“I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman tr. Ros Schwartz, with a dry gin martini with a twist
A belated addition to #womenintranslationmonth: this eerie, engrossing novel that absolutely lives up to the hype, brilliantly (re)translated by the legendary Ros Schwartz.
As August winds down and #WomenInTranslationMonth comes to a close, we're reminded: Why end there? Great books in translation (especially by women) deserve to be read all year long.
ICYMI: We are extending #WomenInTranslationMonth a little bit, and running this offer until Friday!!!
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How was your August reading? 🌞📚 Did you find any new favorite books?
I hope everyone had a wonderful month! This was my first #WomenInTranslationMonth and I loved it—it was such a fun, rewarding way to read. Already excited for the next one! 💫
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Yellow book cover of "Elena Knows" by Claudia Piñeiro. A blue profile silhouette with a red chair inside it, symbolizing thought. A quote from The New York Times is at the bottom. 'A piercing commentary on mother-daughter relationships, the indignity of bureaucracy, the burdens of caregiving and the impositions of religious dogma on women.' Kathleen Rooney, THE NEW YORK TIMES
#womenintranslationmonth from Argentina, “Elena Knows” by Claudia Piñeiro trans Frances Riddle. Brilliant often dark, uncomfortable, difficult but universal themes; grief, aging, illness, caregiving , bodily autonomy, female agency, mother-daughter relationships, church control etc
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For the last day of #WomeninTranslationMonth, here are a series of recommended books: from India, Africa and Latin America.
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#MidnightIsNotinEveryonesReach
#ElizabethLowe, translator
I have the waves on the beach, grab your rifle, point it at me, and order me to walk to the edge of the cliff where, contrary to our older brother, someone helps me jump.
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#ThePassionAccordingtoGH
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#IdraNovey, translator
Life and death were mine, and I was monstrous.
‘Dislocations’ by Sylvia Molloy, tr. Jennifer Croft, with a tropical watermelon cocktail
If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
As #WomenInTranslationMonth comes to an end (& #TranslationMonth begins… revisiting World Literature Today’s review of #riverinanocean our feminist decolonial collection of essays on translation
Mayra Santos-Febres’s BOAT PEOPLE, translated from the Spanish by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, “remains as devastatingly urgent as the day it was written.”
Read more about this collection from Cardboard House Press! #WomenInTranslationMonth cardboardhousepress.org/Boat-People-...
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#HurricaneSeason
#FernandaMelchor
#SophieHughes, translator
They called her…the Young Witch when she'd first started trading in curses and cures, and then, when she wound up alone, the year of the landslide, simply the Witch.
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#DonQuixote
#EdithGrossman, translator
“God save me!" said Sancho. "Didn't I tell your grace…that these were nothing but windmills.…”
"Be quiet, Sancho my friend," replied Don Quixote. “Matters of war...are subject to continual change.…”
Happy to see my translation of Adriana Riva’s novel SALT included in this list celebrating #WomenInTranslationMonth among so many great other books by authors and translators I admire!
Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s LUNULAE “revisits and reworks poems from her previous collection.”
Check out this collection published by Wake Forest University Press and translated from the Irish by Ní Ghríofa! #WomenInTranslationMonth
wfupress.wfu.edu/books/lunula...
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#TellThemofBattlesKingsandElephants
#CharlotteMandell, translator
Tell them of what thou alone hast seen…and since they be children tell them of battles and kings, horses, devils, elephants, and angels, but omit not to tell them of love and suchlike.
Issue 41 of @fencebooks.bsky.social features translated works by Lee Okbong, Claudia Peña Claros, Linda Maria Baros, and more! Be sure to check out the issue this #WomenInTranslationMonth: reader.exacteditions.com/issues/11587...
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#FacesintheCrowd
#ValeriaLuiselli
#ChristinaMacSweeney, translator
We like to think that in this house there's a ghost living with us and watching us....The boy christened it "Without."
Why Without?
Just because he's with and without a face, Mama.
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#TheWhiteBook
#HanKang
#DeborahSmith, translator
Laughing whitely
The expression "laughing whitely"
(probably) exists only in her mother tongue. Laughter that is faint, cheerless, its cleanness easily shattered. And the face that forms it.
In THE LADY OF ELCHE, Amanda Berenguer “descends in search of images silenced by the neofascist Uruguayan dictatorship of 1973-1985.”
Read a Veliz Books poetry collection, translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra, this #WomenInTranslationMonth!
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A little late in the month, perhaps, but some #WomenInTranslationMonth content for you all:
Recs from me to you of 50 women* in translation from 50 countries** around the world. I have read and enjoyed them all!
(Though some are harder read than others, please check CWs or ask me!)
After nine months
of nourishing and carrying
a life in my belly (while I was working)…
—“Maternity Leave” by Karla Quimsing, translated from the Hiligaynon by Quimsing in @anmlymag.bsky.social, is featured on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list:
anmly.org/ap35/karla-q...
For #WomenInTranslationMonth, we spoke to Deepa Bhasthi, translator and winner of this year’s International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq. She discusses her translation process and what it’s like being a writer in multilingual societies like India. pen.org/deepa-bhasth...
Hey #BookSky One more #WeirdBookWednesday for #WomeninTranslationMonth so we'll do Poso Wells! You got yer corrupt politicians, yer ghosts of colonization, yer economic exploitation, yer public urination-caused dramatic electrocution. You got yer--wait. share.google/quhwL7XLdPnY...
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#TheEmployees
#OlgaRavn
How do you know there's nothing happening inside me when I'm switched off…But I...remember, she said, that I walk...when I'm switched off…through an endless corridor lined with windows....
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#IsMotherDead
#VigdisHjorth
#CharlotteBarslund, translator
The first song I ever heard was Mum crying by my cradle.
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A young woman struggles with vivid dreams and guilt, as she searches for a sister who disappeared 10 years ago…
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A book for #WomeninTranslationMonth: Narine Abgaryan's Three Apples Fell from the Sky, a story about an Armenian village. Gentle, very enjoyable. Translated by Lisa C. Hayden. A book to escape into, especially now. #fiction #booksintranslation
talking-about-books.com/2023/10/07/t...
Michelle Mirabella has reviewed The Book of Affects by Marilia Arnaud for Hopscotch Translation. I am so grateful for, and impressed by, her deep, thoughtful, scholarly analysis of the collection and my translation.
#womenintranslationmonth #bookreview
hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/08/26/q...
“what matters over here is to begin
to be joy inside a pomegranate…”
Read Betül Dünder’s “Something Red,” translated from the Turkish by Öykü Tekten and featured on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list, in Turkoslavia:
exchanges.uiowa.edu/something-red
