six translated titles for you to add to your TBR. Keep scrolling to learn more about the books on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Állex Leilla's Springtime in the Bones abounds with revealing musical references. To celebrate the novel's English-language debut, in my translation, I created a playlist! Immerse yourself in the book's literary soundscape & have a listen here: open.spotify.com/playlist/5W6... #WomenInTranslation
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In her latest review published in Reading in Translation, Betty author & translator @ilzeduarte.bsky.social explores Springtime in the Bones—a fierce story of survival in the face of gendered violence, written by Állex Leilla and translated by @amandasarasien.bsky.social. Read here: bit.ly/40Qnuwu
Thank you, @ilzeduarte.bsky.social for this poignant and incisive review of Állex Leilla’s Springtime in the Bones. A novel that speaks — rages — to our current moment. #womenintranslation #brazil
Ilze Duarte@ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy review of Springtime in the Bones by Brazilian author Allex Leilla, tanslated by @amandasarasien.bsky.social. A novel for our time, as Brazilians take to the streets to protest misogyny and violence against women. Please share & read! @pelta.bsky.social readingintranslation.com/2026/03/23/a...
1st review of Állex Leilla's Springtime in the Bones is up at Hablemos escritoras & I'm so chuffed: "Sarasien’s translation preserves the original’s sensory force & emotional complexity, offering English-lang readers a work that is as unsettling as it is hypnotic." hablemosescritoras.org/posts/8605
Hablemos Escritoras Blog · Minireseña. Springtime in the Bones (Foreshore Books, 2026) de Állex Leilla traducción Amanda Sarasien
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This incredible podcast about women's voices in literature has a stellar lineup for Women's History Month, & I'm over the moon to be a part of it. We talk language, disability, Brazil, & my translation of Springtime in the Bones by Állex Leilla. Don't miss it! www.hablemosescritoras.org/posts/8539
Hablemos Escritoras Podcast · Episodio 691: Un programa para celebrar enormemente a las mujeres
<p>El mes de marzo se dedica a las mujeres y nosotros reflexionamos en esta cápsula sobre...
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Reaching peak hygge conditions here in Chicago. My reading for the night keeps to the theme: Orham Pamuk’s Snow, Sjón’s Codex 1962, and Josefine Klougart’s On Darkness made their way into the stack.
Launch day is creeping closer and closer. Coming March 8, 2026, International Women's Day: foreshorepublishing.com/product/spri... Bahian author Állex Leilla's "bold feminist tale of survival, vengeance, and rebirth" #BrazilianLiterature #WomeninTranslation #TBR #BookSky
Springtime in the Bones – Foreshore Publishing
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Still floating on this thrilling news - my manuscript has been shortlisted in the @sfwp.bsky.social 2025 Literary Awards!
SFWP@sfwp.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe 2025 Literary Awards Program Short List is here! buff.ly/uftpTi6
Immensely honored that my co-translation with Elton Uliana of José Luís Peixoto’s haunting story “The Woman Who Dreamed” was nominated for a Pushcart! Thank you to @themassreview.bsky.social for featuring our work!
The Massachusetts Review@themassreview.bsky.social · 10mo agoHuge congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart nominees: Leila Chatti, Jan Clausen, Susan Li, Meghana Mysore, Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico!!! Amazing pieces by amazing writers. Read more about them: substack.com/@themassachu...
Cover reveal! Thanks to the very talented Rachelle Jaily for this head-turning design! #WomeninTranslation #BrazilianLiterature #booksky #booklaunch
Coming spring 2026, in my translation. Thank you, Foreshore Books, for this lovely conversation with the formidable and inimitable Állex Leilla: foreshorepublishing.com/novelist-all... #Brasil #readingintranslation #womenintranslation #brazilianliterature #booksky
Novelist Állex Leilla and Translator Amanda Sarasien on Springtime in the Bones. - Foreshore Publishing
As Springtime in the Bones prepares for its English debut, it offers readers a rare and resonant journey—a tale of trauma and tenacity, heartbreak and humour, told with an uncompromising poetic voice....
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Received my contributor's copy of SAGE Magazine - what a beautiful objet d'art, just look at that stitched spine! My piece "Summer" is an excerpt from a full-length manuscript which is #seekingapublisher, & it was awarded the magazine's Prose Prize! Read it here: sagemagazine.org/wp-content/u...
We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
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Bookmail! Received my pre-order of this beguiling brew of a book - a pinch of poetry, a dash of translation, a morsel of (fictional?) memoir, and a few tarot readings thrown in for good measure. Highly recommended for the flaneurs among us... aimhigher.org/books/p/roam...
Roaming the Labyrinth with Marie-Claire Bancquart: Perfect Bound — AIM Higher Inc.
BY Christina Cook Binding: Perfect Bound Paperback ISBN: 979-8-9863699-5-2 List Price: $30 | Preorder: $22 Publisher: AIM Higher Page Count: 220 Publication/Shipping Date: June 2025 ABOUT A lyric...
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“...Because I have an exciting and productive working relationship with Amanda Sarasien—an extraordinary literary stylist in her own right—I invited her to collaborate with me.” Elton Uliana & @amandasarasien.bsky.social writes for our #10Questions, on our website: massreview.org/2025/07/14/1...
10 Questions for Elton Uliana and Amanda Sarasien - The Massachusetts Review
“She woke up so happy. One of the nuns opened the bedroom door and crossed the narrow aisle between the beds. As the day’s first gentle sounds touched the silence—the door opening, the thin rubber sol...
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Excited to present José Luís Peixoto's incantatory tale of memory, grief, and longing, together with my co-translator Elton Uliana; what a formidable table of contents! #literatureintranslation #PortugueseLiterature
The Massachusetts Review@themassreview.bsky.social · last yr.Our summer issue has arrived! Featuring work by Sumana Roy and Ariel Katz, poets janan alexandra and Marianne Boruch, plus translations of Kim Hyesoon and José Luís Peixoto, plus art by Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, be sure to get a copy today! massreview.org/issue/volume...
So proud to see my work in this gorgeous magazine. This piece is an excerpt from a longer work for which I'm #seekingapublisher (& it won the magazine's Prose Prize!). Thank you to the editors at SAGE for this lovely object I'll soon hold in my hands! #disabilitylit sagemagazine.org/wp-content/u...
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This enticing list of 10 Novels in Translation You Should Be Reading from @electricliterature.com includes a shoutout to @furiousleeper.bsky.social for his #translation of Río Muerto, by Ricardo Silva Romero. #TBR #ColombianLiterature electricliterature.com/10-novels-in...
10 Novels in Translation You Should be Reading This Winter and Spring - Electric Literature
These most anticipated titles spanning countries as far and wide as South Korea, Colombia, and Denmark
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A bit of news: foreshorepublishing.com/foreshore-si... Thank you to Állex Leilla for entrusting me with her words, and to Foreshore for embracing this unconventional book! #LiteratureInTranslation #BrazilianLiterature
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Also bumping this again. Please apply with your DJ zine ideas!
Wild Ramp Publishing@wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm giving out four mini-grants this year to people who want to make disability justice-related zines. Deadline #1: April 18 Notification: May 16 Deadline # 2: September 12 Notification: October 13 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...