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Award-Winning Women Writers

August 2022

Shimmering lines of gold light

Photo by Rene Böhmer on Unsplash

A fox standing in snow is facing the camera

Fox by Chrisbkes is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Pityriasis Rosea

By Jokha Alharthi

It’s because all we’ve been talking about these evenings are the old legends, and that’s what brought the fox here.

Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth

June-2022-Tokarczuk-Ognosia-Flammarion-Engraving Flammarion engraving, unknown artist

Ognosia

By Olga Tokarczuk

We will need new maps as well as the courage and humor of travelers who won’t hesitate to stick their heads outside the sphere of the world-up-to-this-point, beyond the horizon of existing dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft

On Packing

By Herta Müller

I carried everything I had. It wasn’t actually mine.

Translated from German by Donal McLaughlin

The Vegetarian

“Your body smells of meat.”

Translated from Korean by Deborah Smith

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The Wondrous Deer of the Eternal Hunt

By Svetlana Alexievich

He was a wildly lonely person. I loved him.

Translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz

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Mihama Nuclear Power Plant

Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Far Shore

In Yoko Tawada's dystopian tale, the entire Japanese archipelago is rendered uninhabitable when a fighter plane piloted by a teenager loses control and crashes into a recently reactivated nuclear plant.

Translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles

Özdamar’s Tongue

By Mariana Oliver

Özdamar knew that arriving in a country with no return ticket meant voluntarily surrendering to an indeterminate foreignness.

Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches

Blue morning glories on a yellow background

Morning Glories by Suzuki Kiitsu. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Seymour Fund, 1954.

from “Everything Shimmers”

By Naja Marie Aidt

. . . the world shimmers / everything unimaginably possible . . .

Translated from Danish by Susanna Nied

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Tokyo Ueno Station

My reticence and my incompetence troubled me more than my appearance, but most intolerable was my unluckiness.

Translated from Japanese by Morgan Giles

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By Maja Haderlap

here sentences must disrobe

Translated from German by Tess Lewis

Mist: In the Capital City

By Reina María Rodriguez

How long did I contemplate the line dividing / the branch from the water.

Translated from Spanish by Kristin Dykstra

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Record of a Night too Brief

By Kawakami Hiromi

The girl finally grew incredibly small, about one centimeter wide.

Translated from Japanese by Lucy North