Search Results for “Arabic” – Speculative Fiction in Translation

Special Arabic Issue of Strange Horizons

By Rachel Cordasco November 1, 2017 spotlight Arabic, Strange Horizons

Check out Strange Horizons‘ special issue on “SFF from the Arab League Community and Diaspora”

Roundtable on Arabic SF

By Rachel Cordasco April 25, 2017 1 comment news Arabic, Hassan Blasim, Iraq

Strange Horizons hosted a roundtable on Iraq + 100 (ed. Hassan Blasim) and Arabic sci-fi in general: read it here.

Ahmed Khaled Towfik on the Dissemination of Arabic Science Fiction

By Rachel Cordasco March 11, 2017 news Ahmed Khaled Towfik, Arabic, Egypt

Check out this article on this year’s Emirates Lit Fest about Arabic sf and what Egyptian writer Ahmen Khaled Towfik says about the genre’s place in Arab culture.

Review: I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories

By Rachel Cordasco March 25, 2026 review Arabic, Iceland, Icelandic, Japan, Japanese, Korea, Korean, Poland, Polish, Swahili, Tanzania, Thai, Thailand, Two Lines Press, Uzbek, Uzbekistan, Yemen

translated from the Korean, Arabic, Polish, Japanese, Uzbek, Icelandic, Swahili, and Thai Two Lines Press, 2026 216 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Contents: “A Swamp’s Love” by Cho Yeeun, tr from the Korean by Giulia Ratti “The Magic Bin” by Wajdi Al-Ahdal, tr from the Arabic by

Out This Month: March

By Rachel Cordasco March 3, 2026 out this month Alyson Waters, Andy Dudak, Antoine Volodine, Arabic, Archipelago Press, Asimov's, Attila Veres, Balsam Karam, Bellevue Literary Press, Brazil, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld, Copi, Deep Vellum, Dorothy Tse, France, French, Graywolf Press, Gu Shi, H. Pueyo, Hamoud Saud, Hungarian, Hungary, Iran, Kit Schluter, Michelle Quay, Natascha Bruce, New Directions, Oman, Persian, Portuguese, Rahul Bery, Reza Ghassemi, Saskia Vogel, Spain, Spanish, Stella Jiayue Zhu, Sweden, Swedish, Syracuse University Press, The Feminist Press, Tordotcom, Two Lines Press, Valencourt Books, Vicente Luis Mora, Wanxiang Fengnian, Zia Ahmed

“Those Who Left History” by Wanxiang Fengnian, translated from the Chinese by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld, March 1) “Antarctic Radio” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Asimov’s, March/April) City Like Water by Dorothy Tse, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce (Graywolf Press, March 3) Your city is gone, as if

SFT Out In: 2026

By Rachel Cordasco November 28, 2025

Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Robin Myers (Algonquin Books, January 13) In the disorienting, devastatingly tense world of López Trujillo, a eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for the first time,

Out This Month: October

By Rachel Cordasco October 3, 2025 out this month Alex Shvartsman, Anne Thompson Melo, Antoine Volodine, Arabic, Argentina, Blake Stone-Banks, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld, Dutch, Enrique Muñoz-Mantas, Eva Meijer, Fairwood Press, France, French, Gabriela Rábago Palafox, Gina M. Stamm, Harper, Harper One, Honford Star, Hungarian, Hungary, Invisible Publishing, Iskanchi Press, JaeHoon Choi, Janet Hong, Japan, Japanese, K. A. Teryna, Korea, Korean, Krisztina Tóth, Liu Maijia, M. Elizabeth Ginway, Mauritania, Mexico, Moussa Ould Ebnou, Ottilie Mulzet, Paul Roochnik, Russia, Russian, Sarah Moses, Seven Stories Press, Spanish, Sung-il Kim, Takami Nieda, The Netherlands, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Tomás Downey, Tor, Two Lines Press, University of Minnesota Press, Yasushi Kitagawa

“Giant Grandmother” by Liu Maijia, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld, October 1) Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood Press, October 1) The world is not how we perceive it. A blizzard may be the fury of a whale god. Intelligent

Spotlight: SFT from Small American Publishers

By Rachel Cordasco June 13, 2025 spotlight Deep Vellum, Europa Editions, Graywolf Press, New Directions, Open Letter Books, Restless Books, Two Lines Press, Wakefield Press

SF in Translation from Small American Publishers of International Literature since 2020 Speculative fiction in translation comes to us each year from a wide array of publishers, many of which are small presses or imprints of larger publishing houses. Eight of these publishers, based in the US and committed to bringing out multiple works of

SFT Awards (unofficial)

By Rachel Cordasco April 10, 2025 2 comments SFT recs, spotlight

While many of the European speculative fiction awards have a translation category, the major Anglophone awards do not. Therefore, I’ve put together a comprehensive list of eligible SFT for 2024 for consideration while you’re voting in the general awards categories. *For books and stories published in 2024 *Listed in order of publication BEST NOVEL Blue

Out This Month: March

By Rachel Cordasco March 2, 2025 out this month Agustina Bazterrica, Alex Shvartsman, Anna Burdenko, Anton Hur, Argentina, Bora Chung, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld, Deep Vellum, Eve Hill-Agnus, France, French, Honford Star, Jay Zhang, Korea, Korean, Mariette Navarro, Ren Zeyu, Russia, Russian, Sarah Moses, Spanish

“Pollen” by Anna Burdenko, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, March 1) “The Sound of the Star” by Ren Zeyu, translated from the Chinese by Jay Zhang (Clarkesworld, March 1) The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Sarah Moses (Scribner, March 4). The long-awaited new novel from the author