Translating Women

Out tomorrow: Phoebe Giannisi's GOATSONG, three volumes of poems that weave together epic and everyday, historical and personal, mythical and material. Brian Sneeden's translation balances languor with urgency as it voyages through quiet tragedy and sensual pleasure. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Delighted to receive a copy of this from @translatingwomen.bsky.social, who wrote the introduction. Latin American writers have consistently written some of the boldest, most challenging and illuminating accounts of female experience I’ve encountered. #booksky #feminism #translation

La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.

"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"

LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas

www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com

Timely. Vital. Some of the region's leading voices share their thoughts, stories and ideas, bringing new perspectives to an old struggle.

La Lucha. Out today.

Get it at your local bookstore, or direct from ours: charcopress.com/bookstore/la...

We are very proud to announce that both RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones and Robin Myers) and CHILCO by Daniela Catrilaeo (tr. by Jacob Edelstein, in FSG's lovely edition) are finalists for the 2025 Cercador Prize! A huge thanks to the judges, and congratulations to all the finalists.

PEN Translates - Translation grants for publishers - English PEN PEN Translates – English PEN's grant for publishers is now open. Deadline: 31 May 2025. Open to UK publishers for new books in translation from any language and region. Awarding the best contemporary literature in translation.

PEN Translates x SALT grants are open!

Are you a publisher looking to fund a translation project from a South Asian language?

Apply by November 30th!

Hurray!

Thank you, I know I will, and I hope many many more readers will too 🎉

Came home to an exciting delivery... Can't wait to (re)read RELEARNING TO READ: ADVENTURES IN NOT-KNOWING, by @annmorgan.bsky.social
Congratulations Ann and @renardpress.com !

📢 New blog post by Helen Vassallo about her Feminism and Translation workshop at this year's Bristol Translates summer school:

feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/femi...

@translatingwomen.bsky.social @bristoltranslates.bsky.social

Can't even begin with what a box of LA LUCHA: LATIN AMERICAN FEMINISM TODAY means. From a pre-pandemic lunch with @charcopress.com to a just-announced @englishpen.bsky.social award, it's been amazing to work on this outstanding collection from 30 brilliant women writers & their talented translators.

A PEN Presents winner, and now an #InternationalBooker2025 shortlistee! Banu Mushtaq's HEART LAMP is a collection of quietly powerful short stories about women's lives in a bold & memorable translation by Deepa Bhasthi, pb. @andotherstories.bsky.social. Especially loved "Be a Woman Once, Oh Lord!"

Raced through UN AMOR by Sara Mesa (tr. Katie Whittemore, pb. Peirene Press): a tense novella of everyday tragedies in which a transaction leads to an obsession and then an unravelling in the small-town community of La Escapa. Loved it. #Recommended

I loved Gaëlle Bélem's THERE'S A MONSTER BEHIND THE DOOR when I read it in French last year. Excited to see it published by @bullaunpress.bsky.social in a translation by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert that fizzes with all the verve and fury of the original. #InternationalBooker2025

La Lucha (Preorder) — Charco Press In recent years Latin America has become a global flashpoint in the feminist struggle within many different key areas: environmentalism, anti-colonialism, human rights, with striking, game-changing re...

Isabel Allende
Valeria Luiselli
Claudia Piñeiro
Cristina Rivera Garza
Djamila Ribeiro
...and more

Celebrating #IWD2025 by announcing LA LUCHA, an anthology of essays on LatAm feminism today.

Timely. Necessary. Thought provoking.

Preorder now: charcopress.com/bookstore/la...

Thrilled that 3 #PENTranslates titles – Reservoir Bitches, Small Boat, and Heart Lamp, also a #PENPresents winner – feature on the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Congrats Scribe, @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social, @andotherstories.bsky.social, Dahlia, Julia, Heather, Vincent, Helen, Banu, Deepa, all!

Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, as Heart Lamp is longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2025! 💞

This monumental first collection from lawyer, activist, and winner of India’s highest literary honours, Banu Mushtaq, publishes this April
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hear...

The International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes The longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT).

Congratulations to all the translators and authors longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize! We hope the readers have a swell time!

Almost exactly 7 years ago my first tentative tweet was about Han Kang's THE VEGETARIAN, tr. Deborah Smith.

As I start from zero again, it feels only fitting that my first post over here comes as I'm reading Han's WE DO NOT PART, tr. e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris.

More soon...