Alex Zucker @alexjzucker Twitter profile

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Alex Zucker

3 years

"Study after study shows that a living wage, access to holistic health services and treatment, educational opportunity, and stable housing are more successful in reducing crime than more police or prisons. +

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

URGENT APPEAL for INTERPRETERS in ALBANY, NY (please RT) Dear friends, I am one of a small cadre of volunteer lawyers and interpreters for the locally based Legal Project out of SUNY Albany. We’ve never seen anything like this.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 months

"We have a formula at the United Nations that is applied to virtually every other conflict situation. But when it comes to the situation in Israel and Palestine, there's a different set of rules, apparently."

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

7 months

Until recently, @CraigMokhiber was a top U.N. official working on human rights. He just left his post with a scathing resignation letter blasting U.N. and Western complicity in Israeli abuses. Mokhiber joins Democracy Now! to talk about the current war in Gaza and more.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

They need ALL languages: Spanish, French, Hindi, Punjabi, any Mayan languages, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, you name it, we can probably use it. Can you please spread the word to any language speakers (other than English) that you know?

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

2 years

How is it still possible, in 2022, for an English-language newspaper to publish an article about an author who doesn't write in English winning the #NobelPrizeForLiterature and not mention a translator's name even once? #NameTheTranslator , for crying out loud

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

“The question here is not about dehumanizing Palestinians ... and calling them terrorists, it’s about asking the question why the United States supports Ukraine in fighting what they call occupation, while here they are supporting the occupier, who continues to occupy us?”

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

"We are looking for interpreters - all languages - and attorneys. Please contact cric @legalproject .org if you are able to volunteer. For more information, please call (518) 435-1770 ext. 327. Your help is needed NOW!"

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

11 months

Hi, @nytimes . To publish an obituary of Milan Kundera that quotes from translations of his writing but doesn’t name the translators who wrote them is shoddy journalism. Please correct this error and #NameTheTranslator

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

I spent the day Thursday interpreting at the Albany county jail. The jail houses over 200 migrants detained by ICE (check the @timesunion for more information about this story).

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

If you’re able to translate, please contact Christina Armistead: carmistead @lsu .edu. Christina is coordinating the schedule. We need everyone.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

11 months

Sophie Hughes on "The Art/Craft/Work of Translation." The best brief introduction to literary translation I've seen. (Sure helps to have killer graphics.) Anyway, this one's on me. 🎁 (Can you tell I only recently realized that I can gift articles?)

The Art of Translation (Gift Article)

See how a translator carries a book from one language to another, line by line.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

They've been sent here from all over the country and the Legal Project is overwhelmed. They have plenty of lawyers to do the intakes, but not enough interpreters.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

. @RAICESTEXAS seeks volunteer translators "who speak Meso-American indigenous languages (e.g., zapotec, nahua, ma'am, quich'e, maya, mixe, mixteco-- not Spanish)." You can translate remotely. Don't need to be in Texas, or even US. Email volunteer @raicestexas .org. Please RT!

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

3 years

"To conclude that Nazism or other forms of fascism are forms of mental disturbance is doubly dangerous: it offers an alibi to the multitude of 'normal' fascists, and it ill prepares us to recognize the utter normality of authentic fascism." — Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

3 years

Really, @nytimes ? Neglecting to #NameTheTranslator in the one #translation selected as a finalist for your Best Book of the Past 125 Years list? Please correct this mistake. The translator is Gregory Rabassa.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 months

“If agreed to and enacted, the border policy deal taking shape in the Senate would be the first major change to the U.S. immigration system in nearly three decades. It would also be one of the most hardline immigration laws in the past half a century.”

Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

6 months

Latest reporting: The White House and Senate negotiators are eyeing a border deal framework as early as Sunday—an ambitious goal. There’s broad agreement on border expulsions, restricting asylum and expanding detention but parole remains a sticking point.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

I’m still in shock

The EBRD

@EBRD

1 year

🥁 📚 🏆 And the winner of the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2023 is The Lake by @BiancaBellova , translated by @alexjzucker published by @parthianbooks ! Congratulations to our winners! What a tremendous book!

