This month’s Watchlist, created by Tobias Carroll, includes translations from French, Arabic, Dutch, Croatian, and Vietnamese. Scroll on to see all six recommendations: buff.ly/4bdD0W8 🧵

🧿In Soviet Azerbaijan, a young woman faces magical and maternal obstacles as she tries to transcend her village upbringing.📷 Read MAMALI by Leyla Shukurova, the third and penultimate piece in TURKOSLAVIA's feature w/ WordsWithoutBorders
trans. sabrina jaszi! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

The distress call 'mayday!' has nothing to do with May. It's from French [venez] m'aider '[come] help me!' Sounds made up but it's true!

Sretan prvi maj! Here’s to fairer wages and hours so we can keep doing the word work. #InternationalWorkersDay

This poem, still.

New job listing (remote BCMS instructor) up on the NYSA website—check it out & spread the word! I suspect, somberly, that there will be more BCMS language jobs arising soon... newyugoslavstudies.org/news.html

We’re so psyched for folks to read Ena Selimović translation of Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović, out early next year. More on that very soon, so in the meantime check out this Center for the Art of Translation and Los Angeles Review of Books event, which is sure to be fascinating and informative.

So grateful to the wonderful people Center for the Art of Translation Los Angeles Review of Books & The Ruby SF for making this event possible. I look forward to celebrating translation together on May 31, esp. work from lesser-translated languages! catranslation.org/event/women-ce…

Today’s the day. Happy Independent Bookstore Day to one and all!

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APRIL 25 on YouTube
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. EST: WATCH LIVE HERE (santjordiusa.org/live)
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1:00 p.m. FOCUS ON HARPER VIA
- A Clutter of Kittens: Books on or by cats from HarperVia -Translator Katherine Gregor reads from Babas’ How To Train Your Human (Italian)

Another day, another attempt at converting yours truly. Tempted to write back and ask why they never write to/intrude on/foreignize my spouse. (I already have an alien number, so why don’t they bug off with their alienating?) What list are they going off of anyway?

If you’re lucky enough to be in Brooklyn for this, or online otherwise, see Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell Daisy Rockwell ڈیزی راکویل डेज़ी राक्वैल at The Center for Fiction on May 6! catranslation.org/event/the-inte…

WordsWithoutBorders Yes! Let's normalize fair pay for the highly-skilled and important work of translation, instead of perpetuating the assumption that literary translators are willing/able to do this work for peanuts.

ICYMI 📯 The deadline to submit to the Mo Habib Translation Prize for Persian Poetry was extended! Submit your book-length #translations by MAY 1, 2024 for a chance to win $10k and publication with Deep Vellum 🤩
#xl8 #literarytranslation #persianpoetry melc.washington.edu/news/2023/09/0…

We're off and running at the Jefferson Market Branch!

Celebrating my brother: anti-fascist then and now, at 40, as of today—!

Wrote the first entries for 2025... checked the date... gasped. Translations from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian—may they keep coming (& may we think of a more concise name for these mutually understandables soon)! turkoslavia.com/post/translati…

Seattle has such great bookstores and book culture thanks for this ⁦Subscribe to my newsletter! Link in bio!⁩ ⁦The Seattle Times⁩ - check out the literary map ⁦Seattle City of Lit⁩ to find stores and literary history highlights near you. seattletimes.com/entertainment/…