Sunday Submissions: Emerging Translator Mentorships 2018-19
They clarify that emerging means “a translator who has not yet published a literary text. Applicants with commercial translation experience are encouraged.”
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Translate This! Khadija Marouazi’s ‘Biography of Ash’
“There, where my body seemed to lay a great distance from me, I put my hand on my leg, on my fingers, and I couldn’t tell they were mine. My thighs. My legs. My waist. Everything was dry and withered.”
Friday Finds: An Excerpt of ‘Cigarette Number 7’
I didn’t talk much, but I absorbed every detail around me: every grain of rice on the red tray on Grandma’s lap, every word in the song coming out of the radio— “the evening sauntered toward us, then harked to the love in our eyes”—and every line on Grandpa’s serene face as he listened.
Iraqi Author Maysaloon Hadi: ‘The Number of Readers Has Increased’
“In the last few years, a change has happened, because of social media channels. These channels have helped to build up the relationship between the reader and the writer through the increase in the number of book clubs on social media and online book sales and delivery and connecting with authors online.”
8 Books for Young Readers: Arab Women’s KidLit in Translation
For Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), eight books for younger readers, written by women and translated to English, for readers in utero and up.
Beirut’s Feminist Library Picks 5 #WiTMonth Reads
“Where else in Lebanon can you find comic books, including feminist comics, books on feminist theories and scholarship, literature, memoirs, and children’s books?”
Safia Ketou: The First Algerian Sci-fi Novelist of Post-independence Algeria
For Women in Translation Month, our Algeria editor writes about one of her favorite discoveries, whose La Planète Mauve et Autres Nouvelles should certainly be brought into English By Nadia Ghanem In six […]
Sunday Submissions: A New Press for Poetry in Translation
Their first two titles are scheduled for release in 2019, and are Camouflage by Lupe Gómez, translated from Galician by Erín Moure, and Tell Me, Kenyalang, selected poems of Kulleh Grasi, translated from Malay and Iban by Pauline Fan.
Translate This! 21 Women You Want to Read in English
For Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), we have assembled 21 women from 12 countries who have no book-length work in English, where, if they did, it would improve your day.