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Writing as Identity: Banine's "Parisian Days," Translated from French by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova readingintranslation.com/2025/10/06/ban… via @ReadingInTrans

Harrison Betz compares the English and the Italian translations of Banana Yoshimoto's KITCHEN. readingintranslation.com/2025/09/29/on-…

SHE WHO TRANSLATES: an interview with translator and writer @izidora about her translation from Bulgarian of Rene Karabash's novel SHE WHO REMAINS. 🇧🇬@SandorfP @PeirenePress readingintranslation.com/2025/09/22/int…

A superb Bulgarian novel finds its equally superb translator in English: Angela Rodel. Vera Mutafchieva's THE CASE OF CEM reviewed in @turkoslaviaco. turkoslavia.com/post/vera-muta…

Searls invokes Shklovsky’s doctrine of defamiliarization, reminding us that art should refresh our perception of ordinary things. So how do translators refresh our perceptions? Brian O'Keeffe on THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRANSLATION by Damion Searls. @yalepress readingintranslation.com/2025/06/09/the…

On fidelity, agency, and accessibility in translating poetry. Translator and scholar Robyn Creswell in conversation with Anna Levett. readingintranslation.com/2025/06/02/ann…

Where We Begin: Alba De Céspedes' "There’s No Turning Back," Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein readingintranslation.com/2025/05/05/dec… via @ReadingInTrans

🥳Massive congratulations to Oonagh Stransky for her translation of Abandonment by Erminia Dell'Oro🥳 Oonagh pitched this beautiful novel to us, and we wish to reiterate our gratitute for giving us the chance to publish it❤️

"Goldstein is a linguistic alchemist" @apmartino reviews Ann Goldstein's translation of Alba De Céspedes' THERE'S NO TURNING BACK. readingintranslation.com/2025/05/05/dec…

"Arnaud's writing is exquisite and utterly gripping, brought to visceral life in English in Duarte’s sure-handed translation." Alison Entrekin on Marília Arnaud's THE BOOK OF AFFECTS, translated by Ilze Duarte. readingintranslation.com/2025/03/10/mar…

The Tokyo Suite, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, explores gender roles in marriage and caregiving, the demands and complexities of motherhood, the contradictions of life in the big city, and the inequities inherent in capitalism. @EuropaEditions readingintranslation.com/2025/03/03/gio…

The curious case of Al-Khubz Al-hafi: Written in Arabic, it was translated and published in English by Paul Bowles in 1973. Seven years later, it was translated in French by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Arabic text was published in 1982 and banned until 2000. readingintranslation.com/2025/02/24/moh…

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Schablonen: Fatma Aydemir's "Djinns," Translated from German by Jon Cho-Polizzi readingintranslation.com/2025/02/17/fat… via @ReadingInTrans

"Aydemir/Cho-Polizzi’s prose is neither lavish nor barebones, but functional": Artun Ak delves into Fatma Aydemir's DJINNS, translated from German by Jon Cho-Polizzi. readingintranslation.com/2025/02/17/fat…

Congratulations to @Jennymcphee on winning the John Florio translation prize for Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery, and to runner-up @BrianRobMoore for Lalla Romano’s A Silence Shared! Thank you both for helping readers discover great Italian literature in English translation!

On Hildegarde Serle and Christelle Dabos’ vivid, visceral, often disgusting descriptions of a hostile middle school in HERE, AND ONLY HERE. @EuropaEditions readingintranslation.com/2025/02/03/chr…

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, @bonnerjeanne writes about what Edith Bruck and other women authors can tell us about the Holocaust. readingintranslation.com/2025/01/27/edi…

New essay on translation! "Mansplaining Mona: Against a Seamless Translation" readingintranslation.com/2025/01/20/man…

More exciting news on the prize front: Angela Rodel’s incredible translation from Bulgarian of Vera Mutafchieva’s masterpiece, The Case of Cem, is on @USRofC longlist, alongside nine other books released by indie publishers. Thanks to the judges and congratulations to all!

Happy new year! May it be more peaceful than 2024. We open 2025 with an essay by Lawrence Venuti on translating Dino Buzzati's short stories. @nyrbclassics readingintranslation.com/2025/01/06/the…