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Founded by literary translators Sabrina Jaszi, Mirgul Kali, and Ena Selimović working from Turkic and Slavic languages. @sjaszi @enaselimo @IndyArtsSF

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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
ISSUE 3 OF TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL IS LIVE! Thank you to everyone who made this issue possible—including eight authors, nine translators, and graphic designer Hanna Priemetzhofer!
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@turkoslaviaco
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That'll do it: WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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With the publication day for Issue 3 imminent, we're thrilled to share the call for submissions for TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL ISSUE 4! Submit one, submit all! Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions.
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@turkoslaviaco
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Meet our collective's new AFFILIATED TRANSLATORS! Don't they look swell?
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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STILL open for submissions! Send us your translations from Czech, Slovak , Turkmen, Tatar, Tuvan, Ukrainian, Sorbian, Kashubian (just to name a very few of the literatures we'd like to read)!
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@turkoslaviaco
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Turkoslavia co-founders all have their first full-length translations appearing in 2024—Mirgul Kali w/ Sarmekova's TO HELL WITH POETS ( @TiltedAxisPress ), @sjaszi w/ Sodomora's TEARS & SMILES OF THINGS ( @ASP_Boston ), & @enaselimo w/ Lujanović's CLOUD THE COLOR OF SKIN (Fraktura)!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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read / write / translate / celebrate turkic & slavic
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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A dream come true: our translations appearing collectively on the @wwborders homepage—!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
5 months
Many congratulations to @wwborders —irreplacable to the translation community and literature writ large!
@wwborders
WordsWithoutBorders
5 months
We’re so happy to share that WWB has been awarded a major grant from Hawthornden Foundation—the biggest single investment in WWB’s general operations since our inception!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
Two past contributors of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL appear in the latest @asymptotejrnl —! @dawidmobolaji translates Inga Iwasiów, & new Hamid Ismailov by Shelley Fairweather-Vega!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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This #womenintranslation month, we'll be celebrating women's work across our journal's three issues, starting with the first piece in our first issue—a short story by MARINA GUDELJ called "THE WITCH": @wwborders @LAReviewofBooks
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
As we continue to celebrate the launch of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL ISSUE 3, today we're featuring excerpts from CHILDHOOD by Soviet Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov, translated from Russian by @dansztela , with visual art by Hanna Priemetzhofer!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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IT IS HERE! Read ISSUE 3 of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL in translation as a continuous scroll and experience its contents as the editors imagined them. FREE on our site! (Download link arrives to your email after checking out.)
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Today we celebrate the launch of TURKOSLAVIA ISSUE 3 with five of the ninety poems that make up Osip Mandelstam's VORONEZH NOTEBOOKS, translated from Russian by John High and Matvei Yankelevich @weslpress & visualized by Hanna Priemetzhofer!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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A fascinating lecture and inter-imperial reading that unpacks the palpable presence of Arabic in the first so-called Spanish novel! Thank you, @ShadiRohana !
@bcltuea
British Centre for Literary Translation
3 months
The first of our BCLT Summer School plenary events start tomorrow, and there's still time to register! Join us online for our FREE lecture from Shadi Rohana on "Translating Don Quixote into Arabic".
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? The Turkoslavia Collective has a FEATURED COLLECTION in @wwborders —!—...—!!!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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We're grateful to everyone who could donate or purchase our merch this season: we raised enough to cover our website fees for the year! 🧿
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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14 authors, 12 translators, and 11 languages from across the Turkic-Slavic world... TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL ISSUE 2 out now for your reading pleasure! Enjoy these beautifully translated works, and the art by !
