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Afghanistan: Raising My Voice by Malalai Joya (co-written with Derrick O’Keefe)
Albania: The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi (tr. Robert Elsie, Janice Mathie-heck)
Algeria: The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leïla Marouane (tr. Alison Anderson); Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar (tr. Dorothy S Blair)
Andorra: The Gravedigger’s Son by Teresa Colom (tr. Mara Faye Lethem)
Angola: The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso (tr. Ángel Gurría-Quintana)
Antigua and Barbuda: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Argentina: The German Room by Carla Maliandi (tr. Frances Riddle); The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada (tr. Chris Andrews); Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz (tr. Annie McDermott & Carolina Orloff); Notes from Childhood by Norah Lange (tr. Charlotte Whittle); Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle)
Armenia: My Grandmother: A Memoir by Fethiye Çetin (tr. Maureen Freely)
Australia: Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country through Songlines by Gay’wu Group of Women; The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Austria: The Empress and the Cake by Linda Stift (tr. Jamie Bulloch); The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (tr. Shaun Whiteside)
Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
Bahamas: Back to Life by Wendy Coakley Thompson
Bahrain: Bahrain’s Uprising ed. by Ala’a Shehabi and Marc Owen Jones
Bangladesh: I Am Yours by Reema Zaman
Barbados: Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
Belarus: The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich (tr. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky)
Belgium: Thirty Days by Annelies Verbeke (tr. Liz Waters)
Belize: Time and the River by Zee Edgell
Benin: ‘Gen’ by Agnès Agboton (tr. Lawrence Schimel)
Bhutan: The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden
Bolivia: Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi (tr. Jessica Sequeira)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic (tr. Christina Pribichevich-Zoric)
Botswana: Maru by Bessie Head; The Scattering by Lauri Kubuitsile
Brazil: Àgua Viva by Clarice Lispector (tr. Benjamin Moser); Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler; The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha (tr. Eric M B Becker); Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira (tr. Eric M. B. Becker)
Brunei: Moments of Nil by Flora Tavu
Bulgaria: In the Town of Joy and Peace by Zdravka Evtimova
Burkina Faso: Droit de Cité: Être Femme au Burkina Faso by Monique Ilboudo
Burundi: Weep Not, Refugee by Marie-Thérèse Toyi
Cabo Verde: The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio (tr. Jethro Soutar)
Cambodia: First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung; Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Cameroon: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue; Season of the Shadow by Léonora Miano (tr. Gila Walker)
Canada: Small Beauty by jia qing wilson-yang; Little Beast by Julie Demers (tr. Rhonda Mullins)
Central African Republic: The Magic Doll by Adrienne Yabouza, illustrated by Élodie Nouhen (tr. Paul Kelly)
Chad: Passion de la Pensée by Salma Khalil Alio
Chile: Seeing Red by Lina Meruane (tr. Megan McDowell); In the Distance with You by Carla Guelfenbein (tr. John Cullen)
China: Vertical Motion by Can Xue (tr. Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping)
Colombia: Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo (tr. Charlotte Coombe)
Comoros: Le Journal de Maya by Coralie Frei
Congo: Two Poems by Marie-Léontine Tsibinda (tr. Nancy Naomi Carlson)
Costa Rica: ‘From Where the Voice is Born’ by Carmen Naranjo
Côte d’Ivoire: Aya by Marguerite Abouet
Croatia: The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić (tr. Michael Henry Heim); How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić
Cuba: Sunday Revolution by Wendy Guerra (tr. Achy Obejas)
Cyprus: Death Customs by Constantia Soteriou (tr. Lina Protopapa)
Czechia: A Kingdom of Souls by Daniela Hodrová (tr. Véronique Firkusny, Elena Sokol)
