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Jenny Higgins

@jennyhiggins.bsky.social
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Translator from French and Italian - literature, music, history, arts

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Freelancers who work for universities, rejoice! Government to make it mandatory for companies to pay supplier invoices within 60 days, or face fines/interest of 8% plus the base rate.
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Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines
CBI praises legislation aimed at protecting small businesses for striking ‘the right balance’
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Another great reason to register for the Oxford Translates summer school this year: a keynote by @annmorgan.bsky.social !
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📣PUBLISHERS - I'm running a one-day online course in June on working effectively with translators, focusing on project management, timelines and productivity. More details at www.unige.ch/formcont/en/... . Please share with your networks.
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Journée - Working with translators for publishers and cultural institutions
The sessions take a resolutely workflow- and project management-centred approach. The morning session will begin with a brief overview of current t...
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The Queen's Translation Exchange @translationexch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We are delighted to invite MFL teachers to attend our 2026 webinar series, organised as part of the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators competition launch. Come along to learn about the Prize, meet the judges, and try your hand at creative translation from Mandarin! Full details below 🔽
Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators
Webinar Programme 2026

Teaching Creative Translation from Mandarin
In Collaboration with Paper Republic
Wednesday 7 January, 4:30PM

Meet the Judges
Thursday 22 January, 4:30PM

Competition Information Evening
Tuesday 3 February, 4:30PM

Organised by the Queen’s Translation Exchange
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Percy Balemans 📚 @creative-xl8.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages. We’re not mops. We’re translators." #translation #xl8 www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-l...
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An open letter to colleagues: we are not mops
After more than two decades working in legal translation across four languages and multiple jurisdictions, I’ve watched our profession reshaped by forces that claim efficiency as a path to our expenda...
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A very interesting thread about how editors are being asked to step in to fill the stylistic void created by AI-written texts.
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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Hi to new followers, via the translators starter pack and the ETN discussion! #amtranslating #literarytranslation and #booksky are useful for finding likeminded people too... Let's keep the chat going :)
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I’m writing a piece about freelancing in the publishing industry/creative industries. ✍️ If you’re not a freelancer in this sector but you’d maybe like to be, what’s stopping you? If you’d never want to be freelance, how come? If you are freelance, what do you love/hate about it?
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 07/07/2025
Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!
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The Stephen Spender Trust @stephenspender.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
1 week to go! #Teachers, join Stacie Allan and Ali Al-Jamri for a free webinar on #CreativeTranslation in the English classroom. Perfect preparation for #SSTPoetryPrize2025! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-t... Hosted by @englishassociation.bsky.social #edusky #teamenglish
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Creative Translation in the English classroom: How can it work?
Explore practical strategies for engaging with a diverse range of texts using the Stephen Spender Trust’s Creative Translation approach
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thank you to @thetls.bsky.social and Lauren Booker for this lovely, thoughtful assessment of Rachilde and her brilliant novel The Tower of Love in my translation. I'm so glad the reviewer enjoyed the humour as well as the weirdness.
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Here's a book to get excited about!
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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
✨ Meet the workshop leader✨ With decades of experience in translation and teaching, @clarissabotsford.bsky.social has translated works by authors like Viola Ardone, Elvira Dones, and Alessandro Baricco. Find out more and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
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Julia Sherwood @juliasherwood.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Come and join us at @uclssees.bsky.social on 6 May as we launch Nicol Hochholczerová's book and kick off her UK tour. If you miss us there, you can also catch Nicol in Oxford on 7 and 8 May, Crickhowell, Cardiff, Hay over the weekend, at Translated By, Bristol on 13 May and again in London on 15 May
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Very happy to see my new translation of The Tower of Love by Rachilde out in the wild and in very good company in the Albertine bookshop in New York @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
A copy of The Tower of Love by Rachilde being held up in Albertine bookshop, New York.
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Institute of Translation and Interpreting @iti-uk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"What distinguishes translation is the way translators read, a close reading that engages deeply with a language’s structure." #translation #xl8 #literarytranslation
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How to read like a translator — Harvard Gazette
Damion Searls ’92 talks process, sentence structure, and what makes a chair a chair.
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James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Member of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Read The Author? The SoA want to know what you think of the magazine and whether you'd prefer print/digital/both: www.surveymonkey.com/r/QFHJ262
