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Sarah Timmer Harvey

@sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 23/12/2025
There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18/11/2025
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Like many debuts, People With No Charisma is a partly autobiographical coming-of-age story...autobiographical in terms of theme, and the protagonist’s disco outfit." Jente Posthuma & Sarah Timmer Harvey shared a playlist for the novel People with No Charisma largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/10/j...
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
A photograph of the 14 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The books are stood on a wooden table against a brick wall with their spines facing the camera.
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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
For the past few months, I've been corresponding with the brilliant Elizabeth Bryer about translation, AI, remuneration & the 2025 NSW translation prize, which Bryer won. You can now read our entire conversation at the Sydney Review Of Books: sydneyreviewofbooks.com/interviews/t... 📚✨️
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It's US publication day for my translation of Jente Posthuma's brilliant, quirky novel, People With No Charisma!! North Americans, you can now buy it from your fave indie bookstore and gift it to the most charismatic person in your life 📖✨️
A picture of translator Sarah Timner Harvey holding a copy of Jente Posthuma's novel, People With No Charisma. The cover is Blue and orange with the image of a deer on it.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/09/2025
Q: Are there any other advantages to using ChatPerson over chatbots? A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.
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Introducing ChatPerson
Joining ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta, and many other powerful chatbot services, we are proud to announce the release of our new RI (real intelligence) ser...
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Lots happening with the Anthropic AI settlement including the judge temporarily rejecting the settlement terms. I've written an update about all the recent news along with must-read threads from @courtneymilan.com @corabuhlert.bsky.social & @susankayequinn.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
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Genre Grapevine Updates on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford
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james folta @jamesfolta.com · 08/09/2025
A blog for @literaryhub.bsky.social about how authors deserve more from an industry that unabashedly treats all of our work and private information as grist for their own profits
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Never thought $1.5 billion was a small amount of money until this AI settlement.
The New York Times is reporting some new details about the settlement agreement between the AI company Anthropic and the authors whose work the company stole. The class action settlement, it was an…
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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
Tiang: As Maureen alluded to, when we sign a contract, we get paid for our translations. But, in fact, we’re also doing a lot of other labor that is expected but not compensated. This can start way before the contract is signed. Many of us are pitching books to publishers, and to do that, we have to be reading wisely. We have to be making contact with authors and publishers to make sure that the rights are available. We have to do sample translations and synopses, for free, and we have to email them to publishers that we have taken care to build relationships with. All of this is unpaid until a publisher accepts the book, at which point you are negotiating for money after having done a lot of labor. And then there is, as Adam has pointed out, a power differential where the only power the translator has is to say, “This is what I would like.”

Beyond that, all you can do is accept what you’re offered or walk away. In one sense, you’re being paid for the labor of your translation. But in another sense, you’re an all-around concierge who, in my case because many of my authors do not speak English, is expected to translate emails between the author and the publisher, to act as a kind of go-between: an agent, a rights agent, and a publicist all in one. We do what has to be done in order to get the translation to market, and often we are the only person in the equation with access to both languages and both cultures and both literary scenes, so we’re the only person who can do this work. But it’s not in our contracts, and we’re not getting paid for it. But it’s what has to happen to keep everything running.Tiang: Honestly, any kind of disruptive solution would be great. I am someone who makes the majority of my income from literary translation, even though my language isn’t particularly in demand. I do this by pitching a lot, generating a lot of my own work, never taking a day off, not sleeping. And that’s not really sustainable. The question for someone like me, who is relatively established and working constantly translating three to four books a year, is: Should I not be making a living? The fact that I am not suggests a problem with sustainability in the industry. It can’t just be people with outside sources of income. But I will say that this conversation has been hugely generative, and I’m going to suggest we start a group chat and continue it.
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Institute of Translation and Interpreting @iti-uk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Denmark's Ministry of Justice has announced that post-editing machine translation (PEMT) does not qualify as "translation" under its legal framework. #Translation #ProfessionalStandards #AITranslation
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Denmark Says Post-Editing Is Not Translation
Danish associations get legal backing to stop AI translation editors from getting credit as original translators.
