When I heard that the 2017 World Fantasy Award winners had been announced, I excitedly glanced through the list, only to be disappointed when I found absolutely no authors who write in a language other than English. Then I became curious and combed through the past World Fantasy Awards, and found that, throughout its history,
Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: I found this interview with Yuya Sato from 2015 “So You Want to Read Japanese Horror: Here’s Where to Start” via Unbound Worlds SF Crossing the Gulf is coming back: a podcast about international sf A review of A Small Charred Face on Intellectus Speculativus My review
Clarkesworld Magazine has published more sf in translation over the past several years than any other speculative fiction magazine in the U.S. The stories it features- many from China, some from other countries- are some of the best stories you’ll read, translated or otherwise. Many thanks to editor Neil Clarke and translators Ken Liu, S.
I’ve started adding pages to this site (see below) that list English-language synopses of speculative fiction that hasn’t yet been translated into English, in the hopes that this will encourage the publication of even more SFT. If you are interested in submitting English synopses for this project, let me know in the comments on this
Speculative Fiction in Translation: Czech Republic A new story from Xia Jia is featured in Clarkesworld this month Italian SFT is featured in The Dark Magazine
Your weekly dose of SF in translation: The latest issue of Samovar Magazine Jordanian SF in translation out this month Nerds of a Feather reviews A Small Charred Face
Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: Speculative and Dark Fiction in Croatia via The Future Fire Michael Swanwick’s post about “China in Helsinki” Part 1 and Part 2 Giants at the End of the World: A Showcase of Finnish Weird, via Worldcon 75 Translator Jocelyne Allen on Sayuri Ueda Tyran Grillo on the
Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: Paul Semel’s interview with Kazuki Sakuraba about A Small Charred Face A review of I Am Behind You over at The Eloquent Page Chinese fantasy novels over at WuxiaWorld
I’ve started a new page on this site that focuses on contemporary Italian sf that needs to be translated into English and published in the U.S. I’ll be adding more titles to this list, along with translated synopses. Let me know what else I should add!
Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: National Translation Month featured Invisible Planets, Spanish Women of Wonder, and Hexagrammaton Check out my overview of Hebrew SFT on the Global Literature in Libraries site A newly-translated story by Yoss appeared in Litro “Two Contributors to Iraq + 100 Reflect on Science Fiction in Arabic Literature”
