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Now available! THE CROSSING OF THE BOARS is a stylistic masterpiece, a dazzling mix of ecological fantasy and labyrinthine mystery. buff.ly/TdFDvOe #TranslationMonth #FictionAndLiterature @littranslate.bsky.social
September 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Happy National Translation Month! SWWIM Every Day is seeking translations! Please see our Submittable for guidelines.

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #Inclusive #Translations #WorldPoetry #TranslationMonth
September 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and save! These books from Sundial House bring the voices of writers and translators from Latin America and the Iberian world to English-language readers. buff.ly/jFddErv @littranslate.bsky.social
#HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinAmericanLiterature #TranslationMonth
September 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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Arabic, between Love and War
edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2 Poetry | Translation | Arabic   trace: translating [x] series In Arabic, the word for love حب  is one letter shorter than the word f...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
river in an ocean: essays on translation ISBN 978-1-1775 2567-4-8 (paperback) Translation | Feminism | Decolonial | Transnational What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in ...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Some responses to US event, from Trinidad to Uganda, shows how far & deep US evangelical networks run.

Time to re-read Iryn Tushabe’s brilliant memoir-essay “Saved” on colonialism, religion & language in Uganda in #riverinanocean
(essays on translation)

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September 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
As #WomenInTranslationMonth comes to an end (& #TranslationMonth begins… revisiting World Literature Today’s review of #riverinanocean our feminist decolonial collection of essays on translation
River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
Trace Press. 2023. 223 pages.
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August 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Now available! This book presents Foucault’s unpublished manuscript on Binswanger and existential analysis for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development. buff.ly/AI7UdbE #Philosophy #TranslationMonth
September 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Great books deserve a second life! This September, discover global literature and the translators who open the world to English readers. ✨ #ReadTheWorld #TranslationMatters #TranslationMonth
National Translation Month | Columbia University Press
Thirteen years ago, author and journalist Loren Kleinman and poet and translator Claudia Serea founded National Translation Month. Understanding language as an essential instrument for expressing the...
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September 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Grateful to National Translation Month for featuring my translation of Akram Aylisli's "People and Trees" in today's Substack post. Aylisli is Azerbaijan's most important contemporary writer; his books were burned in Azerbaijan in 2013. nationaltranslationmonth.substack.com/p/the-tale-o...
Excerpt From "The Tale of the Silver Tweezers" by Akram Aylisli, Translated by Katherine E. Young
This passage from "The Tale of the Silver Tweezers" ends the 3 novellas of Akram Aylisli's best-known work, "People and Trees" (Plamen Press, 2024), translated by Katherine E. Young. #TranslationMonth
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September 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I can't let #translationmonth go by without mentioning the incredible resources and talks on Globus Books' youtube channel.
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December 4, 2024 at 9:17 AM
September 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
NO EDGES: SWAHILI STORIES (@twolinespress.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list!

These eight stories from East African writers feature “tales of sorcerers, Nairobi junkyards, cross-country bus rides, and spaceships that blast prisoners into eternity”: bookshop.org/p/books/no-e...
No Edges: Swahili Stories
Swahili Stories
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September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Lucas Rijneveld’s MY HEAVENLY FAVORITE—translated by Michele Hutchison—is “an unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms.”

@graywolfpress.bsky.social fiction from our #TranslationMonth reading list: www.graywolfpress.org/books/my-hea...
My Heavenly Favorite | Graywolf Press
A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Read José Eduardo Agualusa’s THE LIVING AND THE REST (trans. by Daniel Hahn)!

In this novel, “writers from across Africa descend on the Isle of Mozambique to participate in the island’s first literary festival.” @archipelagobooks.bsky.social #TranslationMonth archipelagobooks.org/book/the-liv...
The Living and the Rest - Archipelago Books
One writer looks out the window at a sea that seems to hang like a crooked picture on the horizon. Another wakes from sleep with lines running through her head, reaching for a small red notebook with…
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September 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In SLEEP PHASE, Mohamed Kheir “uses his characters’ ever-shifting perception of their surroundings to probe the truths around globalization and its consequences.”

A @twolinespress.bsky.social novel (transl. by Robin Moger) from our #TranslationMonth list: www.catranslation.org/shop/book/sl...
SLEEP PHASE
Mohamed Kheir
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September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Order THE MANAGUA TRILOGY from McPherson & Company this #TranslationMonth!

These novels—translated by Leland H. Chambers and Daryl R. Hague—“use a gritty ‘noir’ form to embody the post-revolutionary history of Nicaragua in the colorful lives of ordinary people.” www.mcphersonco.com/store/p212/T...
The Managua Trilogy
McPherson & Company is an independent book publisher focused on contemporary literature and culture.
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September 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Preorder Edy Poppy’s COMING. APART. this #TranslationMonth!

The stories in this debut collection from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social (translated by May-Brit Akerholt) “explore moments of labyrinthine intimacy with a cold intensity that proves impossible to forget.” dalkeyarchive.store/products/com...
Coming. Apart.
By Edy Poppy, tr. May-Brit Akerholt. Icy, intricate, and unflinching, Edy Poppy’s Coming. Apart. captures the zeniths and nadirs of the human experience.
dalkeyarchive.store
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In MOTHERHOOD AND ITS GHOSTS, Iman Mersal “privileg­es questions over answers, drifting over arriving, allowing a form of motherhood to exist in these pages unbounded.”

@transitbooks.bsky.social nonfiction (trans. by Robin Moger) from our #TranslationMonth list: www.transitbooks.org/books/mother...
Transit Books — Motherhood and Its Ghosts
Iman Mersal Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger. Iman Mersal has only one photograph of her mother, who died giving birth at age twenty-seven. But the woman portrayed in it strikes her as…
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September 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Night is falling in Santa Clara, and at 6:50, Yasmany decides it’s time to work.”

Read Abraham Jiménez Enoa’s essay “Luck’s Children”—translated by Lily Meyer—in @wwborders.bsky.social as #TranslationMonth comes to a close: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Luck's Children by Abraham Jiménez Enoa - Words Without Borders
Cuban writer Abraham Jiménez Enoa draws us into the underground network that runs La Bolita, Cuba’s wildy popular—and illegal—daily lottery.
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September 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
THE MARATHON POET (@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list!

Åke Hodell’s poems, translated from the Swedish by Fia Backström, “unmask and satirize oppression’s many guises.” Order it here: uglyducklingpresse.org/product/the-...
The Marathon Poet - Ugly Duckling Presse
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September 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Stênio Gardel’s THE WORDS THAT REMAIN “reminds its readers of an uncomfortable truth: that even a life of regret can be a beautiful one.” —Patrick Nathan

A @newvesselpress.bsky.social novel (transl. by Bruna Dantas Lobato) from our #TranslationMonth reading list: newvesselpress.com/books/the-wo...
The Words That Remain
Exploring Brazil’s little-known hinterland as well its urban haunts, this is a sweeping novel of repression, violence, and shame, along with their flip side: survival, endurance, and the ultimate…
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September 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Dear Fada, I know you’re busy submitting Ouzegane’s latest book ... but I really need your help.”

Read Clelia Farris's story “Es and Is,” translated by Rachel Cordasco in @worldlittoday.bsky.social #TranslationMonth worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Es and Is, by Clelia Farris
A writer faces a surprising request: to write a negative review.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM