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Women in Translation

The twelve books featured in the list, in three rows of five

12 Translators Recommend Women in Translation

By Words Without Borders

For Women in Translation Month, a dozen translators recommend recent favorite books written and translated by women.

The covers of the books featured in the list

Your #IWD2023 Reading List

By Words Without Borders

In honor of International Women’s Day 2023, WWB recommends 10 forthcoming books written and translated by women and published by small presses.

Portraits of Bibiana Mas and Aina Marti

Bibiana Mas (left); Aina Marti

An Interview with Two New Publishers of Women in Translation

By Words Without Borders

I thought I could create a space for sharing women’s global experiences through literary fiction.

International Literary Women & Organizations that Balance for Better

By Words Without Borders

For International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating women and organizations from around the globe who advocate for greater gender parity in the literary world. Through publishing and activism,…

Women Translating the Classics: An Interview with Emily Wilson, Sholeh Wolpé, and Arshia Sattar

By Alta L. Price

Translator and cofounder of the Women in Translation tumblr Alta L. Price spoke with three women translators of classical literature—Emily Wilson (Homer’s The Odyssey), Sholeh Wolpé…

31 Recent Works by Women Writers to Read for #WITMonth

By Jessie Chaffee

As we celebrate Women in Translation Month, we’re looking back at exciting works by women writers from around the world published this past year. Here are 31 to add to your reading…

A Second Birth: Argentine Master Norah Lange Gets Her Due

Norah Lange’s People in the Room, translated by Charlotte Whittle and introduced by César Aira, is forthcoming from And Other Stories. You can read an excerpt from People in the…

International Women Writers and Translators Who Press for Progress

By Words Without Borders

In celebration of International Women’s Day, meet women writers and translators from around the world who are pressing for progress through their activism and their literature.Writing Outside…

Two stacks of books

Diana Bell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Where Are the Women in Translation?

By Alison Anderson

Why aren’t more women getting into print in English, particularly when one bears in mind that the proportions are reversed when the gender of the translator is in question?

Translation Talk

By Words Without Borders

This forum is for you, our readers interested in translation, practitioners of translation, and others, to ask questions, exchange ideas, and share thoughts on the topic of translation. If you wish to…