Friends Translating Friendship, the Responsibility of the Translator, and Colombe Schneck’s The Paris Trilogy

(Even When the Book Festival is Not in Town!)

Author Karim Kattan and translator Jeffrey Zuckerman discuss Eden at Dawn, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

The International Library presents Elvira Navarro and Melissa Lozada-Oliva in conversation to celebrate the publication of Blood Is Dripping Onto the

Re-translations, Hospitality as a Translator, and Khalid Lyamlah’s Venice Requiem

English PEN has announced the translators shortlisted for the second round of PEN Presents x SALT, its programme funding the often-unpaid work of creating samples and promoting new international proje...

NCW Emerging Mentorships aims to develop new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English translation. Explore…

This week, Calico opened a call for submissions of poems and short pieces of flash fiction on the topic of sex to be featured in its next collection. Sarah

A collection of fiction and essays about disability by disabled writers and translated by disabled translators.

By Cory Oldweiler

View our submission guidelines for literary translations. We seek innovative, world-class fiction and poetry from around the globe.

Galician literature not only narrates, but constructs identity. It is a form of belonging, projecting oneself and inhabiting the world.

Georgia Katakou and Claudia Marzollo talk with novelist, playwright and literary translator Jeremy Tiang on their translation of Night Train by Xu Zechen, published by Two Lines Press. We discuss tra...

Our grants for translated literature support the movement of words and ideas across national and linguistic borders, championing bibliodiversity and reflecting the PEN Charter’s declaration that "lite...

Guest editors Robin Munby and Will Howard present a selection of new Asturian prose and poetry.

Georgia Katakou and Claudia Marzollo talk with writer and translator Mima Simiç about her translation from Croatian of Ivana Sajko’s Every Time We Say Goodbye . We discuss the challenges of translat...

Claudia Marzollo and Geogia Katakou speak with Anton Hur about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s Capitalists Must Starve (Tilted Axis, 2025). Anton is the author of Toward Eternity . As a translat...

Kate McNamara and Georgia Katakou talk with Sophie Lewis, translator from the French and Portuguese, about her translation of Hélène Cixous’ Angst . We discuss ‘difficult’ texts, re-translation, and translators’ notes, as well as the types of research translators engage with, the broader work of Hé