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1 week ago | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Rachel Cordasco |Tom Sleigh
School of Shards, the final installment in Marina and Sergey Dyachenko’s Vita Nostra dark fantasy series, asks us to consider the possibility that the universe is made solely out of language. This idea is based on the Book of Genesis, when God makes a series of pronouncements about light and darkness, Heaven and Earth, and animals and people, calling these material things into being.
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2 months ago | 
sfintranslation.com | Rachel Cordasco
*For books and stories published in 2024 *Listed in order of publication BEST NOVEL Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin, tr from the Russian by Max Lawton (NYRB Classics) Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, tr from the Spanish (Argentina) by Heather Cleary (Dutton) Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang, tr from the Chinese by Ken Liu (S&S/Saga Press) The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, tr from the Arabic (Kuwait) by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain (Restless Books) Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, tr from...
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
sfintranslation.com | Rachel Cordasco
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Sarah Moses (Scribner, March 4). The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaosUltramarine by Mariette Navarro, translated from the French by Eve Hill-Agnus (Deep Vellum, March 4).
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Rachel Cordasco
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. Norwegian speculative fiction is making its way into English in ever greater numbers as we move deeper into the twenty-first century.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
tabletmag.com | Rachel Cordasco
Growing up in the 1980s in a suburb of Baltimore, I was surrounded by so many Jews that I didn’t even know other religions existed until I was about 7 years old. So naturally, I thought that December only meant gelt and candles and potato latkes. Sure, I sat on Santa’s lap at the mall, but I didn’t really understand who he was. Sometimes Santa even wished me a happy Hanukkah.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Rachel Cordasco |Emma Johnson-Rivard |Raven Jakubowski |Elis Montgomery
Icelandic speculative fiction in translation has begun to make its mark on the Anglophone literary world, especially in the realm of horror fiction. Since 2012, English-language readers have been able to enjoy novels and stories by such Icelandic authors as Andri Snær Magnason, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Sjón, Steinar Bragi, Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson, and now Hildur Knútsdóttir.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Rachel Cordasco
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. Discussions of horror fiction often begin with attempts at a definition. Questions like “what is ‘horror’?” and “is horror a distinct genre or a shadowy figure lurking at the edge of other genres?” prompt us to think more carefully about genre itself and its (fluid) boundaries. Before we know it, though, these words “genre” and “horror” tend to slip, together, out of focus.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
sfintranslation.com | Rachel Cordasco
Wafers by Ha Seong-nan, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong (Open Letter, June 4)This 2006 collection of short stories is in line with the unsettling, engrossing style of Ha’s other two collections that have been translated into English, the critical and commercial successes Flowers of Mold and Bluebeard’s First Wife.
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May 3, 2024 | 
sfintranslation.com | Rachel Cordasco
translated by the authororiginal publication (from the Gikuyu): 2004this edition: Pantheon, 2006grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library“Sprawling” is the best way to describe Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow, a multi-layered, complex, and hilariously absurd magical realist book about the deeply corrupt Free Republic of Aburiria and the man who accidentally becomes the powerful Wizard of the Crow.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Rachel Cordasco |Ana Hurtado |Saheed Sunday |David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Liliana Colanzi’s first collection in English, Our Dead World (2017), was so intriguing and strange that, when I found out about her second collection, You Glow in the Dark, I nearly jumped through the computer to get a copy. In that first book, Colanzi imagined, among other things, a cold, lonely colony on Mars; a meteorite potentially controlled by aliens; and a girl pushed into a nervous breakdown by her fanatical mother (à la Stephen King’s Carrie [1974]).
