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Tiffany Tsao

@tiffanytsao.bsky.social
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Author & Literary Translator | Deputy Editor, Sydney Review of Books. I am not very active here! tiffanytsao.com

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
OLENKA by Budi Darma (tr. @tiffanytsao.bsky.social , Penguin Classics) is “like nothing else you’ll read this year.” bookshop.org/a/169/978014...
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Olenka
A new English translation of an existential tale of obsession by Indonesia’s celebrated writer of absurdist realismA Penguin ClassicIn Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he…
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This happened and it was wonderful. Thank you @msatris.bsky.social for conversationing with me ✨
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alana "overripe by a day" banana @lanna.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A big thanks to @harpercollins.bsky.social for sending me a copy of @tiffanytsao.bsky.social's But Won't I Miss Me after I left it a glowing review. Was not expecting that, I just loved the book! (Affiliate link) bookshop.org/a/121296/978...
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But Won't I Miss Me: A Novel
A Novel
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sharing because I contributed—and Helen Vassallo is someone whose work I value and respect. With @willforrest.bsky.social, Nicholas Glastonbury, Daniel Hahn, Sawad Hussein, Sophie Lewis, Ros Schwartz, Nichola Smalley, Corine Tachtiris & @tiffanytsao.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Getting-Star...
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Getting Started as a Literary Translator: Translated Literature and Publishing
Getting Started as a Literary Translator: Translated Literature and Publishing is an essential textbook for aspiring literary translators, offering a comprehensive guide to navigating the professional...
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Pearl S. Buck said this in 1958. I would note today that the spike in ridiculously detailed and intensive advice on what makes a “good” mother gives a woman only two options: burying herself or being monstrous.
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Really happy it arrived safely, as sending objects of gold touched by God the Son by regular post is always a little risky. Hope the story is worth it, Ross ♥️✨
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I drew a cover for 'Olenka' by Budi Darma, translated by Tiffany Tsao. It's out in July but you can preorder it now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760272/olenka-by-budi-darma-translated-with-an-introduction-and-notes-by-tiffany-tsao/
A book cover for 'Olenka' by Budi Darma, translated by Tiffany Tsao.

The image is a drawing by Tom Gauld.

A moonlit scene of an american suburban landscape. We can see seven very similar women (or the same woman seven times): one in a car, one reading a book on a bench, one looking out from a dark building etc.A closeup of the book cover of 'Olenka' by Budi Darma, translated by Tiffany Tsao.

The image is a drawing by Tom Gauld.

