Thrilled to hear that Mark Polizzotti has won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for KIBOGO, a novel my students LOVED when I taught it both this year and last year. Published in the U.S. by Archipelago Books

If you want a cleansing, beauty-of-humanity kind of cry this afternoon, I recommend Jasmine Seale's moving tribute to Marcia Lynx Qualey.

It was an honour to celebrate the great M Lynx Qualey, founding spirit of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly, whose generosity has been a home for so many of us.

Reading list: (May I say, while I'm very behind on most new books, I just finished Traces of Enayat and loved it.)

In this introduction to our collection of writing from the Francophone Pacific, Jean Anderson advocates for a view of the region that encompasses both its linguistic diversity and its interconnectedness. buff.ly/4bc3DdX

I'll be there! And possibly my children, too!

Eeeeeeeeee! We've won a Firecracker! Thank you to the judges, to ttnq, to our brilliant authors, translators, and guest editors for whom we exist, and to my brilliant colleagues WordsWithoutBorders.

This will be fun.

ATTENTION WRITERS OF ALL GENRES -- ACADEMICS, VISUAL ARTISTS, TRANSLATORS: Application for the 2025-2026 Cullman Center Fellowship The Cullman Center NY Public Library is now live: nypl.org/help/about-nyp… Deadline to apply is Friday, September 27th, 2024. SPREAD THE WORD!

Pausing my hiatus from this place for our very big WordsWithoutBorders announcement coming very soon!

Thrilling news for WordsWithoutBorders!

Big things happening! I'm going to miss Karen M. Phillips so much, and I'm really stoked to work with Lissie Jaquette, who was the first person to give me advice on anything pertaining to translation, way back when I was at The Offing.

Congratulations to Lissie & to WWB.

Wonderful news, congratulations to Lissie Jaquette and WordsWithoutBorders !

Mazel tov, Lissie Jaquette ! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉🎉

Reflecting this morning on what it means for a field to grow and deepen to a place where, a decade ago it would have been hard to recruit from our own field for WordsWithoutBorders, but now there's a large handful of expert arts managers in an increasing number of translation orgs.

As much as I'll miss Karen M. Phillips, I'm very much looking forward to welcoming Lissie Jaquette to WordsWithoutBorders!

Lissie is the best best best! Wooo!

Breaking my X-fast to send the warmest welcome to WWB's new ED Lissie Jaquette!