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A fan project to propose a Hugo for Translated Speculative Fiction, and to share resources and excitement about global SF. translatedhugo.org

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Wesley Osam @mwosam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Randomly checking the NYRB Classics website, I noticed they're going to be publishing a new translation of Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel:
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Morel’s Invention
Jorge Luis Borges declared Morel's Invention a master-piece, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. When a fugitive washes up on a deserted island, he quickly disc...
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So I just learned about this project: translating Australian SFF into Chinese. I've worked with the translator, and know some of the authors - looks to be worth supporting! artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...
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Artist Portal
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Regina Kanyu Wang @reginakanyuwang.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Next week, I will have a conversasion with Korean authors Kim Cho-yeop and Cheon Seon-ran, moderated by translator and scholar Chunxi.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Tell me about the #SFinTranslation you've been reading! 🤖🌍📚
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James Machell @jamesmachell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Was a real pleasure speaking with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social about SF in Translation for the @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social Substack. Small Planet is definitely worth a read for anyone interested in SF beyond the Anglosphere! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Rachel Cordasco on Translated SF
Rachel Cordasco, editor of Small Planet Magazine, answers questions about translated SF for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Underrated? Yes! Post-apocalyptic nightmares? Yes! Part of SF canon? No! SF in Translation? Norway! As is the case with a name no one recognizes, few visited my recent post on Knut Faldbakken's duology Sweetwater (1974-1976) sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/05/18/b... #scifi #sciencefiction
Photo of both volumes of Faldbakken's duology Sweetwater. Covers are identical but different colors -- rats on a city dump.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 20/05/2026
Over the course of the next four years, HarperVoyager will publish the four giant volumes of The Bird That Drinks Tears saga, also known as the LOTR of Korea, beginning with The Heart of the Nhaga next month. This is the first available excerpt in English.
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Justine Breton @bretonjustine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🐺📚 My short upcoming book Translating The Witcher: Publishing Fantasy Fiction in Europe (@universitypress.cambridge.org, series "Elements in Publishing and Book Culture") will be available online May 14, and as paperback in June! share.google/gbKrSC06L7Cv...
Cover of the book Translating The Witcher: Publishing Fantasy Fiction in Europe.
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Series "Elements in Publishing and Book Culture"
Cambridge University Press, 2026.

The cover is purple, with a big darker  stylish "&" in the middle of the page.
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 14/04/2026
The Center for the Art of Translation is excited to announce the public phase of our $17M capital campaign to build a permanent literary and cultural center in downtown San Francisco steps from the Transamerica Pyramid. 🌁
Graphic featuring a rendering of our new building at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial in downtown San Francisco. Text reads: Opening 2027, Help open our doors.Graphic featuring the text: After 26 years, the Center for the Art of Translation is opening a permanent public home in San Francisco--affirming that writers and translators are essential to civic life and inviting readers to encounter the world and each other with curiosity and understanding.
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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm delighted to launch the 2026 World SF bundle today! FIFTEEN books for just $30! Our biggest bundle yet! With @tadethompson.bsky.social, @aliettedebodard.com, @lavanya.bsky.social and many more! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts appreciated! storybundle.com/scifi
Books, books, so many booooks!!
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Oooooh yeah let's GO!!!!! #SFinTranslation
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lou @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I love bookselling and I love talking books with my colleagues. So excited to be joining this year’s Cercador Prize committee, which will enable me to do that with some of the smartest booksellers across the country. Send me your weird works in translation, please!
THE 2026 CERCADOR PRIZE COMMITTEE
Pierce Alquist (chair)
Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA
Sophie Chen
Belmont Books, Belmont, MA
Mikayla Bryant
Books Are Magic, Brookyln, NY
Lou Barcott
Myopic Books, Chicago, IL
James Webster
Recluse Books, Fort Worth, TX
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Our local academic publishing house has a treat for everyone: "The story that hatched Mothra—available in English for the first time, translated by Jeffrey Angles, who wrote an afterword about the novella’s cultural context, the unusual story of its composition, and the development of the 1961 film"
Beautiful color illustration book cover, details at this URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920012/the-luminous-fairies-and-mothra/
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 04/03/2026
What if your next favorite read came from a region rarely translated—and your purchase helped fund multilingual journalism at Global Voices? You have 1 day left to celebrate the power of translations! lingua.globalvoices.org/202... storybundle.com/translation
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StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview
My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.
