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Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
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april-now.bsky.social
bookish friends: two lines press publishes *so* much great stuff! don't miss this sale!! 💙📚
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Give the gift of literary translation with our 1 week Holiday Sale! 🎁 For one-week-only we're offering 30% off all our books (40% off for Two Lines Press members), special $12 hardcovers, and free shipping on U.S. orders over $50! 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Give the gift of literary translation with our 1 week Holiday Sale! 🎁 For one-week-only we're offering 30% off all our books (40% off for Two Lines Press members), special $12 hardcovers, and free shipping on U.S. orders over $50! 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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As of today, the publishers with the most #SFinTranslation in 2025 are:

@ndbooks.bsky.social (6)
@twolinespress.com (4)
@honfordstar.bsky.social (4)

Thanks for all the great books!!! 🎉
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees.

For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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🎉 The committee for the Cercador Prize confers this year’s prize to Christina MacSweeney for her translation of ‘The Queen of Swords’ by Jazmina Barrera (Two Lines Press). Congratulations to Christina, Jazmina, and @twolinespress.com!
The book cover of QUEEN OF SWORDS by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney, overlayed on a graphic.
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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drewsof.bsky.social
I love this prize (the only one run by booksellers! or at least the only translation prize run by booksellers!) and this is a very very good decision by this year's jury.
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🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Congratulations to the always excellent Christina MacSweeney winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize for her translation of The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera! The Queen of Swords is one of my favorite books of 2025.
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🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Congratulations to Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeny—the English translation of THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, just published with Two Lines Press, is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! 🎉

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November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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rachelcordasco.bsky.social
#SFinTranslation out today (1/2):

THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com)

NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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SEA NOW hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey. Read the book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

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How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s Sea Now - Words Without Borders
Sea Now hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Jazmina Barrera's THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, translated by Christins MacSweeney (11/11/25) is in great company on Ms. Magazines November Reads for the Rest of Us! msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
November 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2025.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS
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BOOK REVIEW“They—all of us—are way behind, stuck in the old, familiar, small ways of thinking and unable to grasp the vast changes going on around us. ”**"How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s 'Sea Now'"**by Rebecca Hussey. Image: Book cover, drawing of cow on top of rock on water.
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Check out our newest NBA interview with author Mohamed Kheir and translator Robin Moger! Together, they discuss SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature: buff.ly/tlaTIqr
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“And I think though the book has a certain degree of cultural specificity, in terms of the geography or topography of a city, it is essentially a generous one: it invites you to match its lyricism, find the right balance and weight for its images and ideas.”— Robin Moger Words Without Borders National Book Award Interviews: Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger on National Book Award Interviews: Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger Sleep Phase. Image: Black background with blue and white lettering. Cover of SLEEP PHASE, and circular author photos of Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger
October 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Our Calico Series is open for submissions for 🐾 animal stories 🐾 in translation! Open to translations from any language into English, word count between 2k to 10k words, deadline January 15, 2026! Full submission details here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TOMORROW 10/17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Unbound Translations: A Listening Party
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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We interviewed author Jazmina Barrera and translator Christina MacSweeney about their National Book Award-longlisted novel, THE QUEEN OF SWORDS. Read the interview: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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As a translator, one of the major challenges was the variety of different voices included in this portrait of Elena, many of them of celebrated authors, writing in their own individual styles at a particular period in the past." — Christina MacSweeney, Words Without Borders. National Book Awards Interviews: Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney on National Book Awards Interviews: Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney The Queen of Swords. Image: Black background with text on the far left, book cover on top right, followed by Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney circular author photos.”
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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nichollsm86.bsky.social
some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Through the mail slot today. Sea Now
by Eva Meijer, translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo. And an excellent tote bag. www.catranslation.org/shop/book/se... @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence." 🌊🐃 🐋
mandysuzannewong.bsky.social Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · Oct 14
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Bay Area folks, this one sounds fun!
twolinespress.com Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Oct 6
Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Unbound Translations: A Listening Party
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM