2026 Day of Translation

Featuring

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  Seta Astreou-Karides

  Seta Astreou-Karides

  Seta Astreou-Karides is an artist, researcher, and performance maker from Cyprus, based between Athens and Nicosia. Her artistic and research practice engages with fiction, speculative methodologies, and the geographies of Cyprus. She is a member of the Fisherwomxn collective, through which she develops collaborative projects centered on artistic research, publishing, translation, and study grounded in anticolonial and feminist literature. Alongside Rallou Karella, she co-developed Translating Table, an open-source platform exploring collaborative and situated approaches to translation. As a dramaturg and performer, she has collaborated with artists and theater-makers in Cyprus and Greece.

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  Soleil Davíd

  Soleil Davíd

  Soleil Davíd is a poet and translator from the Philippines. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, and she has received support from MacDowell, both the Bread Loaf Writers’ and Translators’ Conferences, the Barbara Deming Fund, the Community of Writers, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, among others.

  
  

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  Nichole Gleisner

  Nichole Gleisner

  Nichole Gleisner is a writer, editor, and translator of French-language literature. She holds a BA from Boston University and a PhD from the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. She currently works as managing editor of Yale French Studies and a lecturer in the French Department at Yale University, where she teaches courses on translation. Her translation of Benoîte Groult’s My Escape was published by Other Press, and she is currently working on a translation of Sabyl Ghoussoub’s Beirut between Parentheses for Liverpool University Press.

  
  

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  Zeina G. Halabi

  Zeina G. Halabi

  Zeina G. Halabi is a writer, editor, and scholar of modern Arabic literature. Her research explores the contemporary legacy of twentieth-century emancipatory traditions, texts, and figures, with a regional focus on Egypt and the Levant. She is the author of The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile, and the Nation (2017) and the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arabic Literature (2026). She is the Arabic editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.

  
  

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  Katharine Halls

  Katharine Halls

  Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. She has translated books by Sara Abou Ghazal, Shady Lewis, Ahmed Naji, and Adania Shibli. Her work has been awarded the James Tait Black Prize for fiction and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, named finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and the EBRD Literature Prize, and longlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize. Her work appears in AGNI, the Kenyon Review, the Believer, McSweeney’s, the New York Review of Books Online, Mousse, Frieze, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Best Literary Translations and The Penguin Book of the International Short Story.

  
  

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  Sabrina Jaszi

  Sabrina Jaszi

  Sabrina Jaszi is a writer, editor, and literary translator, working from Uzbek, Ukrainian, and Russian. Her published translations include the works of Salomat Vafo, Suhbat Aflatuni, Leyla Shukurli, and Alisa Ganieva. Her translation with Roman Ivashkiv of Andriy Sodomora’s The Tears and Smiles of Things won the 2025 American Association for Ukrainian Studies’s Best Translation Award. She is the co-founder of Turkoslavia, a collective and journal. Find her recent translations in AGNI, the Dial, and the Massachusetts Review.

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  Kira Josefsson

  Kira Josefsson

  Kira Josefsson is a writer and literary translator working between Swedish and English. In her translation, Judith Kiros’s O was a finalist for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and Johanna Hedman’s The Trio was on the shortlist for the Bernard Shaw Prize. Her two translations of Ia Genberg have been shortlisted and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She lives in New York City, where she writes on U.S. issues in the Swedish press. She organizes with the National Writers Union.

  
  

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  Paige Aniyah Morris

  Paige Aniyah Morris

  Paige Aniyah Morris is a writer and translator of Korean literature. She holds BAs in Ethnic Studies and Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University, and she is a PhD candidate in Comparative Culture at Sungkyunkwan University. The recipient of awards from the Daesan Foundation, the American Literary Translators Association, and the Fulbright Program, her translations have appeared in Korean Literature Now, the New Yorker, Words Without Borders, Azalea, Samovar, the Georgia Review, and more. She is the co-translator of Han Kang’s We Do Not Part.

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  Frances Riddle

  Frances Riddle

  Frances Riddle has translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Claudia Piñeiro, and Leila Guerriero. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Originally from Houston, Texas, she lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  
  

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  Amanda Sarasien

  Amanda Sarasien

  Amanda Sarasien is a writer and literary translator working from French and Portuguese into English. A recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, her work has appeared in the Common, the Massachusetts Review, West Branch, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Her translation of Brazilian author Állex Leilla’s Springtime in the Bones was published in spring 2026. She is past co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee and lives in Chicago.

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  Ena Selimović

  Ena Selimović

  Ena Selimović is a writer, translator, and editor. She co-founded Turkoslavia, a translation collective and journal. Her work has appeared in Words Without Borders, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in comparative literature and has been awarded fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her most recent translation is Dora Šustić’s Dogs, out this November from Sandorf Passage.

  
  

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  Jeremy Tiang

  Jeremy Tiang

  Jeremy Tiang is a playwright, fiction writer, and the translator of over thirty books from Chinese, including novels by Yan Ge, Huang Chong-Kai, Yan Lianke, Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao, and Yeng Pway Ngon. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize, and his play Salesman之死 won an Obie Award for Outstanding New Play. He is the co-editor with Dr. Kavita Bhanot of Violent Phenomena: Essays toward the Future of Literary Translation. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in Flushing, Queens.

  
  

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  Jeffrey Zuckerman

  Jeffrey Zuckerman

  Jeffrey Zuckerman’s translations from French include books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers; the queer writers Jean Genet, Hervé Guibert, and Karim Kattan; and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been awarded the French Voices Grand Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, along with fellowships from MacDowell, Hawthornden, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

  
  

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