“If a man tells you that you’re worrying too much, ask him to do the worrying for you.” — Olga Ravn Olga Ravn, from her novel, My Work, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell for New Directions Publishing #olgaravn #motherhood #womenintranslation

47. The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell

If you die, well, that’s it-you're dead. You're gone. But if the Slynx spoils you-you have to go on living with it.

Loved this. Strange, unique, captivating.
Went in blind & enjoyed the wild ride.

#WomenInTranslation #ReadTheWorld 🇷🇺

Happy to see #TinaMakereti 's debut novel with this beautiful cover, available in one of our local bookshops, Librairie Goulard, in auspicious company.

Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings
(Le Chant des Rēkohu) translated into French by C. Jarraud-LeBlanc and D. Walker-Morrison.

#womenintranslation

How nice she highlights my translation of LA BASTARDA by Trifonia Melibea Obono! 🥰🥰

#booksky #womenintranslation #xl8

#MyDreadfulBody, chapter XI: Belly. “It's as if syllables from the roomy words [for ‘woman’] will be dropped if no wedding ring appears on a woman's finger and her womb never carries a child. I know that I'm no longer a true woman to them” 🎯📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

“We’d been clutching each other by the throat, in a death grip of fear, for too long… and an unbreakable chain of horror had held us the throat for years” 📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

#MyDreadfulBody, chapter X: Throat. “I wanted to finally break the vicious circle of retribution and open our shut mouths so I could shout about my own existence and the existences of mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and girl-friends“ 📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter IX: Legs. “I decided that after the operation I had to buy myself some red high-heeled shoes… It turned out that the mere ability to walk was more interesting than heels, so I bought myself some sneakers instead. 👠🚶🏻‍♀️📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter VIII: Back. “As Mama aged, her back began aching frequently: the hours spent washing floors, windows… though she never complained since anyway, how could that pain be compared to the pain from my father's blows?” 😭📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

Four out of ten authors are women, including My Dreadful Body 🎉 Congrats to the authors and translators 👏🏻👏🏻 #WomenInTranslation #WITMonth #Djabbarova26

My Dreadful Body, chapter VII: Tongue. “How had it happened that the only language I could express myself in found no affectionate way to address me, instead flinging insults at me like kernels of corn…?” 🗣️💔📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter VI: Hands. “A woman’s hands were always supposed to be busy—only a man’s hands were entitled to be carefree… Any woman in our family knew her hands were not given to her for writing” 🤲 😬📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter V: Shoulders. “My mother’s shoulders always drooped—she tried to be pleasant and amenable to those around her so no one would have any reason to insult her” 📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter IV: Mouth. Opens with a bang: “The mouth was not intended for speaking. None of the women around me ever said what they genuinely wanted to say and none interrupted men’s conversations” 🫦🙊📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter III: Hair. “I was scared: I’d never cut my hair and was afraid I was committing a crime against all the women of my family line, destroying the memory of the ancestors who endured in my hair” 💇🏻‍♀️📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter II: Eyes. “Why should a woman’s eyes be bottomless? And able only to accommodate the world, having no right to change it.” 📚👁️ #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My Dreadful Body, chapter I: Eyebrows. “My brows seemed to expand daily, occupying more and more space between my eyelids. If my girlfriends had something like pale vines, then I had the huge dark wings of a mountain bird.” Been there! 📚🤨 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

My #womenintranslation reading for the month of August. Two reviews still to come. Spoiler alert! Under a Pannonian Sky is a brilliant anthology of Hungarian poetry. @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social