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" I will help make sure the way translators are chosen for jobs is as fair as possible."
Jen Calleja- author 'Fair'

On raising issues on integrity & fair working conditions for translators
#LanguageMatters
Thanks for the inspiration & great evening
@jencalleja.bsky.social
at Collected Books

Thanks so much Clare, very kind!

😂 so true Stu

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

Sorry to use you as a dumping ground, but I just talked to a guy who’s thinking about getting into literary translation by “using software” and post-editing. Because it would be too time consuming the long way. He was also unimpressed by my suggestion that good translation takes practice.

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

I wrote about how literary translation gives you the chance to write a book you wish you’d written for the first issue of @draughtjournal.bsky.social draughtjournal.com

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

Mysterious! And great! Might you be up for trying to find a couple of run-on lines in it over the next few days? I basically have a couple of lines in German, which I’ve translated into English, so it would be looking for lines *kind of like* those lines? No worries if that sounds not very fun.

Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy, translated by Anne Milano Appel, Penguin UK, 2013 / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

Does anyone have a copy of The Art of Joy (the English translation of L'arte della gioia) by Goliarda Sapienza? I’m looking for a quote for a translation I’m working on. Thanks!

Penultimate FAIR book tour event this Wednesday in Durham at Collected Books collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/...

Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Final three events for the FAIR book tour - see you soon Birmingham, Durham, London!

In or near Birmingham? Hear @jencalleja.bsky.social speak at @vocebooks.bsky.social this Thursday, 2 October. #newbooks #translation #lifewriting #writerslife

Thanks Valeria!

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

This is a great book that you should all read (as well as everything by Jen because she is very cool)

Thanks so much Niall 😎

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Excited to welcome @jencalleja.bsky.social back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

I will remember that all/not all projects are fair game to me […]

Also pictured: my custard pie model, now stuck to the wall.

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