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

4 years

"Can you say a bit about the further normalization of mass death under Trump and where you think it’s headed?" — @MsKellyMHayes to @sarahkendzior on @truthout

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

I love how everybody has such different avenues into becoming a translator. Beyond that, I have more to say, but no time to say it now. I already spend too much time on here as it is! 🤓 Anyway, gift link 🎁 :

‘Building Something Together’: Translators Discuss Their Art (Gift Article)

The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys and challenges of the job.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤.” — Hazel Henderson Let This Radicalize You

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

BREAKING: There's nothing like translating philosophy to make you feel like you don't really understand the meaning of any words at all. In the language you're translating from, or the language you're translating into.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

Jáchym Topol's latest novel enters the world in English today, in my translation, from @yalepress 🥳

Yale University Press

@yalepress

1 year

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic’s greatest living author A Sensitive Person: A Novel by Jachym Topol, translated by @alexjzucker

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

3 years

@orangebegum @MsKellyMHayes Online version, courtesy of @PrisonPolicy , here:

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 months

. @mashagessen : “The biggest difference between Gaza and the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe is that Gazans—many Gazans, most Gazans—are still alive and the world still has an opportunity to do something about it.”

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

@BoellStiftung

6 months

For those who are interested: The conversation with Masha Gessen is also streamed in English ⤵️

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 months

Been arrested 2x in past 2 weeks with @jvplive to protest Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, funded by US and ∴ me too. I am no spring chicken ! and cannot do everything everywhere but will continue showing up w/ my body to #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #CeasefireNOW #NotInOurName

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

‼️ 👉 ATTENTION: Legal Project seeking interpreters to assist immigrants in Albany County Jail says training will take place *JULY 11 IN ALBANY* from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Interpreters needed for interviews; no paraphrasing, word for word.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

11 months

To practice active hope, we do not need to believe that everything will work out in the end. We need only decide who we are choosing to be + how we are choosing to function in relation to the outcome we desire + abide by what those decisions demand of us. —Let This Radicalize You

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

4 years

🚨🚨🚨 In the middle of a pandemic, @NYGovCuomo is holding up the budget process to try to jam through rollbacks in bail reform that would 𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 the number of people jailed pre-trial and increase racial disparities. THREAD:

Jared Chausow - Go to bit.ly/ParoleJusticeAction

@jchausow

4 years

EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE: Governor Cuomo is trying to jam through a secret bail law TONIGHT that would MASSIVELY expand pre-trial jailing. Join at

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 months

. @sarahkendzior : "That they’re 'the children of darkness' – all of this dehumanizing language. If they’re able to convince people that a Palestinian baby is evil, then what are they going to be able to convince you about young protestors in the streets fighting for their rights,+

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

Tondalao Hall is a DV survivor sentenced to 30 years in prison for failing to stop the crimes her abuser committed against their children. She never should have been criminalized. #FreeTondalao In honor of #DVAM , please join me in donating to her fund:

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 years

"Our media and certain members of our government did a really terrible job at honestly evaluating the policy plans of Trump and Clinton."

Sarah Kendzior

@sarahkendzior

7 years

Long new interview with me about Trump, the economy, the media, and American authoritarianism #Resist

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

Again, languages requested: "Spanish, French, Hindi, Punjabi, any Mayan languages, Mandarin, Polish, Russian." Contact info at : email cric @legalproject .org; call (518) 435-1770, ext. 327

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 months

. @sarahkendzior with @MsKellyMHayes on the dangers of mainstream Democrats singling out young people of color for not supporting Biden: "I think they’re setting up groups, especially young people, to be these scapegoats and to be the subjects of violent attacks. +

Truthout

@truthout

6 months

Sarah Kendzior discusses genocide, the demonization of children and dissent, authoritarianism and the 2024 election.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

To be honest, it's difficult for me to feel any joy about personal achievements in this moment, but I am very grateful to the judges of this prize for honoring THE LAKE in this way, and am happy for all the authors, translators and publishers on this list 💓

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

@WarwickPrizeWiT

8 months

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023! “From an exceptionally rich field of submissions we have chosen 16 remarkable books in first-rate translations. All of them deserve to find delighted readers everywhere."

