Translators Aloud
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The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
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We're back from our summer break! And ready to share a host of wonderful readings in translation with you this autumn. We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS and have a new (hopefully easier) submissions process. Simply fill in the Google form: buff.ly/czKIq7K and attach your video file when prompted. 👍
A delight as always to feature translator @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, here with Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS, a collection of stories that invites readers into #Ethiopia’s literary heartbeat, where everyday gestures carry philosophical weight and history lingers in intimate lives.
Bethlehem (Betty) Attfield reads from Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS (Fidessa Publishing, 2025)
In Couch Grass's four remarkable stories, the acclaimed Ethiopian author Adam Reta uses multiple voices that interweave throughout the narratives, offering the reader a richer perspective through a…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A delight as always to feature translator @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, here with Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS, a collection of stories that invites readers into #Ethiopia’s literary heartbeat, where everyday gestures carry philosophical weight and history lingers in intimate lives.
WHAT a privilege to feature @hmelehy.bsky.social, reading from his translation of EQUINOX ISLAND, Mauritian poet Jean Fanchette's collection of verse "filled with dimly lit landscapes, and seaside expanses." Enjoy this masterful rendering of a haunting, rarely-heard voice.
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Hassan Melehy reads from Jean Fanchette's EQUINOX ISLAND: POEMS 1954-1991 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)
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November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
WHAT a privilege to feature @hmelehy.bsky.social, reading from his translation of EQUINOX ISLAND, Mauritian poet Jean Fanchette's collection of verse "filled with dimly lit landscapes, and seaside expanses." Enjoy this masterful rendering of a haunting, rarely-heard voice.
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A mountain town that’s not on any map, a messy bookstore with infinite doors, and a spoiled prince under a forgetful wizard’s curse. Sound interesting? Here's translator @averyudagawa.bsky.social reading from Sachiko Kashiwaba's classic THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST, on sale now! youtu.be/gEwEcM0aKtA
Avery Fischer Udagawa reads from Sachiko Kashiwaba's THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST (Restless Books)
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A mountain town that’s not on any map, a messy bookstore with infinite doors, and a spoiled prince under a forgetful wizard’s curse. Sound interesting? Here's translator @averyudagawa.bsky.social reading from Sachiko Kashiwaba's classic THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST, on sale now! youtu.be/gEwEcM0aKtA
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November 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
One daughter and I went out to lunch today, and she happened to snap a pic of my #TranslatorsAloud merch in the wild. Grab yours! 👇
Don't miss this reading by translator @michellemirabella.bsky.social from #Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (@worldedbooks.bsky.social, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.
Michelle Mirabella and author Catalina Infante Beovic's THE CRACKS WE BEAR (World Editions, 2025)
What opens as a story on matrescence reveals itself to be an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief—personal, familial, and national—as the protagonist, Laura, struggling in her new motherhood,…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Don't miss this reading by translator @michellemirabella.bsky.social from #Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (@worldedbooks.bsky.social, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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AND, if our new-style merch is more your bag, shop now and help us support BIPOC translators. Mousepads, coasters, shirts, bags, and more--plus, no Jeff Bezos! #Christmas will be here before you know it, and we've got you covered! #xl8 #translation
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Dear friends, our OG Bonfire store is still open and selling all kinds of merch! We're already fundraising to support a BIPOC translator for the 2026 @bcltuea.bsky.social summer school, so start your #Christmas shopping early with us right here: www.bonfire.com/store/transl...
Dear friends, our OG Bonfire store is still open and selling all kinds of merch! We're already fundraising to support a BIPOC translator for the 2026 @bcltuea.bsky.social summer school, so start your #Christmas shopping early with us right here: www.bonfire.com/store/transl...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Dear friends, our OG Bonfire store is still open and selling all kinds of merch! We're already fundraising to support a BIPOC translator for the 2026 @bcltuea.bsky.social summer school, so start your #Christmas shopping early with us right here: www.bonfire.com/store/transl...
Dear friends, our OG Bonfire store is still open and selling all kinds of merch! We're already fundraising to support a BIPOC translator for the 2026 @bcltuea.bsky.social summer school, so start your #Christmas shopping early with us right here: www.bonfire.com/store/transl...
World sci-fi fans, assemble! Here's translator @isabeltranslates.bsky.social reading from Czech author Jan Kotouč's UNHOLY COMPROMISES (Nazca Press, 2025), which David Weber calls "grand-scale science fiction, with a storyteller's eye for both character and action". Psst: this one's NSFW!
Isabel Stainsby reads "The Xenophile" from Jan Kotouč's UNHOLY COMPROMISES (Nazca Press, 2025)
Unholy Compromises is a short story collection set in the world of the Central Imperium. This particular story, The Xenophile, follows the fortunes of Darren Horn, who is sexually attracted to aliens…
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October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
World sci-fi fans, assemble! Here's translator @isabeltranslates.bsky.social reading from Czech author Jan Kotouč's UNHOLY COMPROMISES (Nazca Press, 2025), which David Weber calls "grand-scale science fiction, with a storyteller's eye for both character and action". Psst: this one's NSFW!
We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880–1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk
Samantha Pious reads from CACTUS FLOWERS: SELECTED POEMS, Judith Teixeira (Headmistress Press, 2025)
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October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880–1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk
Dear friends, we're so sorry about the audio issue with the Telugu-to-English author/translator reading we posted on 30 Sept to mark #ITD! Here's the corrected video by translator @subhashri.bsky.social & author Mohammed Khadeer Babu, from THAT'S A FIRE ANT RIGHT THERE. Enjoy!
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D V Subhashri reads Mohammed Khadeer Babu's THAT'S A FIRE ANT RIGHT THERE (Speaking Tiger Books)
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October 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Dear friends, we're so sorry about the audio issue with the Telugu-to-English author/translator reading we posted on 30 Sept to mark #ITD! Here's the corrected video by translator @subhashri.bsky.social & author Mohammed Khadeer Babu, from THAT'S A FIRE ANT RIGHT THERE. Enjoy!
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Vivid, joyful, raw, tender, Andrev Walden's BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins & ends; and above all, about men. Sound interesting? Here's a taste, read by translator @iangiles.bsky.social himself! youtu.be/ruwop7t0dME?...
Ian Giles reads from Andrev Walden’s BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS (Fig Tree, 2025)
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October 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Vivid, joyful, raw, tender, Andrev Walden's BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins & ends; and above all, about men. Sound interesting? Here's a taste, read by translator @iangiles.bsky.social himself! youtu.be/ruwop7t0dME?...
Delighted to feature @rosefacchini.bsky.social reading from INN OF THE SURVIVORS, out now from @snugglybooks.bsky.social, a visionary & highly relevant tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world set amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic.
Rose Facchini reads from Maico Morellini's INN OF THE SURVIVORS (Snuggly Books, 2025)
A visionary tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world. Amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic, this is both an existential story of homesickness and a…
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October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Delighted to feature @rosefacchini.bsky.social reading from INN OF THE SURVIVORS, out now from @snugglybooks.bsky.social, a visionary & highly relevant tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world set amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic.
It's #ITD -- International Translation Day! The first part of our double feature celebrating translators today is the short film ON MEMOIR: A TRANSLATOR'S CRAFT featuring Dani James, an exploration of creative choices that's a must-see for anyone interested in the art of translation. buff.ly/Axb6jRj
ON MEMOIR: A TRANSLATOR'S JOURNEY featuring translator Dani James
Inside the Translation Process with Dani James
This short documentary explores the translation journey behind Return to the Place I Never Left, a Holocaust survival memoir by Tobias Schiff. Writer…
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September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It's #ITD -- International Translation Day! The first part of our double feature celebrating translators today is the short film ON MEMOIR: A TRANSLATOR'S CRAFT featuring Dani James, an exploration of creative choices that's a must-see for anyone interested in the art of translation. buff.ly/Axb6jRj
Giaime Alonge and translator Clarissa Botsford read from THE FEELING OF IRON (europaeditions.bsky.social, 2025). From the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history.
Giaime Alonge and translator Clarissa Botsford read from THE FEELING OF IRON (Europa Editions, 2025)
From the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
Shlomo Libowitz and Anton…
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September 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Giaime Alonge and translator Clarissa Botsford read from THE FEELING OF IRON (europaeditions.bsky.social, 2025). From the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history.
KILLING THE NERVE by annapazos.bsky.social, co-translated by cmctranslations.bsky.social & Laura McGloughlin is OUT THIS WEEK, published by Foundry Editions. "This novel will hit like a revelation; restless, questioning, and indelible." buff.ly/sJQqwNm
Charlotte Coombe & Laura McGloughlin read from Anna Pazos' KILLING THE NERVE (Foundry Editions 2025)
In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the ‘Mediterranean…
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September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
KILLING THE NERVE by annapazos.bsky.social, co-translated by cmctranslations.bsky.social & Laura McGloughlin is OUT THIS WEEK, published by Foundry Editions. "This novel will hit like a revelation; restless, questioning, and indelible." buff.ly/sJQqwNm
Delighted to share prizewinning translator Zack Rogow's reading from THE WATER DRINKERS by Henry Murger, a leading writer of the Romantic movement & master chronicler of the heartbreaks & follies of 19th-century Paris. First-ever English translation! Out now from Black Widow Press.
Zack Rogow reads from Henry Murger's THE WATER DRINKERS (Black Widow Press, 2025)
Henry Murger is best known for writing the book and play that Giacomo Puccini used as the basis of his delicious opera La Bohème, later the source of Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent. Murger actually…
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September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Delighted to share prizewinning translator Zack Rogow's reading from THE WATER DRINKERS by Henry Murger, a leading writer of the Romantic movement & master chronicler of the heartbreaks & follies of 19th-century Paris. First-ever English translation! Out now from Black Widow Press.
