📣 Translation webinar: "Detours in Translation" Bénédicte Letellier and I are pleased to resume our translation webinar series this year. See the attached programme for details. 📅 The first session is coming up this Friday - check the poster for the Zoom link. We look forward to seeing you there!

New this week on the Reading in Translation website, as part of 'Archipelagic Francospheres: Transoceanic Dialogues through Translation', co-edited with@nathanhdize.bsky.social! Many thanks to all the authors and translators who contributed to the special issue!

The 2nd intalment of the special issue on 'Archipelagic Francospheres: Transoceanic Dialogues through Translation' that @nathanhdize.bsky.social and I co-edited for Reading in Translation is now out! 🎉 Many thanks to @sunshineabroad.bsky.social, Maëlle Zemirline and my co-translator Karen Fleetwood!

Delighted to announce that the 1st batch of 'Archipelagic Francospheres' is out! 🎉 The issue is being released incrementally, with more contributions to come. 🥰 Many thanks to all our contributors! @juliafrengs.bsky.social @katiehammitt.bsky.social readingintranslation.com/archipelagic...

COMING SOON! 🎉 @nathanhdize.bsky.social and I are thrilled to celebrate translation with our special issue of Reading in Translation! Three instalments throughout September, as #WomenInTranslationMonth wraps up and #InternationalTranslationDay approaches. First contributions out on Monday!

2027 Critical Island Studies Conference | Archipelagic Mobilities and Infrastructures | Critical Island Studies Consortium (CIS) | April 1-3, 2027 | Sunchon National University | Submission Deadline: November 2, 2026 | For more information, visit here: www.2027cis.org

Thank you @smallaxeproject.bsky.social for creating this space for discussion!

Small Axe Project@smallaxeproject.bsky.social · last mo.

SX 80 features a discussion of Laëtitia Saint-Loubert’s book “The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation.” The essays are available through @dukepress.bsky.social ; link 🔗 : smallaxe.net/sx/issues/80

Happy to spotlight another section of the 'Wuthering Heights in Translation' online exhibition this week, featuring @univ-nantes.fr FLCE students' imaginative rewritings of Emily Brontë's classic. Discover how they bring new perspectives to a timeless novel. 📚✨ bu.univ-nantes.fr/animations-c...

Les éditions @rotbokrik.bsky.social font un travail essentiel de décolonisation du monde du livre. Aujourd'hui, elles sont durement touchées par la faillite de Makassar. Je choisis de les soutenir. Et vous ? Chaque contribution peut faire la différence. 📚 www.helloasso.com/associations...

Soutien aux éditions Rot-Bo-Krik

Financement participatif organisé par ROT-BO-KRIK - Suite à la faillite de notre distributeur Makassar, nos caisses sont vides. Aidez-nous à financer le reste de notre programme pour 2026 !

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What are you reading for #WITMonth? To celebrate Women in Translation Month, we have put together a discounted bundle of three titles from some of our favourite women authors and translators. Follow the link below to order now and stock your #TBRpile this August. bullaunpress.com/books/women-...

SX80 is now available! 🎊 This issue is available digitally through Duke University Press ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

✨ How many afterlives can a classic novel have? ✨ Explore Wuthering Heights across stage, screen, and music through student projects featured in the online exhibition “Wuthering Heights in Translation" @univ-nantes.fr Stay tuned for more (re)translations and rewritings in the coming weeks!

New issue coming soon! 🎉 We are proud to continue celebrating 30 years of the Small Axe Journal with our next issue, SX 80, to be published July 2026. Take a look at the table of contents, and stay tuned for its release in July! SX80 will be available online through @dukepress.bsky.social

📣Delighted to share that our online exhibition, Wuthering Heights in Translation, is now live!🥳 Created w/ 3rd-year English Studies students @univ-nantes.fr, it explores the many afterlives of Emily Brontë's novel through translation, adaptation & rewriting. bu.univ-nantes.fr/animations-c...

'Wuthering Heights in Translation' : exposition en ligne

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Très heureuse d’apprendre la réédition de ce magnifique recueil de poèmes du Martiniquais Roger Parsemain, grâce aux éditions @atlande.bsky.social qui font un très beau travail permettant à la littérature caribéenne de circuler aux Antilles et au-delà !

