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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New on HS: ON SWAHILI HIP-HOP and the INSUFFICIENCY OF TRANSLATION by Richard Prins hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/06/09/o... Writer/Translator Richard Prins's translator's note for his forthcoming BRAIN FLAVOUR: A LYRIC HISTORY OF SWAHILI HIP-HOP, coming in July from Tenement Press! #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Meet the Hopscotch Team, Part Two! Today we'd like to introduce you to our three Editors-at-large: David Boyd, @michellemirabella.bsky.social , and Emma Wagh. HS is currently open for submissions for Fall of 2026! hopscotchtranslation.com/submissions/ #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New on HS: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS AND NEEDLESS WORRIES hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/05/26/s... Translator Stine An interviews South Korean poet Yoo Heekyung, whose fifth poetry collection, WINTER NIGHT RABBIT WORRIES is now available in English from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social . #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Meet the HS Team (Part One)! We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to three of our co-founding editors: @erikberanek.bsky.social , @chrisgclarke1.bsky.social , and Samuel Martin. Don't forget, HS is open for submissions for Fall of 2026: hopscotchtranslation.com/submissions/
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
NEW ON HS: WONDERS IN ALICELAND by Pierre Senges hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/05/12/w... Read Pierre Senges' review of the new French edition of Lewis Carroll in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, translated by Philippe Jaworski!
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New on Hopscotch! Victor Breidenbach reviews Liesl Ujvary’s GOOD & SAFE (SICHER & GUT, 1977), translated from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie and published by @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social . Check it out: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/04/28/t... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Definitely time to revisit the "Hopscotch Summer 2023 Translators Forum: A.I. & I." @ilzeduarte.bsky.social is spot on in noting that this conversation is only become more relevant. hopscotchtranslation.com/2023/09/19/s...
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Hopscotch Summer 2023 Translators Forum
For our 2023 summer forum, we asked our peers to weigh in on the challenges posed to literary translation by the ongoing evolution of artificial intelligence.
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New interview on HS! Uruguayan novelist Fernanda Trías in conversation with her Persian translator, Miaad Banki. Read now at hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/04/14/t... "I firmly believe that literature is not just the story, not even the theme. Literature is, above all, language." - Fernanda Trías
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
NEW ON HS: Erik Beranek in conversation with Alexander Fyfe and Nate Holly, two editors of UGA Press' new African Language Literatures in Translation series. hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/03/22/a... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Now on HS: “Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French” Part II.c, by Vincent Kling! hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/03/10/n... Want to start at the beginning? Read Part I: hopscotchtranslation.com/2024/06/21/m... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Part II.b of Vincent Kling's '“Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French”: Jean de La Fontaine, Marianne Moore, and the Principle of Equivalence' is here! Read now on Hopscotch: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/02/24/n... Image Credit: Catullus at Lesbia’s, Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1865) #translation
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 19/02/2026
Here's our literary translation news roundup for February! Find new opportunities, recommended reads, and more! Do you have exciting news or opportunities related to literary translation? We'd love to hear from you! DM or tag us. We regularly check for news to boost. buff.ly/xA6Lh4I
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February 2026 Translation News Roundup  | Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press
The Center’s publications, events, and educational programming enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture and promote the work of translators, build
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New on HS! Part II.a of Vincent Kling's essay '“Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French”: Jean de La Fontaine, Marianne Moore, and the Principle of Equivalence.' hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/02/10/n... Need to read Part I? Check it out at the link below: hopscotchtranslation.com/2024/06/21/m...
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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
✨ Applications are open for the John Dryden Translation Competition ✨ Sponsored by the BCLA and the BCLT, the competition awards prizes for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. bcla.org/prizes-award...
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New interview on Hopscotch! In "Blooming to the Surface," Michelle Mirabella @michellemirabella.bsky.social interviews Edith Adams on her Debut Book-length Translation of Daniela Catrileo’s GUERILLA BLOOMS. Read the full interview here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/01/27/b... #translation #poetry
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looking for new fiction to read? Check out this January Watchlist, featuring ALTA member Maren Baudet-Lackner’s translation of THE AQUATICS by Osvalde Lewat. At Words Without Borders / @wwborders.bsky.social: buff.ly/dsBoLng
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The Watchlist: January 2026 - Words Without Borders
Tobias Carroll recommends novels from Cameroon, Colombia, Russia, and more, plus the newest from Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk.
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our first review of 2026: "The Demistification of Elegy: Review of Emmanuel Hocquard’s ELEGIES, translated by Cole Swensen," review by Samuel E. Martin, is up now on Hopscotch! Check it out at the link below: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/01/13/t... #translation #bookreview
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Best wishes for 2026 from Hopscotch! The Hopscotch editorial team are glad to share some of their reading highlights in translation from 2025 and anticipate a few things to come in 2026. Happy reading; we’ll look forward to seeing you in the new year! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/12/23/h...
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Latest on Hopscotch: Santiago Artozqui's "Translations Come and Go, Racism Remains," a review and reflection on French translation and retranslation of GONE WITH THE WIND, by Margaret Mitchell. Read now at: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/12/09/t... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New on Hopscotch! Samuel E. Martin's review of ENEMY OF THE SUN: POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE, edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb. Check it out at the link below! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/11/25/r... #poetry #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Why is metaphor so often used to describe the process of translation? Read translator Talbot Hook's thoughtful insights on this question in the latest article on HS, "Translation is Like..." hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/11/11/t... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Hopscotch Throwback! Bradley Harmon's thoughtful reflection on his translation of Katarina Frostenson's THE SPACE OF TIME. Check it out at the link below! hopscotchtranslation.com/2024/11/26/a... #translation #poetry #poem #poems
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry: DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen, pub. World Poetry Books! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Congratulations to Omar Khalifa and translator Barbara Romaine. This year's winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in prose. Our first book translated from Arabic!
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Read "Translating the Elliptical" now on HS. Shushan Avagyan interrogates the translation of Armenian writer Zabel Yesayan's narratives on the Massacres of Cilicia through a thoughtful examination of Yesayan’s style and use of ellipses. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/10/28/t... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Just in on HS! "Post-War, Lesbian, Heretic: A Review of Selma Asotić’s SAY FIRE, Translated and Reworked by the Author." Review by Denis Ferhatović Check it out here! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/10/14/p... SAY FIRE is out now from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social #translation #poetry
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.” Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social
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On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead
Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Check out this workshop with Kasia Szymanska! Her recent book, TRANSLATION MULTIPLES: FROM GLOBAL CULTURE TO POSTCOMMUNIST DEMOCRACY, was recently reviewed on Hopscotch by Jess Jensen Mitchell.
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Putting this one on the calendar.
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New on HS: James Richie's @jameslrichie.bsky.social insightful reflections on translating Víctor Cabrera’s collection of poems, A VILLAGE DEVASTATED BY GODZILLA. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/09/23/b... #poems #poetry #poem #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Hopscotch throwback: "Like a Simile," by Zeynep Özer. Have you read it yet? Zeynep Özer excavates the linguistic and emotional intricacies of Alice Oswald’s long poem «Memorial», which she takes to be emblematic of the practice of creative translation. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/04/08/l...
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Like a Simile
Zeynep Özer excavates the linguistic and emotional intricacies of Alice Oswald’s long poem «Memorial», which she takes to be emblematic of the practice of creative translation.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Check out this interview with former ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima as they discuss balancing professional translation projects with a broader love of and excitement for literature. At Hindustan Times: buff.ly/k0kVfZS @hindustan-times.bsky.social @yukitejima.bsky.social
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Yuki Tejima: “I miss talking about the books I’m not translating”
On translating Japanese writers like Mizuki Tsujimura, Kumi Kimura and Emi Nagi, and championing women’s writing
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Betty Books @bettybooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
✨ Betty author @ilzeduarte.bsky.social’s translation of The Book of Affects by Marília Arnaud is featured on @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social! The review explores how Duarte captures the text’s emotional depth and brings its lyrical power to readers. Read the full review here: bit.ly/41VvxsX
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Bold acts of translation are the lifeblood of Kasia Szymanska’s book, TRANSLATION MULTIPLES: FROM GLOBAL CULTURE TO POSTCOMMUNIST DEMOCRACY." Check out Jess Jensen Mitchell's review on HS of @kaszyma.bsky.social's TRANSLATION MULTIPLES here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/09/09/r... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Sounds fun! Check it out!
