WOMEN IN TRANSLATION

 

After MARCH, its August - a special month celebrating women. Here it’s about women writers, Every August, readers from all continents around the world gather in high spirit to read, review, and discuss works by women writers in translation.

Translated literature is a window to other culture, Read few points about in support of it.

The need for #WIT:

Women in Translation seeks to rectify the imbalance in world literature, promoting women writers from across all walks of life, all languages, and all experiences.

Google states that this reading series was initiated by blogger Meytal Radzinski in 2014 to raise awareness of translated literature by women, queer, and non-binary authors, and promote gender and cultural diversity in literary publishing.

Know more about women in translation here

Read Abburi Chaya Devi’s work BONSAI LIFE in my blogpost here

Do share it in comments about a translated work of a women writer you enjoyed the most and love to learn the original language.