Translator, writer, reader.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." J.L. Borges
@paulkaye.bsky.social
Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels/London. MCIL, FRGS, BWFC.
@racheltranslates.bsky.social
FITI, Literary & creative translator, German & French to English: children's/YA and crime fiction, history; proofreader, bookworm; food, crafts, history; cats; climbing; cycling; she/her; Twitter: @FwdTranslations Mastodon: @[email protected]
@yilinwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
@bokane.org
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming and Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian. Shitposty sinology. Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644. http://www.burninghou.se
@antonhur.com
Translator, novelist, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia). Bread Loaf translation faculty. Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him. 🔗: antonhur.com
@brainvsbook.bsky.social
アレン・ジョセリン I write. I ramble. I translate. And interpret. 筆者／翻訳・通訳家／取り留めの無い人 (she/they) brainvsbook.com kaikatsu.ca
@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Reader. Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
@gilibug.bsky.social
Publisher (Utz Publishing) and translator, mostly of children’s fantasy. Tiptoeing around explicit words and vague feelings. Often wears socks with Moomins on them. Heartbroken. הוצאת ספרים עוץ: utz.co.il
@verabrook.bsky.social
Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
@brianbergstrom.bsky.social
Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG March 2025: UNUSUAL FRAGMENTS July 2025: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto Spring 2026: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal) IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
@jencalleja.bsky.social
Writer of FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translator of German-lang lit, publisher of Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. Hastings, UK. www.jencalleja.com
@katyderbyshire.bsky.social
Literary translator from German to English, occasional publisher, Berlin lover, appreciator of wallets on chains. She/her. Photo © Nane Diehl
@alexvalente.fyi
word-wrangler at https://alexvalente.fyi/ TTRPGs ~ books ~ comics ~ translation ~ big robots he/him
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
translator Монгол/Hungarian to English, occasional poet, adoptee Krisztina Tóth, The Eye of the Monkey. Seven Stories, 2025 Under a Pannonion Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary (ed.), Seagull Books, 2025 she/her/ő ᠡᠭᠡ ᠭᠡᠯᠡ ᠪᠡᠨ ᠠᠪᠤᠷᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠᠶ ᠠ! 🌈🏳️⚧️
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
@tristiger.bsky.social
Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. 39/he/T💉8/21/2019 🔪 10/17/2023 日本語では: @tristora.bsky.social
@lindseyford.bsky.social
Spanish translator. Book in one hand, drink in the other. She/her. http://www.lindseyfordtranslation.com/
@ginnytkmr.bsky.social
Literary translator from Japanese Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
@ruthdiver.bsky.social
Literary translator, reformed academic, tangata tiriti, she/her.
@joheinrich.bsky.social
DE & FR > EN translator, Marzahn Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp and more to come! joheinrichtranslation.co.uk
@janeishly.bsky.social
Literary & commercial translator (Swedish, Norwegian & French to UK English). Proofreader/editor. Writer. Manx European in rural southern Sweden. Gamer. Lefty. Autistic. More than slightly obsessed with IDLES. Buy my book here: https://amzn.to/3ykZYJh
@louiserl.bsky.social
Writer (Matisse, art, travel, interiors...), translator (French fiction, art, travel, comité Colbert), landlady (retreats in France and Wales). British, Welsh, European, Irish, French (in that order) https://louiserogers.blog
@martinader.bsky.social
Ex-Londoner in Berlin. Translates and edits (art & culture, history, botany). Eats, cooks and spends most of her free time looking for a flat with a decent-sized kitchen and room for some books. Loves cats and museums. #dementia care
@annagunin.bsky.social
Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others 🍉 💙💛
@zoeperry.bsky.social
Translator of books from 🇧🇷 Currently translating Juliana Leite, Natalia Timerman, Veronica Stigger; Kentuckian but also Canadian zaptranslations.com
@averyudagawa.bsky.social
Kansan in Thailand, translator of Japanese children's literature, believer in #worldkidlit www.averyfischerudagawa.com
@sunshineabroad.bsky.social
Bringing the literature of Madagascar into English, one translation at a time. Raising good humans. Teatime is the best time. She/elle
@graskeggur.bsky.social
Writer of books and other stuff, translator of other people's books. Á það til að þusa á Íslensku. graskeggur.com
@isabeltranslates.bsky.social
Translator of Czech, Slovak, German & occasionally French into English. European, wordsmith, word nerd, foodie, reader, yogi and chocoholic. Childless not by choice. New Glaswegian. She/her. 🦔
@aycatur.bsky.social
Literary translator from German & Turkish, little woodland creature and professional dweeb.
@rakelrank.bsky.social
Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023
@mlynxqualey.bsky.social
e.g. Author, translator, critic, founding editor of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly.
@dances-with-voles.bsky.social
German to English translator and general book botherer (she/her)
@libripotens.bsky.social
Professor of translation studies at the University of Geneva and academic translator. Translator history from below. Book due out end 2024: Professional Translators in 19th-c France. Now working on an industry guide for aspiring book translators.
@cctranslates.bsky.social
Literary translator (DE-EN) in Cambridge, UK. New translations: DARKENBLOOM by Eva Menasse; THE GRANDDAUGHTER by Bernhard Schlink.
@shelfrisch.bsky.social
Translator from German, translation activist. Latest translation: NAPLES 1825, by Martin Mittelmeier (Yale UP). Current project: biography of Hannah Arendt, by Thomas Meyer (Penguin). Lives in Princeton, NJ.
@rolandglasser.bsky.social
Literary translator from French. Founding member of @StarlingBureau. Occasional lighting designer. Flâneur.
@shaunwhiteside.bsky.social
Family translation (DE, FR, IT, NL) cooking travel cats books films and stuff. From Dungannon.
@kathall.bsky.social
Editor & translator (GER ➡️ EN) Tr. of von Schirach's PUNISHMENT + COFFEE & CIGS. At peabodyink.com (my work) & mrspeabodyinvestigates.com (crime blog). Europhile 💛
@sandersonkim.bsky.social
Sanderson Translations FR/DE-EN. Architecture, planning, advertising etc. Teach xl8on + related topics. Hexham, UK. Also on LinkedIn and https://www.sandersontranslations.com
@wrongsreversed.bsky.social
mentally I'm about to have my second beer after getting out of the onsen; physically I'm being used as a climbing frame by a toddler