Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King have won this year’s International Booker Prize with TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE! Congratulations to both author and translator! This marks our second International Booker win in a row, following the success of Deepa Bhasthi’s translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP in 2025.

It's dreich out there, but our spring workshop is coming! On the 21st of March in Edinburgh, we'll discuss translation in the area of disaster risk reduction looking at languages and indigenous communities in Latin America, with Dr. Teresa Armijos Burneo. Info: itiscotland.org.uk/events/sprin...

Publication day has finally arrived for my latest translation from Spanish: Singing to the Sun, by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, published by Amazon Crossing. This book was so much fun to translate, it still made me laugh even after my umpteenth revision! #literarytranslation

📣 Applications are OPEN for BCLT International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School 2026 📣 Join us ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026. Find out more & download an example programme on our website: shorturl.at/gy3yT 💡 Bursaries available

Our planned events for 2026: pub gatherings in Edinburgh (last Thursday of each month); Spring workshop in Edinburgh on 21 March (about indigenous language); Walking Weekend in the Spey Valley on 8-10 May; Autumn workshop in Edinburgh (early October); AGM and Christmas lunch in Glasgow, 12 December.

You’ve all read this, yes? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translated

The sight of my work, torn and singed but still legible, made me realise the importance of translating and protecting stories – so they remain when everything else falls away

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👋 Hello lovely Blueskyers! Do I (or you?) know any gothic novel fans (or even better, with links to the UK publishing industry)? A student I know is keen to ask research questions about British gothic novels by women authors over the years and their correlation with societal changes. And pls share!

And it includes children's books in translation too! 🥳

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My good news has just come in! LOOK AT THIS! So pleased to see this! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

ARCs of my latest #literarytranslation just in - this one was a lot of fun! Singing to the Sun, by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, out 20 Jan 2026 with Amazon Crossing. If anyone would like a review copy (UK), let me know!

(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!

In 2025, our editorial grants programme is dedicated to stories from seven European countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Luxembourg & Malta. Read on to find out more and learn how to apply for a grant! #Funding #DigitalStorytelling bit.ly/3Vv0Pmw

Apply for a 2025 Europeana Editorial Grant | Europeana PRO

In 2025, our editorial grants programme is dedicated to stories from seven specific European countries. Read on to find out more and learn how to apply.

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📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn. Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️ itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...

Autumn Workshop 2025 - ITI ScotNet

11/10/2025 @ 09:30 - 13:00 - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its autumn workshop: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? with LYNDA HEPBURN To be held at The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh o...

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Any @pelta.bsky.social types into comic translation?

Glacier Bay Books@glacierbaybooks.com · last yr.

Hello. Glacier Bay is looking for a Portuguese (European) → English translator to consult on a project. Relevant candidates, please reach out to info@glacierbaybooks.com with the subject line: "Portuguese Translation" and details of your relevant (comics) translation background + experience.

Israel is purposefully starving Palestinians to death in Gaza. Write to the Foreign Secretary to demand sanctions now using @pscupdates.bsky.social online action palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/demandsancti...

Write to David Lammy: Gaza is starving to death

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Hello friends, a new indie press has launched here in Edinburgh, with the aim to publish at least 6 books a year from writers from/residing within Scotland and southern Africa. www.bat.is/blog/batis-b...

Publishers outside of the UK - there is funding available to you for translating the works of Scottish writers! Applications are now open - deadline 18th August. #BookSky #Translation #Publishing www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...

Delighted to have my translation of a short story by Laura Ferrero included in this issue!

Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · last yr.

Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is Now Live! We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe. We hope you enjoy reading our new issue. www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations Impressions and reflections on translating Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities by Victor Meadowcroft, published by World Editions. A Carnival of Atrocities is the second novel by Ecuadorean author Natalia…

Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations

Impressions and reflections on translating Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities by Victor Meadowcroft, published by World Editions. A Carnival of Atrocities is the second novel by Ecuadorean author Natalia García Freire. Set high in the Andes Mountains, the opening section of the novel is narrated by a character called Mildred Capa, whose mother has just died and whose father vanishes into the wilderness without explanation.

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Registration for the Bristol Translates 2025 NORLA keynote speech by Damion Searls is now open: go to the link below to register by email. When? 7th July 17:00 BST Where? Join online from wherever you are in the world!

It seems like only yesterday that we started this little YouTube channel & now here we are, five years & several hundred videos later, immensely proud of the incredible repository of literary & translation talent we've showcased to the world. Thanks to all who contributed!🎉 buff.ly/L9ZSuwZ

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a Lecturer (LTS) in #Chinese. Please help spread the word! For further details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC332/l...

The British Centre for Literary Translation is now part of Bluesky 🎉 We're looking forward to connecting with new and old followers. Help us spread the word and stay tuned for updates! #BCLT #Bluesky #literarytranslation

Back home after my first experience of London Book Fair yesterday, exhausted but also enthused by all the translation/book chats. Translators really are a lovely bunch, aren't they? #lbf2025 #translation

Hello #translation world! Created in 2020 by @cmctranslations.bsky.social & @tinakover.bsky.social, we showcase the world's best #books in translation, read by their talented #translators. #Fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, & more. #Submissions always open. Check us out! www.youtube.com/@Translators...

Translators Aloud

TRANSLATORS ALOUD: THE VOICE OF TRANSLATED LITERATURE A place for translators to read their own work; a positive space for sharing great literature, read aloud by the translators themselves. Submiss...

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#littranslators working from French, the 2025 Stevns prize is now open! ✨ @twolinespress.bsky.social #peirenepress www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize

THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...

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Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

A very significant new literary #translation award that recognises the worth of #humantranslation and the challenges it faces. "The award will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI" #xl8

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators

Hello Bluesky! Just moved over from the other place. So this is where all you translators have been hanging out!