Lia Galván Lisker recommends 9 of the decade’s best books by Mexican women writers, all translated by women.

“I wanted to create a journey for a book censor who becomes eventually a reader, and then he needs to protect this new identity as a reader in a world that deals with it as if it’s a crime or something.”

“The first sprout I think to Ædnan was an image I saw, an inner image, of a woman, an older woman and her kind of silence, the silence she had in her face and the seriousness she had. I struggled for a long time to approach her and get into her…

“I was working on tuning my instrument with the next books at the same time as Barbara was tuning her English instrument with the books.”

“I know that the first time I read the book I was very confused, which is the point.”