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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Dear Hank and John @dearhankandjohn.bsky.social A comedy podcast wherein 2 brothers answer your questions, give you dubious advice & bring you all the week’s news from Mars, and AFC Wimbledon.
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
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Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social Award-winning literary translator. US/UK citizen. Coloradan. Democrat. Wearer of red lipstick. Co-founder, @translatorsaloud.bsky.social.
Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social Independent publisher of literature from the Global Majority.
Read international. Read intersectional.
Jenny Bhatt @jennybhattwriter.bsky.social Author. Literary Translator. Writing Instructor. NEA Fellow (Translation; 2025.) Ph.D. Student @UTDallasArts. Founder @DesiBooks.
Chintan @chintanwriting.bsky.social Writing for The Hindu, Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Kirkus Reviews, Himal, The Wire, Scroll, Queerbeat, Stirworld. Email: chintan.writing@gmail.com
Will Forrester @willforrester.bsky.social Writer/editor | Head of Literature Programmes @englishpen.bsky.social | Board @untold-narratives.bsky.social | Expert @creativeeurope.bsky.social | views own, he/him
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Shuchi @shuchia.bsky.social Writer, translator, and dabbler in film.
Tin House Fiction 2025.
Writing in The Polis Project, The Cult Collective, Brownies Zine, etc
Oxford Translates @oxfordtranslates.bsky.social Literary Translation Summer School, online, 6 - 10 July 2026
Applications now open!
https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtranslates
Directors: Ros Schwartz & Holly Langstaff
Jacqueline Leung @jacqlyy.bsky.social Writer and CH-EN translator. Translation editor, The Offing. Mending Bodies out April 2025 (Two Lines Press).
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
Sana R. Chaudhry @sanarch.bsky.social Writer, literary translator, educator. English Prof @U of North Florida. Focus on trauma, memory, literatures of the body, diaspora studies, literary translation, South Asia, and world literature.
In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social Translation-focused research group and roaming library, focused on activities around the creative and intellectual practices of translation 📚
https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk
Usman Azfar @usmanazfar.com Amateur Film Maker
I make videos on British Mosques, Islamic History and Muslim Life
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
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Resh Susan @thebooksatchel.bsky.social Writer + editor for hire | Visual storyteller | Words :HuffPostIndia, VOGUE India etc; can be bribed with books, #kdrama & food (✉️:thebooksatchel@gmail.com)
Jayapriya @jayapriya88.bsky.social Literary Agent at Jacarandalit
Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
Vishwambhari @vishwambhari.bsky.social
রিয়া @riyaray.bsky.social independent researcher. translator.
Bangla-Hindi-English-Assamese
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Tias Basu @tiasb.bsky.social PhD candidate and Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University | Translator
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Anna Gunin @annagunin.bsky.social Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Jo Heinrich @joheinrich.bsky.social DE & FR > EN translator, Marzahn Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp and more to come! joheinrichtranslation.co.uk
Ankita Chauhan @ankitachauhan.bsky.social Reader.
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Arun Jee @arunji.bsky.social Translator of Ilya Kaminski's 'Deaf Republic', Author of 'Basic English Grammar', A British council awardee for leading the integration of international learning
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Rohin Bhatt 🏳️🌈 @bhattrohin.bsky.social (he/they) Litigator, Writer, Bioethicist
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Urban Elite v Union of India - Penguin India | Represented by Writer's Side
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Todd Tyrtle @gooutsidetoday.com American expat living in Toronto, likes cycling (especially bicycle touring) sometimes on Zwift, cooking, writing and trying new things. Studying Hindi in my spare time. Libraries are my favourite thing.
Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social Translator from French and Italian - literature, music, history, arts
Suchishraba @suchishraba.bsky.social Linguist, translator, proofreader.
Loves music, history, neuroscience, films, and puns.
Speaks English, Odia, Hindi, Persian, Urdu
Arunava Sinha @arunava.bsky.social Bengali-English-Bengali #literarytranslator ~ #nowtranslating a literary novel by day, a detective novel by night ~ All posts are strictly personal views. arunavasinha.in
Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social Ethnomusicology, South Asia, Queerness, Translation, Caste and Spirituality.
Santa Cruz, CA/ India
SALT Chicago summer school
Ankur Jyoti Saikia @amythfromassam.bsky.social
Niyati Bhat @niyatib.bsky.social Writer. Translator (Kashmiri to English).
Charles Wallace India Trust Literary fellow 2024.
Rep: Writer's Side Literary Agency.
