So grateful to English PEN for their support, and for everything they do to champion international literature 🙏
My translation of Rania Mamoun’s UNDER THE NEEM TREE is coming to you next year from @commapress.bsky.social in the UK & @thenewpress.bsky.social in the US!
Hi, all. It's my birthday! 🥳 🎂
To help me celebrate this year, I'm asking you to support, if you can, five groups/organizations that I myself give to and believe in with all my heart.
Truly, every gift makes a difference!
Love and solidarity,
A
Thank you Alex! And happy birthday, dear friend 💜🎂
The sky witnesses a world at the brink of rupture in these two poems by Sinan Antoon. Read “No Sign of Injury in the Sky: Two Poems,” translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel, on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
"And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain." —Alaa Alqaisi on @arablit.bsky.social
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Apply: Two Free Spots in ‘Bristol Translates’ Summer School
An anonymous donor is sponsoring two spots for the Arabic-English strand with Sawad Hussain in the Bristol Translates summer school taking place this July 7th-11th.
happy birthday Brad!
See you tonight!
@lissiejaquette.bsky.social on how she entered translation publishing: it's meaningful to know "that I get to work in a field where the greater purpose of my work is to connect great readers to great writers"
Tonight! Whether you're in Pittsburgh or tuning in online, join @chadwpost.bsky.social, Barbara @ndbooks.bsky.social, Michelle and me for a conversation on the Future of Publishing Literature in Translation
We’re thrilled that #PENPresents & #PENTranslates award-winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, trans. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi has won the #InternationalBooker2025, the first work translated from Kannada to appear on the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to the winners!
Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed his unjust five-year prison sentence last September. Yet seven months later, he remains in prison.
Join us for a vigil in support of Alaa and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike. #FreeAlaa
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Honored to be on the jury for this year's Neustadt International Prize for Literature!
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We’re live from Translating the World with the NYPL and National Book Foundation, ft. Heather Cleary and Jonas Hassen Khemiri and moderated by WWB’s @lissiejaquette.bsky.social!
See you next week at the NYPL!
Congratulations to all the shortlisted translators!
I've loved being a judge for this round of #PENPresents with @englishpen.bsky.social & @thebookerprizes.bsky.social. Each of these projects is dazzling (and deserves to be snapped up by a publisher, ahem)
Congratulations, Adam!!!
Come work with us! CAT is seeking a full-time Communications Director to oversee communications, marketing, engagement, and public relations strategies.
Read more and apply: www.catranslation.org/about/opport...
so tough. I have no solutions, but I hope you can give yourself grace dear friend 💜
This is devastating. IWP's impact on international writing and translated literature can't be understated. I have no words.
Nice ID!
Photo of Slender Thorns anthology by an actual cactus.
Thanks to author Sahar Mustafah for this beautiful photo of our new collection SLENDER THORNS: Award-winning Flash Fiction in Arabic and English, out now.
And that last line, what a twist of the knife: "The last remaining Los Angeles Times opinion section staffer announced in late February that she would take a buyout and leave the paper, the Columbia Journalism Review reported."
UN Special Rapporteurs are calling for the immediate release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah 'given the arbitrary and unlawful nature of his detention and the deteriorating health of his mother'. #FreeAlaa
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Proud (& excited) to publish this essay by @clarehannahmary.bsky.social, an introduction to our latest collection at @wwborders.bsky.social featuring global writing by disabled writers & translated by disabled translators 🤩
my quote in this article was from 2 weeks ago. i am feeling even more pessimistic now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Woo hoo!
Congratulations @shreedaisy.bsky.social !!
