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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will do! Did you read She Who Remains? (Rene Karabash, trans. Izidora Angel)

Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you for organizing! 🙏🏻 What a devastating and unforgettable novel, and brilliantly translated. I enjoyed reading with you all.

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Visibility for a woman was only tolerated during pregnancy, and even then, her round belly evidenced not only impending motherhood but also belonging to a man, an eternal bond with the one who chose her to be his wife. I had again violated the rules.” 💯💔

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody, chapter XI: Belly. “It's as if syllables from the roomy words [for ‘woman’] will be dropped if no wedding ring appears on a woman's finger and her womb never carries a child. I know that I'm no longer a true woman to them” 🎯📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“by negating my body, I was… not admitting the eternal connection of my body with the bodies of other women” 💙👩‍❤️‍👩

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“We’d been clutching each other by the throat, in a death grip of fear, for too long… and an unbreakable chain of horror had held us the throat for years” 📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody, chapter X: Throat. “I wanted to finally break the vicious circle of retribution and open our shut mouths so I could shout about my own existence and the existences of mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and girl-friends“ 📚 #Djabbarova26 #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter IX: Legs. “I decided that after the operation I had to buy myself some red high-heeled shoes… It turned out that the mere ability to walk was more interesting than heels, so I bought myself some sneakers instead. 👠🚶🏻‍♀️📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Djabbarova holds deep sympathy for her closed-tongued mother’s fate.” Candice Louisa Daquin reviews the translation of a novel that “interrogates the ways we become estranged from ourselves physically and emotionally.” worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

A photo of the author Egana Djabbarova on the left and the cover of My Dreadful Body on the right

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Mama just quietly stroked her back, as people stroke children and pets. There was a message beyond love in that gesture: I know what you're talking about.” 💔

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter VIII: Back. “As Mama aged, her back began aching frequently: the hours spent washing floors, windows… though she never complained since anyway, how could that pain be compared to the pain from my father's blows?” 😭📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter VII: Tongue. “How had it happened that the only language I could express myself in found no affectionate way to address me, instead flinging insults at me like kernels of corn…?” 🗣️💔📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m only halfway through, but so far, I like the chapter about hands the best. It’s the one that made me really reflect on my mother, aunts, grandmothers, and how they paved the way so I could use my hands to hold books and write 🙏🏻

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter VI: Hands. “A woman’s hands were always supposed to be busy—only a man’s hands were entitled to be carefree… Any woman in our family knew her hands were not given to her for writing” 🤲 😬📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

MY DREADFUL BODY named to 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist! Congratulations Egana Djabbarova + @lizoksbooks.bsky.social for this dazzling novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. www.nationalbook.org/books/my-dre...

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter V: Shoulders. “My mother’s shoulders always drooped—she tried to be pleasant and amenable to those around her so no one would have any reason to insult her” 📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter IV: Mouth. Opens with a bang: “The mouth was not intended for speaking. None of the women around me ever said what they genuinely wanted to say and none interrupted men’s conversations” 🫦🙊📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ancestors enduring in the hair was such a powerful image!

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter III: Hair. “I was scared: I’d never cut my hair and was afraid I was committing a crime against all the women of my family line, destroying the memory of the ancestors who endured in my hair” 💇🏻‍♀️📚 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Our heroine knows she “would cause only problems because I was unable to lower my eyes and keep my mouth shut” 🙊 It’s getting good! #MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter II: Eyes. “Why should a woman’s eyes be bottomless? And able only to accommodate the world, having no right to change it.” 📚👁️ #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My Dreadful Body, chapter I: Eyebrows. “My brows seemed to expand daily, occupying more and more space between my eyelids. If my girlfriends had something like pale vines, then I had the huge dark wings of a mountain bird.” Been there! 📚🤨 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 is now available on our webpage. The prize is in its 10th year and we're delighted to have received a record number of submissions from a record number of languages! 🎉 tinyurl.com/32ms3tsy

An image of a pile of books on a blue background with the text at the top: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; List of Submissions 2026.

Orange and dark blue text on a blue background which reads: Record submissions in our 10th year; 164 titles; 37 languages; link in bio.

Dark blue and orange text on a blue background, reading: The languages: French 23; Spanish 23; Japanese 15; Danish 11; Korean 11; German 10; Chinese 8; Italian 8; Swedish 8; Dutch 6; Norwegian 5; Portuguese 4; Czech 3; Russian 3; Arabic 2; Catalan 2; Finnish 2; Hindi 2; Hungarian 2; Slovak 2; Asturian 1; Belarusian 1; Bulgarian 1; Croatian 1; Didxazá 1; Farsi 1; Greek 1; Kannada 1; Macedonian 1; Maltese 1; Mapudungun 1; Persian 1; Polish 1; Taiwanese Mandarin 1; Tamil 1; Ukrainian 1; Vietnamese 1.

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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 · 27/08/2026

I really liked Alina Bronsky’s Broken Glass Park and Barbara Isn’t Dying Yet (translated by Tim Mohr)

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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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 · 19/08/2026

Are you all doing an online reading group? I just bought this and would love to join!

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Women in translation? That’s a huge part of our whole thing. We’re excited to share WWB’s staff picks for #WITMonth reads as you roll towards the end of August! Click the link to find all 7 recs, or scroll through the thread for a little more info about each: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

"What We're Reading: Women in Translation Month" over a turquoise and pink gradient background and a pixelated wallpaper of all 7 book covers.

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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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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've done a #WITmonth Starter Pack. I do not claim it to be remotely all-encompassing but if you've used the hashtag (as per the criteria⤴️), hopefully I've found and added you. If I haven't, please let me know. go.bsky.app/KEkwYR6

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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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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My latest. More thoughts on language, culture, and violence against women. We actually have a word for wife-killing. Why don't we use it?

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Uxoricide: The Word You Don't Know Because You're Not Supposed To

On the Language We Don't Have for Men Who Kill Their Wives.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

"A new republic of books that transcends boundaries" - today we're announcing the shortlists for our Translation Prizes 2025. Nine prizes will be awarded at the ceremony in February next year, including the inaugural John Calder Translation Prize.

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation will be awarded at a ceremony this evening in London. Browse the titles on the shortlist and longlist in 2025 - and all years - on our @bookshop.org page: uk.bookshop.org/lists/warwic.... The winner will be announced at 7.30pm!

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s We Are Green and Trembling, translated by Robin Myers, wins the National Book Award for Translated Literature!

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 17/11/2025

Our 2026 Bundle lineup. CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go... Subscribe now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...

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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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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 06/11/2025

From Argentina to Edinburgh to Hollywood. The movie adaptation of our own DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz (tr. Sarah Moses/Carolina Orloff) is out in UK/US cinemas tomorrow!

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