Announcing the shortlist of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026. Congratulations to the authors, translators, and publishers! The winner will be announced on 16 November. For the full announcement: tinyurl.com/bdhfm9nx

Aujourd'hui, 28 octobre, c'est la Journée internationale des langues et des cultures créoles, une journée décrétée en 1983 par l'UNESCO, pour mettre en lumière près de 19 millions de personnes qui parlent le créole dans le monde. ©Marie Nonat/FME - Bal Kreyol 2024

Exciting announcement: the French translation of Gerald Horne's Confronting Black Jacobins is now available through @leCidihca press. Translated by Evelyne Trouillot.

📢 Job Opportunity – Université Laval (Canada) The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Translation is recruiting for a tenure-track position in Interpreting or Specialised Translation. 📌 Application deadline: 14 December 2026 🔗 buff.ly/ZG1SHsV

Who is inventing words like John Milton these days? He gave us pandemonium, sensuous AND complacency, truly a generational run

New volume: "Maryse Condé, chez elle et dans le monde", edited by Laura Carvigan-Cassin @HonoreChampion with contributions by Axel Artheron, Noëlle Carruggi, Romuald Fonkoua, Christiane Makward, Lydie Moudileno, Richard Philcox, and others honorechampion.com/fr/editio… #MaryseCondé

My new essay "Translating in the Wake" about translating the "lost" archive of epistemic negotiations performed by African and Afrodiasporic translators and interpreters in the transatlantic slave trade. Link gives free access for the next 2 months: read.dukeupress.edu/comparat…

Today, we honour the courage, vision and sacrifice of Jamaica’s National Heroes, whose unwavering commitment to freedom, justice and equality helped shape the nation we proudly call home. #HeroesDay

The first Black woman to produce programmes for the BBC was a Jamaican poet who arrived in London in 1932 and could not find anyone who would rent her a room. She ended up running the radio programme that launched Caribbean literature. Then she had a breakdown and was put on a ship home. Una Marson. She was already an editor and playwright in Jamaica when she came to Britain. She documented the experience of looking for lodgings in a city where the signs said no coloureds, and wrote a poem about it called "Nigger" that is still hard to read. She worked for the League of Coloured Peoples, then for Haile Selassie when he was in exile in London after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and sat behind him at the League of Nations. In 1941 the BBC took her on. By 1942 she was producing "Calling the West Indies," which began as a programme reading servicemen's messages home and which she turned into "Caribbean Voices" — the programme that broadcast and paid a generation of Caribbean writers including Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Samuel Selvon and George Lamming. It is not an exaggeration to say modern Caribbean literature was partly built in that studio. She was the only Black woman in the building, in wartime, producing for an organisation that was not always sure it wanted her there, and the strain was enormous. She had a breakdown in 1945 and returned to Jamaica. She kept working — journalism, publishing, social work — and died in 1965 at fifty-nine, largely forgotten in Britain until scholars rediscovered her in the 1990s. She gave the Caribbean its literary voice from inside Broadcasting House and went home on a ship with a nervous collapse.

Teaching the Spanish language, Hispanophone literatures, through an African epistemological lens is demanding. But, most days I i think it's worth it.

“The University of Birmingham, where Hall developed the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, has digitised and released more than 3,100 items donated by his widow, the historian Catherine Hall.” theguardian.com/society/2026…

On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we honor the histories, cultures, languages, traditions, resilience, and enduring contributions of Indigenous peoples. May we continue to listen to Indigenous voices, preserve cultural memory, and approach one another’s stories with respect.

Reading a book in public is only performative to people that don’t read books. To a reader, every waiting room, park bench, train carriage, airport gate, and café table is another potential chapter.

📢 Call for Papers – Translation in Society Special issue: “Translating the Popular, Popularizing Translation” Guest editors: Bram Lambrecht and Jo De Brie (Ghent University) 🔗 Full call: buff.ly/FltSY1d

Nobel Prize in Literature: Will the laureate be from the Caribbean? And will the Prize go to a woman writer? Eighteen (18) women have won the prize, out of 122 laureates. Do the math. #writing