Congratulations to the CTIS member Sheena Kalayil whose novel The Others has been longlisted for the 2026 Womenβs Prize for Fiction.
Find out more about this fascinating work here: www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display...
@uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
The Cambridge Journal of Literary Translation (CJLT) has launched and is now open for submissions. An open-access, peer-reviewed journal hosted at the University of Cambridge, CJLT publishes literary translations, research articles, and book reviews. Learn more: cjltjournal.wixsite.com/cjlt/issues
What a great translation multiple idea! How about Ugly Duckling Presse? @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social
Hey poetry bluesky, Iβve been querying my manuscript exploding Catullus 85 into 85 different translation variations for a little while now. Any tips for publishers (or agents?) that might be interested in a less traditional translation project?
Join Antonia Lloyd-Jones for the Polish Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026 π£ This year's Summer Summer School will take place ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 π
Find out more, apply and download an example programme: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
Job alert! This is a reminder that I'm looking for a team member to work on a book history project π that explores the networks πΈοΈ of Protestant book agents in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia! Details: konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (EN version at p. 7). Send an application by 9.03!
Massive thanks to Charlotte Bosseaux @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for her presentation of this very moving reseacrh-informed documentary film Surviving Translation yesterday. You can watch the film here: ethicaltranslation.llc.ed.ac.uk/documentary/
π’π’π’ Check out the new programme for our CTIS Research Seminar Series in Semester II and join us on campus or online by registering on Teams (registration links to follow in the comments). We hope to see you there!
Today, 11 February 2026 at 4pm (GMT), join this interactive seminar led by @kaszyma.bsky.social, author of Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Find more information about this @cam.ac.uk Translation Studies Network event here: www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
Translation Multiples goes to Cambridge! If you're in town today, do come along to this talk + workshop.
@princetonupress.bsky.social
MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION 2026 π£οΈ
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FEB 23 @ 5:30pm
π Club Academy
Uni of Manchester Students Union
Oxford Road M13 9PR
Come to Manchester in Translation '26 for talks & Chinese translation workshops - no experience necessary!
π« www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov at the Uni of Manchester (@uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social) on his latest novel Three Years on Fire, but also talking about his morbid humour inspired by the 'childhood medical fantasies' he developped when growing up in a house full of medical doctors.
Very happy to guest edit a special issue on "Media Ecologies of Translation" in Translation Matters 9.1 (Spring 2027)! The call is available at drive.google.com/file/d/14yBk.... Submission deadline for full articles: July 15, 2026.
Thank you for sharing widely!
A statement about David Bellos just issued by his department: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.
RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.
Join us for a cultural event about Kurdish storytelling and history, to celebrate the launch of 'The Last Pomegranate Tree' by Bachtyar Ali
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Thursday 27 November
β° 4.45-6pm
π Samuel Alexander Building, SG16
π Free entry, all welcome, no booking required
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy by Kasia Szymanska
Kasia Szymanska
Tomorrow (14 November) at 5-6:30 pm (GMT), join this virtual @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more about this free event here: buff.ly/R362wXY.
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy by Kasia Szymanska
Kasia Szymanska
Tomorrow (Thursday, 13 November) at 2-3:30 pm (GMT), join this hybrid @ctis-manchester.bsky.social event where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more here: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:....
So glad to share with you the inaugural special issue of Feminist Translation Studies 'Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/2/1 @olgacastro80.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social
More events feat. Translation Multiples (also online!):
π’Thurs, 13 Nov, 2-4pm: a triple book showcase (with Delphine Grass & Anna Lanfranchi) on recent books in literary translation: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
π’Friday, 14 Nov, 5-6.30pm: a multiples workshop www.kcl.ac.uk/events/works...
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy by Kasia Szymanska
Kasia Szymanska
Tomorrow (22 October) at 4pm BST, please join this in-person @soasuni.bsky.social event, where @kaszyma.bsky.social will discuss her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy.
Register for this event here: buff.ly/LMF5SGy.
I took this picture of Olga and LΓ‘szlΓ³ in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldnβt be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isnβt taking away from the author, itβs adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.
π Wonderful news! Huge congratulations to LΓ‘szlΓ³ Krasznahorkai - whose book SPADEWORK FOR A PALACE, translated by John Batki, was shortlisted for the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose! - on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature! π₯³π www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
π’π’π’ CfP for a special issue in @transpaces.bsky.social (2027) on the topic of Translator Norms, co-edited by our very own Anna Strowe, Richard Mansell & Helle V. Dam.
Abstracts due 24 Nov; notification of successful proposals by 15 Dec; articles due 30 May 2026.
More details: t.co/gVJ29PBTDm
Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format.
The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
π£ Translators! Don't miss your chance - VSC's open call will offer 2, 3, and 4-week residencies in 2026, and β¨translators are eligible for them.β¨
Get in your application by the end of the day today! π
