Scallydandling about the books | August's delights and discoveries all by women in translation @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 52 minutes ago.
It was a wholehearted #witmonth for me. I really should have talked more about the quality of translation for each book.
Thumbnail picture is a bookshelf at Kettle's Yard house and gallery in Cambridge which I visited in August. Sorry the lighting is a bit intrusive in this video. I need to readjust to filming after dark.

Channels mentioned:
@JentheLibrarianreads for the LGBTQ Books in Translation group
@PageTurnersWithKatja for a neat review of Elena Knows youtu.be/KvG8Vh6ouog
Freddie @SluggishReader who didn't think much of Bonjour Tristesse
Sina @beatingaroundthebooks with apologies for reading the Keun too fast
@tillysshelf for more Ukrainian reads

Books mentioned:
The Queens of Sarmiento Park by Camila Sosa Villada trans Kit Maude
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro trans Frances Riddle
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan trans Irene Ash
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun trans Kathie von Ankum, also Gilgi One of Us
The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector trans Idra Novey
Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko trans Halyna Hryn
The Vegetarian by Han Kang trans Deborah Smith
Season Of The Shadow by Leonora Miano trans Gila Walker