Women in Translation Month 2014

Women in Translation Month, August 2014

Optional Schedule:

• Friday, August 1st: Introduction - why is women in translation important to you? 
• Saturday, August 2nd: Favorite women writers in translation 
• Week 1: Western/Northern Europe - France, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain... 
• Wednesday, August 6th: Focus on: Classic literature 
• Saturday, August 9th: Focus on: Poetry 
• Week 2: Asian continent, Africa, and Oceania 
• Wednesday, August 13th: Focus on: Queer literature 
• Saturday, August 16th: Focus on: Children's and young adult literature 
• Week 3: Eastern/Central Europe 
• Wednesday, August 20th: Focus on: Underrated authors/books 
• Saturday, August 23th: Focus on: Genre fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, etc.) 
• Week 4: The Americas (Latin America, Haiti, Quebec, etc.) 
• Wednesday, August 27th: Focus on: Untranslated masterpieces 
• Saturday, August 30th: Focus on: Historical fiction 
• Sunday, August 31st: New discoveries and WITMonth summary 

Please note that the order of posts listed here is entirely meaningless and is probably just based on the order in which I opened tabs in my browser!

Posts (and round-ups):

• Introducing WIT Month - Biblibio
• Update and schedule - Biblibio
• Women in Literature - Biblibio
• A few suggestions - Tony's Reading List
• An index of reviews so far - David Hebblethwaite
• Previously reviewed - Tony Messenger
• Intro post - BookSexy Review
• Plans for WITMonth - JacquiWine's Journal
• August is for women in translation - My Book Strings
• Women in translation month - Larry Nolen
• Favorite books by women in translation - Becca Likes Books
• Women in translation month - Gaskella
• Favorite women writers in translation - Biblibio
• A short introduction to Western and Northern Europe - Biblibio
• Europe wrap-up - Cheryl Morgan
• Books I own, Books you may want to try - Dolce Bellezza
• A Requiem for Rural Portugal - And Other Stories
• Bogan Suceava on Romania - Literalab
• Natasha Perova on Russia - Literalab
• Re: Word: Christina Peri Rossi - B O D Y
• Susan Curtis on Bosnia and Croatia - Literalab
• Some contemporary Russian reading ideas - Lizok's Bookshelf
• Hidden forces shaping my reading - Biblioglobal
• MacLehose Press Recommends (parts 1 and 2) - MacLehose Press
• Cosmos Latinos - Cheryl Morgan
• Ágnes Orzóy on Hungary - Literalab

Reviews (by language):

French:

• The People in the Photo (Hélène Gestern, tr. Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz) - Fleur in her World
• A Very Easy Death (Simone de Beauvoir, tr. unknown) - Biblibio
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery, tr. Alison Anderson) - Biblibio
• Escape (Dominique Manotti, tr. Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz) - Workshy Fop
• The Lover (Marguerite Duras, tr. Barbara Bray) - Tony Messenger
• Women of Algiers in the Their Apartments (Assia Djebar, tr. Marjolijn de Jager) - Tony Messenger
• "Number Six" (Véronique Olmi, untranslated) - Tony's Reading List
• Ru (Kim Thúy, tr. Sheila Fischman) - Raven Ramblings
• Letters from a Peruvian Woman (Françoise de Graffigny, tr. David Kornacker) - My Book Strings
• The Color of Dawn (Yanick Lahens, tr. Alison Layland) - Winston'sDad
• Escape (Dominique Manotti, tr. Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz) - Winston'sDad
• The Notebook (Agota Kristof, tr. Alan Sheridan) - Winston'sDad
• Valentine (George Sand, tr. George Burnham Ives) - Fleur in her World
• By the Sea (Véronique Olmi, tr. Adriana Hunter) - BookSexy Review
• The Necrophiliac (Gabrielle Wittkop, Don Bapst) - BookSexy Review
• Chéri (Colette, tr. Roger Senhouse) - JacquiWine's Journal
• Fire in the Blood (Irène Némirovsky, tr. Sandra Smith) - Winston'sDad
• Ru (Kim Thúy, tr. Sheila Fischman) - Biblibio
• Rosie Carpe (Marie NDiaye, tr. Tasmin Black) - Caravan de recuerdos

Spanish:

• Sidewalks (Valeria Luiselli, tr. Christina MacSweeney) - JacquiWine's Journal
• Faces in the Crowd (Valeria Luiselli, tr. Christina MacSweeney) - Tony's Reading List
• Faces in the Crowd (Valeria Luiselli, tr. Christina MacSweeney) - Biblibio
• Sidewalks (Valeria Luiselli, tr. Christina MacSweeney) - Tony's Reading List

Italian:

• My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - 1streading's Blog
• My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - The Writes of Woman
• The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - JacquiWine's Journal
• The Days of Abandonment (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - Biblibio 
• Sworn Virgin (Elvira Dones, tr. Clarissa Botsford) - Biblibio
• Sworn Virgin (Elvira Dones, tr. Clarissa Botsford) - Tony's Reading List
• The Days of Abandonment (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - JacquiWine's Journal
• My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - Gaskella
• 70% Acrylic 30% Wool (Viola Di Grado, tr. Michael Reynolds) - Bii's Books
• The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - The Writes of Woman
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein) - Tony's Reading List
• History (Elsa Morante, tr. William Weaver [?]) - Larry Nolan
• Arturo's Island (Elsa Morante, tr. Isabel Quigly) - Larry Nolan

