Words Without Borders & WWB Campus

wwborders.bsky.social

30 September 2026 17:19

Red alert: @tobiascarroll.bsky.social is SO back with this month’s edition of the Watchlist. Check out his six newest recommendations, with fiction and poetry translated from Korean, Finnish, Ukrainian, and more, at the link or scroll on for more details: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Tim Groenland

groenbot.bsky.social

30 September 2026 17:18

Also interesting to note newer publishers like @bullaunpress.bsky.social - along with the numbers (even in a small dataset & publishing industry), gives some hopeful indications that parallel Anglophone translation publishing developments more generally

Tim Groenland

groenbot.bsky.social

30 September 2026 17:17

We note a few provisional findings in the accompanying text (and we'll publish more about this soon). Overall, the number of translations per year has increased noticeably, with childrens books in Ireland a major category. Irish is comfortably the biggest target language...

Tim Groenland

groenbot.bsky.social

30 September 2026 17:17

For International Translation Day, here's a dataset that me and Michaela Králová have put together on the publication of translated literature in Ireland over the past decade or so: zenodo.org/records/2304...

Five Leaves Bookshop

fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social

20 August 2026 14:48

We're only a small shop, but our fiction in translation bays - divided by language - now have fifty languages. Welcome Bulgarian to the club. Some, most, sections are small... we know of only two books in translation from Swahili... but we cover from Albanian to Yiddish. #booksky #booksintranslation