Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including The World With Its Mouth Open by Zahid Rafiq and What It’s Like in Words by Eliza Moss.
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Genre: Translation
Q&A: Jaquette Joins Words Without Borders
The new executive director of Words Without Borders, Elisabeth Jaquette, speaks on translation as an art and a profession as well as her goals to spotlight new global voices and help set best practices in the field.
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Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica
The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offered two five-day residencies from May to August to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand beach located in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The residency featured space and time to write and an online reading in which residents presented their work. Residents were provided with a two-bedroom condo that included two bathrooms, a full kitchen, a patio, private beach access, and a shared outdoor pool.
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Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica, 7107 Foxtree Cove, Austin, TX 78750. (518) 764-1918. Lisa Mottolo, Assistant Editor of Atmosphere Press.
Lisa Mottolo
Assistant Editor
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Guanacaste
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Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
The 2025 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference was held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, featured translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and guests. The faculty included translators Jennifer Grotz, Anton Hur, Madhu H. Kaza, Aaron Robertson, Damion Searls, and Matvei Yankelevich.
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Bread Loaf Conferences, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Middlebury College, 204 College Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. (802) 443-5286. Jason Lamb, Coordinator.
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Ripton
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VT
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Day of Translation Keynote: Don Mee Choi
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“When I began translating, I found myself crying again. I knew then that I had finally found my way back to the womb.” In this event for the Center for the Art of Translation’s annual Day of Translation, cohosted at the Center for Fiction, Don Mee Choi delivers her keynote speech about writing from the “translation womb,” her attempts to comprehend and translate the Korean War, and her definition of what it means to write in the language of translation.
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Ten Questions for Brynja Hjálmsdóttir and Rachel Britton
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Brynja Hjálmsdóttir and Rachel Britton, the author and translator of A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder / Kona lítur við.
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An Interview With Anne Carson
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“Your mind wants to move, and the best thing a work of art can do is take your mind with it, moving somewhere you never expected to move.” Anne Carson talks about the artists and philosophers who inspire her to create and think, and how boxing has helped her in the wake of her recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in a conversation with Norwegian author Linn Ullmann for this Louisiana Channel event.
Season of the Swamp: Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman
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In this event presented by Green Apple Books and the Center for the Art of Translation celebrating the launch of Yuri Herrera’s novel Season of the Swamp (Graywolf Press, 2024), translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, Herrera and Dillman read from the book and discuss their collaborative approach to translation in a conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
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Han Kang and Deborah Smith
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“It was like a very nice, pleasant chat.” In this 2016 Foyles video, Korean author Han Kang and translator Deborah Smith speak about working together on The Vegetarian (Portobello Books, 2015), which won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Kang is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Studio Faire
Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency accommodates up to six visitors at a time. Four of the residents are provided with a private workspace and bedroom in the main house, with two shared bathrooms, as well as access to a common kitchen, dining room, and garden area.
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RESIDENCY
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Event Date:
November 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
yes
Application Deadline:
November 28, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
November 28, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Studio Faire, 58 Avenue Georges Clemenceau, 47600 Nérac, France. Julia Douglas, Cofounder and Residency Coordinator.
Julia Douglas
Cofounder and Residency Coordinator
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Nérac
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FR
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