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee (tr. David John)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail Pesta
Denmark: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors (tr. Misha Hoekstra)
Djibouti: Les Enfants du Khat by Mouna-Hodan Ahmed
Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Dominican Republic: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (tr. Rolando Costa Picazo); Tentacle by Rita Indiana (tr. Achy Obejas)
Ecuador: Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero (tr. Frances Riddle); Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán (tr. Dick Cluster)
Egypt: The Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal el Saadawi (tr. Sherif Hetata)
El Salvador: Luisa in Realityland by Claribel Alegría (tr. D J Flakoll)
Equatorial Guinea: La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (tr. Lawrence Schimel)
Eritrea: My Fathers’ Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging by Hannah Pool
Estonia: At the Manor, or Jump into the Fire by Maarja Kangro (tr. Christopher Moseley); Burning Cities by Kai Aareleid (tr. Adam Cullen)
Eswatini: Weeding the Flowerbeds by Sarah Mkhonza
Ethiopia: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste; Gash Wondimu by Agazit Abate
Fiji: Kaluti by Shazia Usman
Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (tr. Thomas Teal)
France: Those Without Shadows by Françoise Sagan (tr. Irene Ash); Woman at Sea by Catherine Poulain (tr. Adriana Hunter); Maryse Condé from Guadeloupe
Gabon: Des Contes pour la Lune by Edna Merey-Apinda
Georgia: One More Year by Sana Krasikov; Why I No Longer Write Poems by Diana Anphimiadi (tr. Jean Sprackland & Natalia Bukia-Peters)
Germany: Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (tr. Susan Bernofsky); Dance by the Canal by Kerstin Hensel (tr. Jen Calleja); River by Esther Kinsky (tr. Iain Galbraith)
Ghana: Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo
Greece: Zigzag through the Bitter-Orange Trees by Ersi Sotiropoulos (tr. Peter Green)
Greenland: Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen (tr. Anna Halager)
Grenada: Lady in a Boat by Merle Collins
Guatemala: Knitting the Fog by Claudia D. Hernández
Guinea: Les Humiliées by Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo
Guinea Bissau: ‘In Which Language to Write’ by Odete Semedo (tr. Alejandro Aguilar)
Guyana: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt
Haiti: Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux Chauvet (tr. Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Val Vinokur); Moonbath by Yanick Lahens (tr. Emily Gogolak); Kettly Mars
Honduras: Nobody Wanted Me by Soledad Castillo
Hungary: The Door by Magda Szabo (tr. Len Rix)
Iceland: The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir (tr. Brian FitzGibbon); Waitress in Fall by Kristín Ómarsdóttir (tr. Vala Thorodds)
India: Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (tr. Arunava Sinha); Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi (tr. Samik Bandyopadhyay); Yellow is the Colour of Longing by K R Meera (tr. J Devika)
Indonesia: Saman by Ayu Utami (tr. Pamela Allen); see others here
Iran: Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (tr. Tina Kover); Gina Nahai, Dalia Sofe, Marjane Satrap
Iraq: The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail (tr. Max Weiss)
Ireland: Normal People by Sally Rooney; Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
Israel: Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights Under Siege by Amira Hass
Italy: Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante (tr. William Weaver); Eva Sleeps by Francesca Melandri (tr. Katherine Gregor)
Jamaica: The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Japan: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (tr. Megan Backus); Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Allison Markin Powell); Yōko Ogawa; Kuniko Mukōda; Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Jordan: Willow Trees Don’t Weep by Fadia Faqir
Kazakhstan: The School by Zaure Batayeva (tr. ZB & Shelley Fairweather-Vega)
Kenya: Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Kiribati: Teaote and the Wall by Marita Davies, illustrated by Stacey Bennett