German:

• The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Alina Bronsky, tr. Tim Mohr) - Tony Messenger
• The Mussel Feast (Birgit Vanderbeke, tr. Jamie Bullock) - A Little Blog of Books
• An Exclusive Love (Johanna Adorján, tr. Anthea Bell) - The Writes of Woman
• Anatomy of a Night (Anna Kim, tr. Bradley Schmidt) - The Writes of Woman
• The Land of Green Plums (Herta Müller, tr. Michael Hofman) - Tony Messenger
• The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Byambasuren Davaa and Lisa Reisch, tr. Sally-Ann Spencer) - Raven Ramblings
• The End of Days (Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. Susan Bernofsky) - Tony's Reading List
• Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (Daniela Krien, tr. Jamie Bulloch) - Winston'sDad

Korean:

• My Son's Girlfriend (Jung Mi-Kyung, tr. Yu Young-nan) - Tony's Reading List
• O Chung-hui/Oh Jung-hee - Tony's Reading List
• There a Petal Silently Falls (Ch'oe Yun, tr. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton) - Biblibio
• The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Sun-mi Hwang, tr. Kim Chi-Young) - My Book Strings
• There a Petal Silently Falls (Ch'oe Yun, tr. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton) - Tony's Reading List
• I'll Be Right There (Shin Kyung-Sook, tr. Sora Kim-Russell) - Reading the End

Japanese:

• The Pillow Book (Sei Shōnagon, tr. Meredith McKinney) - Tony's Reading List
• The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa, tr. Stephen Snyder) - David Hebblethwaite
• Revenge (Yoko Ogawa, tr. Stephen Snyder) - A Little Blog of Books
• The Pillow Book (Sei Shōnagon, tr. Ivan Morris) - Bii's Books
• The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa, tr. Stephen Snyder) - The Writes of Woman
• Hotel Iris (Yoko Ogawa, tr. Stephen Snyder) - The Writes of Woman
• Hotel Iris (Yoko Ogawa, tr. Stephen Snyder) - Bii's Books
• The Goddess Chronicle (Natsuo Kirino, tr. Rebecca Copeland) - Gaskella

Polish:

• Sefer (Ewa Lipska, tr. Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard) - The rookery in the bookery

Russian:

• Subtly Worded (Teffi, tr. Anne Marie Jackson) - 1streading's Blog
• There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories (Ludmila Petrushevskaya, tr. Anna Summers) - Zombie Chekhov
• Daniel Stein, Interpreter (Ludmila Ultiskaya, tr. Arch Tait) - Larry Nolan

Swedish:

• Karin Tidbeck - Cheryl Morgan
• The Dog (Kerstin Ekman, tr. Linda Schenck and Rochelle Wright) - Raven Ramblings
• Drowned (Therese Bohman, tr. Marlaine Delargy) - JacquiWine's Journal
• The Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir (Tove Jansson, tr. Kingsley Hart) - Bii's Books
• Tove Jansson (1 and 2) - Wuthering Expectations
• The Summer Book (Tove Jansson, tr. Thomas Teal) - Biblioglobal

Afrikaans:

• The Elusive Moth (Ingrid Winterbach, tr. Iris Gouws and the author) - BookSexy Review

Finnish:

• Leena Krohn - Cheryl Morgan

Chinese:

• The Last Quarter of the Moon (Chi Zijian, tr. Bruce Humes) - Biblibio
• Snow and Shadow (Dorothy Tse, tr. Nicky Harman) - Ariell Cacciola

Greek:

• What Lot's Wife Saw (Ioanna Bourazopoulou, tr. Yannis Panas) - David Hebblethwaite
• Why I Killed My Best Friend (Amanda Michalopoulou, tr. Karen Emmerich) - Biblibio

Welsh:

• The Life of Rebecca Jones (Angharad Price, tr. Lloyd Jones) - Tony's Reading List
• The Life of Rebecca Jones (Angharad Price, tr. Lloyd Jones) - Tony Messenger
• Welsh novels in translation (Angharad Price and Caryl Lewis) - David Hebblethwaite

Norwegian:

• The Blue Room (Hanna Ørstavik, tr. Deborah Dawkin) - Tony Messenger
• The Blue Room (Hanna Ørstavik, tr. Deborah Dawkin) - Tony's Reading List
• Days in the History of Silence (Merethe Lindstrøm, tr. Anne Bruce) - The Writes of Woman

Catalan:

• El temps de les cireres (Montserrat Roig, untranslated) - Caravana de recuerdos

Arabic:

• Always Coca-Cola (Alexandra Chreiteh, tr. Michelle Hartman) - The Writes of Woman

Danish:

• The Murder of Halland (Pia Juul, tr. Martin Aitken) - Tony Messenger

Dutch:

• The Tea Lords (Hella S. Haasse, tr. Ina Rilke) - 1streading's Blog 

Portuguese:

• Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector, tr. Allison Entrekin) - Tony Messenger