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Graphic featuring the text: After 26 years, the Center for the Art of Translation is opening a permanent public home in San Francisco--affirming that writers and translators are essential to civic life and inviting readers to encounter the world and each other with curiosity and understanding.

The Center for the Art of Translation is excited to announce the public phase of our $17M capital campaign to build a permanent literary and cultural center in downtown San Francisco steps from the Transamerica Pyramid. 🌁

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My sister sent me this photo of #AdasRealm (translation of #AdasRaum) in Crystal Palace library 🥹🫶🏾

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Thank you so much dear @katyderbyshire.bsky.social for recommending #AdasRoom translated by @jpolizei.bsky.social in your list (I came across this by chance!) And what an incredible honour to be mentioned alongside Sasha Salzmann, Karosh Taha, Ulrike Almut Sandig and @sasastanisic.bsky.social 🌼🌻🌷

Winners of the 2025 Translation Prizes revealed - The Society of Authors Tonight we shine the spotlight on the often “invisible” creativity of translators, at a ceremony announcing the winners of our 2025 Translation Prizes.

🎉 The winners of the 2025 Translation Prizes from the @societyofauthors.bsky.social have been announced! Congrats to all, including ALTA member @jpolizei.bsky.social on winning the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, and @tesslewis.bsky.social and Kay Heikkinen on being selected as runners-up!

“Cho-Polizzi's superb yet playful handling of the novel's polyphony was one of the reasons why this had to be this year's winner.”

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Graphic says 2025 winner Jon Cho-Polizzi for a translation of Djinns by Fatma Aydemir (Peirene Press).

Congratulations to the winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German works of literary merit and general interest:

jpolizei.bsky.social for a translation of Djinns by Fatma Aydemir (Peirene Press).

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😻 A generous donor is matching all Center for the Art of Translation donations up to $25,000, doubling every dollar you give in December and helping cover the loss of our NEA funding in 2026. Show your support--> www.catranslation.org/donate/

Next we have the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German works of literary merit and general interest.

and #djinns is back again with a spot on the shortlist for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social’s #schlegeltieckprize 😱 alongside some other heavy-hitters. congrats to all the translators shortlisted for #societyofauthors awards this year, it’s a real pleasure to be in your good company!

honored to have my #translation of fatma aydemir’s #djinns make the longlist 💞

really grateful for the opportunity to take part in this and excited about the ongoing work of building our community of #bipoc #translators in and beyond #alta48

Some interesting books on this longlist! I’ve been enjoying reading Kurdish writer Fatma Aydemir’s ‘Djinns’ lately (translated from German by @jpolizei.bsky.social). Looks like there are some other titles I need to add to my ever-growing “to read” pile!

A photograph of the 14 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The books are stood on a wooden table against a brick wall with their spines facing the camera.

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
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Disrupting Translation

Maha also discusses our 'Disrupting Translation' event with @jpolizei.bsky.social and Thalia Ostendorf, which you can still watch here: www.goethe.de/prj/vor/en/a...

Melody Makeda Ledwon Awarded Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders Melody Makeda Ledwon is recognized for her translation of a multilingual novel recovering the history of a Cape Coloured family

Melody Makeda Ledwon will receive the 2025 Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators, Words Without Borders announced today. The grant recognizes Ledwon’s translation from German of the novel Knives, Tongues by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner. Learn more here:

Tim | Sharon Dodua Otoo Everything’s going to be fine.

Thrilled to have gotten to co-translate this beautiful short story by Sharon Dodua Otoo. It starts off innocently enough, and then things quickly spiral into ever more reality-bending complexity. (Also check out her novel ADA'S ROOM, trans. @jpolizei.bsky.social.)
thebaffler.com/fiction/tim-otoo

German Literatures in (Post)Migration This series focuses on literatures in (post)migration in the context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Considering a broad range of temporal and ...

link.springer.com/series/60119

CFP and project description for the new Palgrave book series: “German Literatures in (Post)Migration“ co-edited by Ela Gezen and Jon Cho-Polizzi with an epic editorial board 💪🏽

Ela Gezen and I did a thing… allow me to promote our new #bookseries on #German Literatures in (Post)Migration! we‘ve already got exciting projects in the works but please hit us up with proposals, we want to know what you‘re working on (literary #translation of hard-to-place projects welcome, too!)

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family saga.

👻 Elena Pare reviews “Djinns” by Fatma Aydemir, a gripping family saga set between Germany and Istanbul, where silence conceals generations of trauma and migration. @jpolizei.bsky.social 


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Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family saga.

wonderfully detailed review of my #translation of Fatma Aydemir’s #Djinns in @markaz-review.bsky.social #booksintranslation #booksky

themarkaz.org/djinns-unvei...

Conversation: An evening with Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize winner Dr. Jon Cho-Polizzi - Goethe-Institut USA Thu, 05/15/2025 – Exploring the vital role of translation in shaping our understanding of contemporary German literature

bay area #translation peoples come hang out!

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now more than ever we need more brave voices like @timmohr.bsky.social to advocate for the polyphony of this world

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rest in power ✊🏽

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you can still get it as an eBook! 🥲

Ada’s Realm "Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" MUSA OKWONGA "A time-travelling wonder of a read" PATERSON JOSEPH "A work of fierce imagination" NII AYIKWEI PARK...

The English translations need no less than two skeets - the UK and Commonwealth translation is called "Ada's Realm" and was published by MacLehose Press

Shout out to the award-winning and truly beautiful soul of a translator Jon Cho-Polizzi (@jpolizei.bsky.social) 🌹

Thank you so, so much!

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Excellent statement from @aaupcu.bsky.social

wrote my first blurb and landed with the best of company 😍 @translationista.bsky.social

this happened! hugely honored to give the keynote for the german area of inquiry at #NeMLA. massive thanks to all the organizers and attendees 💚

got a copy of my translation of
fatma aydemir’s djinns
the uk edition 😍
peirene press 💚
#booksintranslation

stoked to be part of ALTA‘s multilingual #translation workshop team again this year! there are so many amazing #translators in the lineup; sign up & tell your friends!

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