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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

How is #WITMonth almost over?! Today’s choice is Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi, translated by Jessica Sequeira 🇧🇴 If anyone has other Bolivian women writers to recommend, please do! 📚🌎

Cover of story collection Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another amazing find for #WITMonth: As despedidas by Cecilia F. Santomé. Translated from Gallego to Spanish by the author 🇪🇸📚💙 A beautiful story about mourning loved ones and traditions, set in rural Galicia #WomenInTranslation @consonni.bsky.social

Cover of the novel As despedidas by Cecilia F Santomé

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This weekend‘s read for #WITMonth is The Colony by Annika Norlin, translated from the Swedish by Alice E. Olsson 🇸🇪📚 @europaeditions.bsky.social #WomenInTranslation

Cover of the novel The Colony by Annika Norlin

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another excellent recommendation for #WITMonth: Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund 🇳🇴📚 #WomenInTranslation @versobooks.bsky.social

Cover of the novel Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Women in Translation Month! 🌎📚🌍 She Who Remains is a great place to start—a short novel that opened my eyes to a culture I knew nothing about 🇦🇱 (and available through Hoopla library app!). Written by Rene Karabash and translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel 🇧🇬 #WITMonth

Cover of Bulgarian novel She Who Remains

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović, recounts the effects of the Yugoslav Wars on kids playing in the basement as fighting rages around them. Translated from Croatian by Ena Selimović 🇭🇷 Great pick for #WITMonth 📘🤩 #WomenInTranslation

Cover of Croatian novel Underground Barbie

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s that time of year again 🎉📚💙 Prepping for #WITMonth by reading the absolutely gorgeous Punto de araña by Nerea Pallares, who translated her original Gallego to Spanish 🇪🇸 #WomenInTranslation

Cover of Nerea Pallares’ novel Punto de araña

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I’m loving the subscription to @catranslation.org!! Two brand new books with translators’ names on the covers were waiting in the mailbox today 🎉 #WomenInTranslation 📚

Cover of two novels in translation: The Queen of Swords and The Week of Colors

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Current selection for #NovellaNovember is La ciudad invencible by Fernanda Trías 🌃🇺🇾📚

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Going to read some Latin American women for #NovellaNovember! First up is Lina Meruane’s Cercada 🇨🇱📚

Cover of Lina Meruane’s short novel Cercada

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Last official read of #WITMonth 2025: The Forgery by Ave Barrera 🇲🇽📚 I’m enjoying the original Spanish and the translation by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers 👏🏻 👏🏻 #WomenInTranslation @charcopress.com

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Winding down #WITMonth with a fan favorite: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (translated by Thomas Teal) 🇫🇮🇸🇪📖📚 #WomenInTranslation

Cover of novel The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Rereading Dolores Reyes’ Cometierra to prep for the new Amazon series 🇦🇷📚 📺 This time I’m reading Julia Sanches’ vibrant translation, Eartheater 👏🏻👏🏻 #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation

Cover of novel Cometierra by Dolores Reyes, English translation Eartheater by Julia Sanches

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Listening to Darkenbloom for #WITMonth 🇦🇹🇩🇪 Written by Eva Menasse and translated by @cctranslates.bsky.social 📚 Small towns, secrets, and lots of historical insight. Pro tip: make yourself a character list to follow along 📋 #WomenInTranslation

Cover of audiobook for the novel Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Weekend reading for #WITMonth: La plaza del diamante by Mercé Rodoreda 💎🕊️ Translated from Catalán to Spanish by Enrique Sordo 🇪🇸 Also checking out David Rosenthal’s excellent translation to English, The Time of the Doves 📚 #WomenInTranslation

Cover of two novels, La plaza del diamante and La Calle de las Camelias

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Surprise gift today from my husband, who found this at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC 📚 We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 🇦🇷 Translated by Robin Myers #WITMonth #RegulatorBooks

Cover of novel We Are Green and Trembling

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today’s selection for #WITMonth is Loop by Brenda Lozano, translated by the brilliant Annie McDermott 🇲🇽📚 @charcopress.com #WomenInTranslation

Cover of the novel Loop by Brenda Lozano

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Day 2 of #WITMonth! Just finished All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimópulos (trans. by Alice Whitmore). Great for anyone with a little wanderlust 🇦🇷 📚

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Other gems I read as the world burned this summer #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation. Excited to see others’ selections for this year! 📚🌍

Cover of novel The Book Censor’s Library

Cover of the novel What You Are Looking for is in the Library

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Best book I read this summer in preparation for #WITMonth! Reeling by Lola Lafon (trans. Hildergarde Serle). 🇫🇷📚 Devastatingly timeless.

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I don’t have words to describe this one. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman (trans. by Ros Schwartz) 🇧🇪🇫🇷 #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Finishing up #JanuaryInJapan with Kiyoko Murata’s A Woman of Pleasure (trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter) 📚🇯🇵 Excited to read more by this author and translator! #WomenInTranslation

Cover of novel A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“…nosotras preferimos nuestra propia historia, nuestra propia basura. De algo tiene que sentirse parte uno, supongo. Yo prefiero mi mierda a la de todos los demás.”—Constanza Gutiérrez 🤯 Leyendo para escaparme de la realidad pero no se puede. 😬 Vale la pena esta fascinante novella. 🇨🇱📚

Cover of the novella Incompetentes by Constanza Gutiérrez

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Uffff this one destroyed me 💔: The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes (trans. Ann Goldstein). Five ⭐️! #WomenInTranslation 🇮🇹📓

Cover of the novel The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Quirky premise but certainly believable that a cat will make you feel better 🐈❤️‍🩹🇯🇵 We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida (trans. E. Madison Shimoda) #WomenInTranslation #JanuaryInJapan

Cover of novel We’ll Prescribe You a Cat

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Two very different Korean novels to finish 2024: Human Acts by Han Kang (trans. Deborah Smith) and Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (trans. Shanna Tan). 🇰🇷📚 #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My first read of 2025: Trajiste contigo el viento por Natalia García Freire 🇪🇨 / Primera novela del año. Una verdadera maravilla 🤯

Cover of Trajiste contigo el viento by Natalia García Freire

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Another new-to-me author, Ágota Kristóf (trans. by David Watson). 🇫🇷🇭🇺 #WomenInTranslation

Cover of novel Yesterday by Agota Kristof

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Less time with the news means more time for #WomenInTranslation! 📖 ❤️Recent finds: French Leave by Anna Gavalda (trans. Alison Anderson) and Blue Light Hours (Bruna Dantas Lobato, translator writing in English). 🇫🇷🇧🇷

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Trying to find the women in translation crowd. #WITMonth Just read this beauty by Virginie Grimaldi 🇫🇷, translated by Hildegarde Serle 📚

Cover of A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

New here and trying to find my Latin American film and tv fans. Current obsession: Las viudas de los jueves 🇲🇽🇦🇷📺

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