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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 22h

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 22h

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.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm

www.theguardian.com

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 22h

🎉 Wonderful news! Huge congratulations to László Krasznahorkai - whose book SPADEWORK FOR A PALACE, translated by John Batki, was shortlisted for the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose! - on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature! 🥳🎊 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

www.nobelprize.org

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CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 2d

📢📢📢 CfP for a special issue in @transpaces.bsky.social (2027) on the topic of Translator Norms, co-edited by our very own Anna Strowe, Richard Mansell & Helle V. Dam.

Abstracts due 24 Nov; notification of successful proposals by 15 Dec; articles due 30 May 2026.

More details: t.co/gVJ29PBTDm

https://benjamins.com/series/ts/callforpapers.pdf

t.co

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 2d

Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format.

The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

@princetonupress.bsky.social

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Kate Holland @fyodor76.bsky.social · 8d

We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Slavic Comparativist

jobs.utoronto.ca

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 9d

📣 Translators! Don't miss your chance - VSC's open call will offer 2, 3, and 4-week residencies in 2026, and ✨translators are eligible for them.✨

Get in your application by the end of the day today! 👇

Vermont Studio Center @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social · 12d

Autumn is arriving on campus! 🍁 🍂 Applications are open for Summer & Fall 2026 residencies at VSC. Join us on campus next year! Apply until September 30th at buff.ly/pYktysz

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay whose book, Required Reading, was named the Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the @yalemacmillan.bsky.social!

Learn more about this fascinating book here: hubs.ly/Q03LqQ500

Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire by Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations! But then... who else but you?

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Anna Lanfranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social · 11d

Looking forward to taking part! 13 November 2025 at @officialuom.bsky.social

CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 17d

13 November: Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social, Anna Lafranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social @warwicktranslation.bsky.social & Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social CTIS

A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research
zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CTIS Research Seminar 2: A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...

Speakers: Delphine Grass, Lancaster University, Anna Lafranchi, University of Warwick, and Kasia Szymanska, University of Manchester

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 9d

Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...

Home - lifewritingtranslation - UNIGE

www.unige.ch

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 9d

Here is an #InternationalTranslationDay #shelfie of most of the 200+ books I've translated (the top 4 shelves), plus some anthologies containing works I've translated, and then some magazines likewise containing works I've translated.

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#booksky #xl8

A photo of three IKEA Billy bookcases crammed with books and magazines. (With a few decorative bits and bobs as well, separating sections.)

The bookcase in the middle are all works I've translated.

The other bookcases are, to the left, books written by me or anthologies edited by me, and to the right, anthologies containing work by me.

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 10d

Happy International Translation Day!

Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.

(Written out in replies)

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CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 9d

Happy International Translation Day, everyone! Best time to save the dates for our CTIS research seminars in the upcoming months.

CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 17d

Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 9d

This workshop w/@kaszyma.bsky.social asks how can we use languages to effect change? What's the difference between translation as activism & translation as art? & much more...

🗓️20 Oct Manchester Poetry Library, M15 6BG

🎟️FREE places for MMU & UoM Students

🔗 englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/057fe075

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European Society of Comparative Literature ESCL/SELC @eurocomplit.bsky.social · Apr 13

Call for the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026. It adresses edited books published between July 2023 and July 2025.
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2025.
@eurocomplit.bsky.social
Find more at:
escl-selc.eu/excellence-a...

EXCELLENCE AWARD

The ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research has been awarded since 2021 for an outstanding edited volume that makes an original contribution to the field of comparative literature. The awa…

escl-selc.eu

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 17d

There were at least 400 translations of E. M. Forster's works - books and collections of short stories - between the Swedish translation of A Passage to India in 1925 and the Ukrainian translation of A Room with a View in 2025. More details in my book which has just been sent to the publisher.

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CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 17d

Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.

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CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 17d

13 November: Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social, Anna Lafranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social @warwicktranslation.bsky.social & Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social CTIS

A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research
zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CTIS Research Seminar 2: A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...

Speakers: Delphine Grass, Lancaster University, Anna Lafranchi, University of Warwick, and Kasia Szymanska, University of Manchester

zoom.us

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 24d

As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb!

3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom

£120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words

📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 27d

Tickets for the Dear Diaspora book launch, trilingual reading and fundraiser for Palestine are for sale here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 28d

Looks brilliant, congrats!

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Piero Toto @pierototo.bsky.social · 28d

✨COVER REVEAL✨

My 1st co-edited multilingual poetry magazine, coming soon…

www.instagram.com/atelier.intl...

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Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 28d

Brilliant, thought-provoking essay by my colleague @uilleamblacker.bsky.social - as a russianist who fully accepts that I have contributed this problem, I’d welcome the sort of institutional change Uilleam argues for here, and am trying to work towards that. www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

Russia is not the sea

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today not only in Russia's attitude towards its neighbourhood, but also in the way eastern ...

www.eurozine.com

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

"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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