A moonlit scene of an american suburban landscape. We can see seven very similar women (or the same woman seven times): one in a car, one reading a book on a bench, one looking out from a dark building etc.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Books Across Borders invites booksellers and librarians to join them for a New Year in Translation Book Buzz! Get the 411 on the seasons' most exciting translations from indie presses, and share space with fellow translation lovers. Sign up today! 1/21, 8 pm ET: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This article on then recent Indonesian literary history from a June 1956 issue of The Atlantic, written by Asrul Sani, translated by John M Echols: "To what extent will the next phase of our literature be international, influenced by the work of foreign writers?" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Literary Movement: A Mirror of Social Development
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I wrote one of my dissertation chapters on Mo’s Redundancy of Courage, and my research influenced me when writing The Majesties . Every now and then I wonder what Mo is doing now, and now I know I’m not alone.
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Where did Timothy Mo go? Revisiting the Booker author 'who got away' | The Booker Prizes
Part of a golden generation of writers in the 1980s, Timothy Mo was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times – then dropped off the radar
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Check out @tiffanytsao.bsky.social’s piece in @pensydney.bsky.social’s magazine (p. 6-7) on peasant activist Amanda Echanis’ work to translate assassinated poet and activist Kerima Lorena Tariman. Amanda is currently a political prisoner, doing all this behind bars. pen.org.au/wp-content/u...
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Liminal @liminalmag.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We are honoured to receive the 2025 NSW Literary Awards "Special Award", offered in recognition of an exceptional contribution to the literary life of Australia, to a literary work not covered by the existing categories. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-l...
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Special Award
Content from the State Library of New South Wales.
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
War and Peace, but make it Bogan Australian: ‘Heaps of posh wankers were at Anna’s place by now. It was getting full as.’
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‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’
Melbourne man Ander Louis has translated hundreds of pages of the 19th century classic line by line to include Ford Falcons, wankers and drongos
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Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
FULL LINEUP for our little festival of Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand literature in Berlin on May 24th!! Come see professors, poets, artists, & novelists (& me); come hear about Weiss & Bismarck's bastards & Sebald in the desert & multidirectional war memory >> stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...
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PARATAXE Symposium XVI = Antipodes: Down under in Berlin – the Australian & New Zealand authors of Berlin
Draft program: 13:30: Kick-offWith Alexander Wells and Martin Jankowski 14:00 – 15:30: Panel 1 (in German)NEIGHBOURS. Encounters, translations, suggestions.Keynote: Prof. Anja SchwarzPanel: Joel Scott...
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
How to brush your teeth in space:
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Chris Hadfield Brushes his Teeth in Space
YouTube video by Canadian Space Agency
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Exceedingly pleased to be on this @englishpen.bsky.social x @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist! I’ll be translating a sample from Indonesian, from a novel by Grace Tioso. Working title in English: The Born Out of Wedlock Club 🌶️🥳🎊
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A photo of Kazuo Ishiguro in 1977, in a singlet and beard, playing the guitar: www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
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From guitar in a share house to the Nobel Prize: catching up with Kazuo Ishiguro
The British novelist’s latest book can be seen as a response to the sadness in his bestselling Never Let Me Go.
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Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you find your work has been included in this dataset please complete our form below! We need this information to demonstrate the scale of the impact upon creators and to advocate to Government on creators' behalves. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Australian authors and illustrators impacted by the LibGen database.
On 21 March 2025 The Atlantic published a search tool which allows authors to search for their books in LibGen, one of the datasets that has been used to train Meta's generative AI system. It is anoth...
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The award for Best Use of 'Scintillated' in the Wild goes to this article on tardigrades from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience website. imb.uq.edu.au/just-add-wat...
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Writing an essay on motherhood and the grave. Or undead mothering. Something like that. This 2018 New Yorker essay by Jill Lepore observes Shelley was nursing, giving birth, and pregnant throughout the writing of Frankenstein.
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Was reading the intro to a 1891 edition of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man. And came across a line that is music to my ears and will probably never see anywhere else: "he was chiefly a translator, and made much money"
Words underlined in green: "he was chiefly a translator, and made much money"
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Extremely excited to share this piece of good news: a two-book deal with HarperVia, with the first book (But Won't I Miss Me) coming out in 2026! More deets and deep reflections on my blog: tiffanytsao.com/2025/01/13/a...
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Joko Pinurbo as a young, brooding poet, from the October 1985 issue of BASIS magazine. (For those outside Indonesian lit, Joko Pinurbo passed away earlier this year.)
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
When the author you're translating casually mentions in the afterword to his Bloomington-set novel that he developed a keen interest in hot-air balloons. And when you then find out there is a company called Balloons Over Bloomington 🎈 balloonsoverbloomington.com
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Balloons Over Bloomington Indiana – Hot Air Balloon Ride Tours
Hot air balloon rides are the ultimate Indiana outdoor adventure. Book group flights, private flights, and balloon tethers here!
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
When revising the very, very last little bit of your manuscript somehow feels like this song (one of my favs): www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Nf...
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The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Secret Sessions
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
The novel I'm writing leads me to interesting articles, including this one on the kidnapping of a premature baby in the Bronx in 1950, and how the kidnapper (someone who yearned to have a baby) created a makeshift incubator: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...
An image of a newspaper article and drawing from a newspaper in 1950. The image shows a makeshift baby incubator in a small room, made froma baby carriage, a heater, a stove, an electric pad, several blankets, and a hot water bottle.
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
While researching for Oddfits 3, I came across this great video of kimzua (chinese paper offerings) craftsman Lai Yew Onn. “I am not afraid of ghosts. Rather, they are afraid of me. They’re afraid I’ll stop working. They come here to window shop because I do beautiful work.”
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The Kimzua Craftsman - Our Grandfather Story
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
“The real vulnerability of a modern toaster: the electronics”
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Why Your Toaster Will Eventually Fail You
Students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University dissected vintage toasters and our picks. Here’s what we learned.
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Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Missed having an easy way to share cool things about others w/ others. Here is an article I came across on the ethnic Chinese in New Guinea (PNG) being abandoned to their fate before the Japanese invaded in WWII
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Survivor recalls 'unwanted' Chinese liberated by Australia after World War II
A few photos and a 90-second black and white film in the Australia War Memorial archive, a cooking pot made from a crashed US fighter plane and the memories of a few, very elderly survivors are all th...
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