@lisaeditorial
Academic editor and literary translator (FR–EN) based in Toronto with my cats/EAs, Petra and Rufus. CIEP professional member. Founder of FELT @felttranslators.bsky.social. Translations forthcoming in 2026. https://linktr.ee/lisasinclairlinks
calling all literary translators - does anyone want to talk to me (on the record) about their gendered experience of **working as a translator** including e.g. the pay gap and the motherhood penalty?
I haven't got to it yet in my TBR pile but Les Jours Mauves by Kalindi Ramphul sounds like it might fit the bill!
A Word comment reading 'This chapter will give you a mental breakdown but don't panic because it gets easier again afterwards'
Translation notes to my future self
Absolutely beautiful piece about how translators aren't invisible and translation isn't just word for word.
"Is translation an art or an action? The answer is both, depending on the original. Literary translation is the translation of art, and so it must itself be art."
lithub.com/the-future-w...
Starting a new translation today and already I've had to look up a building on Street View, identified a possible factual error and incorporated some Shakespeare—we're so back.
Two more weeks until the Stevns Translation Prize deadline! There's still time to enter! Tell all of your emerging translator friends: a book published internationally, mentorship, a beautiful retreat with a pond! www.stevnstranslationprize.com
A very helpful article for any other community hosts considering the move: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
Seriously considering moving FELT (@felttranslators.bsky.social) over from Slack to Discord now that Slack will be deleting content over a year old, especially now I've discovered you can transfer your archive over. Thoughts for or against very welcome!
A great author email quote from the end of 2024: 'Clearly, when Lisa Sinclair asks for things, things happen!' Now just need to decide what to use my newfound powers for first...
For me it's specifically when formatting has been changed (including highlighting). I've started attaching the comment to the space before or after a word whose formatting has been changed to avoid the issue!
I like "scream in the agony of the gouged"!
Would love to join!
Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink 💦
I've been tempted by the Edinburgh Uni PhD, which allows you to do 'an extended scholarly translation with commentary'.
I had the same problem and discovered the proxy can apply to do your proxy vote by post from wherever they live in the UK - sounds fiddly but Manchester Council immediately sent the postal proxy form by email for my proxy to print, scan and return!
Just submitted my first full-length book translation to the publisher! Announcement coming soon. Now nobody ask me to make any decisions for at least a week because I just made 60,000 in a row 🛌
An email with blacked out sections leaving just the words ‘Dear Lisa, we’ve decided … your translation was … the best,’
Trying out a therapeutic version of rejection erasure poetry
FELT has landed on Bluesky! We're a friendly international community of French-to-English literary translators who hang out on Slack. Literary translators at all career stages (aspiring, emerging, established, over it) are very welcome! Grab your invite at felttranslators.wordpress.com ✉️✨