A Seattle-based translator on 'We Computers,' dirty jokes and AI-proof careers
Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a Seattle-based translator.
She’s responsible for the English edition of Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov’s novel “We Computers.”
For that work, Fairweather-Vega is a finalist for a 2025 National Book Award in the translated literature category.
She wrote in the afterword to “We Computers,” that she tried to find room in the plot for the poetry, and room for the poetry in the plot.
We talk with her about her work and the community of translators around the Puget Sound.
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Shelley Fairweather-Vega
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