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

Just want to share this again, since it's probably the only time in my life that I'll ever be on a list together with two — two! 🤯 — Nobel Prize winners: #EBRDLiteraturePrize2023

The EBRD

@EBRD

1 year

🥁 #EBRDLiteraturePrize2023 shortlist is out! 📚 Our judges @tobylichtig , @mayajaggi @arkadyostrovsky , @natasharandall selected the 10 best works of literature from our regions translated into English. Congratulations! The shortlisted titles are 🧵:

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

4 years

With NYC mayor canceling the summer youth employment program while shelling out big bucks for cops and jails, what better time than now to support a summer youth abolitionist institute? Join me!

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

I was there, but sitting down, and so had no idea how many people there were till I saw this just now 💖✊ #CeasefireNOW

Sumaya Awad

@sumayaawad

8 months

Taking over grand central with a clear demand of our gov: CEASEFIRE NOW.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 months

It's great to see this, yet exasperating that an article in such a prominent publication, by such a prominent writer and critic, doesn't name a single one of the translators of Shibli's books mentioned in it: Paula Haydar, Paul Starkey, Elisabeth Jaquette

‘In the last four weeks language has deserted me’: Adania Shibli on being shut down

Speaking out for the first time since the postponement of her award ceremony at the Frankfurt book fair, the Palestinian author sheds light on her work and the power of linguistics and erasure

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

⚠️ NYC friends: This is it. Tomorow your City Council member will vote Yes or No on building new jails, at a cost of $11 billion. The city says there is no other way to close the awful jails on Rikers Island. NOT TRUE. The city says the new jails will be more humane. NOT TRUE. +

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

3 years

Will everyone please stop sending emails please? Thank you.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

11 months

It's really frustrating to see the effect of Kundera's shitting on his translators playing out now, decades later, in the erasure of their creativity and labor by their being left out of all the obituaries today. One more reason why it matters so much to #NameTheTranslator .

Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

11 months

I will say this: Much of the source of my fixed feelings about Kundera is the way he treated his translators. "Infidelity," by Caleb Crain (Lingua Franca, 1999): "Milan Kundera is on the outs with his translators. But who's betraying whom?"

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

My alma mater. I know this hallway well. Was arrested in this same building in 1985, sitting in to demand that UMass divest from apartheid South Africa ✊

Dissenters 🌊

@wearedissenters

8 months

BREAKING: 4-6 students protesting and occupying the Chancellor’s office at UMass Amherst have been arrested❌

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 months

The abuses are actually much worse than described in this tweet. Read the whole article.

Alex Kane

@alexbkane

6 months

Israel rounds up Palestinians across the northern Gaza Strip, separating families and forcing men to strip to their underwear before trucking some to a detention camp on the beach, where they spent hours, in some cases days, subjected to hunger and cold

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@alexjzucker

1 year

"Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is calling on city and state officials to make available tens of thousands of vacant market-rate apartments to house homeless New Yorkers—thereby making room in shelters to simultaneously address the migrant and homelessness crisis." +

New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)

@thenyic

1 year

📰A MUST READ: “The people are not the crisis — homelessness and our defunded city services are the crisis." @ReynosoBrooklyn #WelcomingNY

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 years

Divest Now! Why #Seattle Took Back Its Money From @WellsFargo (And Your City Should As Well) #NoDAPL @WeWillBoycott

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

Thread demonstrating why @ProPublica is so amazing. (BTW, they're a nonprofit, so if you donate, you can deduct it from your taxes.)

