Women in Translation 2022
Every August is Women in Translation Month, which seeks to rectify the imbalance in world literature, promoting women writers from across all walks of life, all languages, and all experiences. Here are just some of the works by women translated into English during the past year. (Created August 2022).
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You Can Be the Last Leaf
Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat.
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Violeta
This sweeping novel tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
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Brickmakers
Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love.
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We Know You Remember
The past comes flooding back for police detective Eira Sjodin when Olof Hagstrm̲, who served time for raping and murdering a local girl, returns home to find his father dead under suspicious circumstances.
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Son of Svea
In this family chronicle about the social transformations that unite and divide us, Ragnar Johansson, born in 1932, a transformative moment in Swedish history, considers his mother a relic of the past as he embraces modernity until he has children of his own.
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An Impossible Love
Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. Subtle and suspenseful.
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Rahel Varnhagen
Hannah Arendt's first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism.
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Boulder
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." Baltasar demonstrates her preeminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world--and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.
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Mister N
Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel -- he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim pageant: poverty, violence and fear.
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A Single Rose
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.
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