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Want reads to finish out Aug. and Women in Translation month? Check out @michellemirabella.bsky.social's review of THE BOOK OF AFFECTS by Marília Arnaud, trans. by Ilze Duarte! Aug. may be at a close but keep opening books by women writers and translators! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/08/26/q...
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
In "The Visitor Peering over My Shoulder," Jean-Yves Masson reflects on the notion of "hauntology." Originally published in French on Poesibao, www.poesibao.fr, Hopscotch is pleased to present Masson’s essay in English translation. hopscotchtranslation.com/.../the-visi... #translation
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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New online! 'From the Archive': Daniel Kramb writers on Swiss Francophone poet and translator Philippe Jaccottet, in translations by Alastair Thomson from French First published in MPT 'Frontiers' (2009) modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
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From the Archive: Philippe Jaccottet translated from French by Alastair Thomson  - Modern Poetry in Translation
Daniel Kramb writes on Swiss Francophone poet and translator, Philippe Jaccottet
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
New on Hopscotch: "Re: (Not) Capitulating" In this follow-up on his recent review of 48 KG, Samuel Martin reflects further on Batool Abu Akleen's poems and on time spent in the archives of the National Library in Scotland. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/07/22/r... #translation #poetry
Library of Congress black and white photograph entitled "Samson's Gate" depicting Old Town Gaza pre-1948 amidst trees.
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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Recent fiction in translation: “Someone to Watch Over You” by Kumi Kimura, “Elephant Herd” by Zhang Guixing, “Old Kiln” by Jia Pingwa asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/translat...
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
"Batool Abu Akleen writes of amputation and dismemberment, unbearable suffering and sorrow, in order that she, her people, and her land may yet be re-membered with the love, care, and urgency they deserve." Samuel Martin's review of Batool Abu Akleen’s 48KG: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/07/08/2...
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"The thought struck me recently that every translated book, too, is a ship of Theseus." - Kit Schluter This meme got us thinking about Kit Schluter's "Calling the Ship by a Different Name" on Hopscotch! You can check it out below (no CAPTCHA required)! hopscotchtranslation.com/2021/05/21/b...
captcha screen depicting a ship. Text reads "Select all squares with the ship of Theseus, if there are none, click skip"
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
New on Hopscotch! Michelle Mirabella interviews Emily Hunsberger on her translation of Melanie Márquez Adams’s WONDERLAND: CRÓNICAS OF BELONGING IN AMÉRICA. Check it out here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/06/24/d... #translation
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Savoring these beautiful poems by Simone Lappert, translated from the German by Fabienne Rink, today! #translation #poetry #poems #poem
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New translations for the reading list!
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Have you read Addison Bale's "On Translation, Codification, and Something in Between: Language in the Paintings of Martin Wong" published recently on Hopscotch? Find it here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/03/25/o... #translation #painting
Images of hands signing the alphabet in ASL.
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"What Brings Us to a Halt (PART 2)" is up, and features Taylor's essay, "A Perennial Hereness," a response to Franca Mancinelli's "Flowers and Hell: On Poetry and Authenticity," published in Taylor's translation in Part One on Hopscotch. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/06/10/w... #translation #poetry
A path in the woods with conifers around it.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Happy pub day to The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, edited by WWB contributor @antonialloydjones.bsky.social !
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Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Looking for a fresh read? Check out Suzana Vuljevic's conversation with Yana Ellis, published recently on Hopscotch, on Ellis' Translation of Zdravka Evtimova’s THE WOLVES OF STARO SELO. hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/05/13/t... #translation
brown background with picture of book cover for THE WOLVES OF STARO SELO, depicting an old woman with a bowl.
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