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The Pegnitz Junction: A Novella and Five Short Stories | Mavis Gallant

https://youtu.be/0ggV_dxiwAk?si=CyRojRwvA2ywcb0K

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A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux

The Pegnitz Junction by Mavis Gallant

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

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The true story of Ida Johnson | Sharon Riis

https://youtu.be/NAW_ucCwvMk?si=30H95vvGzCU8BlQf

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Intro

Weekly Highlights

The True Story of Ida Johnson by Sharon Riis

Loop Tracks by Sue Orr

A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien

On the Side of the Angels by Betty Miller

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Bernard Saladin d'Anglure & Peter Frost (Translators)

shawnmooney The Rider by Tim Krabbé, Sam Garrett (Translator)

Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness by Adam Pottle

The Dove in the Belly by Jim Grimsley
1y

LeahBergen I love your quilt!! 1y

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shawnmooney

After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz

https://youtu.be/5p2BakXvTR0

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Intro

Weekly Highlights

The Accompanist by Nina Berberova, Marian Schwartz & William Collins (Translators)

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

True Biz by Sara Nović

Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator)

shawnmooney The True Story of Ida Johnson by Sharon Riis

Marzahn, mon amour by Katja Oskamp, Jo Heinrich (Translator)

Flowers of Lhasa by Tsering Yangkyi, Christopher Peacock (Translator)

On the Side of the Angels by Betty Miller

A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien 1y

Suet624 Terrific review of After Sappho, a book I really liked. 1y

shawnmooney @Suet624 Aw shucks, thank you! 1y

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shawnmooney

Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie | ELLEN. CASSEDY

https://youtu.be/eXcheujk5ss

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Intro

Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie by Ellen Cassedy

The Silken Thread by Cora Sandel, Elizabeth Rokkan, trans.

shawnmooney Eulogy for the Living: Taking Flight by Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)

Sin is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Aliyu Kamal (Translator)

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Shorty September and its extension

Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial by Gina Starblanket and Dallas Hunt

Taxi! by Helen Potrebenko

Twenty Thousand Saints by Fflur Dafydd

2y

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shawnmooney

S.S. Proleterka | Alastair McEwen, Fleur Jaeggy

https://youtu.be/uns_gG2AvVs

Translators Aloud: https://youtube.com/c/TranslatorsAloud

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Intro

Dawn Dumont and her son

Translators Aloud

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy, Alastair McEwen (Translator)

shawnmooney She Came from Mariupol by Natascha Wodin, Alfred Kueppers (Translation)

A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon by Anthony Marra

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
Tina A. Kover (Translator)

Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira
Eric M.B. Becker (Translator)

The Silken Thread by Cora Sandel
Elizabeth Rokkan, trans. 2y

shawnmooney The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)

Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie by Ellen Cassedy, Jane Fonda (Foreword)
2y

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shawnmooney

Nobody Cries at Bingo | Dawn Dumont

https://youtu.be/UxeHSW7gHbs

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Intro

Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont

Rose's Run by Dawn Dumont

Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour by Dawn Dumont

shawnmooney The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood

Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira, Eric M.B. Becker (Translator)

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, Tina Kover (Translator)

The Silken Thread by Cora Sandel, Elizabeth Rokkan (Translator)

The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)

Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra

2y

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

The Travelling Cat Chronicles | Hiro Arikawa

Hey #foodandlit friends! The August buddy read for Japan is on sale now! This sounds super cute and will also work for Women in Translation month if you like to double up on those challenges.

@Butterfinger @Texreader @Catsandbooks #Japan
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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick https://click.e.bookriot.com/?qs=3b745a1280bd835ed064387b9bed628c077397b5ae8caae... 2y

AnnR This one is also really good on audio; at least I think so. 😊 🎧 2y

Catsandbooks Thank you so much for letting us know!! 🙌🏼 2y

Tera66 Got it! Thanks for sharing! 2y

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shawnmooney

The Silken Thread: Stories and Sketches | Cora Sandel

https://youtu.be/Q3U6DDn5zPA

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Vansa How are you doing, Shawn? How's the move going?! 2y

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ReadingEnvy

Homesick | Jennifer Croft

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I thought it would be interesting to change it up for #WITmonth and read an award-winning translator's memoir. I will call it memoir adjacent, because she calls the girl named after her a different name, and uses photography taken by others but credited to the protagonist, but many other details come from her life.↘️

ReadingEnvy This is not a translated work, but it was written first in Spanish. From her website: "The book was written in Spanish first, as a novel called Serpientes y escaleras, and then as a memoir in English, called Homesick. Neither the Spanish nor the English is a translation." Fascinating. 3y

ReadingEnvy I loved the story of the sisters, the obsession with language, the use of brief entries and many photographs to tell this story. I wished for more of the author, as it felt in some ways that renaming and the form were keeping us at arms' length. It's pretty impressive that Jennifer Croft translates from Polish, Russian, and Spanish. She is this month's MVP. 3y

Centique How incredible to write it seperately as a novel and then a memoir in different languages. It would be so interesting to read both and compare. What amazing talent 🙌 3y

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night_shift

Untitled | Unknown

Hey all, it's Women in Translation month and I know how much everyone loves bingo boards lol - any suggestions??

The website: https://www.womenintranslation.org/

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Butterfinger I just finished reading Joy Harjo Crazy Brave for Indigenous American. Amaahzing!!!

Crazy Brave

Butterfinger I have another memoir I recently read that could be for west Africa. It was brilliant.

Stolen Lives: My Family's Twenty-Year Struggle in a Desert Jail

Butterfinger Probably north Africa. It happened in Morocco. 3y

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Butterfinger I Am Malala for Middle Eastern. I plan to read this month. 3y

night_shift @Butterfinger what was Crazy Brave translated from? It sounds interesting! Not digging some of the reviews for Stolen Lives, but that is translated from French.. so, maybe! 3y

Butterfinger Sorry. It is written in English. Zitkala translated old myths into English. I don't remember what tribe she was. Or even a title, just her name. 3y

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