Women in Translation

Aya: Life in Yop City
Marguerite Abouet
Translated by Helge Dascher
Country: Côte d’Ivoire
Original Language: French

Year of the Elephant
Leila Abouzeid
Translated by Barbara Parmenter
Country: Morocco
Original Language: Arabic

Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
Meryem Alaoui
Translated by Emma Ramadan
Country: Morocco
Original Language: French

Scarlet Song
Mariama Bâ
Translated by Dorothy S Blair
Country: Senegal
Original Language: French

The Abandoned Baobab
Ken Bugul
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Country: Senegal
Original Language: French

The Joyful Song of the Partridge
Paulina Chiziane
Translated by David Brookshaw
Country: Mozambique
Original Language: Portuguese

When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me
Ananda Devi
Translated by Kazim Ali
Country: Mauritius
Original Language: French

The Belly of the Atlantic
Fatou Diome
Translated by Lulu Norman and Ros Schwartz
Country: Senegal
Original Language: French

Thirteen Months of Sunrise
Rania Mamoun
Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
Country: Sudan
Original Language: Arabic

The Threshold
Iman Mersal
Translated by Robyn Creswell
Country: Egypt
Original Language: Arabic

Awu’s Story
Justine Mintsa
Translated by Cheryl Toman
Country: Gabon
Original Language: French

Essential Encounters
Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Translated by Cheryl Toman
Country: Cameroon
Original Language: French

La Bastarda
Trifonia Melibea Obono
Translated by Lawrence Schimel
Country: Equatorial Guinea
Original Language: Spanish

A Daughter of Isis
Nawal El Saadawi
Translated by Sherif Hetata
Country: Egypt
Original Language: Arabic

The Magic Doll
Adrienne Yabouza
Translated by Paul Kelly
Country: Central African Republic
Original Language: French

Here Be Icebergs
Katya Adaui
Translated by Rosalind Harvey
Country: Guadeloupe
Original Language: French

Family Album: Stories
Gabriela Alemán
Translated by Dick Cluster and Mary Ellen Fieweger
Country: Ecuador
Original Language: Spanish

A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson
Country: Chile
Original Language: Spanish

City of Kings
Rosario Castellanos
Translated by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Country: Mexico
Original Language: Spanish

Victoire: My Mother’s Mother
Maryse Condé
Translated by Richard Philcox
Country: Guadeloupe
Original Language: French

Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez
Translated by Megan McDowell
Country: Argentina
Original Language: Spanish

Sirena Selena
Mayra Santos-Febres
Translated by Stephen Lytle
Country: Puerto Rico
Original Language: Spanish

Slash and Burn
Claudia Hernandez
Translated by Julia Sanchez
Country: El Salvador
Original Language: Spanish

Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector
Translated by Alison Entrekin
Country: Brazil
Original Language: Portuguese

Loop
Brenda Lozano
Translated by Annie McDermott
Country: Mexico
Original Language: Spanish

I, Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú
Translated by Ann Wright
Country: Guatemala
Original Language: Spanish

Fury
Clyo Mendoza
Translated by Christina MacSweeney
Country: Mexico
Original Language: Spanish

December Breeze
Marvel Moreno
Translated by Isabel Adey and Charlotte Coombe
Country: Colombia
Original Language: Spanish

Blood Red
Gabriela Ponce
Translated by Sarah Booker
Country: Ecuador
Original Language: Spanish

Eartheater
Dolores Reyes
Translated by Julia Sanches
Country: Argentina
Original Language: Spanish

On a Woman’s Madness
Astrid Roemer
Translated by Lucy Scott
Country: Suriname
Original Language: Dutch

It Would be Night in Caracas
Karina Sainz Borgo
Translated by Elizabeth Bryer
Country: Venezuela
Original Language: Spanish

Pink Slime
Fernanda Trías
Translated by Heather Cleary
Country: Uruguay
Original Language: Spanish

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
Translated by Jamie Chang
Country: South Korea
Original Language: Korean

Owlish
Dorothy Tse [Xiahong Xie]
Translated by Natascha Bruce
Country: Hong Kong
Original Language: Chinese

Arid Dreams: Stories
Duanwad Pimwana
Translated by Mui Poopoksakul
Country: Thailand
Original Language: Thai

Written on Water
Eileen Chang
Translated by Andrew F. Jones
Country: China
Original Language: Chinese

Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree
Translated by Daisy Rockwell
Country: India
Original Language: Hindi

The White Book
Han Kang
Translated by Deborah Smith
Country: South Korea
Original Language: Korean

Jumpnauts
Hao Jingfang
Translated by Kenneth Liu
Country: China
Original Language: Chinese

The Nakano Thrift Shop
Hiromi Kawakami
Translated by Allison Markin Powell
Country: Japan
Original Language: Japanese

Voices of the Lost
Hoda Barakat
Translated by Marilyn Booth
Country: Lebanon
Original Language: Arabic

The Gray House
Mariam Petrosyan
Translated by Yuri Machkasov
Country: Armenia
Original Language: Russian

Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Narine Abgaryan
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
Country: Armenia
Original Language: Russian

Disoriental
Négar Djavadi
Translated by Tina Kova
Country: Iran
Original Language: French

River of Fire
Qurratulain Hyder
Transcreated by the Author
Country: India
Original Language: Urdu

My First and Only Love
Sahar Khalifeh
Translated by Aida Bamia
Country: Palestine
Original Language: Arabic

Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Country: Japan
Original Language: Japanese

The Baghdad Clock
Shahad Al Rawi
Translated by Luke Leafgren
Country: Iraq
Original Language: Arabic

The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
Translated by Stephen Snyder
Country: Japan
Original Language: Japanese

The Weave of My Life
Urmila Pawar
Translated by Maya Pandit
Country: India
Original Language: Marathi

Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich
Translated by Keith Gessen
Country: Ukraine
Original Language: Belarusian

The Last Cato
Matilde Asensi
Translated by Pamela Carmell
Country: Spain
Original Language: Spanish

The Postcard
Anne Berest
Translated by Tina Kover
Country: France
Original Language: French

Empty Wardrobes
Maria Judite de Carvalho
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Country: Portugal
Original Language: Portuguese

Four Minutes
Nataliya Deleva
Translated by Izidora Angel
Country: Bulgaria
Original Language: Bulgarian

Doppelgänger
Daša Drndić
Translated by S.D. Curtis and
Celia Hawkesworth
Country: Croatia
Original Language: Croatia

The Tenant
Katrine Engberg
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Country: Denmark
Original Language: Danish

The End of Days
Jenny Erpenbeck
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
Country: Germany
Original Language: German

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Translated by Ann Goldstein
Country: Italy
Original Language: Italian

The Golden Cage
Camilla Läckberg
Translated by Neil Smith
Country: Sweden
Original Language: Swedish

The Hunger Angel
Herta Müller
Translated by Philip Boehm
Country: Romania
Original Language: German

First Blood
Amélie Nothomb
Translated by Alison Anderson
Country: Belgium
Original Language: French

Norma
Sofia Oksanen
Translated by Owen W. Witesman
Country: Finland
Original Language: Finnish

The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Translated by Michele Hutchison
Country: Netherlands
Original Language: Dutch

Last Rituals
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Translated by Bernard Scudder
Country: Iceland
Original Language: Icelandic

The Door
Szabó, Magda
Translated by Ali Smith
Country: Hungary
Original Language: Hungarian

Gerta
Kateřina Tučková
Translated by Véronique Firkusny
Country: Czech Republic
Original Language: Czech

The Few Things I Know About
Glafkos Thrassakis
Vassilis Vassilikos
Translated by Karen Emmerich
Country: Greece
Original Language: Greek