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Esther Karin Mngodo @koimolove.bsky.social · 12d

Ni mwaka wa vitabu 🥳🎉
Karibuni.

Esther Karin Mngodo @koimolove.bsky.social · 29d

Happy to finally hold my copy!
"Without Sun" translated from Swahili to English by Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social is now out! Get your copy! @hopkinsreview.bsky.social 🥳

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Esther Karin Mngodo @koimolove.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ahsante Jay
Always a delight working with you, my friend. 🥳🎉

Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to share my latest translation, "Without Sun," by the inimitable Esther Karin Mngodo (@koimolove.bsky.social), out now in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social. Read it for free: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... Purchase the print edition, w/ cover art by John Waters (!): hopkinsreview.com/shop/p/volum...

Swahili-English translator Jay Boss Rubin (left) and author Esther Karin Mngodo (right).

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The Hopkins Review @hopkinsreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

And subscribe to The Hopkins Review for @jaybossrubin.bsky.social’s translation of @koimolove.bsky.social’s speculative fiction, forthcoming later this summer in THR 18.3!

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Shop — The Hopkins Review

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The Hopkins Review @hopkinsreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

Happy pub day to @jaybossrubin.bsky.social, whose translation of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s ROSE MISTIKA is out today from @yalepress.bsky.social!

Read a chapter of this “controversial Swahili classic” in The Hopkins Review 16.2 on @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social, then get the book!

Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · Jun 16

My English translation of the Swahili novel ROSA MISTIKA, by Euphrase Kezilahabi, comes out tomorrow. Here's a Q+A about the book, its banning, genre + more with the fine folks at @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/06/16/r...

Realism and Rosa Mistika: A Conversation with Jay Boss Rubin - Yale University Press

Rosa Mistika is a Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, Euphrase Kezilahabi. It was banned upon publication in 1971 and translated into English by Jay Boss Rubin... READ MORE

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Esther Karin Mngodo @koimolove.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations Jay 🎉🥳

Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · Jun 17

It's pub day for Rosa Mistika—and here is a lengthy interview about the novel (and much else!) with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/17/t...

The Translator’s Voice — Jay Boss Rubin on Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s “Rosa Mistika” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · May 25

New review: Euphrase Kezilahabi's 1971 novel 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑘𝑎, now coming out in English translation (in The Margellos World Republic of Letters-series) www.complete-review.com/reviews/swah...

Rosa Mistika - Euphrase Kezilahabi

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Rosa Mistika by Euphrase Kezilahabi.

www.complete-review.com

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Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · May 27

"Aiskrimu"—a short story by Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by me, published today in @kalaharireview.bsky.social

The Kalahari Review @kalaharireview.bsky.social · May 27

Aiskrimu
A short story about the agony and the ecstasy of eating ice cream — from Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin

Aiskrimu

A short story about the agony and the ecstasy of eating ice cream — from Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · Apr 18

+ ARC of Euphrase Kezilahabi's 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑘𝑎 ( @yalepress.bsky.social 6/2025; tr. @jaybossrubin.bsky.social ) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... Translations from African languages still all too rare, but w/ this + @ugapress.bsky.social series ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/u... things looking up.

Rosa Mistika

A controversial Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, banned on publication and finally translated into English Teenage Rosa lives ...

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Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · Apr 17

Enormous congratulations to @makafanentlamelle.bsky.social for this brilliant translation from Sesotho / dramatic English-language retelling, in which THE BLIND MAN says to THE LAME MAN, proposing that they work together, "you can be my eyes and I your feet." www.asymptotejournal.com/drama/azarie...

The Blind Man, The Lame Man and the Antelope - Asymptote

LIST OF CHARACTERSTHE CHIEFTHE LAME MANTHE BLIND MANTHE BLIND MAN’S FATHERSouthern Africa, in the turbulent years of the Lifaqane (be

www.asymptotejournal.com

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · Mar 28

"Much more remarkable than conventional success, Gurnah suggests, are kindness, humility and the ability to endure."

@jaybossrubin.bsky.social shares his thoughts on THEFT, the new novel from Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, in the latest edition of "What We're Reading".

What We’re Reading: March 2025

JAY BOSS RUBIN <br> To be denied the ability to determine one’s fate and fulfill one’s potential is sometimes a societal theft, sometimes an imperial one, sometimes both. But ambition that holds no…

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Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · Jan 11

On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast we explore connections and disconnections with Esther Karin Mngodo and the translator @jaybossrubin.bsky.social

www.fictionable.world/podcasts/han...

#ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast #books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #comics #translation

A portrait of the writer Esther Karin Mngodo, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'I keep wanting to write the stories I do not see'

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Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · Dec 12

Maggie is looking for a partner in Esther Karin Mngodo's story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin. But will her love life ignite?

Swipe right at www.fictionable.world/stories/firs...

Image: Paul Kehrer

#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #comics #translation #podcast

A light shines on an empty chair, with a quote from Esther Karin Mngodo's short story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin: 'If I want an interrogation, I can go to the police…'

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Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · Nov 20

Maggie is looking for a partner in Esther Karin Mngodo's story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin. But will her love life ignite?

Swipe right at www.fictionable.world/stories/firs...

Image: Yaoqi

#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #comics #translation #podcast

A match burns against a dark background, with a quote from Esther Karin Mngodo's short story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin: 'Ndiyo… like a matchstick…'

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udadisi.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Tuzo za uandishi bunifu; mcheza kwao hutuzwa?

Majaji wamekwishachuja miswada bora na kuwasilisha orodha teule ya maandishi bunifu katika nyanja za riwaya, ushairi, tamthiliya na hadithi za watoto.

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Esther Karin Mngodo @koimolove.bsky.social · Jun 2

Hello Bluesky
What's good? 🌺

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