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The Best Translated Book Award Longlist

By Rachel CordascoMarch 29, 2017newsArabic, Basma Abdel Aziz, Cuba, David Frye, Dominican Republic, Elisabeth Jaquette, Jessica Powell, New Directions, Pedro Cabiya, Spanish, Susan Bernofsky, Yoko Tawada, Yoss

This year’s Best Translated Book Award longlist includes four works of speculative fiction in translation! Here’s the entire list: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, from Melville House Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky, from New

Samovar Magazine’s Inaugural Issue

By Rachel CordascoMarch 28, 2017newsAbdul wakil Sulamal, Annie Sheng, Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, Hebrew, James Caron, Japanese, Ko Hua Chen, Rachel Cordasco, Samovar Magazine, Suvi Kauppila, Taiyo Fujii, Timothy Silver

Samovar Magazine‘s inaugural issue is out now, featuring speculative fiction (translated from Finnish, Hebrew, and Arabic), poetry (translated from Chinese), and reviews! Check it out!!

Ahmed Khaled Towfik on the Dissemination of Arabic Science Fiction

By Rachel CordascoMarch 11, 2017newsAhmed Khaled Towfik, Arabic, Egypt

Check out this article on this year’s Emirates Lit Fest about Arabic sf and what Egyptian writer Ahmen Khaled Towfik says about the genre’s place in Arab culture.

SFT in the latest issue of World Lit Today

By Rachel CordascoFebruary 23, 2017newsArabic, Egypt, France, French, Iraq, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Russian, Spanish, World Literature Today

The latest issue of World Literature Today focuses on “Dystopian Visions” and includes a lot of SF in Translation (reviews, interviews, and essays)! Review: Randiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman Review: Iraq + 100: Stories From a Century After the Invasion edited by Hassan Blasim Review: The Doomed City and The

Review: Iraq + 100 ed. Hassan Blasim

By Rachel CordascoOctober 27, 2016reviewArabic, Comma Press, Hassan Blasim, Iraq

translated by: see below Comma Press October 27, 2o16 224 pages If the world needs any book right now, it’s Iraq + 100, edited by acclaimed author Hassan Blasim. I say that because readers, especially in America and Great Britain, need to hear the stories of the Iraqi people who have lived through over

Out This Month: October 2016

By Rachel CordascoOctober 7, 2016out this monthArabic, Chi Hui, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld Magazine, Comma Press, Deborah Boliver Boehm, Hassan Blasim, Iraq, Japan, Japanese, John Chu, Mariko Koike, Thomas Dunne Books

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm (Thomas Dunne Books, October 11) “One of the most popular writers working in Japan today, Mariko Koike is a recognized master of detective fiction and horror writing. Known in particular for her hybrid works that blend these styles with elements of romance, The Graveyard

REVIEW: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz

By Rachel CordascoJuly 23, 2016reviewArabic, Basma Abdel Aziz, Egypt, Elisabeth Jaquette, Melville House

translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Melville House May 24, 2016 224 pages grab a copy There aren’t any starships or spirits in The Queue; no mutant alien viruses or Martian colonies, either. And yet, it is speculative fiction, because Basma Abdel Aziz has taken the reality of Egypt’s oppressive security apparatus and its impact on

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