Women in Translation
August is Women in Translation Month, which aims to bring awareness to the lack of women writers whose works are translated as well as celebrate the works of individual women authors. Learn more at www.womenintranslation.org. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. Created July 2025.
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We Do Not Part
(Korean, Korea) Kang delivers an indelible exploration of Korea’s historical traumas through the story of a writer who discovers how her friend’s family was impacted by the 1948–1949 Jeju Massacre, in which U.S.-backed Korean forces killed over 30,000 Jeju Island residents suspected of aiding insurgents. (Publishers Weekly)
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Mending Bodies
(Chinese, Hong Kong) In dystopian Hong Kong, a new government program incentivizes physical conjoinment between individuals through a painful and disruptive surgery, promising personal fulfillment and a reduced cost of living.
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Hunchback
(Japanese, Japan) Ichikawa’s provocative debut chronicles a disabled woman’s sexual awakening. (Publishers Weekly)
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A Twist of Fate
(Korean, Korea) Two women meet on a train. Each is running from a deadly secret. When one disappears, the other decides to take her place-for better, or for worse. (Catalog description)
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The Singularity
(Swedish, Sweden) This astringent, fuguelike novel by Kurdish-born Swedish author Karam opens with an unnamed woman who’s long been on a desperate search for her missing daughter...A knotty, sui generis evocation of mothers’ feelings of fear and loss. (Kirkus)
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Underground Barbie
(Croatian, Croatia) In Kolanovic's latest novel, war limits residents to the damp basement of a Sloboština housing block in Zagreb, Croatia. But that doesn't stop Barbie from living her fantastical life. (Library Journal)
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Punished
(Swedish, Sámi) ...a harrowing story -- inspired by true events -- of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty years later. (Publisher)
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Covert Joy
(Portuguese, Brazil) This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as "The Smallest Woman in the World," "Love," "Family Ties," and "The Egg and the Chicken." Lispector's luminous regard for life's small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. (Publisher description)
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Sister Deborah
(French, Rwanda) Rwandan French writer Mukasonga delivers a dazzling and witty narrative of a Black Christian cult in early 20th-century Rwanda. (Publishers Weekly)
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Heart Lamp
(Kannada, India) In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.
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