Adriana Gallardo

@otraletra

6 years

1/ Last week we published an example of what we mean by engagement + reporting at ProPublica:

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

10 months

“A decade ago, it seemed inconceivable that there would be an almost equal percentage of books written by men and women coming out in translation in a given year. And yet . . . I’m truly astonished. To be able to see the impact of a program this clearly is incredible.” #WITMonth

Open Letter Books

@open_letter

10 months

Curious about the impact of #WITMonth on what gets published? Look no further! @chadwpost ran some Translation Database numbers, and @Biblibio deserves an award.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

OK, translators. We want to know how many of you had your books scraped to train AI to get a sense of how widely our work is being used in this way. Letter from me and Julia Sanches below.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

2 years

woot woot! just signed a book contract ✍️ always get a kick out of that

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

Fady Joudah shares so powerfully, from close-focus personal (salutes to his two oldest aunts, his mother, his wife) to bigger-picture reality (citing Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism as "state-sanctioned premature death"), this is a MUST-WATCH

'How many babies were born today in Gaza?' Palestinian-American doctor asks viewers to imagine what...

Dr. Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American physician who has family living in Gaza, joins Jen Psaki to discuss conditions in the occupied and besieged territory. Dr. Joudah advocates for more visibility...

www.msnbc.com

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 years

One of the things I love best about the #Resistance to 45 is the sense of humor. This from today's #F17 #generalstrike action in #NYC

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

My translation of Jáchym Topol's boisterous novel A SENSITIVE PERSON is out Jan 3 in the US ( @yalepress ), Jan 10 in the UK ( @yalebooks ). I'll be launching the book together with Jáchym and @manymanyplies Feb 9 at @CzechCentreLnd . See you soon, London! 👋

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

. @micahinATL @DefectorMedia : "Saying that crime is politically constructed is not to say that many criminalized acts are not also deeply harmful, but rather that most forms of harm are not criminalized—and many are actually codified in the law. +

Abolition Requires Struggle | Defector

What a time it is to be a prison abolitionist! Millions of people filled the streets during the 2020 uprisings, forcing a national conversation around defunding and abolishing the police. The...

defector.com

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

11 months

"Historically, a lot of translation was done, often, by academics and people who had other jobs. Now, increasingly, there are MFA programs that put out literary translators, and there are a lot of people who want to, who work full-time in this. +

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

@LitTranslate

11 months

“Literature is literature, it’s about human experiences.” @jbarbassa unpacks the essence and realities of literature in translation as she discusses the art of translation with @GregoryCowles in this episode of @nytimesbooks ’s podcast:

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

". . . before his assassination Dr. King, who is CONSTANTLY invoked by some white people as the most magical of Negroes today, was one of the most HATED people in the U.S."

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

"This zine debunks some of the current myths about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, chief among them that white people by and large were supportive of both." By @prisonculture with @CarolynChernoff & @MsKellyMHayes #MLK2019 #MLKDay

White_People_Hate_Protests.pdf

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

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@alexjzucker

1 year

In the Contemporary Bestsellers display, no less! Jáchym Topol’s A SENSITIVE PERSON, translated by @alexjzucker , published by @yalepress : sighted at @strandbookstore in Manhattan ✨

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@alexjzucker

1 year

I'm honored to be singled out for my contribution like this. A part of me is also uneasy about it, but I want to uplift this review, because the work of mine described here (thank you, Cory!) is work SO MANY translators do. There should be lots more reviews like this.

Yale University Press

@yalepress

1 year

"To have a translator with @alexjzucker ’s experience and expertise working with such a complex and at times distractingly off-the-wall novel is a real gift to readers (and critics)" @cydaedalus reviews Jáchym Topol's A Sensitive Person for @LAReviewofBooks

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

💘 Much love to @wwborders ! WWB was instrumental in my early career, and I was more than happy to support their spring drive to raise funds so they could pay translators more. Looking at my list of contributions, I see it's been far too long and I'm overdue to publish again 🤓

WordsWithoutBorders

@wwborders

8 months

Our most recent translator spotlight goes to @alexjzucker , winner of the 2023 @EBRD Literature Prize, with Bianca Bellovà, for “The Lake”—we’re appreciative of all his wonderful work for WWB and excited for all his forthcoming translations from Czech!

