Elsa Gribinski and I read in PEN's Women in Translation Month!
A BILINGUAL READING SERIES
TO CELEBRATE WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH (2025)
This August we once again celebrate Women in Translation (#WiT) Month! This reading series was initiated by blogger Meytal Radzinski in 2014 to raise awareness of translated literature by women, queer, and nonbinary authors, and promote gender and cultural diversity in literary publishing. This year, our free, virtual reading series gathers voices from across time zones for an international celebration!
Organized under the support of PEN America and the PEN America Translation Committee, these events bring together three panels of translators, joined by their authors, working in a diversity of languages. The readings will be followed by brief Q&A discussions. We hope you’ll join us for these one-of-a-kind bilingual readings!
The Women in Translation Reading Series will take place on Zoom on August 7, 14, and 21, 2025. The conversations will be moderated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Christina Daub, and Marguerite Feitlowitz. For more information, please email membership@pen.org
SESSION 1: Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 2 PM EST - Register here
● The August 7 session will be moderated by Christina Daub, with readings in French (Côte D’Ivoire), Indonesian, Malayalam, Norwegian, and Polish
SESSION 2: Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 8 PM EST - Register here
● The August 14 session will be moderated by Marguerite Feitlowitz, with readings in Chinese (Taiwan), German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Ukraine), and Vietnamese
SESSION 3: Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 2 PM EST - Register here
● The August 21 session will be moderated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, with readings in Dutch, French, German (South Africa), Persian, and Spanish (Chile)
Nancy Naomi Carlson won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Author of sixteen titles, her co-translation of Wendy Guerra, along with An Infusion of Violets, were noted in The New York Times. When We Only Have the Earth (African Poetry Book Series, 2025), her translation of Abdourahman Waberi, was recently released.
Christina Daub is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet who has translated the poetry of Friederike Mayröcker (German) and Blanca Wiethüchter (Spanish). Cofounder of the Plum Review, an international poetry journal, her own poetry has been translated into Russian, Italian and German.
Marguerite Feitlowitz has published five volumes of translations from French and Spanish, most recently Night, by Ennio Moltedo, Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography with Nineteen Erotic Sonnets, by Salvador Novo, and plays by Griselda Gambaro. She is the author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture.
