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@AbsintheJournal

Absinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translation is a biannual magazine of literature, art, and culture. Tweets by @internet__julia + @sampmccracken

 Ann Arbor, MI
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Joined June 2011
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With apologies for the long delay, here is a recording of @UMCompLit’s discussion with Nancy Roberts, “Coming to America: Translating Arabic Fiction in the Age of Global Liberation.” cc: @arablit, @BanipalMagazine youtu.be/8oU7mQdWM0Q
Absinthe (@AbsintheJournal) profile pictureAbsinthe@AbsintheJournal11 Nov 2021
Good news! Nancy Roberts' talk at @UMCompLit will be recorded 👏
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THIS WEEK! Join us for two special events happening on 11/11 and 11/12! Register here for 11/11: tinyurl.com/ArabicProse Register here for 11/12: tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabi…
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What are some of your favorite books in translation?
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alguns poemes d'OUSE de @vidalconte traduïts a l'anglès per Maria Cristina Hall a @UofMPress #alabatre #vidalconte
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Si no sabeu què llegir aquest estiu, doneu un cop d'ull a la selecció de textos en català escrits per dones que ens ofereix @AbsintheJournal. Val la pena! quod.lib.umich.edu/a/abs/134…*?rgn=main;view=fulltext
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"It’s like the opposite of speaking in tongues. It’s like listening in tongues. You think, I can speak Japanese now!” @arablit on the "translation decadence" of Studio Créole at the @MIFestival. lithub.com/what-if-you-could…
What if you could suddenly understand stories read in seven different languages?

What if you could suddenly understand stories read in seven different languages?

For three nights in Manchester (July 12-14), as many as 300 people will file into a theatre space littered with cables and sound equipment. Seven islands will be placed throughout the audience, hos…

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“Nothing drives home the vacuousness of an art text like having to dissect its every hollow carapace of a sentence.” theparisreview.org/blog/2019…
Trash Talk: On Translating Garbage by Lina Mounzer

Trash Talk: On Translating Garbage by Lina Mounzer

July 8, 2019 – Every translator of garbage ends up with their particular niche, and mine is the art text. Literature-adjacent, one might say, but only in the sense that the majority of such texts...

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How gorgeous is this? @commonmag's special portfolio of Syrian writers in the original Arabic in Akhbar al-Adab, w intro by our own @H_Bustani. To read the stories in English translation in Issue 17: thecommononline.org/issues/i…
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It's out! @IRLlull @IRLlull_NewYork @iolandabatalle @Izaskunarretxe @ggilc
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And look what just arrived! @MCristinaFdz & @meg_berkobien.
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Look what came today! 50% off for #NationalPoetryMonth @haymarketbooks! #TeachLivingPoets 🔥🔥Including @marwahelal @KazimAliPoet @KavehAkbar @HalaNAlyan @mafiasafia @zeinabeck @authorKQ @asgharthegrouch @warsan_shire @AriaAber @AngelNafis @laypay @LKTuffaha & many more!💗💗
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"There are many, many different versions of what happened that night in Guerrero, the least reliable of which is the official story." A Massacre in Mexico by Anabel Hernandez, reviewed in in the #LRB: lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/rachel-nol… via @LRB
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Getting this project going has been a challenging and rewarding experience. CFP for the 26th issue of @AbsintheJournal on Africa and its diasporas.
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The latest round of PEN Translates awards celebrates books in fourteen languages, including The Yogini by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha for @TiltedAxisPress. buff.ly/2ABfqFk
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"...their only pleasure is bargaining. The shirt shivers in anticipation, longing for someone who cares nothing for prices~ Listen to this week's #PoemPodcast The Lost Button by Fatena Al-Gharra Translated by Anna Murison & Sarah Maguire buff.ly/2AjmhDi
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Today is #CookSomethingBoldAndPungentDay. Try "The Art of Cooking Morels"! #ReadUP press.umich.edu/3640374/art_…
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The Persian Poetry College - A new template for global poetry? 8 young Iranian poets on PIW: Bahar Tavakoli,... fb.me/K3mr59rE
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In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, check out this selection of poems and more by and about Native poets j.mp/2A9Iyk4
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Save a poem from a dying toungue: @WetBlackBough launched appeal to collect poetry in endangered languages. buff.ly/2xqy4uL
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Congratulations to Esther Allen for winning the National Translation Award in Prose for Zama by Antonio di Benedetto! #ALTA40
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The 2018 Walt Whitman Award, the nation’s most valuable first-book prize for poetry, will open in a week. Submit! poets.org/academy-american-p…
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