{"id":927,"date":"2016-08-27T03:29:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T03:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2016-08-27T03:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T03:30:17","slug":"speculative-fiction-in-translation-for-women-in-translation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Speculative Fiction in Translation for Women in Translation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

(first posted on Book Riot 8\/18\/16<\/a><\/span>)<\/em><\/p>\n

For this Women in Translation Month (see Meytal Radzinski\u2019s site<\/a><\/span> for more info on this great effort), I am giving you a list. Not just any list, though. A much needed<\/em> list of women who write speculative fiction that has been translated into English.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s do better for next<\/em> year\u2019s Women in Translation Month.<\/p>\n

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\"aziz1\"<\/a><\/strong>\"miyabe\"<\/a>\"sakuraba\"<\/a><\/i>\"Tawada\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Basma Abdel Aziz<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Queue<\/em>, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette (Melville House, 2016).<\/div>\n

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Elia Barcel\u00f3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heart of Tango<\/em>, translated by David Frye (MacLehose Press, 2010).<\/p>\n

The Goldsmith\u2019s Secret<\/em>, translated by David Frye (MacLehose Press, 2011).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Star,\u201d translated by Nur-Huda el Masri (in Castles in Spain<\/em>, Sportula, 2016).<\/p>\n

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Karin Boye<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kallocain<\/em>, translated by Gustaf Lannestock (University of Wisconsin Press, 1966).<\/p>\n

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Stella Carr Ribeiro<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sambaqui: A Novel of Pre-History,<\/em> translated by Claudia van der Heuvel (Avon, 1987).<\/p>\n

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Da\u00edna Chaviano<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Island of Eternal Love<\/em>, translated by Andrea Labinger (Riverhead Books, 2009).<\/p>\n

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Ang\u00e9lica Gorodischer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kalpa Imperial<\/em>, translated by Ursula K. LeGuin (Small Beer Press, 2003).<\/p>\n

Trafalgar<\/em>, translated by Amalia Gladhart (Small Beer Press, 2013).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets,\u201d translated by Marian Womack (in The <\/em>The Big Book of Science Fiction<\/em>, Vintage, 2016).<\/p>\n

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Marianne Gruber<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sphere of Glass<\/em>, translated by Alexandra Strelka (Ariadne Books, 1993).<\/p>\n

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Jacqueline Harpman<\/strong><\/p>\n

I Who Have Never Known Men, <\/i>translated by Ros Schwartz (Seven Stories Press, 1997).<\/p>\n

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Ninni Holmqvist<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/i>The Unit<\/i>, translated by Marlaine Delargy (Other Press, 2009).<\/p>\n

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Mariko Koike<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Graveyard Apartment<\/em>, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm (forthcoming from Thomas Dunne Books, October 2016).<\/p>\n

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Leena Krohn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leena Krohn: The Collected Fiction<\/em>, translated by Eva Buckwald, Bethany Fox, Hildi Hawkins, Anselm Hollo, Vivii Hyv\u00f6nen, Leena Likitalo, Herbert Lomas, J. Robert Tupasela, and Anna Volmari (Cheeky Frawg, 2015).<\/p>\n

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Xia Jia<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf on a Winter\u2019s Night a Traveler,\u201d translated by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>, November 2015).<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTongtong\u2019s Summer\u201d, translated by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>, December 2014).<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSpring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy\u201d, translated by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>, September 2014).<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight\u201d<\/a>, translated by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Magazine, <\/em>February 2012).<\/p>\n

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Cristina Jurado<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Shepherd,\u201d translated by James and Marian Womack (in The Best of Spanish Steampunk<\/em>, Cheeky Frawg, Ediciones Nevsky, 2015).<\/p>\n

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Teresa P. Mira de Echeverr\u00eda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Memory<\/em>, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015).<\/p>\n

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Miyuki Miyabe<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gate of Sorrows<\/em>, translated by Jim Hubbert (Haikasoru, 2016).<\/p>\n

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Rosa Montero<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tears in the Rain<\/em>, translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites (AmazonCrossing, 2012).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sari Peltoniemi<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Giftboy,\u201d translated by Liisa Rantalaiho (Finnish Writers site).<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Golden Apple,\u201d translated by David Hackston (in The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy<\/em>, Dedalus, 2015).<\/p>\n

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Tiina Raevaara<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy Creator, My Creation,\u201d translated by Hildi Hawkins and Soila Lechtonen (Books From Finland site).<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lola Robles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist<\/em>, translated by Lawrence Schimel (forthcoming from Aqueduct Press, 2016).<\/p>\n

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Kazuki Sakuraba<\/strong><\/p>\n

Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas<\/i>, translated by Jocelyn Allen (Haikasoru, 2015).<\/p>\n

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Karla Schmidt<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAlone, on the Wind,\u201d translated by Lara Harmon (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>, August 2016).<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nava Semel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isra Isle<\/em>, translated by Jessica Cohen (forthcoming from Mandel Vilar Press, November 2016).<\/p>\n

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Johanna Sinisalo<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Core of the Sun<\/em>, translated by Lola Rogers (Grove Press, Black Cat, 2016).<\/p>\n

The Blood of Angels<\/em>, translated by Lola Rogers (Peter Owen Publishers, 2014).<\/p>\n

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Anna Starobinets<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Living<\/em>, translated by James Rann (Hesperus Press, 2012).<\/p>\n

The Icarus Gland and Other Stories<\/em>, translated by James Rann (Skyscraper Publications, 2014).<\/p>\n

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Yoko Tawada<\/strong><\/p>\n

Memoirs of a Polar Bear<\/em>, translated by Susan Bernofsky (forthcoming from New Directions, November 2016).<\/p>\n

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Karin Tidbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jagannath<\/em>, translated by the author (Cheeky Frawg 2012).<\/p>\n

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Tatyana Tolstaya<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/i>The Slynx<\/i>, translated by Jamey Gambrell (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).<\/p>\n

Spanish Women of Wonder<\/em> (forthcoming 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(first posted on Book Riot 8\/18\/16) For this Women in Translation Month (see Meytal Radzinski\u2019s site for more info on this great effort), I am giving you a list. Not just any list, though. A much needed list of women who write speculative fiction that has been translated into English. Let\u2019s do better for next<\/p>\n

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