The European Science Fiction Society recently announced their 2026 award winners, which include Hall of Fame Award winners Luís Filipe Silva (Portugal) (Best Author), Stéphanie Hans (France) (Best Artist), Supernova (Slovenia) (Best Magazine), Ohneohren (Austria) (Best Publisher), Francesco Verso (Italy) (Best Promoter), and Mariano Martin Rodriguez (Spain, nominated by Moldova) (Best Translator); as well as
My second book on SF in translation, Speculative Fiction in Translation from Around the World, is coming out from the University of Wales Press this September. Read all about it here!
The Locus Awards now includes a “Translated Novel” category, and the inaugural winner is the fabulous Solvej Balle with On the Calculation of Volume III, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell, out from New Directions and Faber & Faber! Congratulations and well deserved!!
Author and translator Anton Hur has announced that “over the course of the next four years, Harper Voyager will publish the four giant volumes of The Bird That Drinks Tears saga, also known as the LOTR of Korea, beginning with The Heart of the Nhaga next month [June].” You can read an excerpt from the
Congratulations to Hungarian author Anita Moskát and translator Austin Wagner for winning the BSFA award for Best Translated Short Fiction with “Liecraft” (Apex Magazine, October 2025)! Read this excellent story here.
This magazine demanded to be born. Read all about it in the File 770 announcement and let me know if you’re interested in writing for it. It’s casual, it’s low-key, it’s ALL SFT ALL THE TIME. What more could you ask for? Also, it’s free and will be available here at SFinTranslation.com. The first issue
It’s out and includes fantastic works of short SF in translation that came out in 2025: read the list here! These stories were translated from the Hungarian, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG a whole TRILOGY by Israeli SF author Shimon Adaf is coming out in 2022 in English!! Thank you to translator Yardenne Greenspan and to Picador for making this happen! So while you wait, go read some Shimon Adaf that’s already in English: here, Sunburnt Faces, and “They Had to Move” (Zion’s Fiction).
Congrats to Ian Campbell on the publication of Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation (out from Palgrave- part of their “Studies in Global Science Fiction” series). I’m honored to have been asked to contribute a chapter!
Chad Post of Open Letter Books and the Three Percent website is launching a new project focusing on translators as curators. During the month of June, I will be partnering with Chad to focus on Italian science fiction in translation. Through excerpts, profiles, readings, shorter podcasts, movie clips, and more, we will introduce readers to
