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Amanda Sarasien
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Writer. Literary translator. Bibliophile. Cinephile. All-around lover of language, in any incarnation.

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Still floating on this thrilling news - my manuscript has been shortlisted in the @sfwp.bsky.social 2025 Literary Awards!
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The 2025 Literary Awards Program Short List is here! buff.ly/uftpTi6
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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What a thrill to see my own writing included in this formidable long list!
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ICYMI, we announced the Long List Finalists for the 2025 Literary Awards Program with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social! buff.ly/W9BV5sP
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Immensely honored that my co-translation with Elton Uliana of José Luís Peixoto’s haunting story “The Woman Who Dreamed” was nominated for a Pushcart! Thank you to @themassreview.bsky.social for featuring our work!
themassreview.bsky.social The Massachusetts Review @themassreview.bsky.social · 19d
Huge congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart nominees: Leila Chatti, Jan Clausen, Susan Li, Meghana Mysore, Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico!!! Amazing pieces by amazing writers.

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Congratulations to Our 2025 Pushcart Nominees!
Leila Chatti, Jan Clausen, Susan Li, Meghana Mysore, Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico!
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December 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Cover reveal! Thanks to the very talented Rachelle Jaily for this head-turning design!

#WomeninTranslation #BrazilianLiterature #booksky #booklaunch
Image of a book cover with a nude-colored frame and in the center of the frame a hot pink grainy box. Reaching into the center box from the right is a forearm with a hand holding a gun, its fingernails painted crimson. Reaching into the center box from the left is a forearm with a hand holding multi-colored flowers. The title of the book, Springtime in the Bones, surrounds the box, and below it is the author's name, Állex Leilla. Below this are the words "Translated from the Portuguese by Amanda Sarasien."
October 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Coming spring 2026, in my translation. Thank you, Foreshore Books, for this lovely conversation with the formidable and inimitable Állex Leilla: foreshorepublishing.com/novelist-all...

#Brasil #readingintranslation #womenintranslation #brazilianliterature #booksky
Novelist Állex Leilla and Translator Amanda Sarasien on Springtime in the Bones. - Foreshore Publishing
As Springtime in the Bones prepares for its English debut, it offers readers a rare and resonant journey—a tale of trauma and tenacity, heartbreak and humour, told with an uncompromising poetic voice....
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October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Received my contributor's copy of SAGE Magazine - what a beautiful objet d'art, just look at that stitched spine! My piece "Summer" is an excerpt from a full-length manuscript which is #seekingapublisher, & it was awarded the magazine's Prose Prize! Read it here: sagemagazine.org/wp-content/u...
Cover of SAGE Magazine showing line-drawn continents and constellations in yellow and lilac against a black background, the word "SAGE" in bold and the words "Eclipsed Ecologies" arcing around one of the images. An art spread included inside the magazine. On the left page is an eerie blurred cyanotype of what looks like flowers, with the title "Blueprint of Nature" by McKenna Blaine. On the right side is a surreal image of a person in bluish purple holding a distorted face with eyes all over it. The title is "Twisted" by Eleonor Andersson. First-page spread of my piece "Summer, or Chronic Illness: The Eternal Return" with the words seeming to spout and fall like a waterfall. The hand-stitched spine of SAGE Magazine bearing its black back cover with the yellow and lilac celestial designs.
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025.
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The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
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August 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Bookmail! Received my pre-order of this beguiling brew of a book - a pinch of poetry, a dash of translation, a morsel of (fictional?) memoir, and a few tarot readings thrown in for good measure. Highly recommended for the flaneurs among us...
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Roaming the Labyrinth with Marie-Claire Bancquart: Perfect Bound — AIM Higher Inc.
BY Christina Cook Binding: Perfect Bound Paperback ISBN: 979-8-9863699-5-2 List Price: $30 | Preorder: $22 Publisher: AIM Higher Page Count: 220 Publication/Shipping Date: June 2025 ABOUT A lyric...
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August 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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themassreview.bsky.social
“...Because I have an exciting and productive working relationship with Amanda Sarasien—an extraordinary literary stylist in her own right—I invited her to collaborate with me.”

Elton Uliana & @amandasarasien.bsky.social writes for our #10Questions, on our website: massreview.org/2025/07/14/1...
10 Questions for Elton Uliana and Amanda Sarasien - The Massachusetts Review
“She woke up so happy. One of the nuns opened the bedroom door and crossed the narrow aisle between the beds. As the day’s first gentle sounds touched the silence—the door opening, the thin rubber sol...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Excited to present José Luís Peixoto's incantatory tale of memory, grief, and longing, together with my co-translator Elton Uliana; what a formidable table of contents! #literatureintranslation #PortugueseLiterature
themassreview.bsky.social The Massachusetts Review @themassreview.bsky.social · Jun 16
Our summer issue has arrived! Featuring work by Sumana Roy and Ariel Katz, poets janan alexandra and Marianne Boruch, plus translations of Kim Hyesoon and José Luís Peixoto, plus art by Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, be sure to get a copy today! massreview.org/issue/volume...
Volume 66, Issue 2 - The Massachusetts Review
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June 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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So proud to see my work in this gorgeous magazine. This piece is an excerpt from a longer work for which I'm #seekingapublisher (& it won the magazine's Prose Prize!). Thank you to the editors at SAGE for this lovely object I'll soon hold in my hands! #disabilitylit

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May 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Truth
kibblesmith.com Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · May 8
I am unapologetically telling you right now that Chicago is going to be insufferable about this, there is still a fading cardboard John Paul II in a Michigan Ave storefront looking out at Grant Park because he spoke there *once.*
May 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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This enticing list of 10 Novels in Translation You Should Be Reading from @electricliterature.com includes a shoutout to @furiousleeper.bsky.social for his #translation of Río Muerto, by Ricardo Silva Romero. #TBR #ColombianLiterature electricliterature.com/10-novels-in...
10 Novels in Translation You Should be Reading This Winter and Spring  - Electric Literature
These most anticipated titles spanning countries as far and wide as South Korea, Colombia, and Denmark
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March 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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A bit of news:

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Thank you to Állex Leilla for entrusting me with her words, and to Foreshore for embracing this unconventional book!

#LiteratureInTranslation #BrazilianLiterature
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February 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Also bumping this again. Please apply with your DJ zine ideas!
February 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM