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Women in Translation 2022 Details!

Jen's Video: youtu.be/uiuuFYWAkGE
Matthew's Video: youtu.be/KnHeDbXhsxA

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Dates: Monday, August 8th-Sunday, August 14th (midnight-midnight your time zone)

MAIN IDEAS:
• Slow down and go deeper
• Find playfulness and joy

Prompts:
1) Read a book from a language you’ve read before
a. Newer WIT reader option: Try a work in translation from a country you’ve read about in your own language
b. More challenging option: Read a book from an author you’ve read before

2) Revisit a book you’ve already read
a. Newer WIT reader option: Read a work in translation recommended to you by a friend, bookseller, or librarian
b. More challenging option: Reread a WIT book

3) Read a book that brings you joy (in subject matter, tone, style, etc.)

4) Bonus prompt: Buddy read with us! Oksana Zabuzhko’s Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (translated from Ukrainian by Halyna Hryn)

Women in Translation Month was originated by the blogger Meytal Radzinski: biblibio.blogspot.com

Matthew’s Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCb7srjyBRVjcGpf2LJS7pQQ
Jennifer’s Channel: youtube.com/c/insertliterarypunhere

Some independent presses we recommend (feel free to suggest more in the comments):
Pushkin Press (pushkinpress.com/)
Europa Editions (europaeditions.com/catalogue/search)
Stories from an Unbound Europe (https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/writings-unbound-europe)
Peirene Press (peirenepress.com/)
Istros Books (istrosbooks.com/products/catalogue/)
Graywolf Press (graywolfpress.org/)
Charco Press (charcopress.com/)
Catapult (books.catapult.co/)
NYRB Classics (nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming)
Milkweed Editions (milkweed.org/)
Archipelago Books (archipelagobooks.org/languages/)
FitzCarraldo Editions (fitzcarraldoeditions.com/authors)
CATranslations (catranslation.org/)
Deep Vellum Press (deepvellum.org/)
Comma Press (commapress.co.uk/books/)
Tilted Axis Press (https://www.tiltedaxispress.com)

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