PhD Candidate: Cinema Studies, JNU (Exile & Refugees in South Asian Visual Culture).
https://niyatibhat.in/
Jayasri @byronicaly.bsky.social I like to read books that makes me cry.
@aswritingsaves.bsky.social @aswritingsaves.bsky.social Writer
Literary Translator, Hindi-English
1990, Aramganj Westland
Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social Literary translator from the Italian: Michele Mari (Verdigris and You, Bleeding Childhood), Lalla Romano (A Silence Shared and In Farthest Seas), Walter Siti (Paradise Overload)
Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social Author & Literary Translator | Deputy Editor, Sydney Review of Books.
I am not very active here!
http://tiffanytsao.com
Catalyst Press @catalystpress.bsky.social Catalyst Press: Indie publishers of books by African writers and illustrators. Hosts of #ReadingAfrica Week each December. Visit us at www.catalystpress.org
Kate Siegel @katesiegel.bsky.social often actress, always dramatic.
Rounak Bhat @kyaathaam.bsky.social Editing books for Penguin Southeast Asia. Bun dad [in mourning]. Trying to translate. Previously, The Indian Express; Newslaundry. He/him. http://seedisclaimer.com- N Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social Poetry: The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024); After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022); Life and Times of Mr. S (2012); Universal Beach (2006). I teach Creative Writing in the MFA Program at George Mason University.
gemmabice @gemmabice.bsky.social Sanskrit, Kannada, Hindi in Italy
@maiabarkaia.bsky.social @maiabarkaia.bsky.social I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a particular interest in the history of the South Caucasus and Modern India.
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
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Meera | મીરાં @meerashar.bsky.social Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter ll
Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛- R reema @reemashaya.bsky.social
Karwaan Heritage @karwaanheritage.bsky.social A Students-led History Collective | Making Academic History Accessible, Engaging and Inclusive. Founded by @eshansharma.bsky.social
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Charco Press @charcopress.com Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
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Neem Tree Press @neemtreepress.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning books that change and broaden perspectives 📚
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Rahul Bishnoi @rahulbishnoi.bsky.social Play/Wright + Research | PhD Student @ Tufts
Fiammetta Rocco @fiammettarocco.bsky.social Runs the International Booker Prize. Demon reader of books from other lands. What unites us is stronger than what divides us
Jasdeep Singh @jasdeep.bsky.social Techie, Translator, Writer
https://jasdeep-singh.com
Chirag Thakkar @chiragthakkar.bsky.social Senior Associate Publisher at Bloomsbury India | Reluctant artist, lazy writer |
Previously published books at Penguin Random House India | Roli Books | Oxford University Press
Vaughn @theforestwizard.bsky.social Hindi + Urdu, Language Pedagogy
ishaan (they/them) @ichhadharibilli.bsky.social writer, translator, shapeshifter 🍉
student of [political, decolonial] philosophy [of history, time, language] at KU Leuven. lover of poems. speaker of 2 or 3 languages and then some [en-hi-ur-de-fr]. linktree.com/ishaansaxena_
انقلاب زندہ باد ☭- K N Kalyan Raman @kalyanasc.bsky.social Literary Translator
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Subhashree.bsky.social @theriveter.bsky.social 2024 PEN/Heim Translation Grant, 2024 ALTA Emerging Literary Translator
Tamil, English, French, Spanish
subhashree-translator.com
Dawid Mobolaji @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social Literary translator (Polish - English), writer and resident doctor
Translations of prose and poetry in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, The Dial and elsewhere
London, UK
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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Will Morningstar @willmorningstar.bsky.social spanish translator, yiddish and catalan enthusiast, publisher at Diptych Press
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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social ‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories
Emmanuel Pettini @chronocyte.bsky.social Working as a freelance translator, mainly japanese anime dubbing in French.
Emma Kalb @emmakale.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia.
Rishita @rishita-12.bsky.social She/they. 22. Student. Migrated from twitter.
Into literature, politics, history, films and a range of other things.
Jayasree Kalathil @vivarthaka.bsky.social Writer, translator, mad activist
suzanneferree @suzanneferree.bsky.social Retired from U.S.EPA, Univ of Chicago physical chemistry PhD, former radio DJ; music, piano, and cats.
Rahul @notself.bsky.social
Shivangi @sheevaangii.bsky.social translator, poet, writer, and occasionally a journalist (if held at gunpoint).
Bihar and it's languages and weaves
Awais Athar @awaisathar.bsky.social Works on Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and large datasets. Loves drinking tea and posting random pics on his blog.
Quamrul Hassan @quamrulhassan.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Translator | Haikuist
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books.
https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal