# WomenInTranslation

Nature's field of action is vast, far larger than man's modest patch. - Olga Tokarczuk in "The Green Children" (Zielone dzieci), Jennifer Croft translator, in Antonia Lloyd-Jones' volume The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. #SundaySentence #Booksky #Poland #WomeninTranslation

The cover of this short story collection is white with a stylized black-drawn human figure bent over looking into a reflection.

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Andrea Meador Smith

@andreamsmith.bsky.social

Four out of ten authors are women, including My Dreadful Body 🎉 Congrats to the authors and translators 👏🏻👏🏻 #WomenInTranslation #WITMonth #Djabbarova26

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Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature - National Book Foundation

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Find the New Yorker announcement here. New York, NY (September 15, 2026) – The National Book Foundation today announced the Lon...

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Andrea Meador Smith

@andreamsmith.bsky.social

“We’d been clutching each other by the throat, in a death grip of fear, for too long… and an unbreakable chain of horror had held us the throat for years” 📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith

@andreamsmith.bsky.social

#MyDreadfulBody, chapter X: Throat. “I wanted to finally break the vicious circle of retribution and open our shut mouths so I could shout about my own existence and the existences of mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and girl-friends“ 📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

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JacquiWine

@jacquiwine.bsky.social

An ongoing thread of some excellent books by #womenintranslation - all read since last August. 🧵 #WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚

A bookshelf containing some of the books in translation I've read over the past few years - many by women.

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Andrea Meador Smith

@andreamsmith.bsky.social

3 days ago

My Dreadful Body, chapter IX: Legs. “I decided that after the operation I had to buy myself some red high-heeled shoes… It turned out that the mere ability to walk was more interesting than heels, so I bought myself some sneakers instead. 👠🚶🏻‍♀️📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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One Bright Book

@onebrightbook.bsky.social

about 2 months ago

Hopeless at following reading commands/invitations, but finished this remarkable novel just in time for the beginning of #WITmonth #womenintranslation.

The cover of the NYRB edition of Magda Szabó's novel The Fawn. A young woman, seen from above, sits, almost doubled over, as if she has been laughing, a cigarette in one hand and a saucer, presumably used as an ashtray, in the other. A marble statue stands behind her.

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

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We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth

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Andrea Meador Smith

@andreamsmith.bsky.social

My Dreadful Body, chapter VIII: Back. “As Mama aged, her back began aching frequently: the hours spent washing floors, windows… though she never complained since anyway, how could that pain be compared to the pain from my father's blows?” 😭📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith

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#MyDreadfulBody, chapter XI: Belly. “It's as if syllables from the roomy words [for ‘woman’] will be dropped if no wedding ring appears on a woman's finger and her womb never carries a child. I know that I'm no longer a true woman to them” 🎯📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

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Georgia Reads

@georgiarybanks.bsky.social

about 2 months ago

An embarrassment of riches! 🇺🇦🇨🇺🇫🇮🇸🇪🇫🇷🇦🇱🇧🇬🇷🇺🇩🇪🇧🇫🇲🇰🇦🇹🇧🇯🇧🇪 Need to decide what I want to read for #WITmonth this August. What would you pick up first? And what other #WomenInTranslation recommendations do you have?

Phot shows 12 books laying on a rug. They are:
1. Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated from Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky
2. Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
3. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, translated from Swedish by Thomas Teal
4. A Leopard Skin Hat by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson
5. She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated from Bulgarian by Izadore Angel
6. The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from Russian by Jamey Gambrell
7. Half Swimmer by Katja Oskamp, translated from German by Jo Heinrich
8. So Distant from my Life by Monique Ilboudo, translated from French by Yarri Kamara
9. Grandma Non-Oui by Lidija Dimkovska, translated from Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer
10. The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated from German by Shaun Whiteside
11. Voice of the Two Shores by Agnes Agboton, translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel, and also from Gun by Schimel and the author together
12. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from French by Ros Schwartz

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Alexandra Cristie

@alexcristie.bsky.social

Love seeing people preparing for the start of #WITMonth tomorrow! Here’s my stack of possibilities (well, a conservative selection of them) 📚 Spotting any favourites? #bookSky #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith

@andreamsmith.bsky.social

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