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Marianna Suleymanova

@marsnova.bsky.social
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www.mstranslates.com Literary translator from Russian Third Culture Kid Gender Coin-flip 📍 Philadelphia 🏠 Houston 🌱 Tashkent

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a translation in the 2026 O. Henry Prize Winners anthology, out today from Penguin Random House. Selected by Tommy Orange, edited by Jenny Minton Quigley, available everywhere books are sold🧡🩵
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Delighted to be bringing this haunting masterpiece into English. For fans of Death Stranding, Cormac McCarthy, and True Detective Season 1, this one will stay with you.
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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for publishing my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body. Our work together and the book itself mean a lot to me so it's especially gratifying to hear that My Dreadful Body made the National Book Award's longlist for Translated Literature!
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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 03/09/2026
Congratulations to @jacqlyy.bsky.social and Hon Lai Chu! MENDING BODIES is on the longlist for ALTA's National Translation Award in Prose! 🪡🧵
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have a new translation out today in @thedialmag.bsky.social The Urbanist is a story of clout chasing, authoritarianism and paranoia. This is Anna’s first time in the English and I hope you spend some time with our piece. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
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"The Urbanist" by Anna Shipilova — The Dial
A short story.
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Delighted to be bringing this haunting masterpiece into English. For fans of Death Stranding, Cormac McCarthy, and True Detective Season 1, this one will stay with you.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
robertreich.substack.com/p/stop-ai
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Stop AI Before it's Too Late
Its costs and risks are gigantic. Its benefits, unproven.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Love this! After recent russian attacks on Ukrainian publishers, Ukrainian Railways has launched a new initiative to support Ukrainian books. Passengers can order books when buying a ticket and receive them directly on the train.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 24/07/2026
It doesn't matter if you're, like, Emily Wilson with a PhD and an Ivy League professor who can and has explained *very thoroughly* why she made certain choices, has certain views etc. and has explained them for years and in very public, free-to-read and free-to-view forums. Nope. They want monkeys.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 24/07/2026
The tiresome online discourse around translations makes it pretty clear that many people still have a very facile view of what a translator does or ought to do, that translators should be slavishly literal and strive to be invisible and as normative as possible. They think monkeys can do this job.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 20/07/2026
Preorders open for THAT SUMMER’S END by Lee Seong-bok! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776178...
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We can’t have clean air, but we can read about it
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Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ALTA49 will feature a panel on translation of children's literature moderated by @jasmine-hongyu.bsky.social and including Riya Parikh, @nanettemcg.bsky.social, Lena Traer, and @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social! 📚 #kidlit #worldkidlit #translation #xl8 #ALTA49
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Y'all, @khoreo.bsky.social is an incredible magazine, and it's basically 1k away from funding. Show up for immigrant voices in SFF. Get awesome stories. Everybody wins!
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khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What makes a place home? In Evgenia Nekrasova’s short story "Her North," translated by @marsnova.bsky.social, a woman whose mother migrated to the Russian Arctic refuses to leave, even as war brings about new questions of identity and belonging. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
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Her North by Evgenia Nekrasova — The Dial
A short story.
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I have a new translation out today in @thedialmag.bsky.social Her North is a meditation on belonging that doubles as a love letter to eternal winter. Original story by Evgenia Nekrasova. I hope you give it a read 🦌❄️ www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
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Her North by Evgenia Nekrasova — The Dial
A short story.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026
Hi, fund khōréō or so help me www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
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khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My favourite thing about Haaland is that he spent 1.3 million ​Norwegian kroner of his football money on a rare 1594 edition of Viking chronicles - a record book sale for Norway - and then donated it to his regional library. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ha...
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Haaland trades goals for sagas with record-breaking Viking book
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has donated a rare 16th-century manuscript of Viking ​sagas to his home municipality in ‌Norway.
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
All current HMML catalogers and curators contributed to a new exhibition, “Lost & Found in Translation." Co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Carnell and Rylie Owen, the exhibition explores the challenges of translation and the connections it fosters. View in-person and online: hmml.org/programs/exhibitions.
Exhibition. Lost and Found in Translation. A new exhibition on the challenges of translation and the connections it fosters. View at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota, and online at hmml.org/exhibitions.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/06/2026
Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
On Tuesday, queer Houstonians mourned Persia Conway, a trans woman found dead last week. After grief, there was rage. Rage at Houston PD. Rage at rumors that Persia was someone she wasn't. But most of all, rage over another trans woman of color taken too soon: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Family, LGBT community demands justice in Houston trans woman's death
"No transgender person should have to wonder whether their life will be treated as less important because of who they are."
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Philly can spring.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
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In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We spoke with @antonhur.com about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s ‘Capitalists Must Starve’, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We loved our conversation with Anton, whose work we have admired for years! Give this one a read. 📚 www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
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Talking with Anton Hur — In Other Words
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...
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Spring in Philadelphia.
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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop
A quiet revolution is unfolding as women writers carve out space in the wake of an anti-feminist backlash.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Look how Norway is fighting back at screens. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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Free iPads ruined kids’ reading in Norway. Now it’s fighting back
The nation’s libraries offer rollerskating, rap workshops — and, most importantly, books to reverse the decline caused by a classroom tech experiment
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Honored and humbled to be among the 2026 O. Henry Prize Winners! lithub.com/announcing-t...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction
Tommy Orange was awarded a much-deserved MacArthur Genius Grant this fall for breaking from the tradition of reservation-based Native American literature to write new, illuminative, and realistic N…
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭
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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is
“Vera,” said the countess, turning to her older daughter, obviously not her favorite. “How is it you have no notion of anything?”

