Another excellent recommendation for #WITMonth: Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund 🇳🇴📚 #WomenInTranslation @versobooks.bsky.social
Andrea Meador Smith
@andreamsmith.bsky.social
reader, traveler, dog lover, wine drinker, spanish professor, film critic, 4xhoo
Happy Women in Translation Month! 🌎📚🌍 She Who Remains is a great place to start—a short novel that opened my eyes to a culture I knew nothing about 🇦🇱 (and available through Hoopla library app!). Written by Rene Karabash and translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel 🇧🇬 #WITMonth
I've done a #WITmonth Starter Pack. I do not claim it to be remotely all-encompassing but if you've used the hashtag (as per the criteria⤴️), hopefully I've found and added you. If I haven't, please let me know. go.bsky.app/KEkwYR6
One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović, recounts the effects of the Yugoslav Wars on kids playing in the basement as fighting rages around them. Translated from Croatian by Ena Selimović 🇭🇷 Great pick for #WITMonth 📘🤩 #WomenInTranslation
It’s that time of year again 🎉📚💙 Prepping for #WITMonth by reading the absolutely gorgeous Punto de araña by Nerea Pallares, who translated her original Gallego to Spanish 🇪🇸 #WomenInTranslation
My latest. More thoughts on language, culture, and violence against women. We actually have a word for wife-killing. Why don't we use it?
Uxoricide: The Word You Don't Know Because You're Not Supposed To
On the Language We Don't Have for Men Who Kill Their Wives.
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To the anonymous poet and author of this letter, thank you 💙 @literaryhub.bsky.social
Letter to My Daughter After the Murder of a Poet in the Streets of Minneapolis
The author is a poet from the Midwest. At this time, he prefers to remain anonymous. * My dearest daughter, When the poet Lorca died, he died on a road of dust. Sad men killed him and his body disa…
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"A new republic of books that transcends boundaries" - today we're announcing the shortlists for our Translation Prizes 2025. Nine prizes will be awarded at the ceremony in February next year, including the inaugural John Calder Translation Prize.
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation will be awarded at a ceremony this evening in London. Browse the titles on the shortlist and longlist in 2025 - and all years - on our @bookshop.org page: uk.bookshop.org/lists/warwic.... The winner will be announced at 7.30pm!
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s We Are Green and Trembling, translated by Robin Myers, wins the National Book Award for Translated Literature!
Our 2026 Bundle lineup. CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go... Subscribe now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
I’m loving the subscription to @catranslation.org!! Two brand new books with translators’ names on the covers were waiting in the mailbox today 🎉 #WomenInTranslation 📚
From Argentina to Edinburgh to Hollywood. The movie adaptation of our own DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz (tr. Sarah Moses/Carolina Orloff) is out in UK/US cinemas tomorrow!
Going to read some Latin American women for #NovellaNovember! First up is Lina Meruane’s Cercada 🇨🇱📚
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
🤝 The theme for #InternationalTranslationDay 2025 celebrates #translation, peace and trust: "Translation, shaping a future you can trust" #ITD2025 en.fit-ift.org/internationa...
Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT @catranslation.org tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us! www.catranslation.org/books-member...
Carmen Maria Machado's new introduction to "I Who Have Never Known Men," excerpted at the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/newyorkercom...
“I Who Have Never Known Men” Is a Warning
The slim, disquieting novel, which has become a sensation on TikTok, imagines a child who finds herself at the end of the world.
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The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.
Last official read of #WITMonth 2025: The Forgery by Ave Barrera 🇲🇽📚 I’m enjoying the original Spanish and the translation by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers 👏🏻 👏🏻 #WomenInTranslation @charcopress.com
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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Winding down #WITMonth with a fan favorite: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (translated by Thomas Teal) 🇫🇮🇸🇪📖📚 #WomenInTranslation
We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to roxane@therumpus.net by Tuesday, September 2nd!
"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents." a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
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You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.
The Transmutation of Death into Light: @willmcmahon36.bsky.social reviews Natalia García Freire’s A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES (@worldedbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t...
The Transmutation of Death into Light: Review of Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities
Will McMahon Under Review:A Carnival of Atrocities. Natalia García Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft. World Editions, April 2025. In the town of Cocuán, people are shedding their clothes and…
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Rereading Dolores Reyes’ Cometierra to prep for the new Amazon series 🇦🇷📚 📺 This time I’m reading Julia Sanches’ vibrant translation, Eartheater 👏🏻👏🏻 #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
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