Happy Women in Translation Month 2018
Conversations
David Brookshaw on why we need to translate more women writers(opens in a new tab).
We need to stop leaving women out(opens in a new tab) of discussions of Latin American literature.
Translators Julia Sanches, Jennifer Croft, Bonnie Huie, and Emma Ramadan on their efforts to promote literary works by women from around the world(opens in a new tab).
A roundtable with women literary editors(opens in a new tab).
How to suppress women’s writing(opens in a new tab).
Lists
Some of Japan’s under-appreciated women writers.(opens in a new tab)
OkayAfrica’s 2018 list of top women in African literature(opens in a new tab).
An issue of Words Without Borders focusing on six Hungarian women writers(opens in a new tab).
8 short stories by Arab women in translation(opens in a new tab).
12 essential Spanish-language female authors(opens in a new tab).
7 Russian books by women for women(opens in a new tab).
Spotlights
Ankita Chakraborty on the works of Taiwanese author Qiu Miaojin(opens in a new tab).
Jennifer Croft on the translations of French writer Virginie Despentes(opens in a new tab).
Haruki Murakami on his favorite young writer, Mieko Kawakami(opens in a new tab).
A rare conversation with the cult Chinese writer Xi Xi(opens in a new tab).
An interview with German author Jenny Erpenbeck.(opens in a new tab)
Jeremy Tiang in conversation with Chinese author Yan Ge.