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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
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This material may be protected by copyright.“I often think how unfairly life’s good fortune is sometimes distributed. Why has fate given you two such nice children (excluding Anatole, your youngest, I don’t like him),” she put in peremptorily, raising her eyebrows, “such lovely children? And you really value them less than anyone and are therefore unworthy of them.”
		And she smiled her rapturous smile.”

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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
https://books.apple.com/us/book/war-and-peace/id460819556
This material may be protected by copyright.“The count is suffering both physically and morally, and it seems you have taken care to cause him as much moral suffering as possible.”
		“May I see the count?” Pierre repeated.
		“Hm! … If you want to kill him, to kill him outright, you may see him.”

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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
https://books.apple.com/us/book/war-and-peace/id460819556
This material may be protected by copyright.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“In a land where intellectual property is often as unprotected as the bodies in the streets, Fernanda and I built a bridge of shadows.” Miaad Banki writes about his experience translating Fernanda Trías’s NO SOÑARÁS FLORES during the Tehran blackout. At Public Books:
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They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout - Public Books
As the entire country was plunged into a digital blackout, the only light remaining in my room was the cold, clinical glow of my disconnected laptop. There, in that forced isolation, I sat…
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is a really beautiful story that goes places I did not expect when I first assigned it.
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The Forgotten Cemetery
A neglected North Philly graveyard. A vanished fortune. And a two-year quest to answer a single haunting question: What do we owe the dead?
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home ..." Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis) @silver-press.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/18/a...
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Angst — Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis)
What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home, amid the crowd of lively cr…
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 18/03/2026
Commentary: AI translation of literature should be questioned because literary translation requires human interpretation and cultural understanding that machines cannot provide.
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Lost in AI translation: What’s at stake? Our humanity.
Literary translation is one of humanity's most crucial tasks — one that should never be left to the machines.
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Issue 5.4 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A wintry, gothic issue underpinned by disasters and dark transformations. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by Mary Ainza 🧡
Image of the cover of khoreo magazine issue 5.4. The cover of the magazine is an illustration of a person cocooning and turning into a moth.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
‼️ It's your last chance! Today is the ✨final day✨ to submit to ALTA's 2026 book awards and Travel Fellowships. Find all the guidelines and submit here by the end of the day today! alta.submittable.com/submit/
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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Literary translator pals: a new competition, in honour of the late, great David Bellos. For unpublished samples. More details here: janklowandnesbit.co.uk/prize #xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐
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Translation Prize
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🖤📚🦅
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Cajsa @cajsa.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
@sevenstories.bsky.social is showing up in opposition to the war in Iran. They have put together a reading list and even are releasing Chris Hedges "A Genocide Foretold" for free. Check out the reading list. It is comprehensive. www.sevenstories.com/blogs/409-ha...
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Hands Off Iran: A Reading List and Free eBook
"A society dominated by militarists distorts its social, cultural, economic, and political institutions to serve the interests of the war industry," says Chris Hedges in The Greatest Evil is War....
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Randy Kim @banhmichronicles.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Queer Korean author and translator @antonhur.com on The Banh Mi Chronicles Podcast about his debut fiction, Toward Eternity, and what he has learned as an author. We chatted about translation in literature, AI’s effects on writers, social issues, Mariah Carey, and more. Follow the podcast!
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It was a joy to spotlight the Philly literary translation scene with my brilliant friends📚🖤🦅
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It was a joy to spotlight the Philly literary translation scene with my brilliant friends📚🖤🦅
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"The framing of LLMs as preserving the lives of those we have lost distracts from the lost livelihoods, and worsened material conditions, of a generation of writers on whose work the technology of LLM feeds." lareviewofbooks.org/article/literat…
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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
'First lines of books always feel like life and death for a translation. I must have stared and stared at this line for, cumulatively, hours.' Fascinating to read @jencalleja.bsky.social reflect on translating four lines of 'Favorita' by Michelle Steinbeck, for @faberbooks.bsky.social.
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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#Belarus: We condemn the labelling of @penbelarus.bsky.social digital platform as ‘extremist materials’ and reiterate our full solidarity with colleagues in their quest to promote and protect Belarusian culture, language, and identity. penbelarus.org/en/
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PEN Belarus
PEN Belarus
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