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
2 months
Just over two weeks left of our open call for submissions of prose and poetry translations from Turkic and/or Slavic languages, loosely defined! For more info, visit us here:
@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
That'll do it: WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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We'll be celebrating the launch of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL ISSUE 3 by featuring individual pieces over the course of this week. Today, we celebrate DIARY by Saida Zunnunova, translated from Uzbek by Donohon Abdugafurova, with visual art by Hanna Priemetzhofer!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Map of contributors in Turkoslavia Journal's debut issue—which you can read here:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
If you know of any titles appearing in English translation from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian / Serbo-Croatian, please share so they can be reflected in the database 🍀
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Today we continue to celebrate the launch of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL ISSUE by featuring THREE POEMS by Janga Todosh Bedyurov, translated from Altai by Elena Koroleva, with visual art by Hanna Priemetzhofer!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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A lovely, rejuvenating evening celebrating the art of translation @therubysf with @CATranslation & @LAReviewofBooks on the occasion of @turkoslaviaco founders Mirgul Kali’s & @enaselimo ’s recent publications & fellowships! Thank you to all who organized &/or attended!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
Just an image of James Baldwin in Istanbul, as we continue to celebrate his centenary. Watch Sedat Pakay's 1970 film #jamesbaldwin
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
We are thrilled to share that the good people @CATranslation will host the in-person Issue 3 launch of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL—join us on August 22 in San Francisco's Et al. Gallery!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
First look at a little project the Turkoslavia Collective's cooking up for imminent release—a downloadable file that lays out Issue 3 in scroll format! 🧿
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Translations from Catalan, Spanish, Arabic, and Uzbek--and that's just the first half of @thedialmag 's summer fiction issue. @sawadhussain @HafsahMujalli @claupenaclaros @sjaszi
@thedialmag
The Dial Magazine
3 months
1/ Summer brings the promise of more time to read. There is never quite enough time, of course. But in the hope that life slows down — just enough — this month, we bring you a brand new fiction issue, full of exciting writing from around the world:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
As we celebrate the launch of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL ISSUE 3, today we feature DOWNFALL IN FOUR BLADES by Marko Pogačar, translated from Croatian by Mirza Purić—an allegory for rising nationalisms and Yugoslavia’s transition from socialism to capitalism:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
2 months
You won't want to miss this gem from @TwoLinesPress by Damir Karakaš in Ellen Elias-Bursać's translation!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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What do we love more than queering orientalist depictions of Turkic and Slavic worlds? READING SUBMISSIONS! Submit by October 1 🎉
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Closing out #WIT month... "The Mistle Thrush" by Uzbekistani Russophone author Suhbat Aflatuni, translated by the editors of Turkoslavia Issue 3. A globe-trotting, decade-spanning story of the ultimate love-hate relationship❤️‍🔥
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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We have your weekend plans covered. FYI Jennifer Grotz, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Helen Macdonald, Emily Wilson, @AntonHur , Sean Hill, Madhu Kaza, Matvei Yankelevich, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, @bdantaslobato , Tarfia Faizullah, & a few others will be there.
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Still thinking back on this discussion and, particularly, @isacorletto 's astute point that translators get critiqued more for how well they know English (esp. if not "native" speakers) & rarely for how little they know the source language. ✊ #xl8
@LitTranslate
American Literary Translators Association
5 months
Happening now! Don't miss the #WriteTheWorld panel "A Palette of Languages: Translating into or from Non-Native Tongues," feat. @isacorletto , @nguyen_anly , and @SonakshiS11 ! Tix (just $15 for the whole day) here:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Is that what a year is? How has it been a year... Long live and honor her work & the work of her many brilliant translators...
@wwborders
WordsWithoutBorders
7 months
Today, we’re remembering Dubravka Ugrešić, who died on 3/17/2023. She was one of our first authors, and we’re thrilled that @open_letter will publish two more of her books this year.
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@turkoslaviaco
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Thank you, dear translators and authors, for your exciting submissions from Mongolian, Ukrainian, Udmurt, Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Hungarian, Uzbek, Romanian, Gorani, and BCMS (all 4 letters covered!). We have some fun work ahead of us☕️
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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🧿—SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TODAY—🧿
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Profound and electrifying fiction by Reed Grachev, O'tkir Hoshimov, and Semyon Lipkin, translated from Russian and Uzbek by @sjaszi ! Come and get them, publishers...
