Publisher Spotlight: Honford Star
Honford Star publishes translated literary fiction from East Asia. Since 2021, they’ve published a dozen works of speculative fiction in translation, including a series called “Lovecraft Reanimated.”
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Vector Essay on Eva Hauserová and Biopunk
Check out Cyril Simsa’s essay on Czech author Eva Hauserová and the history of biopunk in the latest issue of Vector here.
Publisher Spotlight: Two Lines Press
Two Lines Press is the publishing program of the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco. Their Calico series “curates collections of translated works that explore particular themes, regions, languages, historical moments, or literary styles.” The fifteen works of SFT they’ve published since 2010 have been translated from the Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish,
Publisher Spotlight: Wakefield Press
Launched in 2009 by Marc Lowenthal and Judy Feldmann, Wakefield Press is an “independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities.” As of 2026, they’ve published almost two dozen prose works of speculative fiction in translation. * below are all first English editions FRENCH GERMAN DANISH JAPANESE
Translation Spotlight: Anne Thompson Melo
Translator Anne Thompson Melo talks to Two Lines Press about her work on Eva Meijer’s Sea Now, a novel about “three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by boat in search of loved ones, they encounter a transformed landscape reclaimed by kelp forests, seabirds, and whales.
Essay: The SFT Website: Ten Years!
The SF in Translation Website After Ten Years I’ve written many times (see here and here, for instance) about why I started the SF in Translation (SFT) website in May 2016. I saw a gap in a field and decided to fill it with a website that would give readers useful information about the growing
Translation Spotlight: Olga Ravn and Martin Aitken
Check out the Booker Prizes interview with Danish author Olga Ravn and translator Martin Aitken about Ravn’s The Wax Child here!
Translation Spotlight: Vicente Luis Mora and Rahul Bery
Spanish author Vicente Luis Mora and translator Rahul Bery discuss “experimentation, Medieval and Renaissance poetry, and the strange allure of setting a fiction in nineteenth-century Prussia” in this piece from the Pittsburgh Review of Books. Check out my review here.
Translating Godzilla and Mothra on the Three Percent Podcast
Check out Chad Post’s (Open Letter Books) fantastic conversation with Jeffrey Angles and Joanne Bernardi on translating Godzilla and Mothra on the latest Three Percent Podcast.
SFT in Locus
Check out my SF in translation Year in Review post in the latest issue of Locus!
