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Clare Richards

@clarehannahmary.bsky.social
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#actuallyautistic translator from Korean 한영 번역가✍🏻🐈‍⬛📚☕️she/her @writerscentre mentor | clarerichards.crd.co

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Amanda Sarasien @amandasarasien.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Still floating on this thrilling news - my manuscript has been shortlisted in the @sfwp.bsky.social 2025 Literary Awards!
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National Centre for Writing @writerscentre.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Call for Applications! Open to translators who are Black, Asian or from Ethnically Diverse backgrounds working from any language into English, especially those connected to diaspora and heritage language communities. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story. A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US. For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I just made a donation to @wwborders.bsky.social in light of the funding cut. Please donate to them if you can to support the important work that they do publishing literature in translation.
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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If you're an aspiring translator and don't use gen AI at all, haven't even touched it, and are willing to put in the hard work to learn, feel free to reach out and I'll give you feedback on a short translation or your resume.
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 17/04/2025
Today is a good day, a necessary day to repost this
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‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right
In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today
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Armory Square Prize @armorysqprize.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Time's almost up! Just 4 days remain to submit for the 2025 Armory Square Prize, open to translators working with any South Asian language. See guidelines and submit here: www.armorysv.com/translation-...
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Armory Square Prize for Literary Translation — Armory Square Ventures
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 25/03/2025
Incredible article—final point on how dangerously entwined Wall Street and Silicon Valley have become augurs a spectacular economic disaster on the horizon Also that part about a projected data center using enough electricity to power three million homes 😱 Hope AI fails otherwise humanity is doomed
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
From Dareumi’s heartfelt bond with a mailbox to an eerie encounter with a shadow-like presence, the line between reality and the unknown blurs for Kim Heejin's protagonist in “By Any Other Name.” Read the story on WWB, translated from Korean by Paige Aniyah Morris: buff.ly/aDq6dzp
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By Any Other Name - Words Without Borders
After surviving a fatal accident, a young woman with OCD has repeated encounters with a shadowlike presence in Kim Heejin's "By Any Other Name."
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Armory Square Prize @armorysqprize.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language. Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...
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2025 Submissions Call — Armory Square Ventures
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A reminder that the deadline for this is April 1! ‘Any book-length work of narrative prose, fiction, or nonfiction, by a South Asian author (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives or the diaspora) will be eligible.’ #xl8
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Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This sounds amazing, @anamzafar.bsky.social! If you’re in Dublin, check this out! 👀
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 15/03/2025
Paige is one of my favourite translators & writers! This is an excellent read.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📣 Emerging translators, don't miss your chance: Apply to the 2025 ALTA Travel Fellowships! These are $1,000 fellowships awarded to selected emerging translators to help them get to the annual ALTA conference, where they are featured in a special reading. Apply TODAY: alta.submittable.com/submit/
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them." Shout-out to @clarehannahmary.bsky.social for this @wwborders.bsky.social issue and the work translators are doing on the discourse around disability in the realm of literature. 🌟
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
On WWB, Paige Aniyah Morris contemplates the choice not to explicitly name disability in Kim Heejin’s novel “No Matter How Odd.” Read this essay on representation and style from our issue “Translating Disability”: buff.ly/aIqqHxC
An abstract, mazelike landscape with the quote “The choice not to foreground disability or to forgo naming it at all may be the result of any number of personal factors, such as a lack of identification with certain terms, a fear of stigma from using particular language, or a sense of distrust toward authorities whose approaches to naming can be violent and pathologizing” and the text “Translating disability. Oddly Ineffable: Naming People and Disability in Kim Heejin’s ‘No Matter How Odd’ by Paige Aniyah Morris.”
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms. Read the essay, her introduction to our issue “Translating Disability,“ here:
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Face Value: Translating Divergence - Words Without Borders
Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
In “The Brightest World I Knew” by Lim Sol-A (tr. @‌clarehannahmary.bsky.social ), a woman’s apartment search in Seoul turns into an act of resistance. Read this story from our new issue “Translating Disability” on WWB: buff.ly/4kbVFXX
A pattern of mold spores with the quote “I would stare, expressionless, at the laughing people. They seemed oblivious to the texture of their own laughter. I didn’t join in, even as they laughed all together. Growing up, I was always called the ‘tactless child.’ And that was what I was, but I liked my tactlessness” and the text “Translating disability. ‘The Brightest World I Knew’ By Lim Sol-A, Translated from Korean by Clare Richards”
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Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I *love* Adèle Rosenfeld's hilarious imagination and biting social critique, and her story THE HEARING-AID BRIGADE was such a treat to translate for @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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The Hearing-Aid Brigade - Words Without Borders
Immersed in the job’s chaotic rhythms and unsettling hierarchies, Edwin questions the very nature of language, labor, and meaning itself.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Read an excerpt from the Booker-nominated "The Book of Disappearance" on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem - Words Without Borders
Reckoning with the loss of his grandmother, a young man inquires into the nature of memory and cultural identity in this excerpt from a novel by Palestinian writer Ibtisam Azem.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In “Translation and Erasure,” Daniela Tiranti reflects on the experience of translating a “disabled love story,” and of standing up for disabled characters during the editorial process. Read the essay: buff.ly/43fBodR
An abstract gray pattern with the quote “They think that disability would never happen to them, as if it is something they can control. It is likely that they haven’t had enough interactions with disabled people to really see us as human” and the text “Translating disability: ‘Translation and Erasure’ by Daniela Tiranti.”
