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jennyhiggins.bsky.social
Translator from French and Italian - literature, music, history, arts
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Member of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Read The Author? The SoA want to know what you think of the magazine and whether you'd prefer print/digital/both: www.surveymonkey.com/r/QFHJ262

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1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/

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Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 winners. Ten translators and one editor are awarded prizes for translating from eight languages, and along with the runners-up, share a prize fund of £30,000. See the full list of winners here: authr.uk/TPWinners24 #TranslationPrizes

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We’re pleased to share two online workshops tutored by our 2024/25 Translator-in-Residence, Sawad Hussain, @sawadhussain.bsky.social Pitching Your Translation: Thursday, 20 February, 7-9pm BST Writing Your Translator’s Note: Thursday, 6 March, 7-9pm BST www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...

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Grab a cuppa and get to know French translator, Vineet Lal. Vineet will be in conversation with American-British novelist,  tracychevalier.bsky.social to discuss his work and career and to offer a glimpse into his creative routine. Free for all - societyofauthors.org/event/french...

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This looks like my current draft 😭

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New books are in hand in most untimely fashion: the spiraling spatial symbolism of Dr. Mises and the symbolist sexual psychosis of Rachilde. wakefieldpress.com/products/sta... wakefieldpress.com/products/the...

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Two free events coming up in Oxford from the Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social in February - a translation slam with Lawrence Schimel and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, with a symposium on teaching feminist translation. feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2024/07/even...

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Book your free tickets now for the next #FeministTranslationNetwork events! Don't miss our translation slam with Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social, chaired by Gabriela Saldanha, Thurs 6 Feb, 5-6.30pm, Queen's College, Oxford, and online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/queens-trans...

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Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists 41 shortlisted books, eight prizes, 12 languages - over £30,000 awarded. See the full shortlists here: authr.uk/TP24 Shop the shortlists - uk.bookshop.org/lists/transl... #TranslationPrizes

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A bumper crop in my translated fiction roundup for @theguardian.com. A private eye who's too fat to escape through windows; a book whose only failing is there isn't more of it; and a late entry—funny, surprising and in parts overwhelming in its emotional force—for one of the best novels of the year.

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Check out our new starter pack of French-to-English literary translators (to be updated as more people make the move over to this platform)! Let us know in the replies if you'd like to be added. #translation go.bsky.app/iBAJC2

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Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

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Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Translator: The cup is half full/half empty/partially filled/semi full/half drunk (?check?)/mostly gone [FIX IN NEXT DRAFT]

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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.

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PEN Presents @englishpen.bsky.social and the International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social have joined forces to support emerging translators

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Tonight in Margate! I’ll be at the Fort Road Hotel chatting with The Margate Bookshop! Last Goblinhood event of the year, FREE, see you there! (Me earlier this morning ‘under-goblin’)

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Kotryna Garanasvili is giving a free online talk on translating dialect! Monday 18 November, 13:00-14:00 occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/discus...

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Thank you to @racheltranslates.bsky.social for making this brilliant list of translators on here!

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