Today we feature translator Alice Banks reading from ANIMALITOS, an ode to childhood and a reflection on the harshness of adult life and the human capacity to overcome. A unique, raw and delicate debut novel reminiscent of Ocean Vuong and Ottessa Moshfegh. Seeking a publisher! #xl8
Alice Banks reads from Lucía Alba Martínez’s ANIMALITOS (seeking a publisher)
Inés is twenty-five years old, she has lost her job, she lives alone, most of her friends have gone to live in other cities, and she cannot get over her breakup with Javi. She has put her degree on…
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September 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today we feature translator Alice Banks reading from ANIMALITOS, an ode to childhood and a reflection on the harshness of adult life and the human capacity to overcome. A unique, raw and delicate debut novel reminiscent of Ocean Vuong and Ottessa Moshfegh. Seeking a publisher! #xl8
We're back from our summer break! And ready to share a host of wonderful readings in translation with you this autumn. We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS and have a new (hopefully easier) submissions process. Simply fill in the Google form: buff.ly/czKIq7K and attach your video file when prompted. 👍
Translators Aloud Submissions
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September 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We're back from our summer break! And ready to share a host of wonderful readings in translation with you this autumn. We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS and have a new (hopefully easier) submissions process. Simply fill in the Google form: buff.ly/czKIq7K and attach your video file when prompted. 👍
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History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors.
Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.
Study history! Get a job!
Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.
Study history! Get a job!
September 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors.
Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.
Study history! Get a job!
Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.
Study history! Get a job!
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Oh! Don't miss out on this interview with the savvy, generous, sharp and empathetic literary treasurehuman that is @likaluca.bsky.social 💜
“You need people to hire you, train you, teach you, recommend you, correct you—in a caring and non-scary way, which is often the difference between a mentor and a boss—congratulate you, and keep you humble.”
— @likaluca.bsky.social, interviewed Szilvia Molnar
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— @likaluca.bsky.social, interviewed Szilvia Molnar
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An Interview with Lisa Lucas - Believer Magazine
The first time I met Lisa Lucas was around 2012, through mutual publishing friends, in the early days after my arrival in New York City. While I was a wide-eyed foreigner trying to cobble together a n...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Oh! Don't miss out on this interview with the savvy, generous, sharp and empathetic literary treasurehuman that is @likaluca.bsky.social 💜
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On the blog today is my book review of Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka. It has been translated from Japanese by @ginnytkmr.bsky.social This is a new edition publishing by @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social today and is well worth reading.
Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka and Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori - #bookreview
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September 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
On the blog today is my book review of Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka. It has been translated from Japanese by @ginnytkmr.bsky.social This is a new edition publishing by @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social today and is well worth reading.
We're celebrating publication day for Peter Thompson's translation of poet Tahar Bekri's THE DESERT AT DUSK, out now from @contramundumpress.bsky.social, a collection evoking the Tunisian desert both as a reminiscence of childhood & a condemnation of Islamic radical fundamentalists.
Peter Thompson reads from Tahar Bekri's THE DESERT AT DUSK (Contra Mundum Press, 2025)
A book of poetry, recent, evoking the Tunisian desert—both as a reminiscence of oasis childhood, and as a condemnation of the new desert “warriors,” the Islamic radical fundamentalists. Some of the…
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September 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We're celebrating publication day for Peter Thompson's translation of poet Tahar Bekri's THE DESERT AT DUSK, out now from @contramundumpress.bsky.social, a collection evoking the Tunisian desert both as a reminiscence of childhood & a condemnation of Islamic radical fundamentalists.
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Hi human translators! If you know a fab story or novel that fits our list (speculative / horror / weird / pulp / crime), and you can make it sound great in English, hit us up.
South Asian languages especially, but we're interested in SE Asian & African stuff too
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South Asian languages especially, but we're interested in SE Asian & African stuff too
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The last word: AI-based translation startups are booming, but at a human cost
Translation helps the world understand itself. But AI does it faster, cheaper, and more consistently, creating a boom for startups and a crisis for humans who spent years mastering foreign languages.
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August 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hi human translators! If you know a fab story or novel that fits our list (speculative / horror / weird / pulp / crime), and you can make it sound great in English, hit us up.
South Asian languages especially, but we're interested in SE Asian & African stuff too
the-captable.com/2025/08/insi...
South Asian languages especially, but we're interested in SE Asian & African stuff too
the-captable.com/2025/08/insi...
With the brilliance of #WITMonth in August and #WorldKidLitMonth in September, this time of year is a surfeit of riches for literature in translation! We've got dedicated playlists for #WIT + #kidlit + so much more--do check us out!
www.youtube.com/@Translators...
www.youtube.com/@Translators...
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TRANSLATORS ALOUD: THE VOICE OF TRANSLATED LITERATURE
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August 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
With the brilliance of #WITMonth in August and #WorldKidLitMonth in September, this time of year is a surfeit of riches for literature in translation! We've got dedicated playlists for #WIT + #kidlit + so much more--do check us out!
www.youtube.com/@Translators...
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Bravo, @robmunb.bsky.social! #Translation fans, to watch the translator himself read an excerpt from this poignant and unique novel, just click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xs3...
August 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Bravo, @robmunb.bsky.social! #Translation fans, to watch the translator himself read an excerpt from this poignant and unique novel, just click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xs3...