#WITMonth: What We Shared This August: Women in Translation Month 2026

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Today’s post comes to you from Angie Erickson This month took us from corporate offices in Seoul and the Canary Islands to Sámi boarding schools in Sweden, dinner tables in Paris, forests in Scandinavia, seventeenth-century Delft, contemporary Tokyo, and dystopian worlds where memory, language, and autonomy are under threat. Alongside our #WITMonth posts, #WorldKidLit introduced us … Continue reading #WITMonth: What We Shared This August: Women in Translation Month 2026

#WITMonth: Exploring the Beauty of Life and its Relationships Under Authoritarian Rule

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Today’s post comes to you from Veronica Jansen Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police  Memory is a funny thing. It has the power to haunt or evade us, to be selectively chosen or forgotten, or to be remembered from one point of view while the other remains overlooked. Like most things in life, the human obsession with … Continue reading #WITMonth: Exploring the Beauty of Life and its Relationships Under Authoritarian Rule

#WITMonth: Chasing Miracles: Finding Meaning in the Flutter of Wings

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Today’s post comes to you from Helle Kirstein Lea Korsgaard’s "The Butterfly Season" The Butterfly Season is not only a guide to Danish butterflies, but first and foremost a guide to attention. By the end of the book, you are not just enlightened about entomology; you are infected by the author’s zeal to be more attentive. … Continue reading #WITMonth: Chasing Miracles: Finding Meaning in the Flutter of Wings

#WITMonth: Cozy Movie Night with a Classic German Murder Mystery

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Today’s post comes to you from Kim Tyo-Dickerson Why You Should Watch "The Sheep Detectives" and Read "Three Bags Full"… in Any Order “Justice!” bleated Othello. “Justice!” bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn’s sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd” - Three Bags Full During the summer … Continue reading #WITMonth: Cozy Movie Night with a Classic German Murder Mystery

#WITMonth: “The Colony” by Annika Norlin

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"The Colony" by Annika Norlin (2023), the debut novel of a Swedish pop star, translated into English by Alice E. Olsson (2025) In the spring of 2023, a lone, burned-out journalist escapes the city and heads up to a remote village to live in a tent, trying for a bit of a nature cure, a … Continue reading #WITMonth: “The Colony” by Annika Norlin

#WITMonth: Supersaurio by Meryem El Mehdati

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Today’s post comes to you from Kimberly Wong Supersaurio by Meryem El Mehdati is a smart, searing, and painfully relatable workplace satire. Originally published in Spanish in 2022, its English edition was translated by Julia Sanches and released in November 2025. The novel, categorized as autofiction, follows Meryem through her internship in the corporate offices of … Continue reading #WITMonth: Supersaurio by Meryem El Mehdati

#WITMonth: Sayaka Murata

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Today’s post comes to you from Anisha Wilmink Our weird and not-so-wonderful world as seen by Sayaka Murata Sayaka Murata, who works with translator Ginny Tapley Takemori, is known for her short novels that confront and challenge our expectations of social norms and the “right” way to lead a life. I first came across Murata when … Continue reading #WITMonth: Sayaka Murata

#WITMonth: “Sympathy Tower Tokyo”

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Today’s post comes to you from Erin えりん The curation of reality through language in Rie Qudan’s "Sympathy Tower Tokyo" August 11 is Mountain Day (Yama no Hi) in Japan, celebrated annually in appreciation of the country's mountainous regions. The choice of date is related to the Kanji character for the number 8 (八), which visually … Continue reading #WITMonth: “Sympathy Tower Tokyo”

#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Taiwan Travelogue – A Culinary Journey Through History

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If there's one thing that captures the heart and soul of Taiwanese culture, it's the food—and believe me, this is a book that serves it up in style! As a self-confessed food lover (as you might have learned from the bio at the end of each post!), I’ve been eagerly waiting to share this post … Continue reading #TaiwanKidLitMonth: Taiwan Travelogue – A Culinary Journey Through History

#TranslationThurs: Thank you

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A final word from me. I am so grateful to have been given the chance to share my love of books in translation and some prize-winning books over the last month. I want to thank everyone involved with The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative for letting me take over this month. I will finish with … Continue reading #TranslationThurs: Thank you