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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooh will definitely try to come, been eagerly awaiting the book coming out in NA!

Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just signed off on the proofs for my debut translation, BLACK MALE by Elgas, due to be published internationally by Europa Editions later this year! www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...

A screenshot of the Europa Editions website listing for Black Male, showing that it is coming out in paperback and will cost $19.

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Would anyone with a Bookseller subscription be willing to send me a screenshot/photo of the July fiction preview from the 10th of April edition? I think I make an appearance! #literarytranslation

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Would anyone with a Bookseller subscription be willing to send me a screenshot/photo of the July fiction preview from the 10th of April edition? I think I make an appearance! #literarytranslation

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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

calling all literary translators - does anyone want to talk to me (on the record) about their gendered experience of **working as a translator** including e.g. the pay gap and the motherhood penalty?

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I haven't got to it yet in my TBR pile but Les Jours Mauves by Kalindi Ramphul sounds like it might fit the bill!

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Translation notes to my future self

A Word comment reading 'This chapter will give you a mental breakdown but don't panic because it gets easier again afterwards'

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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Absolutely beautiful piece about how translators aren't invisible and translation isn't just word for word. "Is translation an art or an action? The answer is both, depending on the original. Literary translation is the translation of art, and so it must itself be art." lithub.com/the-future-w...

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The Future Will be Translated: A Manifesto in Three Lies

In my early twenties, I worked one summer as domestic help in a private residence for rich male university students in New York City. As part of our training, we women were taught to close all the …

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Starting a new translation today and already I've had to look up a building on Street View, identified a possible factual error and incorporated some Shakespeare—we're so back.

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 01/04/2025

Two more weeks until the Stevns Translation Prize deadline! There's still time to enter! Tell all of your emerging translator friends: a book published internationally, mentorship, a beautiful retreat with a pond! www.stevnstranslationprize.com

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The Stevns Translation Prize

The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Seriously considering moving FELT (@felttranslators.bsky.social) over from Slack to Discord now that Slack will be deleting content over a year old, especially now I've discovered you can transfer your archive over. Thoughts for or against very welcome!

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A great author email quote from the end of 2024: 'Clearly, when Lisa Sinclair asks for things, things happen!' Now just need to decide what to use my newfound powers for first...

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

For me it's specifically when formatting has been changed (including highlighting). I've started attaching the comment to the space before or after a word whose formatting has been changed to avoid the issue!

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I like "scream in the agony of the gouged"!

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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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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink 💦

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I've been tempted by the Edinburgh Uni PhD, which allows you to do 'an extended scholarly translation with commentary'.

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

I had the same problem and discovered the proxy can apply to do your proxy vote by post from wherever they live in the UK - sounds fiddly but Manchester Council immediately sent the postal proxy form by email for my proxy to print, scan and return!

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Just submitted my first full-length book translation to the publisher! Announcement coming soon. Now nobody ask me to make any decisions for at least a week because I just made 60,000 in a row 🛌

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Lisa Sinclair @lisaeditorial.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Trying out a therapeutic version of rejection erasure poetry

An email with blacked out sections leaving just the words ‘Dear Lisa, we’ve decided … your translation was … the best,’

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FELT (French-to-English Literary Translators) @felttranslators.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

FELT has landed on Bluesky! We're a friendly international community of French-to-English literary translators who hang out on Slack. Literary translators at all career stages (aspiring, emerging, established, over it) are very welcome! Grab your invite at felttranslators.wordpress.com ✉️✨

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FELT: French-to-English Literary Translators

A friendly international Slack community where literary translators working from French can connect, collaborate and share tips and WIPs.

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