@enaselimo
Ena Selimović
9 months
And here are the books that @sjaszi has for you!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Yugoslavia-made MCM chair on Turkish pattern, Afghan-woven, Pakistan purchased kilim. Turkoslavia all over
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Our merch in action!!
@anthgarrett
Anthony Garrett
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This @turkoslaviaco shirt might be the most comfortable things I've ever worn.
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@turkoslaviaco
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Turkoslavia doesn't italicize non-English words in English translation. Our go-to essay on not deploying italics for so-called foreign words in translation remains one that appeared in @CatapultStory by @mailbykite :
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Today we celebrate the launch of TURKOSLAVIA ISSUE 3 with THE MISTLE THRUSH, a story by Tashkent School founder Suhbat Aflatuni! Co-translated from Russian by the editors, @enaselimo and @sjaszi , with art by Hanna Priemetzhofer
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
We're delighted that you can now read more translations by @piotr_poet of Jakub Kornhauser, whose work appeared in the second issue of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL!
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Piotr Florczyk
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Many thanks to the editors for publishing my translations of seven prose poems by Jakub Kornhauser, one of Poland’s superstars:)
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@turkoslaviaco
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Spreading some postcard love ❤️
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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On this episode of EAGER TO READ: Best Literary Translations 2024 out today with @DeepVellum !
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Congrats, @sawadhussain ! 🎉 And to this new Translator-in-Residence program!
@WasafiriMag
Wasafiri
3 months
We are beyond thrilled to announce Sawad Hussain ( @sawadhussain ) as our first-ever Translator-in-Residence ✍️✨ Read more about our appointment for 2024/25:
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@turkoslaviaco
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You like? Long live Turkic and Slavic art!
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@turkoslaviaco
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We have a joy hangover from last night's Issue 3 launch!! Thanks to @VladaTeper @bowlga @sharonwoodmedia @SashaVasilyuk @laskin the whole @CATranslation team, and all the other new and old friends who celebrated with us and our wonderful contributor Donohon Abdugafurova
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Vlada
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Issue 3 of Turkoslavia is out: So wonderful to attend the launch and hear so many languages in translation. Thank you for a great event! @turkoslaviaco @et_al_etc @enaselimo @sjaszi
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@turkoslaviaco
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Next for #witmonth , we give you LEYLA SHUKUROVA's BAKLAVA from Turkoslavia Issue 1, a story of culinary captivation translated from Russian by Nikita Baklazhenko: @feriartosLS @wwborders
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@turkoslaviaco
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👀...👀...!🛍️🛍️🛍️🛍️!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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In your celebrations of #WITmonth this year, dive into Elena Koroleva's translations of poems from father and son Janga Todosh Bedyurov and Brontoy Bedyurov in our latest issue—!
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@turkoslaviaco
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Let's PARTY! Come celebrate Issue 3 of TURKOSLAVIA, an online journal of literary translation from Turkic and Slavic languages @et_al_etc in SF 8.22 at 7pm. Find more here and spread the word: @CATranslation
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Turkoslavia co-founder Mirgul Kali reads from her translation of Baqytgul Sarmekova's TO HELL WITH POETS! #xl8
@TiltedAxisPress
Tilted Axis
7 months
Listen to Mirgul Kali read an excerpt from ‘The Warmth’. This is a short story from TO HELL WITH POETS, a collection written by Baqytgul Sarmekova and translated by Mirgul Kali.
