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Christina Ng

@ngchristina.bsky.social

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I dream poems, write translations, fantasize lands. Share with me your book, food, film, rainbow recommendations & I'll tell you mine. 华语也可以。 Website: https://www.christinangch.com

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Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · 2d

If a superman could fly...
Then please let me pause and linger in the air
So I could behold the world from above again
So I could feel
a little bit more myself

Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · 2d

If you sing, you have to bag the Best Male Singer Award
If you make a movie you can't just get a Best Newcomer
If you don't go to the awards ceremony you're rude
If you go, it's a big deal for you

Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · 2d

What's the King of Mandopop doing these days 🤔 Is he still flying...Felt the urge to translate the 2 verses below on hearing this song he wrote in 2010.

Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · 2d

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周杰倫 Jay Chou【超人不會飛 Superman Can't Fly】Official MV

YouTube video by 周杰倫 Jay Chou

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

We at ALTA are excited to announce the 2025 ALTA Travel Fellows! buff.ly/4FBPAIE

📚 Catherine Xinxin Yu, 2025 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Chinese, Italian)
📚 Elete Nelson-Fearon (Arabic, Spanish)
📚 Mariana Ortigão (European Portuguese, Spanish)
📚 Marianna Suleymanova (Russian)

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · Jul 3

come hang out if you're in boston next thursday

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Transnational Series: Jeremy Tiang with Dorothy Tse

The Transnational Series hosts Jeremy Tiang to discuss and celebrate the release of State of Emergency with writer Dorothy Tse.

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Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · Jul 1

Come hang out with us! I'll be reading my own poems, loosely abt cultural & generational trauma, translated into German by Joey Bahlsen. Mui will read her translation from The Sad Part Was, a short story collection by Prabda Yoon, and Dasom her translation of a travel memoir. Hope to see you there!

Berliner Literarische Aktion @berlitak.bsky.social · Jun 28

Berliner Literatur entsteht auch auf Koreanisch, Thai, Chinesisch, Malaiisch = wer schreibt, wer liest, wer übersetzt sie? Unser Gäste sind Autorinnen, Übersetzerinnen & Literaturvermittlerinnen - höchste Zeit, ihre Arbeit näher kennenzulernen! >> stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...

Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm going to be working at the Literarische Colloquium Berlin in Wannsee from July to December 2025. Many thanks to @lcb.de for the workspace to dream and delve into my literary translation and writing work. Herzlichen Dank. lcb.de/foerderung/a...

Atelier LCB

Ab Juli 2025 kostenfrei nutzbare Arbeitsräume für Autor·innen, Übersetzer·innen und Comic-Künstler·innen mit Lebensmittelpunkt in Berlin und Brandenburg im sanierten Ateliergebäude. Bewerbungsfrist: 2...

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Mar 28

“This is, more than anything, a plea for principled leftists to rise en masse and not just decry but disrupt a nation helmed by gleeful genocideers.” Thank you @kavehakbar.bsky.social @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

What Will You Do?

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

www.thenation.com

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Feb 7

I'm not teaching a lot this year and this is the only online thing I am scheduled to teach for 2025 (will possibly do three more—one for each season—depending on circumstances).

Sign-up link: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/man...

FEBRUARY 23 (SUNDAY)
7-9PM EST
Manuscript Therapy
ANTON HUR

JOIN WRITER AND TRANSLATOR ANTON HUR
FOR A SMALL-GROUP
WORKSHOP WHERE
PARTICIPANTS WILL GIVE AND RECEIVE FEEDBACK ON A FICTION OR TRANSLATION MANUSCRIPT OF UP TO 1500
WORDS.

THIS WORKSHOP WILL TAKE THE FORM OF A MASTERCLASS
WHERE THE
AUTHOR TRANSLATOR OF THE MANUSCRIPT BEING WORKSHOPPED IS IN CONVERSATION WITH THE WORKSHOP LEADER AND THE OTHER AUTHOR/TRANSLATORS
LISTENING IN.

PARTICIPATION WILL BE CAPPED AT 6, AND
REGISTRATION FEE WILL BE SET AT $100/PERSON.
ADDITIONAL
MASTERCLASSES WILL FOLLOW IF INTEREST EXCEEDS THIS CAP.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Feb 4

...Anna Lidia Vega Serova, @mverunschk.bsky.social, Sophie Lewis, Dan Ying , @ngchristina.bsky.social, Geetanjali Shree, and @shreedaisy.bsky.social! We're so excited for each and every one of you!

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Feb 4

Congratulations to all of the #PENTranslates awardees, among them the WWB-ers Natasha Wimmer, Helen Stevenson, Ellen Elias-Bursać, Karim Kattan, @jmz.bsky.social, Sean Gasper Bye,
Stefan Tobler, Krisztina Tóth, George Szirtes...🧵

English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · Feb 4

We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland.

Discover the winners ⬇️
www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

PEN Translates winners announced - English PEN

www.englishpen.org

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · Jan 31

NWU is a Sanctuary Union

National Writers Union @nwu.org · Jan 30

ICE raids on immigrant workers & their communities have already begun. While these attacks hit immigrant workers first & hardest, they are aimed at all workers. NWU has joined the growing list of Sanctuary Unions that stand with all workers and communities being targeted now & in the coming months.

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Nov 27

Join us to listen to poems from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and to consider the work of translation, publishing, and community at this time of profound global grief and steadfast solidarity.

Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...

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Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · Jan 20

Haha literally yes, semantically no. Wouldn't think of the penguins as business-like in Mandarin

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Christina Ng @ngchristina.bsky.social · Dec 10