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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Rachel's essay on *finding* translated speculative fiction is a fascinating read & consistent with my own observations of #SFinTranslation! I have many thoughts on the topic, and maybe I could write a response essay of my own reflections, but I want to share while it's fresh. #1...
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 14/02/2026
We have Best of American SFF, Best of Canadian SFF, Best of British SFF. I wish so badly that editors take up the task of editing an yearly Best of Latin American SFF as well. It would be great!
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Hopping on the back of this to highlight that the inclusion of Best Translated Novel in the recommended reading list this year means there is now also a Best Translated Novel category in the awards - so go forth and vote! Because if not enough people use the category, it might not be there forever.
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Translated Hugo Initiative @translatedhugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
First year for the Locus recommended Translated SF!
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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm going to say this for like the 1000th time but someone please, please, please publish a new translation of Martinson's generation ship-gone-wrong science fiction epic poem ANIARA (1956). I've tried for years to find a translator to do it for Lever Press but I just don't have the resources.
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Aniara - Wikipedia
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Browse our list of most anticipated 2026 titles in translation, spanning across 13 countries and ten different languages. You’re sure to find a new book to add to the top of your TBR. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
WWB’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 Nonfiction about Shakespeare in translation, Fiction translated from French, Spanish, Polish, and Arabic, and Poetry translated from German and Korean. Image: Book covers of We Were Forbidden, Lady No, Pure Men, The Jaguar’s Roar, Lithium, Notes to a Black Woman, Mariam, It’s Arwa, Conversations in The Mountains, Mer De Glace, If This be Magic, My Dreadful Body, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun, City Like Water.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year! Get yourself some #SFinTranslation and tell all your friends. SFinTranslation.com
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Nicci @nicciprasa.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I’ve been sitting on this news for so long I can hardly believe it’s finally ‘out the bag’… If you’ve read the trade press you may already have spotted that @twolinespress.com will be launching in the UK next April! In case you missed it, read here: www.thebookseller.com/news/two-lin...
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Two Lines Press brings translated fiction list to UK and Europe
Two Lines Press has announced that its books are now available in the UK and Europe, distributed by Turnaround Publishing Services.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
#SFinTranslation in 2025 by the numbers: www.sfintranslation.com?p=15931 In other words...SFT stats!!!🤤
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SFT: Year in Review 2025 – Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 21/12/2025
Deep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Bodies Found in Various Places, by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House) (Poetry)
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions) (Nonfiction)
Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, by Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli (City Lights) (Poetry)
Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories) (Fiction)
Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen (Biblioasis) (Fiction)
Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories) (Nonfiction)2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE
The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, (NYRB) (Fiction)
The Ruins, by Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li (Deep Vellum) (Poetry)
The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions) (Fiction)
Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press) (Nonfiction)
We Do Not Part, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth) (Fiction)
Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth (Archipelago) (Poetry)2025 BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE
LONGLIST COMMITTEE
Tobias Carroll
Mandana Chaffa
Isabella Corletto
Adam Dalva
Frances Evangelista
Rebecca Hussey
Andrea Lingenfelter
Idra Novey
Mira Rosenthal
Defne Saricetin
Alina Stefanescu
Hannah Weber
Liz Wood
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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 12/12/2025
There's still time to get one of our Xmas bundles! How about our bestsellers? charcopress.com/bookstore/xm...
5 of the bestselling Charco books
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 08/12/2025
Our editors share some of the books that captured our attention this year. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Nantes (in France) would be an absolutely amazing location for the 2032 World Science Fiction Convention. Nantes (en France) serait un lieu absolument incroyable pour la Convention mondiale de science-fiction en 2032.
French text from the Worldcon bid website. English translation: Worldcon 2032 in Nantes? After Seattle, Montreal, and Los Angeles, the city of Jules Verne, the Machines of the Isle, and the Utopiales festival is ready to host the annual global convention for science fiction fans! A creative, festive, and visionary Worldcon, for the first time in France: we're waiting for you to join the adventure!
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Eva Meijer and Anne Thompson Melo in conversation about Sea Now at Toppings, Edinburgh
Three seated figures in front of a wall of books: Anne Thompson Melo (left), Eva Meijer (centre), and interviewer whose name I did not catch (right).
