For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation.
Fiction
Translated from the Bulgarian by Christopher Buxton, Zornitsa Hristova, and Rusana Bardarska
Open Letter Books | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960385-45-1
This book combining “narrative fiction, essay, and philosophical inquiry” is a “deeply engaging reflection on how we experience time, choose our paths, and leave traces of our existence in an increasingly globalized world.”
Nebulous: The Last Hurrah by Hannes Barnard
Self-translated from the Afrikaans by Barnard
Catalyst Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781960803443
According to Jennifer Maveety, the first book in this young-adult trilogy is “a gripping coming-of-age novel about friends outlasting an apocalyptic storm.”
Translated from the Chinese by Scott E. Myers
The Feminist Press | 2016
ISBN: 9781558619074
Beijing Comrades is “the story of a tumultuous love affair set against the sociopolitical unrest of late-eighties China.”
The Depopulation by Marina Closs
Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead
Bellevue Literary Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781954276604
This novel is “set in a 17th-century Jesuit mission founded within the wild South American subtropics by the mystical and intense Father Ruiz and his assistant Father Maceta.”
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje
Translated from the Dutch by David McKay
New Vessel Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781954404328
The Remembered Soldier “immerses us in the psyche of a war-traumatized man who has lost his identity.”
My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova
Translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden
New Vessel Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781954404410
My Dreadful Body is “a dazzling debut novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim patriarchal norms and a debilitating neurological condition.”
A Strange Woman by Leylâ Erbil
Translated from the Turkish by Amy Spangler and Nermin Menemencioğlu
Deep Vellum | 2022
ISBN: 9781646051489
This “rebellious, avant-garde novel tackles sexuality, the unconscious, and psychoanalysis, all through the lens of modernizing 20th-century Turkey.”
Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Restless Books | 2026
ISBN: 9781632064332
In this novel, “Gabriel and Isaac embark on a road trip through Jericho and past the Dead Sea to a storied village in the West Bank—a daring act in a divided country.”
Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović
Translated from the Croatian by Ena Selimović
Sandorf Passage | 2025
ISBN: 9789533515120
This debut novel set during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s “brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity.”
The Clock Spa by Jung-min Kwon
Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang
Yonder | 2026
ISBN: 9781632064356
In this book for young readers, “when a busy mom turns into a clock, her daughter discovers that even grown-ups need rest.”
Exemplary Humans by Juliana Leite
Translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry
Two Lines Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781949641967
Leite’s English-language debut is “an ambitious novel about the quirks of memory and the delights and horror of aging.”
Blood Is Dripping onto the Courtyard by Elvira Navarro
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Two Lines Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781966192077
These short stories are set in “a world of precarious jobs, towns in the middle of nowhere, abandoned buildings, and cities that are nothing more than blocks of concrete whose contours Navarro distorts to the point of giving reality the consistency of a nightmare.”
The Girl Before Her by Line Papin
Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter & Ly Lan Dill
Ink & Blood | 2023
ISBN: 978-1885030832
This “lyrical work of autofiction explores what it takes to embrace one’s multiracial, transnational self by making peace with the generations of women who’ve come before.”
The Voice of Blood by Gabriela Rábago Palafox
Translated from the Spanish by M. Elizabeth Ginway and Enrique Muñoz-Mantas
University of Tampa Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59732-223-2
This collection of speculative short stories “intertwines themes of identity, desire, trauma, and transformation with a haunting gothic sensibility.”
The Greatest Game of All by Andreas Roman
Self-translated from the Swedish by Roman
Catalyst Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781963511000
Roman’s novel is “a deeply affecting redemption story that explores why we hurt the people we love, and how to come back from it.”
Translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul
Deep Vellum | 2024
ISBN: 9781646053506
Set in the same world as Sangsuk’s novel The Understory, Venom is “a parable about an underdog’s fight in a world that conspires against him.”