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Sharing memes of Trump and Putin kissing or engaged in any s*x act or dressed as women is not the huge own you think it is. It's actually deeply homophobic & rooted in misogyny 🧵
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Historian Rashid Khalidi cancels his Fall class
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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
My translation of Jente Posthuma's quirky and darkly funny debut novel People With No Charisma is out now in the UK & Australia. You can find it at your local indie bookshop or order directly from @scribepub.bsky.social...📚✨️
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Delighted to hear that my translation of Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About has been shortlisted for the NSW Literary Awards Translation Prize. I'm excited to be heading to Gadigal country/Sydney in May! Huge congratulations to the other nominees #NSWLA
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Freedom is when your boss tells you what to write
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Congratulations to this year's International Booker Longlistees!! I'm particularly excited to see Lucy Scott's translation of Astrid Roemer's excellent novel On a Woman's Madness make the longlist. I do not envy the judges.This list will so hard to narrow down! 📚💚
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I recently spoke to Kyo Gerritson of INCREC about my approach to translation and the threat of AI. The interview is out on Spotify now! ⬇️
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New York: I'll be at Molasses books in Brooklyn on January 31st reading my translations of @nadiadevries.bsky.social & @mauritsdebruijn.bsky.social alongside these fine people ⬇️ Come through!
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The low countries asked me for my Dutch book recs so I got to wrote about the legendary Astrid Roemer and Maurits de Bruijn's brilliant new novel ⬇️📚 www.the-low-countries.com/article/sara...
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Sarah Timmer Harvey’s Choice: Astrid Roemer and Maurits de Bruijn - the low countries
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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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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
100% of all *unnamed* translators "really, really like" Nuanxed Ai book translations ⬇️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Amsterdam launch of Thistle by Nadia de Vries is happening this Saturday at San Serriffe! Nadia will be reading from my translation at 6.30. Come through!! 💟⬇️
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"If you are a HarperCollins writer, I suggest getting on the horn to your agent immediately and getting them to preemptively tell HC (and any/every publisher!) that your work will never be available to train LLMs or other AI processes." 🚨Essential reading🚨⬇️
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“Ever since my mother’s death...falling in love had become a completely different experience for me.” Read Ine Boermans’ story “Love Interbellum,” translated by @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social and published in The Michigan Quarterly Review.
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“Love Interbellum”
Ever since my mother’s death, which had also been the death of my entire family, falling in love had become a completely different experience for me. My old love affairs could feel deliciously fier…
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My translation of 'Love Interbellum" by the excellent Ine Boermans, first published by the Michigan Quarterly Review is featured on Lithub today! You can read the full excerpt below! ⬇️📚💚 lithub.com/love-interbe...
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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
"Machines do not translate, they merely generate textual material; books are written by human authors and should be translated by human translators. Imagination, understanding and creativity are intrinsically human and should not be left out of any literary text." www.ceatl.eu/open-letter-... #xl8
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Open letter to Veen Bosch & Keuning in regards to the usage of AI to translate books into English language
We are horrified to read in The Bookseller about Veen Bosch & Keuning’s “limited experiment with some Dutch authors, for…
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
To celebrate my new translation of Thistle by Nadia de Vries, The New Menard Press are offering this limited edition Thistle tote bag, which means you can carry Thistle everywhere with you & support an awesome indie press! Link in bio! 👇💕🖤
A black Tote bag featuring the cover of the novel Thistle by Nadia de Vries, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. The cover features a close up hot pink graphic of a woman's face looking sideways.
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Athenaeum Boekhandel @athenaeum.nl · 11/07/2024
Sarah Timmer Harvey vertaalde Jente Posthuma’s Waar ik liever niet aan denk als What I’d Rather Not Think About (shortlist International Booker Prize 2024). Lees haar over Posthuma’s​ humor en haar toon en een Sef van Oekel-referentie op www.athenaeum.nl/nie...
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Laura Frey @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
What I'd Rather Not Think About is more of an internet novel than those marketed as internet novels. Characters trying to seem smart by quoting Wikipedia etc. Loved it
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma tr. Sarah Timmer Harvey
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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
Picked up this novel shortly after the shortlist for the International Booker was announced and read it basically as soon as I got it home. It's been a few weeks since then, but it continues to bounce around in my head. I really appreciate how effective the episodic format was. Definitely recommend.
The novel 'What I'd Rather Not Think About' by Jente Posthuma (translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey) being held up against a white, textured wall. My hand is partially visible in the lower left corner and casting a slight shadow over that part of the book cover. The cover is light blue with a picture of a salmon coloured turtle neck sweater hanging from a metal clotheshanger at the centre.
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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
My translation of Thistle by Nadia de Vries is out now in The UK through The New Menard Press! You can find it it at your favourite indie bookshop or online. Link in bio 💓
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