Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (translated by Lawrence Schimel) is the first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to … Continue reading Day 7: La Bastarda
Day 6: Kintu
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. The very first book I read for this project was Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – a Ugandan novelist and … Continue reading Day 6: Kintu
Day 5: Flights
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. I knew as I was finishing the idiosyncratic Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Jennifer Croft) that I'd have to revisit … Continue reading Day 5: Flights
Day 4: Fish Soup
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. Shortly after reading Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo (tr. Charlotte Coombe) – a sharp, entertaining story collection – I … Continue reading Day 4: Fish Soup
Day 3: Abandon
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. I was whisked through Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (tr. Arunava Sinha), a dreamy blur of a novel, in the midst … Continue reading Day 3: Abandon
Day 2: Brother in Ice
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. It was around two hot chocolates in on an overcast August (!) afternoon that I realised how much of a … Continue reading Day 2: Brother in Ice
Day 1: Disoriental
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. One of the earliest novels I picked up for my project, Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (tr. Tina Kover), had me … Continue reading Day 1: Disoriental
Thirty Days of Reading Women’s Writing Worldwide
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#WorldKidLit Wednesday: I Lived on Butterfly Hill
“So—are you saying that our souls can be knocked down like houses?” “Yes, my wise girl,” she says. “Our souls can crumble when we don’t care about our neighbors, or when we say hateful things about others, or exclude people for being different.” This exchange between eleven-year-old Chilean Celeste Marconi and her mother, in … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: I Lived on Butterfly Hill
#WorldKidLitWednesday: Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words
Do you remember not being able to read? I certainly don't... Most of us have been reading for so long that we can't remember what it felt like not to be able to understand everything we saw around us. Nor do we have any inkling of what the mysterious world of visual symbols looked like … Continue reading #WorldKidLitWednesday: Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 