Mitchell Morgan Johnson We’re really lucky to get to publish Iman Mersal’s lovely, knotty reflection on the writer Enayat al-Zayyat (an excerpt from her new book, from Transit Books), translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger. nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essay…

Come work with us! We're hiring a Publishing Assistant to work in our new Berkeley office and provide support across departments, with an emphasis on editorial/production, social media, and office administration. $22,000/year, 20 hours/week, healthcare.

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✨ Iman Mersal (@imanmersal) profiled in the NYT!! ✨ Her brilliant, searching, biographical detective story, TRACES OF ENAYAT (tr. Robin Moger), is out tomorrow.
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TONIGHT! Join me at Magers & Quinn to talk about slime molds, translator egos, and primeval forests with the fabulous Jenny Croft. We're celebrating her novel THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY.

this tiny book i absolutely love was just awarded one of the biggest book prizes for translation and it’s like if The Bell Jar was set in 1960’s Istanbul all in less than 100 pages, sex, electroshock therapy, a mad and messy woman

Such an honor to chair the Barrios, and to rejoice in all works in translation. Congratulations to Maureen Freely & Transit Books, as well as all of our longlist & shortlist committee members without whom this wouldn't have been possible. Here's to more translations to celebrate!

Congratulations to Transit Books and Maureen Freely! Check out our conversation between Maureen, Merve Emre, and Ayesegül Savas from last year, where we partnered with Community Bookstore and Transnational Literature Series.

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a stack of books in translation to add to your shelves

My book, ‘Darker With the Lights On’, available from Transit Books. (Thanks to all for praise and reviews).

#NowReading • Nº 29 • SIBLINGS by Brigitte Reimann (1963, Transit Books 2022) translated from the German by Lucy Jones

Thanks much for this ARC, Transit Books! The dialogue that's not a dialogue between deceased Enayat al-Zayyat's gorgeous, idiosyncratic, as if compulsive sentences & Iman Mersal's almost reluctant journey of self-discovery is remarkably compelling in Robin Moger's translation.

Our anniversary edition of KINTU by Jennifer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi comes out this June. Cover design by anna morrison 🙏⁠
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'A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told.'—Marlon James⁠
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💥 Coming this May! 💥 A SILENT LANGUAGE, ⁠the essential Nobel lecture delivered by 2023 Laureate Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls, published for the first time in this collectible edition.⁠
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Thank you Seminary Co-op ❤️Transit Books

Coming this October! We're thrilled to be publishing THE WILDERNESS by Ayşegül Savaş, a deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood, as part of our Undelivered Lecture series, from Sarah Bowlin & @aevitascreative 🙏 ⁠

Wrote about four forthcoming books I read recently and really liked!

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Some good news!🌟 The Republic of Consciousness for US & Canada #longlist has arrived! Spearheaded by Interabang Books's & Across The Pond's host Lori Feathers, the aim of the prize is to support small presses for their ongoing commitment to work of high literary merit. Congrats!

Siglio Press #NowReading • Nº 19 • LECTURE by Mary Cappello (@transitbooks 2020)