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 winners. Ten translators and one editor are awarded prizes for translating from eight languages, and along with the runners-up, share a prize fund of £30,000. See the full list of winners here: authr.uk/TPWinners24 #TranslationPrizes
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We’re pleased to share two online workshops tutored by our 2024/25 Translator-in-Residence, Sawad Hussain, @sawadhussain.bsky.social Pitching Your Translation: Thursday, 20 February, 7-9pm BST Writing Your Translator’s Note: Thursday, 6 March, 7-9pm BST www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...
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Online Translation Workshops with Translator-in-Residence Sawad Hussain
Wasafiri is excited to announce two translation workshops tutored by our 2024/2025 Translator-in-Residence Sawad Hussain.
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Grab a cuppa and get to know French translator, Vineet Lal. Vineet will be in conversation with American-British novelist,  tracychevalier.bsky.social to discuss his work and career and to offer a glimpse into his creative routine. Free for all - societyofauthors.org/event/french...
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French Week 2025 | Afternoon Tea with Vineet Lal – The Society of AuthorsXFacebookInstagramVimeoApple PodcastsSearchShopping CartSearchToggle MenuVirtual EventVirtual EventVirtual EventVirtual EventTo...
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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This looks like my current draft 😭
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New books are in hand in most untimely fashion: the spiraling spatial symbolism of Dr. Mises and the symbolist sexual psychosis of Rachilde. wakefieldpress.com/products/sta... wakefieldpress.com/products/the...
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Two free events coming up in Oxford from the Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social in February - a translation slam with Lawrence Schimel and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, with a symposium on teaching feminist translation. feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2024/07/even...
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Event 2: Pedagogies of feminist translation – Feminist Translation Network
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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Book your free tickets now for the next #FeministTranslationNetwork events! Don't miss our translation slam with Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social, chaired by Gabriela Saldanha, Thurs 6 Feb, 5-6.30pm, Queen's College, Oxford, and online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/queens-trans...
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Feminist Translation Slam at Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College
Tickets are now available for Feminist Translation Slam at Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College, Oxford on Thu 6 Feb 2025. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists 41 shortlisted books, eight prizes, 12 languages - over £30,000 awarded. See the full shortlists here: authr.uk/TP24 Shop the shortlists - uk.bookshop.org/lists/transl... #TranslationPrizes
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Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists - The Society of Authors
There are 41 shortlisted works across eight prizes
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A bumper crop in my translated fiction roundup for @theguardian.com. A private eye who's too fat to escape through windows; a book whose only failing is there isn't more of it; and a late entry—funny, surprising and in parts overwhelming in its emotional force—for one of the best novels of the year.
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The best translated fiction – review roundup
Fathers and Fugitives by SJ Naudé; Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet; A Man with No Title by Xavier Le Clerc; Command Performance by Jean Echenoz
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FELT (French-to-English Literary Translators) @felttranslators.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Check out our new starter pack of French-to-English literary translators (to be updated as more people make the move over to this platform)! Let us know in the replies if you'd like to be added. #translation go.bsky.app/iBAJC2
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 26/11/2024
Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)
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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Translator: The cup is half full/half empty/partially filled/semi full/half drunk (?check?)/mostly gone [FIX IN NEXT DRAFT]
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 is Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated from German (Germany) by Andrew Shanks and published by @carcanet.bsky.social.
A picture of the book Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated by Andrew Shanks, on a desk in front of a brick wall.
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 11/11/2024
PEN Presents @englishpen.bsky.social and the International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social have joined forces to support emerging translators
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Why PEN Presents and the International Booker Prize have joined forces to support emerging translators | The Booker Prizes
A new scheme providing 12 grants has been created to help translators from the Global Majority reach editors and readers. Here, the Administrator of the International Booker Prize explains why it is n...
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Tonight in Margate! I’ll be at the Fort Road Hotel chatting with The Margate Bookshop! Last Goblinhood event of the year, FREE, see you there! (Me earlier this morning ‘under-goblin’)
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Kotryna Garanasvili is giving a free online talk on translating dialect! Monday 18 November, 13:00-14:00 occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/discus...
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Discussion Group: Dialect in Translation
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Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Thank you to @racheltranslates.bsky.social for making this brilliant list of translators on here!
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