Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation

04/05/2025

Our newest issue, CLIMATE, is out now.
https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/

Art by F***y Beury.

05/03/2025

Deadline has been extended to March 20th, 2025.

Calling all translators — Exchanges is now reading for our Spring 2025 issue, titled Climate.
Send us your work by March 10th, 2025, 11:59pm CT.
More info at the link below:
https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/

06/02/2025

Calling all translators — Exchanges is now reading for our Spring 2025 issue, titled Climate.
Send us your work by March 10th, 2025, 11:59pm CT.
More info at the link below:
https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/

22/11/2024

Read Spirit, our Fall 2024 issue of Exchanges: https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/

Art by Tony Brinkely

19/08/2024

Calling all translators — Exchanges is now reading for our Fall 2024 issue, titled Spirit.

Send us your work by October 4th, 2024, 11:59pm CT.

More info at the link below:

https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/submissions/

07/06/2024

In our latest review, critic Vandana Nair examines the politics of language and the language of politics in multiple translations of Saadat Hasan Manto in The Dog of Tithwal.

Read on for more: https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/reviews/the-dog-of-tithwal/

Vandana Nair
Archipelago Books

The Dog Of Tithwal by Saadat Hasan Manto With a preface by Vijay Seshadri Translated from the Urdu by Khalid Hasan, Aatish Taseer, and Muhammad Umar Menon Archipelago Books, 416 pages, $19.99 (paper) Review by Vandana Nair “Even dogs will now have to decide if they are Indian or Pakistani,” obse...

22/04/2024

We are so excited to announce that our latest issue, titled Becoming, is now available!

Read our latest issue: Becoming

16/04/2024

This week, on the Exchanges book reviews column, critic Eric Vanderwall takes a close look at a new translation, by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, of Witold Gombrowicz's The Possessed. Check it out at the link below!

Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Grove Atlantic
Eric Vanderwall

The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Introduction by Adam Thirlwell Black Cat, 416 pp., $17.00 (paper) Review by Eric Vanderwall In late July 1939, Polish author Witold Gombrowicz accepted an invitation from the Ministry of Industry to travel on a new cruise ship’s ...

11/03/2024

Our latest feature essay on translation is up, on the role of translation in the Armenian diaspora after the Genocide. It's written by the wonderful Nanor Kebranian, and previews some of her scholarship you can read elsewhere. Please give it a read!

Essay by Nanor Kebranian Since the Armenian Genocide during the First World War, translation has become a source of cultural preservation for survivors and their increasingly assimilated non-Armenophone descendants. This marks a significant shift from translation’s role prior to the Genocide. In t...

24/02/2024

There is still some time to submit to Exchanges' next issue, so hurry up! But before that, make sure to check out our latest book review—on Margaret Jull Costa's and Thomas Bunstead's translation of Bernardo Atxaga's Water Over Stones—with great attention to translation and reception by Kevin Smith!

https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/reviews/water-over-stones/

Graywolf Press

Water Over Stones By Bernardo Atxaga Originally translated from the Basque into Spanish by Asun Garikano and the author; present edition translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Thomas Bunstead Graywolf Press, 400 pp., $18.00 (paper) Review by Kevin Smith In a scene in Bernardo Atxaga....

20/02/2024

A reminder to submit to Exchanges by March 1st! More information at the link!

Exchanges is now reading for our Spring '24 issue, titled Becoming! We accept translations of poetry, short or excerpted fiction, plays, and literary nonfiction into English. We also welcome submissions of visual art, of any medium, to be considered as companion pieces to accepted translations. A cr...

07/02/2024

While you're thinking about which translations to submit to Exchanges' next issue, check out our latest book review—on Alison L. Strayer's translation of Annie Ernaux's The Young Man—with great attention to translation and reception by Jacquelyn Bengfort!

https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/reviews/the-young-man/

(Also mentioned, the wonderful Seven Stories Press, who has been publishing Ernaux in English for years!)

The Young Man By Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer Seven Stories Press, 62 pp., $13.95 (paper) Review by Jacquelyn Bengfort Seven Stories Press has served as Annie Ernaux’s American publisher since the early 1990s, and published Getting Lost, the English translation of ...