We are delighted to introduce you to our ambitious new multi-year project to promote South Asian literature in English translation.

From July 2023, the SALT Project will support translators and publishers at each stage of the publishing chain.
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Popping back on Twitter this morning after 18 months away.

All seems totally fine and normal.

BAME translator and need/want help with pitching? Come join me for a pitching workshop! #xl8 nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/translation/vi…

Translated World British Centre for Literary Translation Hopscotch Translation ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly Translation at Warwick Shadow Heroes Bristol Translates

🏁 HE’S FINISHED!!! 🏁

Today’s post in Daniel Hahn’s Translation Diary marks the end of the translation process. Very exciting! It has been an incredible journey, and many thanks to Danny for allowing us to accompany him. But what next? Read on...

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DRUM ROLL PLEASE... 🥁

Introducing the shortlists for the 2021 Society of Authors’ Award, with support from ALCS.

34 writers and illustrators to share an awards fund of over £100,000. Congratulations to all!

societyofauthors.org/News/News/2021… #SoAwards #SoAwards 21

The Shadow Heroes interactive workshop is now 🌟fully booked 🌟 and places for the Literature Must Fall workshop going fast!

Book your FREE workshop place today & find out about the rest of the #UNTEACHfest programme here:

modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2…

I'm recruiting! Looking for a collaborative and imaginative individual to work across the full gamut of our literature and spoken word programme Southbank Centre ahead of an exciting new chapter. Full details (incl. salary) listed with Creative Access
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'She brings a particular passion for feminism and championing women’s voices which will be a wonderful addition to the Virago acquiring team', Anna Kelly has been appointed Virago Press' publishing director! See more: bit.ly/2S4qhlC

As bookshops opened today, this feels like a good time to mention that earlier this year Notes on Jackson and His Dead became available in Ireland. It's been a while, but I'm happy to be able to say that it can now be bought in bookshops throughout the country! Dalkey Archive

MEDUSA’S ANKLES: SELECTED STORIES by AS Byatt arrives in Seoul! And it has a bookmark ribbon. And it contains “Racine and the Tablecloth,” which is a religious text for me as it describes the Ideal Reader, the closest thing I have to a religion ☀️ jennifer arnold

Transit Books is open to submissions for translations (fiction & nonfiction) and nonfiction proposals arablit.org/2021/05/16/sun… @transitbks

At Asymptote Journal, find an interview between Cuban writer Karla Suárez and Dorothy Potter Snyder (@DorothyPS), discussing female characters in Suárez’s works, being an urban writer, and many more:
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My latest #2021InternationalBooker review, Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World (translated by Adrian Nathan West):
1streading.wordpress.com/2021/05/17/whe…
Pushkin Press

Join us and Foglifter for An Evening of International Queer Writing. Featuring readings by Kanika Agrawal, Alexander Aguayo, Natascha Bruce, 李琴峰🌈🏳️‍🌈｜『生を祝う』祝・重版！, Xavier Stanziola Valenzuela, fargo nissim tbakhi (not on here rn), and @sgbye. Thurs, June 10 | 8PM EST. Free with optional donation to support Foglifter!

We are delighted that this year's CILIP Carnegie Greenaway Awards will be hosted by our very own #LibrariesChampion and University Challenge Star Bobby Seagull!

Join Bobby online on Wednesday 16 June at 12pm to discover our #CKG21 Winners. carnegiegreenaway.org.ukstream