Reposted by Annie McDermott
We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
Reposted by Annie McDermott
They've made an AI capable of performing the role of Privy Councillor (тайный советник). I saw the AI yesterday wearing tasseled epaulettes, walking arm in arm with your eldest daughter along Nevsky Prospekt. It ignored my polite greeting
March 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They've made an AI capable of performing the role of Privy Councillor (тайный советник). I saw the AI yesterday wearing tasseled epaulettes, walking arm in arm with your eldest daughter along Nevsky Prospekt. It ignored my polite greeting
Sophie Hughes and I spoke to Yale about translating Vila-Matas' MONTEVIDEO, a globe-trotting hall-of-mirrors novel full of spiders and frogs, and haunted by the ghost of Cortázar yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/18/m...
Montevideo: A Conversation with Sophie Hughes and Anne McDermott - Yale University Press
Montevideo is a metafictional tale, by premier Spanish author Enrique Vila-Matas, that explores the limits and possibilities of literature. In this Q&A, translators Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott d...
yalebooks.yale.edu
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Sophie Hughes and I spoke to Yale about translating Vila-Matas' MONTEVIDEO, a globe-trotting hall-of-mirrors novel full of spiders and frogs, and haunted by the ghost of Cortázar yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/18/m...
Finished reading this yesterday and it was so up my street I thought I'd dreamed it
FAIR: The Life-Art of Translation is out TODAY from @prototypepubs.bsky.social 🍄
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May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Finished reading this yesterday and it was so up my street I thought I'd dreamed it
Slinking onto Bluesky because it turns out I miss knowing what everyone's up to
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Slinking onto Bluesky because it turns out I miss knowing what everyone's up to