What's the King of Mandopop doing these days 🤔 Is he still flying...Felt the urge to translate the 2 verses below on hearing this song he wrote in 2010.
What's the King of Mandopop doing these days 🤔 Is he still flying...Felt the urge to translate the 2 verses below on hearing this song he wrote in 2010.
We at ALTA are excited to announce the 2025 ALTA Travel Fellows! buff.ly/4FBPAIE
📚 Catherine Xinxin Yu, 2025 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Chinese, Italian)
📚 Elete Nelson-Fearon (Arabic, Spanish)
📚 Mariana Ortigão (European Portuguese, Spanish)
📚 Marianna Suleymanova (Russian)
come hang out if you're in boston next thursday
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Come hang out with us! I'll be reading my own poems, loosely abt cultural & generational trauma, translated into German by Joey Bahlsen. Mui will read her translation from The Sad Part Was, a short story collection by Prabda Yoon, and Dasom her translation of a travel memoir. Hope to see you there!
I'm going to be working at the Literarische Colloquium Berlin in Wannsee from July to December 2025. Many thanks to @lcb.de for the workspace to dream and delve into my literary translation and writing work. Herzlichen Dank. lcb.de/foerderung/a...
“This is, more than anything, a plea for principled leftists to rise en masse and not just decry but disrupt a nation helmed by gleeful genocideers.” Thank you @kavehakbar.bsky.social @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
FEBRUARY 23 (SUNDAY) 7-9PM EST Manuscript Therapy ANTON HUR
JOIN WRITER AND TRANSLATOR ANTON HUR FOR A SMALL-GROUP WORKSHOP WHERE PARTICIPANTS WILL GIVE AND RECEIVE FEEDBACK ON A FICTION OR TRANSLATION MANUSCRIPT OF UP TO 1500 WORDS.
THIS WORKSHOP WILL TAKE THE FORM OF A MASTERCLASS WHERE THE AUTHOR TRANSLATOR OF THE MANUSCRIPT BEING WORKSHOPPED IS IN CONVERSATION WITH THE WORKSHOP LEADER AND THE OTHER AUTHOR/TRANSLATORS LISTENING IN.
PARTICIPATION WILL BE CAPPED AT 6, AND REGISTRATION FEE WILL BE SET AT $100/PERSON. ADDITIONAL MASTERCLASSES WILL FOLLOW IF INTEREST EXCEEDS THIS CAP.
I'm not teaching a lot this year and this is the only online thing I am scheduled to teach for 2025 (will possibly do three more—one for each season—depending on circumstances).
Sign-up link: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/man...
...Anna Lidia Vega Serova, @mverunschk.bsky.social, Sophie Lewis, Dan Ying , @ngchristina.bsky.social, Geetanjali Shree, and @shreedaisy.bsky.social! We're so excited for each and every one of you!
Congratulations to all of the #PENTranslates awardees, among them the WWB-ers Natasha Wimmer, Helen Stevenson, Ellen Elias-Bursać, Karim Kattan, @jmz.bsky.social, Sean Gasper Bye,
Stefan Tobler, Krisztina Tóth, George Szirtes...🧵
NWU is a Sanctuary Union
Join us to listen to poems from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and to consider the work of translation, publishing, and community at this time of profound global grief and steadfast solidarity.
Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...
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Haha literally yes, semantically no. Wouldn't think of the penguins as business-like in Mandarin
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