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"The 'talk' within these stories is a distinctly feminine mode of communication that connects women to their kin but can quickly become corrosive..." On our collection of women-focused fiction from East Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus @wwborders
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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To celebrate our 200th follower, the first three humans who reply to or retweet this post will get a random Turkoslavia postcard in the mail!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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SOME EXCITING NEWS: Turkoslavia Collective has partnered with @IndyArtsSF , a 501c3 organization, to serve as our fiscal sponsor. Please help us celebrate and raise seed funds for our work by making a tax-deductible donation!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Almost time for Issue 3 of Turkoslavia Journal... We are editing!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
ISSUE 3 SNEAK PEEK—coming soon. Guess the author? Extra points if you can guess the translator!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Today's #WITmonth pick: translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega's tumultuous triptych of Central Asian fiction from Turkoslavia Issue 2! @ismailov_writer
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@turkoslaviaco
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We love a visualization bringing together all the wonderful translators|writers featured in TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL through the (now) YEARS (!). To many more years celebrating language & its translation!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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REMINDER: This Friday! Hope you'll join our collective's founders in SF!
@LAReviewofBooks
Los Angeles Review of Books
6 months
On May 31, join LARB, @CATranslation , and The Ruby SF for "Women in Translation: Stories from Croatia and Kazakhstan," featuring translators @enaselimo and Mirgul Kali and historian and writer @tothelastpage . RSVP at
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Today for #WITmonth , @KEYoung_Poet 's lyrical translation of Iosif Pavlovich Utkin... a poem-song set in Moldova amidst revolution and pogroms.🪡🧵 From Turkoslavia Issue 3
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Today we celebrate the launch of TURKOSLAVIA ISSUE 3 with a translingual twofer: Brontoy Bedyurov's A SONG TO THE BLUE SKY OF ASIA translated from Russian by Elena Koroleva, and the Russian version translated from Altai by the poet himself
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Another day, another site redesign. Check out our latest work at —! Issue 3 only a month away—!
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MAY DAY POSTCARD/TRANSLATION CELEBRATION ALERT! Share a link to your favorite Turkoslavia Journal translation, tag us, and we'll send the first five people a random postcard on us!
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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To cap off our launch celebration of TURKOSLAVIA ISSUE 3 we feature the INTRODUCTION. Editors @enaselimo and @sjaszi discuss the issue's stumbled-upon focus on life writing, its mash-up of languages, and the art by Hanna Priemetzhofer:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
2 months
Full disclosure: We never pass up a new translation by @nsglastonbury of @KaygusuzSema —!
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Will Forrester
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'As you read this essay [...] I would ask that you hear my voice as though you are on land and I am out at sea.' Today in #PENTransmissions , @KaygusuzSema on language, water and renewal. Translated by @nsglastonbury .
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Taking every opportunity to celebrate—with more fabulous news from @wwborders !
@wwborders
WordsWithoutBorders
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We’re thrilled to announce that WWB has been awarded a general operating grant from the @MellonFdn —the largest grant in our history.
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JUST TWO DAYS AWAY—! @sjaszi , Donohon Abdugafurova, & @enaselimo celebrate ISSUE 3 of TURKOSLAVIA journal of literary translation with their @CATranslation extended family—! Please join us:
@CATranslation
Center for the Art of Translation
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Come celebrate Issue 3 of @turkoslaviaco , an online journal of literary translation from Turkic and Slavic languages. Stop by @et_al_etc in SF on August 22 at 7pm, to hear editors @enaselimo and @sjaszi and contributor Donohon Abdugafurova. Find more here:
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Here's a savage, absurdist romp to spice up your Friday. It's... @MarinaSofia8 's translation from Romanian of URMUZ from Turkoslavia Issue 2 #WITmonth
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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And we loved seeing the @LAReviewofBooks team talk translation with @CATranslation & Mirgul Kali and @enaselimo of @turkoslaviaco !
@LAReviewofBooks
Los Angeles Review of Books
5 months
We loved seeing everyone on tour in the Bay last weekend! A huge thank you to all who said hello at our Truth reading, translation talk with @CATranslation , and Bay Area Book Festival. To keep tabs on our future tours and to join the party, visit
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Congratulations, Marianna!
