Hello, lovely readers!

Meytal over at the Biblibio blog is hosting the Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) in August. The event aims to encourage readers, reviewers, publishers, and translators to explore more books written by female writers in translation. Here you can find a FAQ on the event. And here Meytal compiled a list of books.

My list for WITMonth will overlap with some of the other reading projects I am taking part in:

1. Ladivine, by Marie NDiaye, tr. Jordan Stump (20 Books of Summer)
2. Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell (20 Books of Summer)
3. If Not, Winter: fragments of Sappho, tr. Anne Carson (The Classics Club)
4. Invisible Links, by Selma Lagerlöf, tr. Pauline Bancroft Flach (The Classics Club)
5. Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky, tr. Sandra Smith (The Classics Club)
6. The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki (Japanese Literature Challenge)
7. The Izumi Shikibu Diary, tr. Edwin Cranston  (Japanese Literature Challenge)
8. The Kagero Diary, by Michitsuna no Haha, tr. Sonja Arntzen (Japanese Literature Challenge)

Here is a list of books I have on my TBR, and may get to if I have time:

1. Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol
2. Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, tr. Basil Creighton
3. The weight of things, by Marianne Fritz, tr. Adrian Nathan West
4. La Femme de Gilles, by Madeleine Bourdouxhe, tr. Faith Evans
5. The Blue Room, by Hanne Ørstavik, tr. Deborah Dawkin
6. Things we Lost in the Fire, by Mariana Enríquez, tr. Megan McDowell
7. Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin, tr. Patsy Southgate

Finaly, here is a list of books to read for the distant future (you see, I love lists… :))

