September 2024 Translation News Roundup

Wasafiri’s inaugural Translator-in-Residence, Sawad Hussain, will be taking place online on Tuesday 8^th October from 7-9pm. The workshop is ‘Writing Your Translation Memoir’ and more details can be found here(opens in a new tab).
The United Nations’ Online Volunteer program(opens in a new tab) spotlights its translation efforts during International Translation Day
American Council of Learned Societies has created the Inaugural Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies,(opens in a new tab) a new program for North American university research groups to study Chinese culture (including literary translations!).

Two Lines Press’s Woodworm by Layla Martínez (trans. Annie McDermott & Sophie Hughes) was recently featured in The New Yorker‘s “Briefly Noted.”(opens in a new tab)
Paul Reitter wrote about the importance of retranslation (opens in a new tab)for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Children’s book translators came together(opens in a new tab) to discuss all things #WorldKidLit with Publisher’s Weekly.
Friend of the Center Anton Hur recently sat down with The Washington Post to talk about the importance of translation in expanding the meaning of “international.”(opens in a new tab)
Our Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows recently published an article in UPenn’s Graduate School of Education Journal of Urban Education on poetry, translation, and literacies.(opens in a new tab)

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