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Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 SoA Translation Prizes - celebrating translations from Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish and Spanish. #TranslationPrizes www2.societyofauthors.org/2023/02/08/mar…

Looking forward to this!

Oh yes! Got my ticket!

Kicking off #PrideWeek with the Embassy team showing our support for LGBTQI+ rights. Strong commitment to standing up against violence & discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation & gender identity is a fundamental part of our foreign policy. See you at Pride on Saturday!

Great to hear that translated fiction is gaining in popularity in the UK theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…

“That loss might be generative is embodied in the book’s structure: twelve chapters that are not elegies but exercises in style.”—Yasmine Seale on “An Inventory of Losses” by Judith Schalansky, translated by Jackie Smith, featured in this week’s missive 4columns.org/seale-yasmine/…

REMINDER - this weekend! ~20 stands of local, home-made, recycled or reused products, plus info from groups. Jewellery, ornaments, glass, silver, wall hangings, ceramics, knitwear, crochet, fine art textiles, books, hats, scarves, bags, cards, records... sauces & climate cafe.

The winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023 is @itsdeenasaur, ‘Your Wish Is My Command’, a graphic novel self-translated from Arabic and published by Granta Books. Congratulations!

A panorama of new German writing in Granta's Germany issue!

A story touching on memory and new beginnings in which the narrator embarks on a quest to discover traces of the past

‘So this, built in 1958, might have been the type of ship my father had arrived on.’ A short story by Deniz Utlu, translated from the German by Jackie Smith. granta.com/the-invisible-…

WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR RIVERS #DefendingOurEnvironment #GoGreenInHerts Nick Cox MP CANDIDATE FOR HERTFORD & STORTFORD ----- Promoted by Alex Daar on behalf of East Herts Green Party, c/o 55 High Street, Ware, Herts, SG12 9BA. -----

In honour of Alexei, please all watch and RT his amazing film on Putin, his palace and his corruption. Navalny managed to be witty and penetratingly damaging to Putin. Which is why Putin tried to kill him so many times, and finally succeeded youtube.com/watch?v=mMxqTa…

How do you pronounce Gelsenkirchen? We heard quite a few valiant efforts on the airwaves ahead of England's first #EURO2024 game. With the Three Lions playing there again today, we asked Germany supporters to provide a definitive pronunciation guide for British football fans.

An issue that, after all my years of German, still causes me stress!

🗣️ Join us in marking 35 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, as we celebrate the transformative power of street art, literature & music. 📆 5 October, 12noon-5pm BST 📍 Aures London, SE1 7NN Register for a variety of activities for free: eventbrite.co.uk/e/berlin-wall-…

Han Kang, winner of this year's #NobelPrize in Literature, shares her recent reading list. I'm thrilled to see it features Judith Schalansky's 'An Inventory of Losses', the remarkable book I translated that meditates on themes of loss and memory mkbn.mk.co.kr/news/english/1…

I won't be posting on here anymore. Find me on Bluesky Jackie Smith.bsky.social