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@alexjzucker

2 years

oh, nothing, just @asymptotejrnl 's founder and editor in chief trying to charge authors guild money to post an announcement of its survey on working conditions for translators. he already has me blocked, by the way, so at least i won't get blocked for this.

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@alexjzucker

1 year

#EBRDLiteraturePrize2023 : Three Finalists Revealed Grateful to the judges for selecting our book as a finalist, and above all thrilled to have more readers discover it as a result! THE LAKE, by Bianca Bellová, translated by @alexjzucker ( @parthianbooks )

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@alexjzucker

7 months

Our work is cut out for us. Despite some progress in raising awareness of translator rights, winning fair terms from publishers, and increasing our visibility, the survey results show a decline in real earnings for literary translators in the US over the past five years.

The Authors Guild

@AuthorsGuild

7 months

We are pleased to announce the results of our Survey of Literary Translators’ Working Conditions in 2022. The survey was made possible through collaborations with @LitTranslate , @PENamerica , and more.

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@alexjzucker

6 months

. @JeffSchuhrke on @democracynow with must-watch convo on US labor unions’ historical support for Zionism and Israel, versus moves now toward backing not only #ceasefireNOW but also #justTransition to a nonmilitaristic US economy

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

6 months

A growing number of U.S. unions are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, driven by their members. This is a break from decades of U.S. labor officials vocally supporting Israel, says historian @JeffSchuhrke .

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@alexjzucker

4 years

Look at our city's spending on jails vs our spending on health, hospitals, and homeless shelters: how much to lock people up vs how much to help or heal them. Let this make an abolitionist of you. #FreeThemAll #AbolitionNow

Communities United for Police Reform

@changethenypd

4 years

Just look at our City’s priorities. No wonder we aren’t ready to fight the #COVID19 pandemic. We need to shift priorities immediately to meet peoples’ survival needs @nycmayor & support most vulnerable New Yorkers. #HomelessCantStayHome #Bailreform

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@alexjzucker

1 year

Big 💓 to Words Without Borders It's been a while since I've contributed, but WWB has been instrumental in my development as a translator: always there, always reliable — and everyone there has been kind, generous, and supportive right from the start

WordsWithoutBorders

@wwborders

1 year

We were thrilled to learn that Bianca Bellovà and @alexjzucker had won the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2023 for “The Lake.”

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@alexjzucker

6 years

@TranslatedWorld When we #namethetranslator , we help ensure their ability to earn a living from their work. #translationthurs

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@alexjzucker

6 months

Two weeks ago, sharing results from the Authors Guild survey of working conditions for US literary translators, I promised I’d have more to say, including how we might improve our situation. Well, it starts with our joining @paythewriter , an actual union:

Literary Translators are Organizing with NWU | NWU

Literary translators are excited to be taking their first steps toward forming a division in the National Writers Union! Advocacy for better contractual terms and working conditions by literary...

nwu.org

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 years

what makes the women's vote a progressive vote -- and people talk about the women's vote like it's on the left -- is women of color."

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

Hey, translators. Just a reminder that this handy-dandy checklist for negotiating literary translation contracts is available FOR FREE online: I'm negotiating a contract right now, so just used it myself.

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@alexjzucker

2 years

not technically a cover reveal, and it's still a good while before the book comes out, but i didn't realize that it was online, so just sharing out of excitement

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 years

I supported National Bail Out for #FathersDay at @BKBailFund via @ColorOfChange . Will you join me? #EndMoneyBail

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 years

Just got off the plane in Prague. Every time I come back it surprises me how emotional I feel.

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@alexjzucker

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I'm a slow thinker, so one big thing I forgot to say is I share this mainly in hopes it may spur others who support these demands to push a little further in taking action too, in whatever form is realistic, given your capacity, physical, mental, spiritual. Now is the time.

Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 months

Been arrested 2x in past 2 weeks with @jvplive to protest Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, funded by US and ∴ me too. I am no spring chicken ! and cannot do everything everywhere but will continue showing up w/ my body to #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #CeasefireNOW #NotInOurName

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

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Just updated my list of #CzechLiterature in English #Translation : books from 2021, 2022, and 2023—including the first volume in the new Czech List at @seagullbooks (see next tweet) Thx @jnzikmund for the new entries!

Czech Literature in English Translation, 1987–2023 (http://bit.ly/czechlitinenglish) || Compiled by...

Czech Literature in English Translation, 1987–2021 Year,ISBN,Title in English Translation,If Reissue, Original Publisher ,If Reissue, Original Year of Publication,Form,Author FN,Author LN,Authors (if...

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

2 years

. @SamaaahMS at @theCCR for @CityLimitsNews : "Feminist and queer organizers and historians remind us that gendered punishment is part of the political fabric of the United States. +

Opinion: Rejecting the Notion of a 'Feminist' Jail for Harlem

"Do New York City’s leaders intend to build a new jail every time an old one fails, as it always will? In a city which boasts some of the world’s leading creative, political, and courageous minds,...

citylimits.org

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

2 years

Today began translating the first of three short books — Trojcestí (1991), Čas mezi tehdy a teď (2004), and Rukopis (2009) — by Bohumila Grögerová for the Památník národního písemnictví (Monument of National Literature) in Prague. All due in September. Wish me luck!

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

10 months

📰⚡️ translated fiction 🔥 among the under 35s (. . . and yet, somehow, in an ENTIRE article devoted to translated fiction, the translator STILL isn't named on one of the TRANSLATED books that the author is RECOMMENDING) Dear @guardian : #NameTheTranslator

WordsWithoutBorders

@wwborders

10 months

“For translated fiction, the future looks bright.” Younger generations are hungry for literary translation, as this piece by @john_self makes clear—these are incredible times to be a writer, translator, and reader of translated fiction!

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

The Lake “is utterly propulsive, immersive and unique, and deserves to become a European classic, to be read by many generations to come.” — @TobyLichtig , chair of #EBRDLiteraturePrize2023 judges

The EBRD

@EBRD

1 year

The winner of the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2023 is 'The Lake' by @BiancaBellova , translated by @alexjzucker published by @parthianbooks ! Congratulations to our winners!

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

2 years

“We’re just drowning in this sea of misinformation that is not only causing people to poorly think about their own risk, but also putting other people at risk,” Davis [ @ahandvanish ] says. #LongCovid

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

Never have I read a translator speak more lovingly of the language and literature they translate than @newm161 does in this interview with @avandervliet at @LAReviewofBooks .

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

"Mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living" was the banner that moved me most during Wednesday's action in DC. Just really hits home for me. #CeasefireNow #StopGazaGenocide #EndIsraeliApartheid #EndIsraeliOccupation #FreePalestine Photo: Rachael Warriner/ @jvplive

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

7 months

"police announced a total prohibition on 'political demonstrations' while Israel is at war. Kobi Shabtai, Israel’s police chief, even threatened to send to Gaza any Palestinian citizen of Israel who expresses solidarity with Palestinians in the strip."

Risking arrest and assault, Israelis begin protesting Gaza war

Gathering outside the army’s HQ in central Tel Aviv, dozens of Israelis called for a ceasefire and the release of all hostages.

www.972mag.com

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

11 months

I will say this: Much of the source of my fixed feelings about Kundera is the way he treated his translators. "Infidelity," by Caleb Crain (Lingua Franca, 1999): "Milan Kundera is on the outs with his translators. But who's betraying whom?"

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

#LRT with ALT text added: Translators turned out en masse yesterday to support striking @HarperCollins workers and @hcpunion . Those pictured include 4 past chairs of the @PENamerica Translation Committee. Wishing our colleagues in publishing a fair contract soon!

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

10 months

Moving and melancholy, Tokyo Ueno Station, by Yu Miri, translated from Japanese by @wrongsreversed for @TiltedAxisPress , is a portrait of a man (or his ghost) living in the park near Ueno Station as he reflects on his life. #WiTMonth + stunning descriptions of rose varieties!