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Will there ever be an English edition of this book? #booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem (asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
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ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton) In 2030 @edmontonin2030.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A major loss to SFF but especially to Canadian SFF. Tu vas nous manquer.
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 07/11/2025
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A Happy publication day to this very interesting sounding epic science fiction novel now in English for the first time - Ice by Jacek Dukaj out now! #Ice www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
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Publication Day Ice by Jacek Dukaj — Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! Today sees the publication day of Ice by Jacek Dukaj a unique epic alternate history science fiction novel first published in 2007 in Poland to great acclaim and now finally translated in En...
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ᎤᏣᎳ Lichen @lichenritual.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
GRAVITY LOOP is proud to present a new piece in our Public Domain & Pocket Literature line! We now offer a refreshed Yiddish translation of Moyshe Kulbak's poetic magical realism novella: The Messiah Of The House Of Ephraim Pocket Edition by @ocean37.bsky.social
Lyrical Landscape by Abraham Manievich
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
it continually blows my mind that @strangehorizons.bsky.social has been an open-access, diverse, international sff space for fiction, poetry, art, _and criticism_ for 25 years now -- and that they have a branch devoted to literature in translation. like: ! samovar.strangehorizons.com/issue/27-oct...
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Samovar - 27 October 2025 By Strange Horizons
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Gdańsk in Poland has been named a global City of Literature by UNESCO. It is now one of only 63 such cities in the world, and the third in Poland to obtain the distinction.
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Poland's Gdańsk named UNESCO City of Literature
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 31/10/2025
TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN is a magical book. Post-fascist Italian weird horror novel that seems to predict the internet, our deep need to pour ourselves into it, the isolation and web of espionage it creates, the way it is exploited by power. Adored it
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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Just realised we have been doing all the Gautamiputra Kamble promo on Instagram and hardly any of it here. This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it! www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble, translated from the Marathi by Sirus J. Libeiro
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K.A.Teryna @k-a-teryna.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
this is what the first photo from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social should look like
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Do yourself a favor and check out this review: very cool discussion of a book I need to pick up, and also an extremely concise and persuasive manifesto on translated SFF's place in anglophone fandom (and why we need more of it).
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 29/10/2025
Call for Submissions: Best Literary Translations 2027 — Deep Vellum www.deepvellum.org/news/blt2027...
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Call for Submissions: Best Literary Translations 2027 — Deep Vellum
Call for Submissions: Best Literary Translations 2027 Deep Vellum is accepting nominations for the fourth edition of our celebrated anthology, Best Literary Translations . We are honored to…
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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 30/09/2025
We are very proud to announce that both RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones and Robin Myers) and CHILCO by Daniela Catrilaeo (tr. by Jacob Edelstein, in FSG's lovely edition) are finalists for the 2025 Cercador Prize! A huge thanks to the judges, and congratulations to all the finalists.
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PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
HELLO EVERYBODY IT'S THAT TIME (LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTH) AGAIN, HERE IS MY THREADDDD
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Hamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The great Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez is back with "Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave," a literary travelogue like no other, gorgeously translated by Megan McDowell. Out today from Hogarth Books. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: Mariana Enriquez explores cemeteries around the world and the cultures they mirror
Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez guides us around 21 of the world’s most distinctive cemeteries in a collection of essays percolating with social commentary.
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This year's Żuławski Awards have been announced. The Żuławski Award is awarded to Polish science fiction and fantasy novels by a jury composed of academic literary scholars (each with at least a doctorate). I don't think there's any English-language equivalent of that?
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Jerzy Żuławski Award Winners
By Paweł Dembowski: At Copernicon in Toruń, Poland (birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, hence name) on September 20 the Jerzy Żuławski Award (Nagroda im. Jerzego Żułaskiego) was presented. Winner:&n…
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Happy Friday!! Today we're bringing you some fantasy, science fiction, and horror book recs from Argentina and Argentinian authors--happy reading! 🇦🇷
Six books on a plum purple background. Text in the middle reads “Argentinian SFF”. The books are Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; Eartheater by Dolores Reyes; Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin; Out of the Cage by Fernanda García Lao; The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica; and Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I think if you signed the @translatedhugo.bsky.social petition, you might be interested in this ko-fi that's crowdfunding the African Translation Project!
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Translated Hugo Initiative @translatedhugo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Very good & interesting research here:
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