In August, we celebrate Women in Translation! 🌟Check out this reading list of recently published works both written and translated by women, shared by Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, and let us know your recommendations in the comments.

A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…

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The translator Lin King of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE, awarded with the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize and 2026 International Booker Prize, reflects on Taiwan’s history of colonialism, current geopolitical situation, and identity struggle in this interview for NPR.

'Taiwan Travelogue' rethinks history, colonialism, and identity

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating…

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In August, we celebrate Women in Translation! 🌟Check out this reading list of recently published works both written and translated by women, shared by Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, and let us know your recommendations in the comments.

A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…

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Lizzie Buehler, a former ALTA Travel Fellow, reflects on how her literary translation techniques influence her writing practice in the essay “How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer” for Literary Hub. Read more below:

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

There is one conversation I remember most distinctly from my MFA in literary translation. I was chatting with a nonfiction student about the novel I was translating at the time when she said with a…

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“A hundred sickly days and nights you seek your name, a beautiful living knot, tied to the faint humming of nets.” Ethereal and dreamlike imagery, strange physicality, and unexpected pairings: Read “Soft Parts” by Anna Tapola, trans. from Finnish by Kasper Salonen, at Asymptote:

Soft Parts - Asymptote

IA dream powders your face: a dancing geisha, a mouth that a cherry sinks into. You spread out a thin garment, thighs, coldness falls in through the sleeves, a gaze that presses into the floor. On…

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🗓️ Don't miss your chance to tell us about an offsite event that you're planning during ALTA49: Give and Take, our conference being held October 21-24 in Portland, OR! Tell us about it by tomorrow (7/30) and get it into the conference program book: buff.ly/n84hAck

Zashiki-warashi spirits, ancient homes, and magnetic grandmothers—oh my! A quiet, immersive tale from Masami Kakinuma, translated from Japanese by Sharni Wilson. “Go for it” is available to read at Guernica now: www.guernicamag.com/go-for-it/

Go for it

A quietly enchanted story of family, folklore, and the courage to recognise happiness before it passes you by.

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Global Literature in Libraries Initiative’s 2026 Translated YA Book Prize Winner and Honor Books feature works from Dutch, French, Japanese, and Norwegian. Haven’t checked them out yet? Head on over and find translations for all ages: glli-us.org/category/gll...

GLLI Translated YA Book Prize – Global Literature in Libraries Initiative

Posts about GLLI Translated YA Book Prize written by katieday and Nanette McGuinness

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Emerging translators! Check it out: Applications for the 2026/27 round of Emerging Translator Mentorships at the National Centre for Writing are now open (including one in Polish, mentored by ALTA's Director of Membership and Development Sean Gasper Bye)!

Apply for the Emerging Translator Mentorships programme 2025-2026!

NCW Emerging Mentorships aims to develop new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English translation. Explore…

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“Why should rhymes line up perfectly when reality itself never does?” Clare Cavanagh reflects on co-translating Wisława Szymborska’s poetry from Polish, the acrobatics of language, the weight of triviality and frivolity, and the life of a literary legend over at Lit Hub:

To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska

“Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…

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🌟Congrats to the PEN Translates award winners, including former ALTA awards judge Sawad Hussain, and past ALTA award winners Brian Robert Moore and Jennifer Shyue. Learn more here:

PEN Translates winners announced - English PEN

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There are stories you don’t just read—, you have to see them. Check out this graphic novel GIRL WITH A GUN: LITHUANIA, 1947 by Lina Itagaki and Marius Marcinkevičius, translated from Lithuanian by ALTA member Kotryna Garanasvili. Read here:

Girl with a Gun: Lithuania, 1947 - Words Without Borders

In this excerpt from an award-winning graphic novel, a plucky ten-year-old must fend for herself after being separated from her family.

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🎉 Congrats to 2025 ALTA mentee Tim Tim Cheng on being awarded the 2026 Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators by @wwborders.bsky.social! It recognizes Cheng’s translation from Chinese of the nonfiction book EXPOSURE by Ka Yee Lee. Learn more here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Tim Tim Cheng Awarded Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders

Tim Tim Cheng receives the 2026 Momentum Grant for Emerging Translators for their translation of Ka Yee Lee's "Exposure."

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“I learned it from books.” Resistance inspired by education, authority challenged by the youth, and love constrained by social division: check out the excerpt from Zordun Sabir’s Motherland, translated from Uyghur by past ALTA mentee Munawwar Abdulla. www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/from-m...

From Motherland, translated from the Uyghur by Munawwar Abdulla - The Georgia Review

The mingbeg* official’s residence had lavish gates, a garden bursting with grape vines, and an airy, light-filled house. Ornate and well-oiled lampstands hung on wide pillars. To the left of the…

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Do you plan on attending #ALTA49 in Portland? Will it be your first @littranslate.bsky.social conference? If so, sign up for the Wayfinders program to meet other translators and to get tips on making the most of ALTA's annual #translation conference. ➡️ literarytranslators.org/event/wayfin...

