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Featured book for 2025
I Who Have Never Known Men (ebook) by A post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy.
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others'escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman's modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.
Welcome to Global Literature in Translation, a selection of fiction translated into English and available for free to UNT students, faculty, and staff.
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Doug Campbell
Humanities, Journalism, & Social Sciences Librarian
Literary Fiction Translation Journals and Websites
- Absinthe: World Literature in Translationliterary magazine that emphasizes publishing works previously untranslated to English. We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Owned and operated by the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Absinthe is edited by graduate students, as well as by occasional guest editors.
- The AntonymOnline Literary Magazine
- Asymptoteworld literature in translation
- Chinese Literature Todaypeer-reviewed literary journal edited by the University of Oklahoma in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts at Beijing Normal University
- Exchangesonline journal of literary translation
- The Markaz Reviewa literary arts publication and cultural institution that curates content and programs on the greater Middle East and our communities in diaspora. The Markaz signifies “the center” in Arabic, as well as Persian, Turkish, Hebrew and Urdu.
- No Man's LandNew German Literature in English Translation
- TransferenceA literary journal featuring the art and process of translation.
- The Trinity Journal of Literary Translation - JOLTshowcases writing in translation
- Two Linesoriginal translations into English, and essays on languages, regions, and the translation process
- Words Without BordersThe home for international literature
- World Literature TodayA literary quarterly of the University of Oklahoma.
- World Literature Todayinternational literary magazine
Links of interest
- American Literary Translators AssociationA nonprofit arts membership association that provides resources, community, and professional affiliation to its members: individual translators, academic institutions, presses, and others working in literary translation.
- August is Women in Translation MonthWITMonth - aka Women in Translation Month - is an annual celebration of women writers from around the world, writing in languages other than English. Started by Meytal Radzinski in 2014, WITMonth has grown to become a staple of the online literary community, as well as a prominent presence in independent bookstores around the world. Every August, readers from all continents around the world (except Antarctica, but we’ll get those penguins yet!) gather in spirit (and sometimes in person) to read, review, and discuss works by women writers in translation. The idea is to spread the word about the Women in Translation project at large, and promote individual women writers in translation specifically.
- Bone Into Stone by Jhumpa LahiriOn translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
- Global Literature in Libraries InitiativeThe Global Literature in Libraries Initiative strives to raise the visibility of world literature for adults and children at the local, national and international levels.
- International Translation Day - September 30International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security.
- Radiolab episode - TranslationHow close can words get you to the truth and feel and force of life? That's the question poking at our ribs this hour, as we wonder how it is that the right words can have the wrong meanings, and why sometimes the best translations lead us to an understanding that's way deeper than language. This episode, a bunch of stories that play out in the middle space between one reality and another — where poetry, insult comedy, 911 calls, and even our own bodies work to close the gap.
- A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S. (The New York Times)
- The Translator’s Voice — Frances Riddle on Translating Claudia Piñeiro’s “A Little Luck”Chicago Review of Books
- Words Without Borders CampusWords Without Borders Campus connects students and educators to eye-opening contemporary literature from across the globe.