As the Distant Bells Toll by Aleksandar Žiljak
Translated from the Croatian by Aleksandar Žiljak and Charlotte Bond
Wizard’s Tower Press | 2020
ISBN: 978-1-913892-06-7
Featuring a variety of mythological creatures, this collection of Žiljak’s fantasy stories takes readers “on a dizzying trip from Ancient China to modern Croatia via the Caribbean and Japan.”
Poetry
A Dove Under My Hand: Sapphic Writings by Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated from the Russian by Sonja Franeta
Sinister Wisdom | 2026
ISBN: 9781970841022
This collection “highlights Tsvetaeva’s lesbian writings and cements her enduring legacy as a writer of radical emotional honesty and queer literary defiance.”
The Book of Rain by Abū Zayd Al-Anṣāri
Translated from the Arabic by David Larsen
Wave Books | 2025
ISBN: 9798891060364
The earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, Abū Zayd’s “lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit.”
Concerning the Angels by Rafael Alberti
Translated from the Spanish by John Murillo
Four Way Books | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-42-7
In this translation of Spanish poems first published in 1929, Murillo “has given new life to what many consider Alberti’s magnum opus and delivered our marching orders for the resistance the future will require.”
Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems by Nadia Anjuman
Translated from the Persian by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
World Poetry Books | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-38-3
In these poems, Anjuman draws on “the lineage of Persian and Sufi writing and her life under Taliban rule, attending to love, oppression, myth, and devotion.”
trace press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2
Edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi, this bilingual poetry anthology—in which “language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air”—features George Abraham, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Zeena Faulk, Miled Faiza, and more poets and translators writing in Arabic and English.
Clay and Star: Selected Poems of Liliana Ursu
Translated from the Romanian by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Etruscan Press | 2019
ISBN: 9780999753439
In Clay and Star, Ursu “captures with breathtaking precision the convergence of the sacred with the mundane.”
Translated from the Czech by Nathan Fields
University of Pittsburgh Press | 2026
ISBN: 9780822967699
According to Amy Gerstler, these poems “speculate about the wonder of a woman’s tongue, peer into the composition of matter, question who is prey and who is predator.”
I and Not an Angel: Selected Poems by Eli Eliahu
Translated from the Hebrew by Marecela Sulak
Dos Madres Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-962847-54-4
According to Ayelet Tsabari, this collection “offers an intimate look into a fractured sense of belonging on the intersection of citizenship, fatherhood and identity.”
The Cemetery, The Hours, & Mrs. Death by Salvador Espriu
Translated from the Catalan by Andrew Kaufman and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña
Rain Mountain Press | 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9855018-3-4
According to Michael Centore, “Espriu’s voice as rendered here is really the essence of poetry … quiet music, indelible images, a subtle yet profoundly affecting emotional register.”
Queen Saturday by Borys Khersonsky
Translated from the Ukrainian by Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum
Lost Horse Press | 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-6-5
In these poems, a “lyrical speaker moves through Odesa’s courtyards, Transcarpathian towns, and the scarred mountains of Crimea, closing the distance between vanished streets and imagined afterlives of countless Jewish kin.”
Document Shredding Museum by Afrizal Malna
Translated from the Indonesian by Daniel Owen
World Poetry Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-954218-19-2
Malna’s collection “moves from intimate encounters between lovers and friends to mass environmental and semantic destruction.”
The Clear Sky by Ștefan Manasia
Translated from the Romanian by Clara Burghelea
Dos Madres Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962847-30-8
According to Sean Cotter, in this collection Manasia “imbues pop-culture, post-postmodern references with all the emotion of strangeness and lovelorn despair.”
Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo by Antonio Ochoa
Self-translated from the Spanish by Ochoa
Nightboat Books | 2026
ISBN: 9781643623092
This collection “assembles language, memory, and matter in a current where the borders between poetry and prose, reading and writing, Spanish and English, experience and memory are eroded like a shoreline.”
of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems
Translated from the Japanese by Naoko Fujimoto
Tupelo Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781961209572
of Women collects “translations of Japanese waka-poems from the seventh century to the twelfth century, featuring twenty female poets from this period, when Japanese women’s literature flourished.”
If Only I’d Turn into Someone Else by Sanni Purhonen
Translated from the Finnish by Purhonen, Steve Kuusisto, and Mika Suonpera
Nine Mile Books | 2026
ISBN: 9798992546255
These poems “deal with embodiment, feminism, disability rights, and taking on the social constructions of normalcy.”
Songs in a Time of Confinement by Rashmy
Translated from the Tamil by Nedra Rodrigo
trace press | 2026
ISBN: 9781069370426
In this bilingual edition, Rashmy “reveals the pandemic to be a time of recollection for survivors of other catastrophes like war and exile.”
Antuco by Carlos Soto Román and Carlos Cardani Parra
Translated from the Spanish by Judah Rubin
Cardboard House Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-945720-42-0
This collection is “a condemnation of the tragedy at the root of authority, the expendability of human life undergirding military hierarchy and the nation-state itself.”
Translated from the Chinese by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen
Carnegie Mellon University Press | 2026
ISBN: 9780887487453
“Characterized by surrealism, mythical elements, and high abstraction, and even abstruseness,” these poems “integrate regional culture, surrealist poetics, and philosophical reflection.”
Declaration of Independence / Declaración de Independencia by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
Translated to the Spanish by Hernán Bravo Varela
Cardboard House Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-945720-44-4
This documentary poem, “constructed exclusively from the United States Declaration of Independence, pits the founding archive against the somatic immediacy of a body politic.”
Nonfiction, Hybrid & Multi-Genre Works
Translated from the Polish by Mark Ordon
Open Letter | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-47-5
In this book, Boni “merges the official history of Auroville with her experiences with the people she meets while living in this unique city” to explore “the successes and failures of this unique attempt at utopia.”
Translated from the French by Carol Mastrangelo Bové
Carnegie Mellon University Press | 2026
ISBN: 9780887487477
This updated translation of Colette’s “revolutionary 1922 autobiographical collection” contains six previously untranslated chapters.
The Enchanted Desna by Oleksander Dovzhenko
Translated from the Ukrainian by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella
Lost Horse Press | 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-5-8
Published posthumously, this memoir “unfolds the filmmaker’s childhood along the Desna River, where memory, myth, and nature coalesce in scenes of quiet wonder.”
Translated from the Farsi by John Demmery Green, Shiva Ebrahimi, and the authors
IHRAM Press | 2023
ISBN: 979-8395138170
This bilingual anthology of writing and visual art “utilizes creative expression as a ‘peaceful weapon’ to advocate for social justice and protect freedom of expression.”
New York and London by Alfred Kerr
Translated from the German by Alan Bance
Berlinica Publishing | 2026
ISBN: 9783960260769
In this book about Berlin theater critic Kerr’s travels to America and Great Britain, he “is also on a mission to ask for sympathy and help for the fragile Weimar democracy.”
Nothing at All by Olivia Tapiero
Translated from the French by Kit Schluter
Nightboat Books | 2026
ISBN: 9781643622989
Tapiero’s “poetic and essayistic fragments overflow with lyric beauty as they explore how colonialism, illness, and desire intertwine amidst personal and collective suffering.”
The Game at the End of the World by Juan Villoro
Translated from the Spanish by Francisco Cantú
Restless Books | 2026
ISBN: 9781632064110
In these essays, Villoro explores soccer “through the elements that make it the world’s favorite pastime, from its ancient origins, mythic players, exhilarating matches, endemic rivalries, and the unlikely moments in which football has changed history.”
Literary Magazines
Translated from the Lithuanian
Vilnius Review | 2026
This issue features poetry and fiction by Giedrė Kazlauskaitė, translated by Rimas Užgiris; Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, translated by Eglė Elena Murauskaitė; Vytautas V. Landsbergis, translated by Romas Kinka; and more.
“In a Forest in Assam” by Sambhunath Chattopadhyay
Translated from the Bengali by Kingshuk Sarkar
Apple Valley Review | 2026
This poem begins, “We weren’t afraid till we stopped. / We knew the truck would take us across.”
