Jen Calleja

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Kind of tickled that my interviews with @AntonHur and @niewview were the second, and third most read in @asymptotejrnl in 2025! Here's to a 2026 of more fun conversations - thank you to everyone who took the time to chat with me! asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12/3…

@asymptotejrnl Amazing, thank you again Asymptote!

Our countdown continues! Coming in at #3: Our interview with Jen Calleja on why literary translation is more than just language: “Translation is this human-to-human thing—someone’s telling me a story, and I’m going to have to retell it.” tinyurl.com/2n6yn7kj TopTen2025

@GoreLloyd I really appreciate it, fangirl away!!

@liamhbishop 🙏

FAIR by Jen Calleja - really excellent

@GoreLloyd That’s so wonderful to hear, may all your Christmas wishes come true!!

@GoreLloyd Thank you so much for reading Emma!

“I see translation [...] as a human collaboration. Someone’s telling me a story. I’m going to have to retell it.” A highlight of our brand-new Fall issue, don’t miss our interview with Jen Calleja—on translator rights, AI, and the power of collaboration: tinyurl.com/yy2wjxaf

‘On the wall in my grandmother’s kitchen there is a mortadella-coloured rotary telephone. It rings.’ 💅 Favorita proofs are in 💅 Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy, this wild novel from Michelle Steinbeck, translated by Jen Calleja, is out 12 February.

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

@GoreLloyd Thank you Emma, glad to hear it!

@BookswapD See you there!

@niewview Brilliant book! Absolutely loved it. Really looking forward to hearing you talk about it at Book Club at Collected Books, Durham, on 8th October 😆

Want to know more about the magical world of #Translating & #Translators? Read Fair by Jen Calleja.Startlingly well written in a playful form that grabs & maintains attention& has a fresh,original style that's entertaining, interesting, informative, witty, considered & forthright

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

@AlexClark3 @niewview @prototypepubs I'm currently reading the copy of "Fair" that I bought at @edbookfest, and my blood is boiling at the unfairness of it all, not only what @niewview recounts about her own journey as a literary #translator, but also the parts of it that apply to my work as a commercial translator

"#Translators are [...] required to [...] sign up to the idea that invisibility is hard-wired into their value, and that a truly great translation is the one that the reader fails to notice" @AlexClark3 reviews @niewview's "Fair" (pub. by @prototypepubs) theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

@Smart_Translate @AlexClark3 @prototypepubs @edbookfest Thank you for reading Catharine!