Lisa Agostini

Trini-Welsh-Venezuelan translator, editor, multilingual, lang love forever

[Poetry School (no longer active) @poetryschool]

📚 Dive into this blog w/ Rebecca Levi! 🇨🇱 Join her upcoming course: ‘The stars of Chile for you: Transreading 5 Chilean Women Poets.’ Explore the rich verses of Cecilia Casanova, Stella Diaz Varín, Carmen Berenguer, Malú Urriola, & Alejandra del Río. 🖋️✨https://t.co/JSuhcDC9gH

[WordsWithoutBorders @wwborders]

"Not only literature but language itself thrives as it makes connections with other languages." We're heartbroken by the passing of Ottaway awardee Edith Grossman, and are spending the morning with this excerpt from her essential"Why Translation Matters." https://t.co/fDoh8UiWsR

[Lisa Agostini @lisaxl8]

@Rosenkrantz @AllegroLT @ITIUK Rosalind, the @ITISpanNetwork always has spaces for non-ITI members for all its online webinars, so worth keeping an eye out for specialist terminology ones we run, shorter & perhaps more concise than anything Andrew offers. He is the expert though!.

[Global Coalition for Language Rights @GlobLangRights]

Bilinguals might have a memory advantage. Learning a language might improve your income. Multilingualism might prevent dementia. But the best reason to support multilingualism is that people have language rights. They just have them.

[Stephen Spender Trust @StephenSpender]

Calling all translators and writers based in Leeds, Manchester or Norfolk!

Apply to take part in a paid training opportunity and to support the delivery of our projects for 2023/24

Deadline 21 August

https://t.co/IM7XYivOr0
#creativetranslation #cpd #xl8 @arablit @LeedsCTS

[Lisa Agostini @lisaxl8]

@shauntranslates It’s fab isn’t it?, one of my favourite programmes.

[Lisa Agostini @lisaxl8]

Come help me tweet!. You wouldn’t be doing this on your own, unless you want to! PM me or @sarahcuttstrans for more details.

[Stephen Spender Trust @StephenSpender]

3 weeks left to submit!

The Open Category is now international, meaning adults (19+) from ANY country are welcome to submit translations into English of ANY poem from ANY language.

1st prize £1000 & published in @MPTmagazine
2nd prize £500
3rd prize £250

#SSTPoetryPrize2023

[Poetry Translation Centre @PoetryTranslate]

Next Monday 26th June is our Spanish poetry translation workshop with poetry from Nicaragua by Carola Brantome!

Join @helen_bowell and Helen Dixon in Deptford at 6:30pm for poetry, chatter and good vibes! 🌻✍️🎉

Book your place: https://t.co/gTe5jCb884

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

The vastness of Peter Constantine’s personal linguistic range is almost unimaginable to most of us.

Esther Allen asks him about his debut novel and the throughlines between life, fiction, and translation:
https://t.co/EMVep1EcJ6

[Y A D A Y A D A @YadaTweets]

Here it is, ten hilarious episodes of Call Jonathan Pie, a new series for @BBCSounds starring @JonathanPieNews, produced by Yada Yada…

https://t.co/P2D7ssVQZc

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

"This is not just about encouraging young people to read more widely: there is an urgent social justice dimension too"

@charlotteryland shares her vision for nurturing the next generation of internationally minded readers and translators: https://t.co/e3uQiBixjs

[Poetry Translation Centre @PoetryTranslate]

“There are many millions of us around the world who have been displaced. It is such a normal story yet so catastrophic at the same time.”

An incredible, insightful conversation between Mona Kareem and Parisa Hashempour ⬇️

[Lisa Agostini @lisaxl8]

@QueensCollegeOx @StephenSpender @TranslationExch Fabulous! 🥳🥳🥳

[Lisa Agostini @lisaxl8]

2 weeks to go until our next workshop. Come & be mindful & creative, discover useful comms strategies, & polish up your use of inclusive language in translation. Ahora sí, en español pero de interés a traductores ingleses y bilingües!.

[Lisa Agostini @lisaxl8]

Sure to sell out, go go go!

[National Poetry Library @natpoetrylib]

Then, on Wed 16 Nov, @ExiledInk, @sinethetamag, @Afripoetree and @LondonSpanishBF will present a showcase of International Poetry, discussing the work they do to share poetry from across the world.

More info + tickets: https://t.co/6C5CqJ2B3T (3/5)

[United Nations DGACM @UNDGACM_EN]

🔔 The @UN Office at Nairobi is hiring a Senior #Reviser, Chief of Unit (Spanish), P5 ⤵️

Candidates must have:
✅ Passed the relevant @UN examination
✅ #Spanish (main) ➕ English
✅ 10 years' experience

For details ➡️ https://t.co/xn6vGRqz82
🗓️ Apply by 8 November 2022

[Lisa Agostini @lisaxl8]

@culturetrans @METMeetings @StephenSpender Subliminal marketing works!