"Founded in 2023, the Cercador Prize highlights the intersection between the bookselling trade and the labor of literary translation. Booksellers act as a bridge between readers and the market of literature, much as translators make world literature accessible to English-language readers."

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The Cercador Prize is a bookseller-judged prize for literature in translation that regularly has one of the most interesting, diverse lists of books of any award list anywhere. They just launched a fundraiser with some truly delicious merch. Support these folks!

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I wrote this to try and bear witness; I hope you'll read it. If you do, I hope you'll later find some quiet to think about this man, pray for him if you'd like, and then find out what you can do to help those impacted by this violence and terror in your community.

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"Driving back, we traded notes on how likely it felt that the entire zone down there will soon be inaccessible to the public, completely overtaken by the company and its people, or both." A good (bad) time to read this great @christopherbrown.bsky.social piece:

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It's taken me ages to get around to it, but I've just started @christopherbrown.bsky.social's "Tropic of Kansas" - it's fascinating, topical and often poetic. When an injured moose is found: "... the moose cried, it sounded like the call of some ancient horn. A word in a language no one knows."

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