@wwborders
WordsWithoutBorders
2 months
Congratulations to @marsnova_ , awarded the 2024 Momentum Grant (judged by @sawadhussain ) for her translation of Evgeniya Nekrasova’s story collection “She-Bear” from Russian. Find out more about Suleymanova and the Momentum Grant:
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🧿In Soviet Azerbaijan, a young woman faces magical and maternal obstacles as she tries to transcend her village upbringing.📷 Read MAMALI by Leyla Shukurova, the third and penultimate piece in @turkoslaviaco 's feature w/ @wwborders trans. @sjaszi !
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Join past Turkoslavia Journal contributors @tra_attached collective as they launch their translation of a classic in Ottoman & Turkish literature! Yaşa! #turkishlit #xl8
@tra_attached
translation attached
7 months
📢 Book Launch Announcement! Save the date: Friday, April 26, 2024, 3-5 pm (EST). Check out the attached poster for more details! This is a hybrid event, so you can attend in person or virtually via Zoom. Register here:
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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Today we celebrate the launch of TURKOSLAVIA ISSUE 3 with a poem-song by Iosif Pavlovich Utkin, THE TALE OF RED-HAIRED MOTELE... set in Moldova amidst revolution and pogroms. Translated from Russian by @KEYoung_Poet with art by Hanna Priemetzhofer!
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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TOOOOODDDDAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!! (Can you feel it?)
@CATranslation
Center for the Art of Translation
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Come celebrate Issue 3 of @turkoslaviaco , an online journal of literary translation from Turkic and Slavic languages. Stop by @et_al_etc in SF on August 22 at 7pm, to hear editors @enaselimo and @sjaszi and contributor Donohon Abdugafurova. Find more here:
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10 DAYS UNTIL SUBMISSIONS CLOSE! 💨💨💨
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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That'll do it: WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!
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We'd love to hear which #womenintranslation you've read from Turkic and/or Slavic languages this #WITmonth 2024!
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Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
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In honor of *complicated* mothers, observe the holiday w/our @wwborders features SINS OF THE MOTHER: Short Fiction from the Caucasus, Balkans, and Central Asia Marina Gudelj's Lira Konys's @feriartosLS 's
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
8 months
In honor of #MotherLanguageDay 👀 TURKOSLAIA ISSUE 2, feat. fiction + poetry from Uyghur, Turkish, BCMS, Romanian, Bulgarian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Polish, Uzbek, and Kazakh. Phew! Issue 3 is underway w/memoir excerpts by our literary heroes (sung and unsung)
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
This #WITmonth , you can read @turkoslaviaco co-founder Mirgul Kali's translation of Sarmekova's TO HELL WITH POETS, and then head over to @thedialmag and read @sjaszi 's translation of Salomat Vafo's short story "TELEFON" out today in the Fiction issue!
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@ravenbooks
Raven Books
3 months
First #WITmonth book for 2024: To Hell With Poets (2020) by Baqytgul Sarmekova, short stories translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali, published earlier this year by @TiltedAxisPress
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
29 days
🧿—SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TODAY—🧿
@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
1 month
What do we love more than queering orientalist depictions of Turkic and Slavic worlds? READING SUBMISSIONS! Submit by October 1 🎉
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
10 days until our Issue 3 launch! Mark your calendars, Bay Area people...
@CATranslation
Center for the Art of Translation
3 months
Come celebrate Issue 3 of @turkoslaviaco , an online journal of literary translation from Turkic and Slavic languages. Stop by @et_al_etc in SF on August 22 at 7pm, to hear editors @enaselimo and @sjaszi and contributor Donohon Abdugafurova. Find more here:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
2 months
Some books we've been reading //and//or// translating lately 🧿 @TwoLinesPress @fraktura @uglyducklingprs
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
5 months
Hard as it is to ask for funds: might you chip in if you can to help us pay our guest graphic artist for Issue 3 of TURKOSLAVIA JOURNAL? We are a quarter of the way to our $200 goal! Many thanks to those of you who have already helped us out 🎉
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
9 months
New on the blog, @sjaszi shares RESOURCES FOR TRANSLATING UZBEK, including a PDF of the best Uzbek-English dictionary, lovingly and laboriously scanned by her own hands!! Get it before the take-down request (jk, unlikely) Let us know about other favs!!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
6 months
Read “Shakharbanu’s Curse” by Lira Konys, tr. Mirgul Kali, @wwborders — the second installment in a series focused on the stories of women in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus curated by @turkoslaviaco !
