March 2022 translation news roundup

The longlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize(opens in a new tab) features translations from 11 languages and 12 countries–including the first translation from Hindi.

The 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlis(opens in a new tab)t boasts 16 books spanning the globe.

This year’s National Book Critics Circle Award(opens in a new tab) winners were announced on March 16.

The 2022 Dublin Literary Award shortlist(opens in a new tab) includes two books in translation and works from France, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and Nigeria.

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction(opens in a new tab) announced its 2022 shortlist.

A group of translators are working to bring works of literature and history from Ukrainian into English(opens in a new tab).

Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra (forthcoming in May 2021) is one of Vogue’s best books of 2022 so far(opens in a new tab).

The Booker Foundation and a 2022 International Booker Prize chair call for royalties for translators(opens in a new tab).

Korean translator Anton Hur has two books on the 2022 International Booker Prize longlist(opens in a new tab).

The “Spotlight on Catalan Culture in the UK” festival of Catalan arts and culture(opens in a new tab) will present live and virtual events now through June.

A new National Endowment for the Arts report shows that the arts sector shrank at twice the rate of the rest of the US economy during the pandemic(opens in a new tab).

How cultural workers in former Soviet countries are mobilizing(opens in a new tab) in the face of war in Ukraine.

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award for translated children’s literature will now require the author and translator of all nominated books to be credited on the cover.(opens in a new tab)

For International Women’s Day (March 8), a list of 21 Amazing Modern Books by Women in Translation(opens in a new tab).

Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky talks about memory, poetry, and Ukraine.(opens in a new tab)

What Ukrainian literature has always understood about Russia(opens in a new tab).

In case you missed it, check out the Du Mois Monthly preview of Spring 2022 books in translation.

Read about creative translation in the classroom.

The latest Calico Title, This Is Us Losing Count, featuring contemporary Russian poetry, earns a starred review in Shelf Awareness(opens in a new tab): “the collection carries a level of cohesiveness and unity that is rarely found in even the most meticulously designed novels.”