Translation Thursday

 It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I have been sharing the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. This week is a bit different, as I'm sharing a whole bunch of potential reads. 

Each year in August I make a #WIT display in my library, and pull many of the books by women in translation in our collection. For a small library, we have a lot to offer. I've read many of them, but still have to read many more!

Here is what the display looked like this year, a few days after being set up and many books already being checked out :)

Translation Thursday

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading:

In the Shadow of the Wind / Anne Hébert
trans. from the French by Sheila Fischman
Toronto: JM Dent, c1984.
184 p.

To Read:

Mauve Desert / Nicole Brossard
trans. from French by Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood
Toronto: Coach House, 2002, c1987.
206 p.

Back Roads / Andrée A. Michaud
trans. from French by J.C. Sutcliffe
Toronto: Arachnide, 2020
184 p.

Hunting Houses / Fanny Britt
trans. from French by Susan Ouriou & Christelle Morelli
Toronto: Arachnide, 2017 p.
224 p.

Translation Thursday

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:


Currently Reading:

White / Marie Darrieussecq; trans. Ian Monk

To Read: 

Madame Victoria / Catherine Leroux;
trans. Lazer Lederhendler 

Kuessipan / Naomi Fontaine;
 trans. David Homel 

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles / Katherine Pancol;
trans. William Rodarmor & Helen Dickinson 

Translation Thursday

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading:

Forgottenness / Tanja Maljartschuk
trans. from the Ukrainian by Zenia Tompkins

To Read:

Love Life / Oksana Lutsyshyna
trans. from the Ukrainian by Nina Murray

My Women / Yuliia Iliukha
trans. from the Ukrainian by Hanna Leliv 

A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails / Halyna Kruk
trans. from the Ukrainian by Amelia M. Glaser & Yuliya Ilchuk

Translation Thursday!

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Today I'm reading some Japanese literature. 

Currently Reading:

Tokyo Ueno Station / Yu Miri;
translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles

Want to Read:

There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job / Kikuko Tsumura; 
trans. from the Japanese by Polly Barton

Life Ceremony / Sayaka Murata;
trans. from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori

Dead-End Memories / Banana Yoshimoto;
trans. from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda

Translation Thursday

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading:

The Time in Between / Maria Duenas;
trans. from the Spanish by Daniel Hahn
NY: Atria, 2011, c2009
615 p.

To Read:

The Vestigial Heart / Carme Torras;
trans. from the Catalan by Josephine Swarbrick
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2018, c2008.
264 p.

Desire for Chocolate / Care Santos;
trans. from the Spanish by Julie Wark
Richmond UK: Alma Books, 2015
340 p.

The Wind that Lays Waste / Selva Almada;
trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf, 2019, c2012.
136 p.

Translation Thursday: Currently Reading

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading:

Baba Dunja's Last Love by Alina Bronsky

(as reviewed at Lizzy's Literary Life)

Want to Read:

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko
(as reviewed at BookSlut)

The House With the Stained Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska

(as reviewed by Winstonsdad)

The Odessans by Irina Ratushinskaya

(as reviewed at The Bookbag)

Translation Thursday!

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Today I'm thinking about Scandinavian literature.

Currently Reading:

Long Live the Post Horn! / Vigdis Hjorth
trans. from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund

To Read: 

Fair Play / Tove Jansson
trans. from the Swedish by Thomas Teal

Evil Flowers / Gunnhild Oyehaug
trans. from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

Wild Swims / Dorthe Nors
trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra

Translation Thursday

 

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading: 

The Woman in the Purple Skirt / Natsuko Imamura
trans. from the Japanese by Lucy North

To Read: 

We'll Prescribe You a Cat / Syou Ishida
trans. from the Japanese by E. Madison Shimoda

Diary of a Void / Emi Yagi
trans. from the Japanese by David Boyd & Lucy North

The Lantern of Lost Memories / Sanaka Hiiragi
trans. from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood 

Translation Thursday

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading:

The City & the House / Natalia Ginzburg
trans. from the Italian by Dick Davis
NY: Arcade, 2019, c1984.
312 p.

To Read:

Beyond Babylon / Igiaba Scego
trans. from Italian by Aaron Robertson
Two Lines Press, 2019.
464 p.

A Girl Returned / Donatella Di Pietrantonio
trans. from Italian by Ann Goldstein
NY: Europa, 2019.
160 p.

70% Acrylic 30% Wool / Viola Di Grado
trans. from Italian by Michael Reynolds
NY: Europa, 2012, c2011.
192 p.

Translation Thursday!

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. 

Currently Reading:

Space Invaders / Nona Fernandez
trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

To Read: 

The House of Memory / ed. by Marjorie Agosin
trans. from the Spanish by Elizabeth Rosa Horan & Alison Ridley

The House of the Spirits / Isabel Allende
trans. from the Spanish by Magda Bogin

 

Salt Crystals / Cristina Bendek
trans. from the Spanish by Robin Myers

Translation Thursday: Currently Reading

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading:

Norma by Sofi Oksanen

(received from Anansi International)

Want to Read:

Compartment No 6 by Rosa Liksom

(as reviewed at The Bookbinder's Daughter)

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

(as reviewed at Things Mean a Lot)

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

(as reviewed at The Boston Bibliophile)

Translation Thursday

 

It's Translation Thursday! Each Thursday this month I'm going to share the translation I'm currently reading plus a few more on my reading list. Here's today's list:

Currently Reading:

A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails / Halyna Kruk
trans. from the Ukrainian by Amelia M. Glaser & Yuliya Ilchuk

To Read: 

Amadoka / Sofia Andrukhovych
trans. from the Ukrainian by Daisy Gibbons
(est. English release date 2026)

The God of Freedom / Yuliya Musakovska
trans. from the Ukrainian by the author with Olena Jennings

A Novel about a Good Person / Emma Andiievska
trans. from the Ukrainian by Olha Rudakevych