A less discussed factor of Behrouz Boochani winning the Victorian Premier's Prize For Literature last night is that it *may* actually be the first time a work in translation has won a major Australian literary award.

My paper on #Amazonian #magic #songs is out in a special issue of the International Journal of Language and Culture: "Parrots, peccaries, and people: Imagery and metaphor in Aguaruna (Chicham) magic songs" doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.…

Flowers? Clichéd. Awkward to carry. Reminder of death. Chocolates? Old hat. Not good for you. Short-lived. Fancy soap? Unimaginative. Smelly. Vapid. Books, though? Classic. Edifying. Sexy. Inspiring. Exquisite. Buy your sweetie a book today

Upcoming COLLABORATIVE TRANSLATION event in Melbourne: transcollaborate.com/2019/11/17/you… All welcome! AALITRA Writers Victoria The Wheeler Centre @MonWarMITN Koraly Dimitriadis Gabriel García Ochoa Gabriella Munoz @studymelbourne City of Melbourne Lika Posamari @julienleyre Dr Basil Cahusac de Caux 🙋🏽‍♂️⛩🕌 alice whitmore Kylie Doust

Today’s the day! Romanian, Greek & Korean translations at the The Wheeler Centre All welcome! See you soon Louise Bernasochi Jessica Griffiths Koraly Dimitriadis Gabriella Munoz #transcollaborate transcollaborate.com/2019/11/17/you…

We're starting a regular monthly column highlighting new translated releases. (Providing there are enough each month!) If you want to get started on reading more works in translation this year, take a look at our first round-up here: bit.ly/2SgZn7F

Ohh, one of my favourite books Paperback Bookshop !

I’ve just completed a task as a volunteer with Translators without Borders (TWB) #languagematters kato.translatorswb.org

Enfin bref is one of my favourite French fillers in conversation!

📢A call to people interested in sharing their love of languages.♥️🙋🏿‍♀️👨‍🦳👨‍🦱👩🏾‍🦱 Whether you're monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, or somewhere in-between, join @Transcollaborate for a Zoom session.🎥

If you are keen to translate Romanian poetry about the pandemic via Zoom this weekend, this event will be held this Sunday 20 Sept! You do not need to know Romanian to participate 📓📝👩‍💻👨‍💻

✏🗓The dates of our Nepali-English collaborative translation workshops have been decided! We're meeting on Saturday November 14 w-6pm AEDT and Saturday November 21 w-6pm AEDT 😇😁 Become a member and join us for this and many more workshops and events 🥳 🎊 🎉

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Looking into the best places to buy French kids' books/other French language resources for children. Happy to order from overseas if needed. Anyone know of anywhere that's good for this kind of thing?

I never eat and walk, and it's certainly a habit from my time in France. Love this whole thread!

would absolutely participate

I want to go to this café someday.