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More about Mothersland! https://www.full-stop.net/2024/10/14/reviews/sarahgear/mothersland-shahzoda-samarqandi/ Thank you to Sarah Gear for her careful reading and writing and Full Stop for publishing. Slavica Publishers Shahzoda Samarqandi

Mothersland – Shahzoda Samarqandi Mahtab has translated herself into her mother, and she has translated the past to make it her own.

Sometimes, a review reveals aspects of a work you've completely forgotten or didn't even fully realize. They key is having two talented, insightful writers involved, who can appreciate and process real history and fictional characters and make it all come alive. I'm lucky enough to work with an outstanding pair of such writers: Shahzoda Samarqandi, author of Mothersland, and Olga Zilberbourg, who wrote the smart, appreciative review linked below. Read the review! Read the book!

on Mothersland, a novel by Shahzoda Samarqandi, translated from the Russian by Shelley Fairweather-Vega – On the Seawall “A complex mixture of ‘bluntness and grace, directness and song’ to which W. S. Merwin attributes the unique tension and power of Thomas Wyatt’s verse attracts me devotedly to the work of Jessica Fisher and Carl Phillips.”

Issue Two of Turkoslavia - the only journal precisely matching my own professional linguistic geography - contains excerpts from my translations of novels by Hamid Ismailov, Султан Раев, and Таласбек Әсемқұлов - Таласбек Асемкулов. If you look closely enough, you'll also find my latest manifesto on the uses and abuses of the Russian language when it comes to translating literature from Central Asia. Go and read!

Issue 2 | Turkoslavia Exchanges is an online journal of literary translation published biannually. Founded in 1989 by poet and translator Daniel Weissbort, Exchanges has published the work of award-winning writers and translators across the country and the globe, including Deborah Smith, Jennifer Croft, Jeremy Tiang, Aro...

Reader reviews of Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup are coming in, and Mark Twain is a big fan! And so is someone I can only assume is not Steve Bannon. https://www.amazon.com/Batu-Search-Golden-Zira-Nauryzbai/dp/166250702X/

Out today!

Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan a book by Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega An unprecedented collection of women's voices from the heart of Central Asia.From the foreword by Gabriel Mcguire: "I cannot think of anything quite like ... Amanat."A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world.... Diverse in form,....

This seems like a good year for a linguistic revolution. Ukrainian-language books are on their way!

Before this man was the world's favorite resistance fighter, he was a comedy star who played the Ukrainian president on TV. FairVega Russian Library Services is proud to offer three seasons of "Слуга народа / Sluga naroda" on DVD in North American/NTSC format for your library. (Russian only, English subtitles in Season 1 only). #нетвойне

What we've been up to lately on the translation side of things: Two new books coming soon, and pondering how to do even more!

The Best Feeling in the World: Translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega on What It Takes to Bring a Book to a Publisher There is some amazing writing being produced in Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries right now, and writers in the region are telling stories that we English-speakers won’t hear anywhere el…