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@alexjzucker

11 months

I have very mixed feelings about Kundera, too many to be captured in a tweet or two, but this edit of the dek in the NY Times obit by @InclusiveLucie expresses a portion of them . . .

Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉 🌻

@InclusiveLucie

11 months

gift article 🎁 Dead at 94, communist party outcast and author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” Milan #Kundera was known for sexually charged, often misogynistic novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

2 years

💥 It's here! The first iteration of the @AuthorsGuild translator survey! For the first time ever, we're going to have data *over time* on how working conditions have changed—or not. If you're US-based w/ at least 1 book of literary translation, please please please fill it out!

The Authors Guild

@AuthorsGuild

2 years

Help support our advocacy and educational efforts for literary translators. If you're an active translator in the U.S. who has published at least one book-length literary translation, please complete our new translator survey by October 23.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

2 years

OK, does this Samarkand bread from Tashkent supermarket in Sheepshead Bay not remind you of the elephant inside the snake from Le Petit Prince?

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

I couldn't make it to #BKBF but wanted to share the good news that on Friday I signed a contract with @KarolinumPress to translate Czech author Jiří Weil's classic 1937 novel Moskva-Hranice (English title TBD). +

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

4 months

Translation and Race, by @tachtco @routledgebooks : Last day to preorder (with free shipping) ⬇️ "brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice."

Corine Tachtiris

@tachtco

5 months

Thank you, @wwborders for re-sharing! My forthcoming book Translation and Race expands at length on these issues. Pre-orders from next week, and a preview is up on the website:

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

4 months

PEN International? ✅ English PEN? ✅ @PENamerica ? Still no call for ceasefire

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

9 months

The Book of #Prague : A City in Short Fiction, including my #translation of the essay “Žižkovite,” by Patrik Banga, is forthcoming from @commapress in October

The Book of Prague - A City in Short Fiction | Comma Press

£9.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Bohumil Hrabal , Michal Ajvaz, Irena Dousková , Simona Bohatá , Jan Zábrana and others - A City in Short Fiction

commapress.co.uk

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

6 months

"If the American policy ... is to appropriate funding for Israel's war, provide weapons for Israel's war, [veto any meaningful resolutions in the UN Security Council], and ... to continue parroting key Israeli propaganda, talking points and disinformation, +

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

6 months

Daniel Levy - unless the United States changes their actual policy towards Israel, rather than just carefully chosen words about how concerned they are, Israel will continue the killing.

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

10 months

Reading the news from #BreadLoaf , I am all the more grateful that @LitTranslate is requiring masking for the #ALTA46 conference in November:

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

8 months

Today would be a good day for my congressional representatives — @SenSchumer @SenGillibrand and @RepJeffries — to call for a ceasefire and for the United States to stop arming Israel

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

1 year

Ready to be radicalized, learn to care more, and do my part to help remake the world 🌱 Thank you, @MsKellyMHayes @prisonculture @haymarketbooks

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 months

An astounding 4 of the 8 authors named in this @pubperspectives piece highlighting Czechia's upcoming turn as guest of honor at Frankfurt are women I translate. Lucie Faulerová's works have yet to be picked up by an English-language press! (Hint, hint)

Frankfurt’s 2026 Guest of Honor Czechia Opens Translation-Focused Planning

The 2026 Frankfurt guest of honor program from the Czech Republic is already being organized, with robust translation funding…

publishingperspectives.com

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Alex Zucker

@alexjzucker

5 years

Please join me in donating to help #CyntoiaBrown get a solid start in this next chapter of her life:

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@alexjzucker

3 years

Had a rough Feb inside my head, but Wednesday got my first dose of COVID vaccine, Friday I had 15 years clean, and today I got together with friends to celebrate the gift of life, for which, no matter how I feel, I'm grateful every day. [glorious cake by Clare, my bf of all time]

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