WIT Month Gets Weirder! Speculative Fiction

Women in Translation Month is right around the corner! Ros ‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬ Katja ‪@PageTurnersWithKatja‬ and I hope you will join us. Please check out the terrific suggestion videos on their channels. Today I'm focusing on speculative and science fiction. Our group read will be The Door by Magda Szabo, translated by Len Rix. The Prompts are: 1. Read a book by a woman in translation from a different continent than your own. 2. Read a genre novel by a woman in translation (romance, mystery, horror, fantasy, science fiction etc) 3. Read a book by a woman in translation that is not a novel (nonfiction, memoir, letters, biography, short stories, plays, poetry, etc.) 4. Read a backlist book by a woman in translation. Books Mentioned: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, translated by the author The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias, translated by Heather Cleary The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitkin Mars by Asja Bakic, translated by Jennifer Zoble