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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this workshop with Kasia Szymanska! Her recent book, TRANSLATION MULTIPLES: FROM GLOBAL CULTURE TO POSTCOMMUNIST DEMOCRACY, was recently reviewed on Hopscotch by Jess Jensen Mitchell.

Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · Sep 9

👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...

🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 [email protected]

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 9d

Putting this one on the calendar.

National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 10d

Join us on October 7 as we talk with Gwendolyn Harper translator of the late Pedro Lemebel’s “A Last Supper of Queer Apostles,” winner of the 2024 Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Register at tinyurl.com/2025translation

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 14d

New on HS: James Richie's @jameslrichie.bsky.social
insightful reflections on translating Víctor Cabrera’s collection of poems, A VILLAGE DEVASTATED BY GODZILLA.

hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/09/23/b...

#poems #poetry #poem #translation

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 16d

Hopscotch throwback: "Like a Simile," by Zeynep Özer. Have you read it yet?

Zeynep Özer excavates the linguistic and emotional intricacies of Alice Oswald’s long poem «Memorial», which she takes to be emblematic of the practice of creative translation.

hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/04/08/l...

Like a Simile

Zeynep Özer excavates the linguistic and emotional intricacies of Alice Oswald’s long poem «Memorial», which she takes to be emblematic of the practice of creative translation.

hopscotchtranslation.com

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 21d

Check out this interview with former ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima as they discuss balancing professional translation projects with a broader love of and excitement for literature. At Hindustan Times: buff.ly/k0kVfZS @hindustan-times.bsky.social @yukitejima.bsky.social

Yuki Tejima: “I miss talking about the books I’m not translating”

On translating Japanese writers like Mizuki Tsujimura, Kumi Kimura and Emi Nagi, and championing women’s writing

www.hindustantimes.com

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Betty Books @bettybooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

✨ Betty author @ilzeduarte.bsky.social’s translation of The Book of Affects by Marília Arnaud is featured on @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social! The review explores how Duarte captures the text’s emotional depth and brings its lyrical power to readers.

Read the full review here: bit.ly/41VvxsX

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 27d

"Bold acts of translation are the lifeblood of Kasia Szymanska’s book, TRANSLATION MULTIPLES: FROM GLOBAL CULTURE TO POSTCOMMUNIST DEMOCRACY."

Check out Jess Jensen Mitchell's review on HS of
@kaszyma.bsky.social's TRANSLATION MULTIPLES here:
hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/09/09/r...

#translation

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sounds fun! Check it out!

Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · Aug 12

Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote.

Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Aug 28

Want reads to finish out Aug. and Women in Translation month? Check out @michellemirabella.bsky.social's review of THE BOOK OF AFFECTS by Marília Arnaud, trans. by Ilze Duarte! Aug. may be at a close but keep opening books by women writers and translators!

hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/08/26/q...

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Aug 14

In "The Visitor Peering over My Shoulder," Jean-Yves Masson reflects on the notion of "hauntology." Originally published in French on Poesibao, www.poesibao.fr, Hopscotch is pleased to present Masson’s essay in English translation.
hopscotchtranslation.com/.../the-visi...

#translation

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 29

New online!

'From the Archive': Daniel Kramb writers on Swiss Francophone poet and translator Philippe Jaccottet, in translations by Alastair Thomson from French

First published in MPT 'Frontiers' (2009)

modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

From the Archive: Philippe Jaccottet translated from French by Alastair Thomson - Modern Poetry in Translation

Daniel Kramb writes on Swiss Francophone poet and translator, Philippe Jaccottet

modernpoetryintranslation.com

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jul 25

New on Hopscotch:
"Re: (Not) Capitulating"

In this follow-up on his recent review of 48 KG, Samuel Martin reflects further on Batool Abu Akleen's poems and on time spent in the archives of the National Library in Scotland.
hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/07/22/r...

#translation #poetry

Library of Congress black and white photograph entitled "Samson's Gate" depicting Old Town Gaza pre-1948 amidst trees.

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · Jul 19

Recent fiction in translation: “Someone to Watch Over You” by Kumi Kimura, “Elephant Herd” by Zhang Guixing, “Old Kiln” by Jia Pingwa asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/translat...

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jul 11

"Batool Abu Akleen writes of amputation and dismemberment, unbearable suffering and sorrow, in order that she, her people, and her land may yet be re-membered with the love, care, and urgency they deserve."

Samuel Martin's review of Batool Abu Akleen’s 48KG:
hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/07/08/2...

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jul 3

"The thought struck me recently that every translated book, too, is a ship of Theseus." - Kit Schluter

This meme got us thinking about Kit Schluter's "Calling the Ship by a Different Name" on Hopscotch!
You can check it out below (no CAPTCHA required)!
hopscotchtranslation.com/2021/05/21/b...

captcha screen depicting a ship. Text reads "Select all squares with the ship of Theseus, if there are none, click skip"

Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jun 27

New on Hopscotch! Michelle Mirabella interviews Emily Hunsberger on her translation of Melanie Márquez Adams’s WONDERLAND: CRÓNICAS OF BELONGING IN AMÉRICA.

Check it out here:
hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/06/24/d...

#translation

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jun 19

Savoring these beautiful poems by Simone Lappert, translated from the German by Fabienne Rink, today!
#translation #poetry #poems #poem

World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · Jun 13

“i want to mossgrapple and poppywallow with you
and dwell without address on the hill. . . .”

From “favorite person,” by Simone Lappert, one of three poems translated by Fabienne Rink, which won the WLT Student Translation Prize—Poetry.

worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/poetry/...

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jun 18

New translations for the reading list!

Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Jun 18

"The novel beautifully captures this moment of artistic awakening." Pirkko Saisio's BACKLIGHT (tr. by Mia Spangenberg) was reviewed on the Asymptote blog! www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/06...

What’s New in Translation: June 2025 - Asymptote Blog

New publications from Iran, Argentina, Spain, Peru, Mexico, Japan, France, Finland, Sweden, China, and Italy!

www.asymptotejournal.com

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jun 17

Have you read Addison Bale's "On Translation, Codification, and Something in Between: Language in the Paintings of Martin Wong" published recently on Hopscotch? Find it here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/03/25/o...
#translation #painting

Images of hands signing the alphabet in ASL.

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jun 10

"What Brings Us to a Halt (PART 2)" is up, and features Taylor's essay, "A Perennial Hereness," a response to Franca Mancinelli's "Flowers and Hell: On Poetry and Authenticity," published in Taylor's translation in Part One on Hopscotch.
hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/06/10/w...

#translation #poetry

A path in the woods with conifers around it.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Jun 5

Happy pub day to The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, edited by WWB contributor @antonialloydjones.bsky.social !

Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · Jun 5

It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jun 5

Looking for a fresh read? Check out Suzana Vuljevic's conversation with Yana Ellis, published recently on Hopscotch, on Ellis' Translation of Zdravka Evtimova’s THE WOLVES OF STARO SELO.

hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/05/13/t...

#translation

brown background with picture of book cover for THE WOLVES OF STARO SELO, depicting an old woman with a bowl.

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · May 30

HS has been home to dialogues on writing and translation between Franca Mancinelli and John Taylor since 2021.

Part 1 of "What Brings Us to a Halt," features Taylor's translation of Mancinelli's "Flowers and Hell: On Poetry and Authenticity."

hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/05/27/w...

#translation

What Brings Us to a Halt (Part 1)

Franca Mancinelli reflects on the simultaneously precarious and regenerative aspects of poetic language, in this latest instalment of a translational dialogue with John Taylor.

hopscotchtranslation.com

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Mar 11

New on Hopscotch, a lovely conversation about the launch of the new ALTA website from Sean Gasper Bye, Sophia Marisa Lucas, and Rachael Daum! @littranslate.bsky.social

Above All, a Community

Sean Gasper Bye, Sophia Marisa Lucas, & Rachael Daum discuss the launch of the new ALTA website and all that it offers for the translation community.

hopscotchtranslation.com

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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · Jan 20

Hopscotch has made the move to Bluesky and Instagram! For our first post, a wonderful review by Elena Schafer: https://buff.ly/40DtoBL
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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