Jackie Smith
@jackietransl8.bsky.social
Award-winning literary translator, Europhile, mum to two big kids and one cute cat, into alt-rock music & gigs, books & language, and protecting our planet
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Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
So true
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.
Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So true
Go, chicks, go!
Our osprey chicks Darach and Breac have been testing their wings with lots of flapping and helicoptering in the last few days. They may take their first proper flights any time!
Who will go first?
Watch them live here.👉 buff.ly/VKOC3h2
#ArkaigOspreys #LochArkaig #ospreycam
Who will go first?
Watch them live here.👉 buff.ly/VKOC3h2
#ArkaigOspreys #LochArkaig #ospreycam
July 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Go, chicks, go!
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(Machine?) translation gone wrong: the Dutch version on the Jane Austen Centre's website says that Jane Austen's time in the bath shaped her literary work and her understanding of human nature. 🛀
Jane Austen would turn in her bath tub, I mean, grave if she could read this...
Jane Austen would turn in her bath tub, I mean, grave if she could read this...
April 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
(Machine?) translation gone wrong: the Dutch version on the Jane Austen Centre's website says that Jane Austen's time in the bath shaped her literary work and her understanding of human nature. 🛀
Jane Austen would turn in her bath tub, I mean, grave if she could read this...
Jane Austen would turn in her bath tub, I mean, grave if she could read this...
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Renowned Austrian author Eva #Menasse will be in the UK to discuss her work, in particular her most recent novel DARKENBLOOM, at events in Cambridge (21 March,
@caiuscollege.bsky.social) and Brighton (24 March,
@brightonuni.bsky.social). Please come!
Registration links in thread below.
💙📚 #booksky
@caiuscollege.bsky.social) and Brighton (24 March,
@brightonuni.bsky.social). Please come!
Registration links in thread below.
💙📚 #booksky
March 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Renowned Austrian author Eva #Menasse will be in the UK to discuss her work, in particular her most recent novel DARKENBLOOM, at events in Cambridge (21 March,
@caiuscollege.bsky.social) and Brighton (24 March,
@brightonuni.bsky.social). Please come!
Registration links in thread below.
💙📚 #booksky
@caiuscollege.bsky.social) and Brighton (24 March,
@brightonuni.bsky.social). Please come!
Registration links in thread below.
💙📚 #booksky
BBC News - St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'm really happy about this! Looking forward to lots of low-carbon European adventures
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'm really happy about this! Looking forward to lots of low-carbon European adventures
St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany
The London station's owner and Eurotunnel hope to expand routes to Cologne, Frankfurt and Switzerland.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
BBC News - St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'm really happy about this! Looking forward to lots of low-carbon European adventures
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'm really happy about this! Looking forward to lots of low-carbon European adventures
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Join us at London Book Fair for 'Burning Bridges? Reconsidering Collaborative Translation', a roundtable discussion with Jen Calleja, Daniel Hahn, and Alice Guthrie, chaired by PTC director Nariman Youssef.
www.poetrytranslation.org/event/burnin...
www.poetrytranslation.org/event/burnin...
February 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Join us at London Book Fair for 'Burning Bridges? Reconsidering Collaborative Translation', a roundtable discussion with Jen Calleja, Daniel Hahn, and Alice Guthrie, chaired by PTC director Nariman Youssef.
www.poetrytranslation.org/event/burnin...
www.poetrytranslation.org/event/burnin...
Congratulations to translator Andrew Shanks, winner of this year's Schlegel-Tieck Prize!
Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German language works.
Andrew Shanks for Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poetry by Nelly Sachs (@carcanet.bsky.social)
#TranslationPrizes
Andrew Shanks for Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poetry by Nelly Sachs (@carcanet.bsky.social)
#TranslationPrizes
February 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Congratulations to translator Andrew Shanks, winner of this year's Schlegel-Tieck Prize!