1. Thus Were Their Faces, by Silvina Ocampo, tr. Daniel Balderston
2. In Diamond Square, by Mercè Rodoreda, tr. Peter Bush
3. Death in Spring, by Mercè Rodoreda, tr. Martha Tennent
4. Nada, by Carmen Laforet, tr. Edith Grossman
5. Subtly Worded, by Teffi, tr. Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler
6. Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, by Teffi, tr. Robert Chandler, Irina Steinberg, Anne Marie Jackson, Elizabeth Chandler
7. Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi, by Teffi, tr. Robert Chandler, Rose France, Elizabeth Chandler
8. Visitation, by Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. Susan Bernofsky
9. Nothing But Ghosts, by Judith Hermann, tr. Margaret Bettauer Dembo
10. La Bâtarde, by Violette Leduc, tr. Derek Coltman
11. Thérèse and Isabelle, by Violette Leduc, tr. Sophie Lewis
12. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur, by Violette Leduc, tr. Derek Coltman
13. The Book of Promethea, by Hélène Cixous, tr. Betsy Wing
14. The Thirtieth Year: Stories, by Ingeborg Bachmann, tr. Michael Bullock
15. Cassandra, by Christa Wolf, tr. Jan van Heurck
16. The Three Marias, by Rachel de Queiroz, tr. Fred P. Ellison
17. Delphine, by Germaine de Staël (Madame de Staël), tr. Avriel H. Goldberger
18. At the End of Sleep: Poems, by Tal Nitzan, tr. Tal Nitzan, Vivian Eden, Irit Sela, Aliza Raz, Rachel Tzvia Back
19. Medea and Her Children, by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, tr. Arch Tait
20. Butterflies in November, by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, tr. Brian FitzGibbon
21. Into the Whirlwind, by Eugenia Ginzburg, tr. Paul Stevenson, Manya Harari
22. Dina’s Book, by Herbjørg Wassmo, tr. Nadia M. Christensen
23. The Heptameron, by Marguerite de Navarre, tr. George Saintsbury
24. The Treasure of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan, tr. Sarah Lawson
25. The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pisan, tr. Rosalind Brown-Grant
26. The Iguana, by Anna Maria Ortese, tr. Henry Martin
27. History, by Elsa Morante, tr. Lily Tuck
28. The Youngest Doll, by Rosario Ferré, tr. Rosario Ferré, Jean Franco
29. Here, by Wisława Szymborska, tr. Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh
30. The House of Ulloa, by Emilia Pardo Bazán, tr. Paul O’Prey
31. So Much for That Winter, by Dorthe Nors, tr. Misha Hoekstra
32. Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real, by Celia Correas Zapata
33. The Weight of Things, by Marianne Fritz, tr. Adrian Nathan West
34. The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann, by Ingeborg Bachmann, tr. Peter Filkins
35. A Life of Poems, Poems of a Life, by Anna de Noailles, tr. Norman R. Shapiro
36. A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar
37. Reeds in the Wind, by Grazia Deledda, tr. Martha King
38. Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Courtly Ladies & Courtesans, ed. Laura Anna Stortoni, tr. Mary Prentice Lillie
39. A Family Lexicon, by Natalia Ginzburg, tr. Jenny McPhee
40. Kassandra and the Wolf, by Margarita Karapanou, tr. N.C. Germanacos
41. Alberta and Jacob, by Cora Sandel, tr. Elizabeth Rokkan
42. April Witch, by Majgull Axelsson, tr. Linda Schenck
43. Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943, by Erica Fischer, tr. Edna McCown
44. First Love & Look for My Obituary: Two Novellas by Elena Garro, by Elena Garro, tr. David Unger
45. House of Mist: A Novel, by María Luisa Bombal, tr. María Luisa Bombal
46. Gnedich, by Maria Rybakova, tr. Elena Dimov
47. Blue Self-Portrait, by Noémi Lefebvre, tr. Sophie Lewis
48. Wonderful, Wonderful Times, by Elfriede Jelinek, tr. Michael Hulse
49. The Diary of a Lost Girl, by Margarete Böhme, tr. Thomas Gladysz
50. The Body Where I Was Born, by Guadalupe Nettel, tr. J.T. Lichtenstein
51. White Walls: Collected Stories, by Tatyana Tolstaya, tr. Jamey Gambrell, Antonina W. Bouis
52. Sleepwalker in a Fog, by Tatyana Tolstaya, tr. Jamey Gambrell
53. Povídky: Short Stories by Czech Women, ed. Nancy Hawker
54. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, tr. Keith Gessen
55. There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, tr. Anna Summers
56. There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, tr. Anna Summers
57. A Broken Mirror, by Mercè Rodoreda, tr. Josep Miquel Sobrer
58. Nonrequired Reading, by Wisława Szymborska, tr. Clare Cavanagh
59. My Heart Hemmed In, by Marie NDiaye, tr. Jordan Stump
60. Selected Letters, by Madame de Sévigné, tr.  Leonard Tancock
61. Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Jennifer Croft
62. Inheritance from Mother, by Minae Mizumura, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter
63. Seeing Red, by Lina Meruane, tr. Megan McDowell
64. Swallowing Mercury, by Wioletta Greg, tr. Eliza Marciniak
65. Based on a True Story, by Delphine de Vigan, tr. George Miller
66. Extracting the Stone of Madness, by Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. Yvette Siegert
67. Dance on the Volcano, by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, tr. Kaiama L. Glover
68. Women Poets of Japan, ed. Ikuko Atsumi, tr. Kenneth Rexroth
69. Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology, tr. Hiroaki Sato
70. Frontier, by Can Xue, tr. Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping
71. Eve out of Her Ruins, by Ananda Devi, tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman
72. Panty, by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, tr. Arunava Sinha
73. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels, by Ágota Kristóf, tr. Alan Sheridan, David Watson, Marc Romano
74. Nine Rabbits, by Virginia Zaharieva, tr. Angela Rodel
75. River of Fire and Other Stories, by Oh Jung-hee, tr. Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton
76. One Hundred Shadows, by Hwang Jungeun, tr. Jung Yewon
77. Sphinx, by Anne Garréta, tr.  Emma Ramadan
78. Leonora: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Leonora Carrington, by Elena Poniatowska, tr. Amanda Hopkinson
79. One Two, by Eliane Brum, tr. Lucy Greaves
80. Ten Women, by Marcela Serrano, tr. Beth Fowler
81. Hunting and Gathering, by Anna Gavalda, tr. Alison Anderson
82. The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy, by Paulina Chiziane, tr. David Brookshaw
83. Mend the Living, by Maylis de Kerangal, tr. Jessica Moore // The Heart, by Maylis de Kerangal, tr. Sam Taylor
84. Charges, by Elfriede Jelinek, tr. Gitta Honegger
85. As Flowers Bloom and Wither, by Ying-Tai Chang, tr. Florence Woo
86. Love in a Fallen City, by Eileen Chang, tr. Karen S. Kingsbury
87. Half a Lifelong Romance, by Eileen Chang, tr. Karen S. Kingsbury
88. Naked Earth, by Eileen Chang
89. Last Words from Montmartre, by Qiu Miaojin, tr. Ari Larissa Heinrich
90. Umami, by Laia Jufresa, tr. Sophie Hughes
91. Hollow Heart, by Viola Di Grado, tr. Antony Shugaar
92. The Princess of Cleves, by Madame de Lafayette, tr. Robin Buss
93. The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli, tr. Christina MacSweeney
94. Empty Chairs: Selected Poems, by Liu Xia, tr. Ming Di, Jennifer Stern
95. Agaat, by Marlene Van Niekerk, tr. Michiel Heyns
96. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, by Dubravka Ugrešić, tr. Celia Hawkesworth
97. The Attempt, by Magdaléna Platzová, tr. Alex Zucker
98. Before, by Carmen Boullosa, tr. Peter Bush

Here you can find my WIT reviews. And here is my list for the German Literature Month.

What are your reading plans, fellow WIT readers? Which books/authors do you recommend? 🙂

Yours truly,

J.

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