Day 26 of #WorldKidLitMonth:
World Kid Lit Month 2026: Explorer Challenger: 0-6: The Americas:
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World Kid Lit Month 2026: Explorer Challenger: 0-6: The Americas:
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World Kid Lit Month 2026: Explorer Challenger: 0-6: The Americas
Letters in charcoal. Written by Irene Vasco. Illustrated by Juan Palomino. Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel. Lantana, 2...
aotearoaworldofchildrensbooks.blogspot.com
September 28, 2026 at 7:54 PM
MS Word has installed Copilot AI. Here's how to stop it accessing your documents – don't you risk violating your NDAs!
#xl8
#xl8
sorry I mistyped this nightmare path: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences
November 8, 2024 at 7:08 AM
MS Word has installed Copilot AI. Here's how to stop it accessing your documents – don't you risk violating your NDAs!
#xl8
#xl8
Author/filmmaker René Araneda & translator @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social share their fabulous nonfiction picture book - Puma Concolor: In Search of Patagonia’s Wild Pumas. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... @ebyrbooks.bsky.social #kidlit #interview #puma #STEAM #southamerica 📚👍
September 30, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Hi, Bluesky! We're a brand-new small press publishing literature from around the world. We are very much open for submissions and would love to hear from both translators and writers. Come on down! diptychpress.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:23 PM
“Translated fiction becoming more popular in recent years has not necessarily led to a greater appreciation for the work of translators, or much consideration of the act of #translation itself”
Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom
Co-organised by translator Polly Barton, Translated By, Bristol will feature conversations between writers and their translators, plus a ‘translation duel’
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"In recent years, East Asian authors have begun to break the stranglehold that European writers have previously exerted over translated literature... Strikingly, however, Chinese authors have mostly been absent from this cultural conversation."
www.jezebel.com/women-seated...
www.jezebel.com/women-seated...
‘Women, Seated’ Shows How Precarity, Wealth, and ‘Having It All’ Are Not Just American Problems
Zhang Yueran’s new novel is part of a wave of Asian authors breaking the dominance of Europe in translated literature in the U.S., while dissecting gender and class in their respective societies.
www.jezebel.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
How nice she highlights my translation of LA BASTARDA by Trifonia Melibea Obono! 🥰🥰
#booksky #womenintranslation #xl8
#booksky #womenintranslation #xl8
Give a warm welcome to our Finance and Operations Manager, Alicia Lim! Alicia brings to WWB over a decade of experience across publishing and arts organizations. Read about her path to WWB, love for translated horror and visual art, and much more, here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
September 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
How nice she highlights my translation of LA BASTARDA by Trifonia Melibea Obono! 🥰🥰
#booksky #womenintranslation #xl8
#booksky #womenintranslation #xl8
This is the kind of thing that makes me extremely happy
July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Commentary: AI translation of literature should be questioned because literary translation requires human interpretation and cultural understanding that machines cannot provide.
Lost in AI translation: What’s at stake? Our humanity.
Literary translation is one of humanity's most crucial tasks — one that should never be left to the machines.
ebx.sh
March 21, 2026 at 12:50 PM
To herald the tenth annual #WorldKidLitMonth in Sept 2026, @worldkidlit.bsky.social has posted a Bluesky starter pack. Check it out! 👇 bsky.app/starter-pack...
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Translators after working nights & weekends to meet a deadline, researching history and culture to elevate the source text in the target language, pouring all their creativity and energy into a project...
And realizing their name isn't in the game's credits. #TranslatorsintheCredits
And realizing their name isn't in the game's credits. #TranslatorsintheCredits
May 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
September 28, 2026 at 1:02 PM
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
The Culture of Neural Networks: Synthetic Literature and Art in (not only) the Czech and Slovak Context, by Karel Piorecký and Zuzana Husárová
The Culture of Neural Networks: Synthetic Literature and Art in (not only) the Czech and Slovak Context, by Karel Piorecký and Zuzana Husárová
July 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Extremely funny that the reaction of so many people to hearing that I’m a Japanese interpreter is “You can speak Japanese?!” As it turns out, yes. Yes, I can. You might even say it's literally my job.
September 30, 2026 at 6:41 AM
“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.
July 30, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Excited to read La Bastarda (the first novel by a woman from Equitorial Guinea to be translated into English!) for this gay little book club I joined
Gonna read so many gay little books
Gonna read so many gay little books
August 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
translatedhugo.org
translatedhugo.org
The Translated Hugo Initiative
Putting the World in Worldcon
translatedhugo.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🤣🤣
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"Translators are like wine, they need time to be good and the cheap ones just give headaches."
#xl8
"Translators are like wine, they need time to be good and the cheap ones just give headaches."
«Los traductores son como el vino, necesitan tiempo para ser buenos y los baratos solo dan dolor de cabeza».
(No sé quién lo dijo, pero qué verdad).
(No sé quién lo dijo, pero qué verdad).
April 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🤣🤣
#xl8
"Translators are like wine, they need time to be good and the cheap ones just give headaches."
#xl8
"Translators are like wine, they need time to be good and the cheap ones just give headaches."
Okay maybe this is too hot a take for 5:30pm on a Saturday but I think meme accounts that don’t give any attribution paved the way for people to accept AI words and imagery because it separated culture and entertainment from the idea that someone had to have those thoughts and compose them.
July 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Starred review in PW for Downpour by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata (tr. me) 🥳https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781636551142
Downpour: Splish! Splash! Ker-Splash! by Yuko Ohnari
Making their English-language debut, married duo Ohnari and Hata tell the story of a young person’s encounter with a summer rain...
www.publishersweekly.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Early-career literary translators, here is a grant for you! You could apply for it and get some help bringing a precious translation baby into this world!
Words Without Borders Announces Third Annual Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders
This grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace.
wordswithoutborders.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
