What to Read for Women in Translation Month
In celebration of Women in Translation Month, read on below for a selection of the newest translations from our client publishers, including fiction and poetry from around the world. Use the code UCPNEW to save 30% off on these books when you order from our website.
From Tupelo Press
of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems
Edited by Naoko Fujimoto
A collection of translated Japanese waka-poems, including text collage and haibun-style discourses on translation.
From Seagull Books
by Pervin Saket
These lyric, unsparing poems stitch together a story of identity, belonging, and dissolution.
by Svenja Leiber, translated by Alta L. Price
A family drama, a portrait of a community devastated by ideology, a fascinating history of amber—but, above all, a tale of remarkable women fighting for their rights.
by Odette Alonso, translated by Liz Rose
A translated collection from one of the defining poetic voices in Cuban and Mexican literature.
by Salma El Moumni, translated by Lynn E. Palermo
A bold, intimate debut novel that follows a young Moroccan woman’s flight from shame to self-reclamation.
by Barbora Hrínová, translated by Isabel Stainsby
A humorous and deeply human short story collection that celebrates outsiders, dreamers, and the queer.
by Krisztina Tóth, translated by Owen Good
A powerful collection of sixteen unsettling stories that delve into the hidden traumas of everyday life.
by Alena Mornštajnová, translated by Alžběta Belánová
A gripping family mystery that reveals how hidden pasts shape our present and transform our future.
by Viktorie Hanišová, translated by Véronique Firkusny
In a forest where every step is familiar, Sára searches for mushrooms—but what she unearths instead are the long-buried truths of her own life.
From the University of British Columbia Press
Azmapu: A Mapuche Philosophy of Care
by Elisa Loncon, translated by Juan Francisco Salazar
Mapuche scholar and activist Elisa Loncon shares the philosophy guiding her fight for Indigenous and environmental rights.
From Carnegie Mellon University Press
by Colette, translated by Carol Mastrangelo Bové
An updated translation of Colette’s revolutionary 1922 autobiographical collection that contains six previously untranslated chapters.
by Idea Vilariño, translated by María José Zubieta
Idea Vilariño’s final masterpiece, where poetry becomes both refusal and resilience.
From Karolinum Press
Who Says Anything about Winning? Eight Exercises in Philosophical Resignation
by Tereza Matejcková, translated by Stuart John Hoskins and Jaroslav Špirk
A contemporary philosophical argument that boldly proposes resignation as the path to a fully realized self.
From Swan Isle Press
by Marcelle Tinayre, with a foreword by Rachel Mesch, translated by Grace Ashton
The first major English translation of Marcelle Tinayre’s Belle Époque novel that interrogates the struggle of coming of age as a young woman in a changing modern world.