We can’t have clean air, but we can read about it

Marianna Suleymanova@marsnova.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have a new translation out today in @thedialmag.bsky.social Her North is a meditation on belonging that doubles as a love letter to eternal winter. Original story by Evgenia Nekrasova. I hope you give it a read 🦌❄️ www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

“Readers have stopped regarding the most established writers as godlike figures, and they want more truthful documentations of life.”

Poetry from the Factory Floor | Tony Hao

People should pay closer attention to our true state of being within and beyond our workplace.

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My conversation with Xiao Hai about his debut memoir #AdriftInTheSouth. Thank you @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/poetr...

Poetry from the Factory Floor | Tony Hao

People should pay closer attention to our true state of being within and beyond our workplace.

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Years ago, I wrote about the Mythical English Reader whose gaze I’m supposed to translate for. It has just been “reprinted” by Lithub and is now available to read online for the first time.

Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader

When I started my career as a professional literary translator, I began coming up against a mysterious “English reader” whom academics and editors kept referring to when they looked over my work, l…

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My translation of ADRIFT IN THE SOUTH, the debut memoir of Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai 小海, out with Granta Magazine Editions today. A landmark work of the migrant worker literature movement, it showcases one of China’s liveliest emerging voices. #XiaoHai #chineseliterature #translatedliterature

I will be at National Taiwan Normal University 师大 to do a class visit at the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation on Thursday. I'll be sharing some translations of all five poets including in The Lantern and the Night Moths, and discussing poetry translation.

Just received my advance copy of 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 by Gigi L. Leung 梁莉姿 (tr. by me), a powerful novel about the everyday lives of ordinary people during the 2019 Hong Kong protests, out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social on Feb. 10, 2026. Thank you @ohanzhang.bsky.social for your brilliant editing!

Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke

October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”

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Philadelphia: worldeditions.org/event/jeremy... Pittsburgh: cityofasylum.org/litfest-2025/ Vancouver: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva... Toronto: festivalofauthors.ca/festival-202...

“Granny Liu squats by the grave and says, ‘Look, say you’re right and women do live longer, then fine—you can die first, but you’re making lunch tomorrow.’ “ From “Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky” by Yan Lianke, translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social. buff.ly/RtunfjN

"She held nothing back, writing with such force that it felt as if she were ripping through the paper. When I began writing fiction, I felt that only by tearing the paper could I leave evidence that I had existed in this world." ~Zhang Yueran on Eileen Chang www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

What You Know Most Deeply: On Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions by Zhang Yueran

September 26, 2025 – “ ‘Little Reunions ought to be burned,’ Eileen Chang wrote to her friend and literary executor, Stephen Soong, in 1976, the year she finished what would be her last novel.”

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The Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles is collaborating with @littranslate.bsky.social to host the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. Applications are open until Nov. 30 for one English-language translator of literature from Taiwan, who will undertake the mentorship in 2026.

From 1949 to 1987, Taiwan has spent 13,936 days under martial law. Since 1987, the country has now spent 13,938 days and counting experiencing democracy and rule of law. 就在今天，台灣的「解嚴時間」終於超越了「戒嚴時間」。

📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator. Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69

Understanding Taiwanese Literature and Films with Jenna Tang (Zoom) Starts Thursday, January 8th, 2026 writing-workshops-org.myshopify.com/collections/...

6-Week Taiwanese Literature & Film Seminar with Expert Jenna Tang

Explore Taiwanese literature & films in this 6-week online seminar. Learn from translator Jenna Tang. Indigenous voices, LGBTQ+ writers & more. Join now!

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With Ting Guo, I’ve co‑authored a new article titled “The ‘Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon’: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia” in the “Translation Studies as Methods” special issue uof Chinese Literature and Thought Today (Vol. 56, Nos. 1–2). See www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

The “Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon”: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia

The “Ueno Chizuko phenomenon” describes the popularity and influence of Japanese feminist scholar Ueno Chizuko in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea, through translations of her work....

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My translation of poetry and prose by Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, the late Taiwanese transgender poet and writer whose life was tragically cut short by a mountain trekking incident at age 19. from “Before the Snowmelt” 我所告訴你關於那座山的一切

The Offing@theoffingmag.bsky.social · last yr.

“And if you get lost and walk into your heart yourself, then it’ll be your turn to become a mountain." Four Excerpts from "Before the Snowmelt" by Liu Chen-Chun, translated from Chinese by Tony Hao. theoffingmag.com/translation/...

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?” Me: “I’m a writer.” Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

Writing represents an act of resistance: it militates against all that is base and hateful, against death and annihilation. If writing is life, and life itself has turned into war, what more is left for us to write? ~Nasser Rabah, interviewed by Alex Tan proteanmag.com/2025/06/16/t...

To Gaza: An Interview with Nasser Rabah • Protean Magazine

Writer and translator Alex Tan speaks to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hil...

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It's pub day for Rosa Mistika—and here is a lengthy interview about the novel (and much else!) with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/17/t...

The Translator’s Voice — Jay Boss Rubin on Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s “Rosa Mistika” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

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"Just like how in the novel’s opening there’s this household within a village, village within an island, and island within a lake, there are...different kinds of telescoping points of views." Ian Battaglia's interview with @jaybossrubin.bsky.social is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/17/t...

The Translator’s Voice — Jay Boss Rubin on Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s “Rosa Mistika” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

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‘A number is a mystery, which God solves.’ For Bloomsday, James Joyce and Adolf Hoffmeister argue about a Czech translation of Finnegans Wake, in a rare interview from 1930. granta.com/the-game-of-...

I wrote about translating the opening sentence of Rosa Mistika for the Asymptote Blog www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/06...

When There’s No Fog: Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Rosa Mistika - Asymptote Blog

I have to look back across a foggy channel of my own to explain how I came to translate this classic Swahili novel. . .

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My review of @jeremytiang.bsky.social’s fabulous translation of HUNTER, short story collection by Dongbei (Northeastern Chinese) writer Shuang Xuetao. Thank you @fullstopmag.bsky.social www.full-stop.net/2025/06/04/r...

Hunter – Shuang Xuetao

Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.

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I was interviewed by Paraphraxis Podcast (Harvard Comp Lit) about translating Bora Chung’s YOUR UTOPIA out now from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social “Writing and translation is a private act… PUBLISHING is collaborative.”

Anton Hur on Your Utopia by Bora Chung

In this episode, translator and debut novelist Anton Hur discusses his English translation of Your Utopia (Algonquin Books, 2024), a fantastical and moving collection by South Korean author Bora Chung...

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feeling really sad/angry about the arrest of BL authors in China who write for Haitang

Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2025...

“The tragedy, the novel suggests, is not that people prefer their shackles but that they are trapped by hope—hope that love or duty will transcend pain.” Tammy Lai-Ming Ho reviews Hon Lai Chu’s new dystopia. @myetcetera.bsky.social‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...