Literary translation has long been undervalued and underpaid, and author incomes have been falling for years. Starting in July, we’ll offer WWB contributors 15% more for their work—but we can’t do it without your help. Invest in fair pay for literary artists: wwborders.live/2026SpringFundDrive

We are saddened to hear of the passing of author and poet David Malouf at 92. As the very first winner of the Dublin Literary Award in 1996 for Remembering Babylon, his work helped shape the story of our award from the beginning. His later novel Ransom was shortlisted for the award in 2011.

David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92

Acclaimed Brisbane-born writer was known for his work exploring his own childhood, great myths and colonial Australia

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Also very excited to be part of a conversation on Why Translation Matters @ Nano Nagle Place in Cork this Friday @ 1pm. Tânia Ganho and I will talk about the lived practice of translation, its challenge, possibilities and future directions. Come and join us to celebrate translation!

Delighted to participate in a conversation with Gaëlle Bélem on The Rarest Fruit (published by @bullaunpress.bsky.social and co-translated w/ Karen Fleetwood) this Thursday as part of @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social. Can’t wait to talk about Reunionese literature and island-to-island translation!

We take the ‘World’ part of Cork World Book Fest very seriously indeed.

Really looking forward to taking part in this year’s Cork World Book Fest! @gaellebelem.bsky.social and I will be in conversation about her second novel, The Rarest Fruit, co-translated with Karen Fleetwood.

Cork World Book Fest@corkworldbookfest.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Republic of Consciousness Award Winner 2025 Gaëlle Bélem chats with one of her translators Laëtitia Saint-Loubert. More corkworldbookfest.com/events/the-r... @gaellebelem.bsky.social corkworldbookfest.com/writers/gael... @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social corkworldbookfest.com/writers/laet...

actualitte.com/article/1297... Amazon quitte le Festival du livre de Paris après une polémique publique. Mais derrière l’affrontement symbolique, une question demeure : d’où vient l’argent qui finance l’événement ? Une mécanique de financement moins lisible qu’il n’y paraît.

Festival du Livre de Paris : derrière la polémique Amazon, la vraie question de l’argent

La présence annoncée d’Amazon parmi les partenaires du Festival du Livre de Paris 2026 aura déclenché une salve de boulets rouges. À l’initiative du Synd...

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Tonight we announce the winners of our 2025 Translation Prizes. Nine literary translators and one editor will be honoured at a ceremony at the British Library, celebrating outstanding translations of prose, poetry and non-fiction, from languages from around the globe and across a range of genres.

Universités : « La mort du service public est en train d’être organisée ». Dans un courrier adressé à Emmanuel Macron, la présidente de l’université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier s’est faite le relais du désespoir des personnels. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Universités : « La mort du service public est en train d’être organisée »

Dans un courrier adressé à Emmanuel Macron, Anne Fraïsse, présidente de l’université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier, s’est faite le relais du désespoir des personnels. La missive est pour le moment resté…

mediapart.fr

I miss you, Dublin!

Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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Thrilled to hear that the latest issue of Mémoires du livre on in/visibility and discoverability in the book industry is now available OA! Can’t wait to read all contributions. Many thanks to guest editors @julienlf.bsky.social and @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social. www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

Politiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine. Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2025 – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture

Read this issue of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture on Érudit. Discipline: Literary Studies, History.

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Latest issue of Alizés out! Karen Fleetwood & I contributed our English translation of Roger Parsemain’s 'D'lo d’Amérik'. In our Translators’ Note, we reflect on the crucial importance of building transoceanic, island-to-island bridges through translation, linking 🇲🇶 & 🇷🇪. alizes.univ-reunion.fr/343

45 | 2025 - Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments – Alizés

Alizés is a bilingual English-French journal devoted to English studies : civilisation studies, literature, linguistics and didactics.

alizes.univ-reunion.fr

Delighted to be shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff prize, together with Karen Fleetwood for our translation of Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door, pub. by @bullaunpress.bsky.social. Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation prizes!

Please join us for this free literary event with author Fabienne Jonca next Saturday 06/12 @3pm at Maison de l’Afrique in Nantes. She will talk about her beautiful debut novel ‘Brown Baby’ (Atelier des nomades).📚🎁

Today is St Jerome day, also known as International Translation Day, so I want to pay a tribute to my third-year students’ wonderful work and collaborative translation projects from last semester, which led to an exhibition at the BU Lettres, at Nantes University 🥰