54.5 Women in Translation Month

Becca and Corinne are here to bring you suggestions for Women in Translation Month. Everything from what to read to how to find it, after this episode you won't have any excuses to keep from reading a book written by a woman who writes in a language other than your own.

Becca and Corinne are here to bring you suggestions for Women in Translation Month. Everything from what to read to how to find it, after this episode you won't have any excuses to keep from reading a book written by a woman who writes in a language other than your own.

Next week we will be reading and discussing The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us.

Resources for Translated Titles:

• The International Booker Prize

• Deep Vellum - Publishing and Bookstore

• A Year of Reading the World - Blog

• City of Asylum Bookstore and Non-Profit

Recommended Titles:

• Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima translated from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt

• Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell

  • Also, Fever Dream

  • Listen: LeVar Burton Reads: Toward Happy Civilization

• Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn translated from Finnish by Hildi Hawkins

• The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya translated from Russian by Jamey Gambrell

  • Also, The Golden Porch, White Walls, Aetherial Worlds

• The Door by Magda Szabo translated from Hungarian by Len Rix

• Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena translated from Latvian by Margita Gailitis

• Adèle by Leila Slimani translated from French by Sam Taylor

  • Also, The Perfect Nanny

• Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth