Check out my review of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume IV, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions), over in Ancillary Review of Books! You can read my reviews of previous books in the series here, here, and here.
Congratulations to Hungarian author Anita Moskát and translator Austin Wagner for winning the BSFA award for Best Translated Short Fiction with “Liecraft” (Apex Magazine, October 2025)! Read this excellent story here.
translated from the Korean by Anton Hur original publication (in Korean): 2019 first English edition: Saga Press, 2026 192 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Contents: “Symbiosis Theory” [originally published in English in Clarkesworld] “Spectrum” “If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light” [originally published in English
The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French (France) by Jordan Stump (Vintage, April 7) Equal parts dreamlike and disquieting, The Witch tells a tale as old as time, with a dark twist: Without looking back, children fly the nest, laying bare the tenuous threads of family that have long threatened to snap. With
Check out the Booker Prizes interview with Danish author Olga Ravn and translator Martin Aitken about Ravn’s The Wax Child here!
translated from the Korean, Arabic, Polish, Japanese, Uzbek, Icelandic, Swahili, and Thai Two Lines Press, 2026 216 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Contents: “A Swamp’s Love” by Cho Yeeun, tr from the Korean by Giulia Ratti “The Magic Bin” by Wajdi Al-Ahdal, tr from the Arabic by
This magazine demanded to be born. Read all about it in the File 770 announcement and let me know if you’re interested in writing for it. It’s casual, it’s low-key, it’s ALL SFT ALL THE TIME. What more could you ask for? Also, it’s free and will be available here at SFinTranslation.com. The first issue
translated from the Portuguese by the author this edition: Tordotcom, 2026 160 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Hache Pueyo writes in Portuguese and English, with her first story published in Luna Station Quarterly (in English) in 2016. I first heard about her in 2018, when her translated
It’s out and includes fantastic works of short SF in translation that came out in 2025: read the list here! These stories were translated from the Hungarian, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian.
Rachel Cordasco’s essay on *finding* translated speculative fiction from February 2026 is a fascinating read, and consistent with my own observations of (and struggles with) finding speculative fiction in translation — because this is still an uphill battle. I had a lot of reactions as I read her essay, but the first points that sprang
