Originally published September 18 The Anthropic copyright infringement settlement is a milestone for the industry as the largest copyright settlement in history, but it does not come close to…

Raging and roaring: Daniel Lipara’s prose poem translated by Robin Myers, the latest post in the 2026 Words Without Borders–Academy of American Poets National Translation Month series.

ALTA has been centered on the art, craft, and culture of literary translation for over four decades. Over the years, ALTA has grown in size and scope with an eye toward inclusivity and an aim to…

Perhaps what matters is not where you are, but whether you can step back for a moment from existing cultural habits and see them again.

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A precision of sounds and imagery capture the essence of elemental fire in Margaret Noodin’s self-translated poem from Ojibwe, the final post in the 2026 Words Without Borders–Academy of American…

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Iana Boukova’s novel finds enchantment in digression, folklore, and the sensuous music of language.

The Taiwan Academy of Taiwan Mission in Los Angeles, supervised by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, has joined forces with the Chinese Animation an ...More

Toward the end of 2023, I was approached to translate Roberta Recchia’s debut novel All That is Left of Life. The book was still a few months away from publication in Italy, and Recchia’s name wasn…

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Read SEEfest’s review of Night is More Abstract by Slovenian poet Miklavž Komelj, a richly layered collection exploring history, ideology, myth, and the everyday

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Greenwich Mean Time Leave the seismology of this dream for tomorrow. We have divided the distance we traveled. It’s an immeasurable altitude, off the grid, beyond the vast expanse of land, crossing…

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Four novels are among the French works in translation on Canadian publishers' lists this fall.

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Ominous, potent, and dreamlike: Jenny Tunedal’s poem, translated by Johannes Göransson, from the WWB–AAP 2026 National Translation Month.

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Find the New Yorker announcement here. New York, NY (September 15, 2026) – The National Book Foundation today announced…

Doğa Ayar studies the stakes and strategies involved in translating an early twentieth-century collection of erotica from the formative days of Turkey’s post-Ottoman republic.

Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/8 from The University Press of Kentucky, Black Square Editions, Prototype, Cardboard House Press, Caitlin Press, LSU Press, Auckland University Press,…

Hi! Where have I been? Last time we heard from me, Miss Translation, I was on a rocket blasting out of Iowa. I hosted two events, one in New York and one in Chicago. Was I forced into hiding because…

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