#literarytranslation is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 5 people shared 19 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is up 17% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 5 with 3 posts.
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Sea Now: An Interview with translator Anne Thompson Melo - CAT Center
Set in a flooded Netherlands, Eva Meijer’s Sea Now follows three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by
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Isabel Stainsby: My parents said, “We forbid you from studying Czech” – Don’t say that to a teenager
Brit Isabel Stainsby is the translator of a gripping memoir by Roma journalist Patrik Banga, which has just been launched in English under the title The True Way Out.
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social
Whatever skills I have as a translator came from the million+ words I translated down the translation mines. If all the unglamorous grunt work disappears there won't be anywhere to learn
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Sea Now: An Interview with translator Anne Thompson Melo - CAT Center
Set in a flooded Netherlands, Eva Meijer’s Sea Now follows three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by
American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social
The translator Lin King of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE, awarded with the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize and 2026 International Booker Prize, reflects on Taiwan’s history of colonialism, current geopolitical situation, and identity struggle in this interview for NPR.
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social
Welcome to #WITmonth 2026! We kick off our celebration of women in translation with @dances-with-voles.bsky.social and Romanian-German author Iris Wolff's CLEARING, the prizewinning tale, told in reverse, of a lifelong friendship in northern Romania. buff.ly/WL7FVCf #readwomen #readtheworld #wit
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social
“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.
Louise @selkies.bsky.social
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
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It’s not all Greek to them: translators are shaping reader experiences
After the much anticipated release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, sales of all copies soared, as The Bookseller reported. 18,726 copies across all editions sold in the past four weeks.
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social
Four translators of Slovak (John Minahane, Janet Livingstone, Magdalena Mullek & Jonathan Gresty) read from the anthology THE BOOK OF BRATISLAVA (commapress.bsky.social, 2026) edited by Radoslav Passia & buff.ly/pXs9oqv buff.ly/XMetPlU
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