Translator's Choice Award
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The official account of the University of Iowa's Translator's Choice Award for poetry translation.
Iowa City, IA
Joined February 2022
You fit into me like a ball into a socket. A wrecking ball. An eye socket.
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The winner has been selected! It was close. We got petty. There was yelling. The big news is coming soon.
And we have a winner! @TranslatorAward
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"Anyone who studies languages knows that we are all associative learners, our language is composed of moments and contexts and built as a verbal accumulation of these moments: a family's history, its abuses, culture, crimes, proverbs eccentricities." -@SashaDugdale
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"Things in poetry start at the emotional level, and the visual level, and the sound level, and then you transform them into language. This transformation is a kind of translation. And when a translator translates the poem, they do something similar." @NajwanDarwish
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Congrats to the prize-winning prize-winners—whose prize-winning work has won prizes—for the winning of this prized prize! A win-win!
Congratulations to #NBAwards-honored author @elizmccracken and #5Under35 honorees @dantielwmoniz and @tiphanieyanique, whose short story collections have been longlisted for the Story Prize! | @TheStoryPrize
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The Translator's Choice Award stands firmly against the University of Iowa's implicit policy requiring all writing MFA professors to wear these shoes
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Words of wisdom
Writing advice is always the same 10 ideas just repackaged and rebranded, kind of like how all the food at Taco Bell is made from the same 10 ingredients and presented in different geometric shapes
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RT @LitTranslate: Happy Valentine's! Celebrate the day by reading this poem about love between women by Lee Hyemi, translated by @sojeflux,…
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RT @FudoMouth: "Language can’t be separated from the people who create and connect with one another through it." Translation, syntax, self…
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