“Chapter 0 (prologue) of Photosynthèses” by Camille Cornu
Translated from the French by Sam Nartus-Fois
ALOCASIA | 2025
This novel excerpt begins, “I wonder if Iris is going to send me a postcard or if it is too late since they are coming back tomorrow. This week Paris is empty.”
Translated from the Chinese by Ban Yan
ANMLY | 2026
The poem “Year 8012” begins, “Hey, when I saw you off into that alley where you vanished, scuttling / past the steel gates, a flurry wet my hat.”
Self-translated from the Swedish by Göransson
beestung | 2025
The poem “supreme” begins, “I listened to the same song for 3 days / feeling alone in the woods. / On the fourth day the basement flooded. / I lay towels in the opening / but it’s useless.”
“The North Side of the Chain Bridge” by Anita Harag
Translated from the Hungarian by Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry
Oyster River Pages | 2025
This story begins, “I don’t dare take his hand. My palms sweat. They sweat when I’m nervous. This time I’m nervous because I have to take his hand and my palms sweat.”
“Sea and Stone” by Elske Kampen
Translated from the West Frisian by David McKay
Tahoma Literary Review | 2026
This poem begins, “Come into my room and see, I am not there. / My cardigan, still body-warm, is draped over the chair.”
Translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Tahoma Literary Review | 2026
This poem begins, “ Happy is he who like this ancestor / bequeaths to an island well / his name / THE BUCKET would bang against the walls of the well / as if sounding each beat of its dive…”
Three Poems by Vivian Lamarque
Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
The Hopkins Review | 2026
The poem “Hush” begins, “Hush for sleep has now taken her / she was soothed by the TV above her / hush you mustn’t awaken her…”
Translated from the Filipino and Cebuano by Bernard Kean Capinpin
The Offing | 2026
This story begins, “I was born with a crocodile in my palm. Not a blessing, but a curse. Elders called me a buayahon.”
from Ghost Auntie by Maniniwei
Translated from the Chinese by Emily Lu
The Offing | 2026
This novel excerpt begins, “Auntie Chiao first met Fortune Teller Man at the temple that burned down. He had a stall there.”
“Selections from මාවතේ ත්රීවිල් ජීවිතේ (Life on Three Wheels)” by E. M. Palitha Edirisooriya
Translated from the Sri Lankan by Kasun Pathirage and samodH Porawagamage
ANMLY | 2025
The poem “May 24” begins, “A piss-drunk gentleman got into the ata with bread, fish and a bag of candy. I asked, ‘Where to, sir?’”
“Never Talk to Strangers” by Stamatis Polenakis
Translated from the Greek by Nick Moschovakis
New England Review | 2025
This poem begins, “All who talk in their sleep should take care / and the same goes for those still dancing / across the dream’s thin ice…”
from On Crowds & Corruption by Sergio Ramírez
Translated from the Spanish by Sebastián Andrés Grandas
New England Review | 2026
This essay begins, “Synesius of Cyrene, in the fourteenth century, explains in his Treatise on Dreams that if a certain number of people dream about the exact same thing…”
“Barbers on Strike” by Michelle Recinos
Translated from the Salvadoran Spanish by Reyes Ramirez
The Hopkins Review | 2026
This story begins, “All good. The day started out sunny. It’s always sunny in San Carlos, but today is different; it is a sun of change.”
Revolutionary Literature from the Philippines
Translated from the Filipino
Words Without Borders | 2026
This collection features fiction by Alvin Yapan, translated by Christian Jil Benitez; fiction by Emmanuel V. Dumlao, translated by Bernard Kean Capinpin; poetry written and self-translated by Liberty Notarte-Balanquit; and poetry by Kerima Lorena Tariman, translated by Soleil Davíd.
Self-translated from the Finnish by Teräsahjo
Apple Valley Review | 2025
This story begins, “I arrived at my brother’s place on a Friday evening. You’d expect to see people then, but the station was deserted—only a few footsteps echoing in the tunnel.”
