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The world is a hellish place. Keep calm and translate.
'The Mother, the Daughter, and the Polyglot'
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August 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Women in Translation Month is an annual celebration of women writers from around the world, writing in languages other than English. Here are books written and translated by women and published in 2026.
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THE SUMMER MY MOTHER HAD GREEN EYES by Tatiana Tibuleac, trans. by Monica Cure LIGHT AND THREAD by Han Kang, trans. by Maya West AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON by Cristina Rivera Garza, trans. by Christina MacSweeney CITY LIKE WATER by Dorothy Tse, trans. by Natascha Bruce THE NECKLACE OF SEVEN SOULS by Hooda Shawa, trans. by Nour Jaljuli ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME IV by Solvej Balle, trans. by Sophia Hersi Smith EATING ASHES by Brenda Navarro, trans. by Megan McDowell THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, trans. by Sasha Dugdale EVERYDAY MOVEMENT by Gigi L. Leung, trans. by Jennifer Feeley MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova, trans. by Lisa C. Hayden SAKURA by Kanako Nishi, trans. by Allison Markin Powell REPETITION by Vigdis Hjorth, trans. by Charlotte Barslund SHE WHO REMAINS by Rene Karabash, trans. by Izidora Angel NOTES TO A BLACK WOMAN by Françoise Ega, trans. by Emma Ramadan SISTERS IN YELLOW by Mieko Kawakami, trans. by Laurel Taylor SAILORS CAN'T SWIM by Dominique Scali, trans. by Jessica Moore TWENTY MINUTES OF SILENCE by Hélène Bessette, trans. by Kate Briggs MER DE GLACE by Malgorzata Lebda, trans. by Mira Rosenthal MOUNT VERITY by Therese Bohman, trans. by Marlaine Delaroy HOOKED by Asako Yuzuki, trans. by Polly Barton ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH by Sólrun Michelsen, trans. by Marita Thomsen MARIAM, IT'S ARWA by Areej Gamal, trans. by Addie Leak WE WERE FORBIDDEN by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. by Ros Schwartz DREAMS OF AYN ARA by Sara Abou Ghazal, trans. by Katharine Halls PLANT LADY by Minyoung Kang, trans. by Shanna Tan WELCOME TO THE KOKORO CAT CLINIC by Syou Ishida, trans. by E. Madison Shimoda DEAR CHEKHOV by Michel Tremblay, trans. by Linda Gaboriau
August 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
lisacowanpineo.bsky.social
August is Women in Translation Month! Here are 12 books translated by women into English that I have read or are on my TBR list.
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August 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM