nick glastonbury
@nsglastonbury
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anthropologist of media and the soviet middle east // postdoc @RutgersCCA // once and future translator of kurdish and turkish lit
Joined June 2009
last week i got the NEA for my translation of @KaygusuzSema’s riotous novel BARBARIN KAHKAHASI, a book about piss, daddy issues, and the ways in which culture wars distract us from the more troubling violences that subtend our lives.
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RT @nsglastonbury: looking back fondly on the time in my life when my picture was used in a turkish newspaper alongside the headline “faggo…
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There’s nobody else writing like Sema in Turkish literature — as daring with her language as she is fearless in her subject matter. Reading and translating her over the past decade has made me see the world anew, and I hope we get to share this book in English soon.
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RT @englishpen: As Alaa Abd el Fattah’s mother Laila Soueif reaches the 115th day of her hunger strike in protest of his ongoing imprisonme…
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pamela paul:
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RT @LalehKhalili: In asymmetric war, you may have won the war, but you have lost the political contest. Israel is more globally hated than…
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RT @muhammadshehad2: Just read the full ceasefire text. It's literally the same as the May 27, 2024 one, word for word, with six non-substa…
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RT @ihcentoo: "I'll be the first to cross the valley back to Gaza [city]! I'm coming, my beloved Gaza! Honorable Gaza! All praise be to All…
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RT @lllliatttt: 7 minutes after announcing a ceasefire in gaza the IDF announces an attack in the west bank…..
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RT @abdallah_fayyad: This is absolutely unsurprising. The Biden administration, which always claimed to be "working around the clock" to se…
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RT @GhassanAbuSitt1: Gaza is the center of the universe Gaza is the soul of the soul Gaza is where we defeated the American empire's attemp…
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RT @enaselimo: More good news! Congrats to the latest @NEAarts translation fellows! Esp to my publisher sibling @nsglastonbury @SandorfP! h…
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RT @alexjzucker: I’m delighted to share that I’ve been awarded an @NEAarts Literary Fellowship to work on a translation of Tomáš Zmeškal’s…
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RT @SandorfP: File under better late than never: thanks to Kevin Brazil for naming The Case of Cem a 2024 Book of the Year @GrantaMag: “for…
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