ALTA is saddened to learn of the passing of its past President, Barbara “Bobbi” Harshav. Barbara was a translator from French, German, Hebrew and Yiddish into English. She served as ALTA’s President from 2009-2011, and was awarded the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2018. buff.ly/8lg2Naj

“my mother’s daydream dreamed of mine for a god that sends no messengers” Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s translations of three of Ni Made Purnama Sari’s poems from Indonesian can be found over at Modern Poetry in Translation. Head over for beautiful imagery and crystalline emotion:

Three poems - Modern Poetry in Translation

· A Farewell from Paslaan, Apeldoorn Spent two nights in Paslaan in the attic, where little Leo learned to read You could feel Lake Toba was somewhere nearby and the paved road           through…

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Are you planning an offsite event during our upcoming conference, ALTA49: Give and Take, which takes place October 21-24 in Portland, OR? We want to know about it! Tell us about the offsite event you're planning by July 30, and we'll get it in this year's conference program book:

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Ghosts, stray boa constrictors, an epilogue from beyond the grave – Cory Oldweiler reviews Robin Myer’s deft and twisty translation of Cecilia Eudave’s SUMMER OF THE SERPENT from Spanish. See what’s haunting Words Without Borders now:

“The Fighting Spirit of Our Trifling Humanity”: Cecilia Eudave’s The Summer of the Serpent - Words Without Borders

Critic Cory Oldweiler reviews Mexican writer Cecilia Eudave's "The Summer of the Serpent," translated from Spanish by Robin Myers.

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“...telling her secrets to any bystander gazing at some meek peasant’s beast of burden.” Budapest socialite Rizili unfurls a tale of passion, betrayal, and unconventional longing in this excerpt from Gyula Krúdy’s novella AUTUMN MEETING, translated from Hungarian by John Batki:

Gyula Krúdy: Autumn Meeting | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online

An excerpt from Gyula Krúdy's novella Autumn Meeting, exemplifying his sharp wit through Rizili, a charming yet ruthless socialite who leads a suspended jockey on an intoxicating night through Budapest’s...

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“WHITE MOSS turned her into a literary translator.” Wiegertje Postma interviews Irina Sadovina, translator of Nenets writer Anne Nerkagi’s WHITE MOSS from Russian. Go to the European Review of Books to read about Sadovina’s transformation, indigeneity, gender roles, and more:

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THE ARCTIC CIRCLE — An interview with Irina Sadovina, who recently translated a novel set in a nomadic Indigenous Nenets community in Northern Siberia, by Nenets writer Anna Nerkagi.

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🎟️ Registration is officially open for ALTA49: Give & Take, ALTA's conference taking place this year October 21-24 in Portland, OR! buff.ly/caW9yfy Join us and 400-500 members of the literary translation community this fall (it's the only gathering of its kind!). We can't wait to welcome you there!

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#ALTA49 conference panels/workshops have been announced! buff.ly/RrY9iXf #translation

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🥳 The accepted ALTA49: Give and Take conference panels and workshops have been announced! Check out the lineup here: buff.ly/RrY9iXf Some of these panels and workshops are seeking participants (read through the lineup to see which ones are open). Interested? Email the organizer by July 27!

ALTA49 will feature a panel on translation of children's literature moderated by @jasmine-hongyu.bsky.social and including Riya Parikh, @nanettemcg.bsky.social, Lena Traer, and @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social! 📚 #kidlit #worldkidlit #translation #xl8 #ALTA49

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🥳 The accepted ALTA49: Give and Take conference panels and workshops have been announced! Check out the lineup here: buff.ly/RrY9iXf Some of these panels and workshops are seeking participants (read through the lineup to see which ones are open). Interested? Email the organizer by July 27!

📣 Don't miss your chance to to share published or unpublished English translations with our supportive community at the upcoming ALTA conference! Sign up by 7/30 to participate in the Bilingual Readings at ALTA49: Give and Take, which will take place in Portland, OR, from 10/21-24: buff.ly/219rGH3

🥳 The accepted ALTA49: Give and Take conference panels and workshops have been announced! Check out the lineup here: buff.ly/RrY9iXf Some of these panels and workshops are seeking participants (read through the lineup to see which ones are open). Interested? Email the organizer by July 27!

Multifaceted! Messy! Characters offering intriguing social commentary! Explorations of Black Masculinity! All this and more you can read about in translator Ciara Bowen’s review of BROTHERS written by Jackie Thomae and trans. Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp from German. At the Goethe Institute:

Jackie Thomae’s Brothers: what makes us who we are?

<i>Brothers</i> is a bold exploration of family and Black masculinity through a German lens – recommended for readers of Addie E. Citchens' <i>Dominion</i>.

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“A poem can only be partially captured in written form, anyway.” Read poet Ye Hui's conversation with Peter Mishler on transnational influences, architecture in poetry, translation, witches and more! Ye Hui has been tranlated into English by ALTA member Dong Li. At LitHub:

Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem

For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Ye Hui. The poets corresponded using a messaging app th…

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Thank you for the kind words, Ibrahim! We're proud to offer a sense of belonging in the literary translation community. Want to know more? Meet 2024 ALTA Travel Fellow Ibrahim Fawzy here: buff.ly/ogMnh1l

We think our community is pretty great - but you don't need to take our word for it! This is what 2020 ALTA Travel Fellow and past awards judge @lauralnagle.bsky.social has to say. Want to get to know Laura more? Check out this mini-interview with her here: buff.ly/f76Ig36