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
9 months
"My first drafts are very messy; I think of it as putting down the clay which I spend subsequent drafts shaping." So many gems in this @debutiful interview with translator @kiracecilia_ —don't miss it!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
9 months
This year's @TiltedAxisPress list includes Mirgul Kali's translation of Baqytgul Sarmekova's TO HELL WITH POETS, which was supported by a @PENamerica PEN/Heim translation grant and @englishpen PEN Translates award! A stellar list!
@TiltedAxisPress
Tilted Axis
9 months
The Year of the Dragon is on the horizon and it's time to announce our 2024 list! Fugitive, trailblazing and politically committed, this year's list will challenge your being and pull at your heartstrings. Save by subscribing before the end of Feb
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
Free shipping on Bookshop—check out our lists & support by ordering some new reads!
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
5 months
If you haven't yet had the pleasure of reading @WomenWriteB , try Mela Žuljević's essay "HERCEGOVINA KALIFORNIJA: LANDSCAPE AND LEGACIES IN THE NERETVA VALLEY" & dare say you aren't hooked!
@enaselimo
Ena Selimović
5 months
Yugoslavia, California, Ethiopia, and the water activist at the center—brilliant, comparative essay by Mela Žuljević now out @WomenWriteB . Simply couldn’t stop reading.
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
5 months
Following up on "The Golden Earring" @wwborders () @sjaszi has written about O'tkir Hoshimov's conflicted mothers over at the SICE blog, one or our favorite sources for Central Asian knowledge and intrigue:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
9 months
Turkoslavia Collective is a direct result of the programs run by @LitTranslate ! Sabrina and Mirgul were mentees in the Emerging Translator Mentorship Program, and Ena was a Travel Fellow. Congrats to all the new mentees!
@LitTranslate
American Literary Translators Association
9 months
🎉We are delighted to announce the 2024 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program Mentees! Congratulations to these 17 exceptional emerging translators:
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
3 months
We give you... Samantha Farmer's translation of Yugoslav writer Ćamil Sijarić, a hypnotic tale of a peculiarly powerful storyteller, published in Turkoslavia Issue 1! #witmonth
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
We have been looking forward to these translations—featuring Kurdish poetry and prose! 🎉
@DeepVellum
Deep Vellum
4 months
Big day for Kurdish literature: pub day for two books by Farhad Pirbal! This marks the English-language début of the "poète maudit" of Kurdistan.
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
4 months
FIRECRACKER WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS! CONGRATULATIONS!
@CLMPorg
CLMP
4 months
The winner of the 2024 #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence is @wwborders !
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
6 months
More Marina Gudelj short stories available in @enaselimo 's translation! Read in the latest @LAReviewofBooks quarterly & at @wwborders ! 🎉
@LAReviewofBooks
Los Angeles Review of Books
6 months
In LARB Quarterly, no. 41: LARB x Yefe Nof Translation Resident Ena Selimović ( @enaselimo ) presents an excerpt of her translation of Marina Gudelj’s “Phantom Pain.”
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
10 months
A poem for your Saturday morning from TURKOSLAVIA issue 2:) Woman scattered her dreams across the morning, / Sparrows picked and ate them like grain. / Since then morning hasn’t come, / And the birds have been searching for their voices. Read on at
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@turkoslaviaco
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
2 months
Thank YOU, @dansztela !! You wear it sooo well
@dansztela
Dan Sz ⚾️🚲📷
2 months
Thank you @turkoslaviaco for giving me the chance to rep the coolest literary translation journal in my everyday DMV life! If you see me in this shirt, say hello, or сәлем, or привет) 👋
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