Our many talented contributors have shaped how READING IN TRANSLATION approaches reviewing translated literature. And now there is a college course on the subject!

Meet the Savages: undocumented migrants and disenfranchised grafters, they live with social and linguistic violence, create impromptu communities, and dream of an impossible return. Their stories entwine and pulsate in Alejandra Banca's FROM SAVAGERY, tr. Katie Brown #WITMonth

Daniela Hodrová, author of 'City of Torment', died on Friday 30 August. She was 78 and had been ill for some time. We have complied an obituary on our facebook page facebook.com/JantarPublishi…

Feels like a critical time to be having these kind of cross-sector conversations. Come join us and ask us difficult questions!

'... this bitter Love which becomes your own' We are ecstatic to announce that our new poetry series, The Amber Poets, will be launched in November with WE WERE HERE by Artur Dron' Translated by Yuliya Musakovska Pre-order now with free postage jantarpublishing.com/product-page/w…

There are many reasons why I love Tilted Axis, but today I'm going to limit myself to one: the literary world would be impoverished without them. Please support if you can.

PEN Presents x International Booker Prize is open! This round of our samples grant is in partnership with The Booker Prizes, & is open to translators from the Global Majority working from any language & region. Apply by 30 November, & spread the word. englishpen.org/translation/pe…

Fantastic trailer for Shiori Itō's Black Box Diaries! Part of BFI #LFF next week, then out in UK theatres Oct 25 via Dogwoof Itō's story was integral to Japan's #MeToo movement, and a catalyst for cultural and legal change.

Han Kang’s Nobel win is testament to importance of small press publishing theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars - The Korea Times koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/20…

A short manifesto on reviewing translated literature (you can read the rest here: readingintranslation.com/2024/10/14/rev…)

Some lovely reactions from Korea. “I hope people who want to give up and turn their backs on life will read Han’s books." english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e…

Incredible to see one of my old Quietus translation columns getting shared dozens of times & retweeted thousands of times + translated into Korean! - of course because it’s on the brilliant Deborah & her work with genius Han Kang.

PREORDERS OPEN! Our winter special issue Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s - Elevation, guest co-edited by Tatevik Ayvazyan (@tatoayvaz) and Naneh V Hovhannisyan, shines a light on modern Armenian identities and experiences. wasafiri.org/issues/120-was…

Ending as I began: my first ever post on the Translating Women blog was a review of Han Kang's THE VEGETARIAN, translated by Deborah Smith. My final post there revisits this, with some bonus thoughts on the Nobel Prize in Literature and a bad day on X: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwom…