{"id":17460,"date":"2026-08-17T00:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=17460"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:12:58","slug":"translation-spotlight-anne-thompson-melo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=17460","title":{"rendered":"Translation Spotlight: Anne Thompson Melo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"390\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meijer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15107 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meijer.jpeg 390w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meijer-188x300.jpeg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Translator Anne Thompson Melo talks to Two Lines Press about her work on Eva Meijer\u2019s <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twolinespress.com\/shop\/books\/sea-now\" target=\"_blank\">Sea Now<\/a>, <\/em>a novel about &#8220;three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by boat in search of loved ones, they encounter a transformed landscape reclaimed by kelp forests, seabirds, and whales. Weaving philosophy with rich nature and poetic writing, the book offers a deep look at grief, resilience, and coexistence.&#8221; Read the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catranslation.org\/journal\/sea-now-an-interview-with-translator-anne-thompson-melo\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translator Anne Thompson Melo talks to Two Lines Press about her work on Eva Meijer\u2019s Sea Now, a novel about &#8220;three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by boat in search of loved ones, they encounter a transformed landscape reclaimed by kelp forests, seabirds, and whales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=17460\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[1603,724,1602,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17462,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions\/17462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}