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Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Still pinching myself about winning the @penamerica.bsky.social grant for the translation of Italian literature! ✨ 🇮🇹 📚 I’ll be donating part of my grant to Gaza, so if anyone knows of any organisations other than PAL that would benefit, please let me know 🇵🇸 🍉
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, out 29 May prototypepubs.bsky.social Our 4th book together in 9 years 🩵 Primary colour edition available directly from the Prototype website & indie bookshops for Independent Bookshop Week in June. Pre-order: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/9
Blue cover with thick black text reading Fair The Life-Art of Translation by Jen CallejaA yellow book cover with blue and red letting reading Fair The Life-art of translationFour images of book covers, one is dark purple, one is black and white with a hand illustration, one is orange and white, and one is blue.
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Lissie Jaquette @lissiejaquette.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Proud (& excited) to publish this essay by @clarehannahmary.bsky.social, an introduction to our latest collection at @wwborders.bsky.social featuring global writing by disabled writers & translated by disabled translators 🤩
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Last call: the deadline to apply to the 2025 Momentum Grant is 2/28. Early-career translators, don't miss your chance!
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In her intro to our disability issue, @‌clarehannahmary.bsky.social discusses everyone from Sayaka Murata to Naoise Dolan to the actress Madison Tevlin, blending autobiographical reflection with literary criticism. buff.ly/4hSuz6q
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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 25/02/2025
The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 25/02/2025
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Warmest congratulations to the longlisted writers & translators, including WWB contributors Ibtisam Azem, Sinan Antoon, Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter, Julia Sanches, Heather Cleary, Helen Stevenson, Polly Barton, Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda, Sophie Hughes, & Astrid Roemer!
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 25/02/2025
“Perhaps when a neurotypical reads Convenience Store Woman, they are experiencing what an autistic person feels like reading fiction most of the time—and that’s not a bad thing.” Essential reading for translators and, well, readers in general, by @clarehannahmary.bsky.social
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Face Value: Translating Divergence - Words Without Borders
Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms.
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Clare Richards @clarehannahmary.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y
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Text: This disability issue of Words Without Borders is a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them.
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I just called out a student for using AI to write an extended abstract for my class. 3 of the 4 articles she cited are fake. They are by real people, in real journals, and the titles are similar to topics the authors study. But the papers do not exist! It is wild that ChatGPT invents articles.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A poem of mine is in the antho BRING ME GOLD: 50 POEMS FOR PALESTINE, now avail for pre-order. 100% of the proceeds from this book will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Pls consider buying it, wld make a great early Eid gift. 🙏🏼 🤍#DisabilityJustice www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poem...
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Bring Me Gold: Fifty Poems for Palestine Anthology – Dahlia Books
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Peter Senftleben 🏳️‍🌈 @peseditorial.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, finally! I've been saying this for at least 10 years. Readers don't care about blurbs and it's a ridiculous waste of time and labor for everyone. (I am curious how the sales department responded, though...) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Why Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint Won’t Require Blurbs Anymore
In a decision some might call “stunning” or a “tour-de-force,” new S&S publisher Sean Manning has decided to no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books. Here’s why.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Announcement for all early-career translators: submissions to this year’s Momentum Grant, judged by Julia Sanches, are due 2/28! Learn more about eligibility, submissions, and the Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators: buff.ly/3CnAgK5
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Karla E. Melendez @karlaemelendez.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS, by Myeongseok Kang and BTS, translated by Anton Hur (@antonhur.com), Slin Jung, and Clare Richards (@clarehannahmary.bsky.social) Thorough. High quality translations. The QR codes have turned this book into a true multimedia experience!
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Collective scream in 1s and 0s.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Most UK lit ppl unaware: - Whether you’ve been shortlisted for/won a prize matters grtly for Global Talent Visa, Indefinite Leave, citizenship apps & - Prizewinners’ path to applying for Indefinite Leave is 2 yrs less than for ‘only’-shortlistees &…
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
cool, shut it down
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/12/2024
UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Thread about fake translator’s names being used to presumably cover up AI translations
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 13/12/2024
My novel TOWARD ETERNITY is one of Geek Girl Authority's 10 best science fiction books of 2024 ✨🪐 "Hur’s first original work combines gods, magic and science into a world rapidly approaching collapse, and I can’t wait to see what else he comes up with."
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GGA's 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2024
The end of the year means it's time to reflect on the best science fiction books of 2024. Did your favorite make our list? Read on.
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Rebecca DeWald @rebeccadewald.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On Thursday, @annierutherford.bsky.social, Vineet Lal and I will battle it out with the machines to determine who is the better translator. Can't wait to show AI who is boss! @goetheinstitut.bsky.social Glasgow www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 08/12/2024
This week should’ve solely been one of celebration of Korea’s first Nobel Prize in Literature, which, as you can imagine, is a once-in-a-lifetime event for a Korean literary translator like me. Well. We may have more cause to celebrate yet. IMPEACH AND ARREST YSY
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