Women in Translation Month: Disparity Within Disparity
Our final post, from Jane Eldridge Miller, makes a plea to readers to look beyond writers of the 21st century and outside of the languages most commonly translated into… More
Women in Translation Month: Women Translators Who Have Won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
In the final two posts of the series, we have expanded the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and (in… More
Women in Translation Month: Books Translated by Women That Have Won the PEN Translation Prize
In the final two posts of the series, we expand the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and the PEN… More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women Published After Receiving a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
These works of literature have been judged to represent the finest writing by women worldwide, brought into English—from Russian, French, Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Spanish, Pashto, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew,… More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women That Have Won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
This year, as a contribution to Women in Translation Month, the PEN America Translation Committee presents a series of blog posts featuring books written by women that have won… More
Read These Women in Translation Now
In celebration of Women in Translation Month, Translationista invited a number of publishers to select one book each by a female author to be offered as part of a… More
Women in Translation Month: Moving Toward Parity
If our reading skews overwhelmingly male, we miss out on what half the world has to say, in terms of both story and style. More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women That Have Won the PEN Translation Prize
This year, as a contribution to Women in Translation Month, created by Meytal Radzinski in 2014, the PEN America Translation Committee presents a series of blog posts featuring books written by… More
Amazon’s Author Central a Boon for Translators, Too
Translation Committee member Lara Vergnaud takes you through the step-by-step process of setting up an Author Page on Amazon.com. More
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