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They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout
In Tehran, the winter of 2026 did not arrive with the cold; it arrived with two nights of…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Tehran #Iran #LiteraryFiction #LiteratureinTranslation #Persian #Translation
https://www.europesays.com/iran/25247/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/25247/ They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout #Iran #LiteraryFiction #LiteratureInTranslation #Persian #Tehran #Translation
2025 book seventy-eight: Daniel Kehlmann: The Director ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #fiction #books #LiteratureInTranslation #bookstagram #bookstodon #danielkehlmann #gwpabst
2025 book seventy-seven: Olga Ravn: The Wax Child ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #ebooks #LiteratureInTranslation #olgaravn #bookstodon #fiction
2025 book seventy-six: Alain Robbe-Grillet: A Regicide ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookstodon #bookstagram #books #fiction #LiteratureInTranslation #alainrobbegrillet
BEAUTIFULLY AUSTERE, ELEGANT novel about love and memory and the impossibility of recapturing the past rings with echoes of 20th-century Portugal. Stunning translation sets off a real gem for English-language readers. A MINUS
https://www.catranslation.org/shop/book/grace-period/
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Portuguesewriters #literatureintranslation #SmallPressSunday
https://ko-fi.com/africantranslationproject
Help fund translations from non-colonial African languages into English.
Book 1: Bengithi Lizokuna (I thought it was going to rain) by Nakanjani G. Sibiya, translated from isiZulu by Sifiso Mzobe
Book 2: Zvinobvinza (The Crocodile Doesn't Hunt) by Pauline Chirata-Mukondiwa, translated from Shona by Zukiswa Wanner
Book 3: From Kiswahili, announced if we reach $5000 by the end of August, with translation starting if we reach $7500 by the end of August
Why?
- In all times and especially these times, authentic global storytelling is essential.
- There is stark near-absence of modern fiction translated from non-colonial African languages.
- New communities will be able to read these stories, written from perspectives they have not before seen, and that are not created by requiring stories to be told in English.
- Our languages are as essential to our being and our culture as are our stories.
- Support to translation work raises awareness and support to so many global, human, art forms.
- We are our stories. Translations help us connect.
#AfricanBooks #Africa #Bookstodon #LiteratureInTranslation #translation
2025 book forty-nine: Cristina Rivera Garza: The Iliac Crest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#bookstagram #bookstodon #ebooks #cristinariveragarza #fiction #LiteratureInTranslation #theiliaccrest
2025 book forty-three: Mo Yan: The Republic of Wine ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #books #LiteratureInTranslation #bookstodon #bookstagram #moyan #fiction
2025 book forty-two: Taku Ashibe: Murder in the House of Omari ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #books #ebooks #kindle #LiteratureInTranslation #bookstodon #bookstagram #2025books #takuashibe
2025 book forty-one: Atsuhiro Yoshida: Goodnight Tokyo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #books #bookstodon #bookstagram #atsuhiroyoshida #2025books #LiteratureInTranslation
"The idea that the need for language and translation will be eradicated with immediate machine equivalencies is as ridiculous as the idea that our differences as a species will be similarly eradicated. Language is just the symptom, not the cause, it is our differences made manifest. In the end, these differences cannot be eradicated, they cannot be killed, or flattened, or simplified, or ignored, or hacked, only translated. And lucky for you, we are still here to do that."
https://lithub.com/the-future-will-be-translated-a-manifesto-in-three-lies/
#LitHub #Translation #LiteratureInTranslation #TranslatorLife
THE GREAT CHILEAN WRITER José Donoso’s shortest and most intensely erotic novel is also a brilliant social satire as well as a vivid portrait of early 20th-century Madrid high society. Newly translated, brimming with life. B PLUS
#book #Books #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #Chileanwriters #literatureintranslation #eroticliterature #SmallPressSunday
A new favourite author/book: Danish writer Solvej Balle and her On The Calculation of Volume, a literary fiction novel in 7 parts about a woman stuck in the same day, the 18th of November. I just finished the 2nd part and now have to wait for the next two to be released in English...on November 18. :ablobdundundun: Highly recommend, especially if you're currently having an existential crisis, lol.
#bookstodon #SolvejBalle #LiteraryFiction #TranslatedFiction #LiteratureInTranslation
Here is a chapter (or a single story?) from "Kalpa Imperial", one of the most beautiful #fantasy #books I've ever read, by Argentinian writer Angélica #Gorodischer.
📚💙
It was #translated from Spanish by none other than Ursula K. #LeGuin.
https://smallbeerpress.com/free-stuff-to-read/2017/10/20/the-end-of-a-dynasty-or-the-natural-history-of-ferrets/
#KalpaImperial #RecommendedReading #WritersOfMastodon #book #bookstodon #bookworm #SpeculativeFiction #literature #LiteratureInTranslation #LatinAmericanLiterature
In his short #story, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," Jorge Luis #Borges describes (80 years before the fact) an entire world that falls for absurd mythologies, made by some rich reclusive assholes just for the lulz.
Don't let anyone tell you #literature is useless.
[English #translation in #PDF]
#literature #LiteratureInTranslation #LatinAmericanLiterature #JorgeLuisBorges #ShortStory #ShortStories #LiteratureOfTheFantastic #WeirdFiction
Whoa, picked up Self Portrait in Green by #MarieNDiaye on recommendation of my local bookstore, and now I need to read every NDiaye book. Anyone have suggestions on which one to read next?
‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/29/its-exciting-its-powerful-how-translated-fiction-captured-a-new-generation-of-readers
#bookstodon #fiction #LiteratureInTranslation #translation #reading
It's coming! :ablobcatgoogly:
#ScaryStory is a new book of mine in English, #translated by DP Snyder, published by Pamenar Press in the UK. It features two #horror / #weird #stories told in small chapters and pictures.
You can preview and preorder it here:
https://www.pamenarpress.com/product-page/scary-story
#books #WeirdFiction #microfiction #IllustratedBooks #bookstodon #LiteratureInTranslation #literature #LatinAmericanLiterature #LatinAmericanLit #ExperimentalFiction #micronovel #fiction #SpeculativeFiction
Aww, sad to hear #DubravkaUgrešić died a couple weeks ago. She's one of those authors where after reading just one book I add all their other work to my TBR list. #bookstodon #LiteratureInTranslation #TranslatedFiction
I'm #NowReading Tomb of Sand by #GeetanjaliShree and had to stop to google a bunch of names/titles of Partition authors. Now I have books from #KrishnaSobti and #Manto on the way. That's how #TranslatedFiction gets ya! #bookstodon #LiteratureInTranslation
The International Booker Prize 2023 longlist has been announced, featuring work from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America and including three writers who appear in English for the first time #books #WorldLiterature #literatureintranslation #translatedfiction
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2023
Coming this spring, a new novel by Bernardo Zannoni, a wunderkind of contemporary Italian lit. The story is told from the pov of a beech marten who is sold to a fox by his mother, learns to read, and finds God. #philosophicalnovels #ItalianLiterature #ItalianLiteratureInTranslation #InternationalFiction #LiteratureInTranslation #martens