Kosovo: Call Me by My Name: Poetry from Kosova in a Bilingual Albanian-English Edition by Flora Brovina (tr. Robert Elsie)
Kuwait: The Ringing Body by Fatima Yousef al-Ali (tr. William Maynard Hutchins)
Kyrgyzstan: An Orange Lemon by Alla Pyatibratova (tr. Rohan Kamicheril)
Laos: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Latvia: Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena (tr. Marita Gailitis)
Lebanon: Always Coca Cola by Alexandra Chreiteh (tr. Michelle Hartman); A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached
Lesotho: Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho ‘M’atsepo Nthunya; Basali! Stories By and About Women in Lesotho by K Limakatso Kendall
Liberia: The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper; This Child Will Be Great by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya: ‘Melting Sun’ by Laila Neihoum (tr. D Mohamed Hassan and Neihoum)
Liechenstein: Man Wortet Sich die Orte Selbst by Iren Nigg (tr. Marissa Grünes)
Lithuania: Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (tr. Delija Valiukenas); Breathing into Marble by Laura Sintija Cemiauskaite (tr. Marija Marcinkute)
Luxembourg: Tentative by Anna Leader
Macedonia: A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska (tr. Christina E. Kramer)
Madagascar: One Times Two by Cyprienne Toazara (tr. Allison M Charette)
Malawi: I Still Miss Him by Walije Gondwe
Malaysia: The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka; Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
Maldives: ‘Perfume’ by Aminath Neena
Mali: Poèmusiques by Fatoumata Keïta
Malta: Running Commentary by Daphne Caruana Galizia
Marshall Islands: Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Mauritania: ‘Poetry and I’ by Mbarka Mint al-Barra’ (tr. Joel Mitchell & PTC participants)
Mauritius: Eve Out of her Ruins by Ananda Devi (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman)
Mexico: Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli; Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver (tr. Julia Sanches); After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel (tr. Rosalind Harvey)
Federated States of Micronesia: My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng
Moldova: Selected Poems by Paula Erizanu
Monaco: My Book of Flowers by Princess Grace of Monaco with Gwen Robyns
Mongolia: The Green Eyed Lama by Oyungerel Tsedevdamba and Jeffrey L Falt
Montenegro: ‘Time’ by Dragana Tripković (tr. Peter Stonelake); Catherine, the Great and the Small by Olja Knežević (tr. Paula Gordon & Ellen Elias-Bursac)
Morocco: Lullaby by Leïla Slimani (tr. Sam Taylor); The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
Mozambique: The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane (tr. David Brookshaw)
Myanmar: Smile as they Bow by Nu Nu Yi (tr. Alfred Birnbaum and Thi Thi Aye)
Namibia: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas
Nauru: A Beautiful Prayer by Joanne Ekamdeiya Gobure
Nepal: Night by Sulochana Manandhar (tr. Muna Gurung)
Netherlands: The Black Lake by Hella S Haasse (tr. Ina Rilke); The Return of the Honey Buzzard by Aimée de Jongh
New Zealand: Collected Stories by Patricia Grace
Nicaragua: The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli (tr. Kristina Cordero)
Niger: Le Déserteur by Hélène Kaziende
Nigeria: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀; What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Norway: Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth (tr. Charlotte Barslund); The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am by Kjersti A Skomsvold (tr. Kerri Pierce)
Oman: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi (tr. Marilyn Booth)
Pakistan: Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa
Palau: The Palauan Perspectives by Hermana Ramarui
Palestine: The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout (tr. Perween Richards)
Panama: The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
Papua New Guinea: My Walk to Equality: Essays, Stories and Poetry – edited by Rashmii Amoah Bell
Paraguay: ‘Our Father Is Tired’ by Susy Delgado (tr. Susan Smith Nash & Susy Delgado)
Peru: Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener (tr. Lucy Greaves, Jennider Adcock)
Philippines: The Farm by Joanne Ramos; State of War by Ninotchka Rosca
Poland: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Jennifer Croft)
Portugal: Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques (tr. Julia Sanches); In Your Hands by Inês Pedrosa (tr. Andrea Rosenberg)
Qatar: Fiery Curses by Noura Mohammad Faraj (tr. William M Hutchins)
Republic of Korea: The Vegetarian by Han Kang (tr. Deborah Smith)
Romania: The Appointment by Herta Müller (tr. Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm)
Russia: Bride & Groom by Alisa Ganieva (tr. Carol Apollonio)
Rwanda: Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga (tr. Jordan Stump)
Saint Kitts and Nevis: As Good as Gold by Kathryn Bertine
Saint Lucia: ‘History Shelves’ by Sassy Ross; Patricia Turnbull
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Journal of a Superfluous Woman by I. R. King
Samoa: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel
San Marino: ‘The Tram Journey’ by Milena Ercolani (tr. Pasquale Iannone and Robyn Marsack)
São Tomé and Príncipe: ‘Petty Tyrants’ by Conceição Lima (tr. Amanda Hopkinson)
Saudi Arabia: Sarab by Raja Alem (tr. Leri Price)
Senegal: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (tr. Modupé Bodé-Thomas); The Beggars’ Strike by Aminata Fall Slow (tr. Dorothy Blair)
Serbia: Dogs and Others by Biljana Jovanović (tr. John K Cox)
Seychelles: ‘Labour of Love’ by Marie Flora Ben David Nourrice
Sierra Leone: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Singapore: Ponti by Sharlene Teo
Slovakia: The Equestrienne by Uršuľa Kovalyk (tr. Julia & Peter Sherwood); Samko Tále’s Cemetery Book by Daniela Kapitáňová (tr. by Julia Sherwood)
Slovenia: Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap (tr. Tess Lewis)
Solomon Islands: Flotsam & Jetsam by Jully Makini
Somalia: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
South Africa: Soweto Stories by Miriam Tlali
South Sudan: Withered Flowers by Stella Gitano (tr. Anthony Calderbank)
Spain: Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf (tr. Mara Faye Lethem); Permafrost by Eva Baltasar (tr. Julia Sanches)
Sri Lanka: A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman
Sudan: Elsewhere Home by Leila Aboulela
Suriname: The Cost of Sugar by Cynthia McLeod (tr. Gerald Mettam); Love’s Perfumes by Rita Rahman
Sweden: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg; The Saga of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlof (tr. Paul Norlen)
Switzerland: Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (tr. Tim Parks)
Syria: Farewell, Damascus by Ghada Samman (tr. Nancy Roberts)
Taiwan: Wedding in Autumn by Shih Chiung-Yu (tr. Darryl Sterk)
Tajikistan: The City Where Dreams Come Trueby Gulsifat Shahidi (tr. Altima Group)
Tanzania: Things That Were Lost in Our Vaginas by Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
Thailand: Bright by Duanwad Pimwana (tr. Mui Poopoksakul); The Happiness of Kati by Ngarmpun – Jane – Vejjajiva (tr. Prudence Borthwick)
The Gambia: Stories from the Gambia by Sally Sadie Singhateh
Tibet: Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother’s Autobiography by Diki Tsering, Khedroob Thondup
Timor-Leste: From Timor Leste to Australia ed. Jan Trezise; Buibere: Voice of East Timorese Women ed. Rebecca Winters
Togo: Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja and Layli Miller Bashir
Tonga: This Is My Story of Resilience by Uinise Tulikihakau
Trinidad and Tobago: Crick Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge
Tunisia: Time’s Running Out for Scheherazade by Fawzia Zouari (tr. Judith Landry)
Turkey: Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz (tr. Nicholas Glastonbury)
Turkmenistan: ‘I Have Come Through Torments Within These Walls’ by Annasoltan Kekilova (tr. James Womack); Mahym Rozyyeva
Tuvalu: ‘Tusitala’ by Selina Tusitala Marsh
Uganda: Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Ukraine: Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko (tr. Halyna Hryn)
United Arab Emirates: That Other Me by Maha Gargash
United Kingdom: Trans by Juliet Jacques; The Welsh Language: A History by Janet Davies
United States: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Uruguay: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis
Uzbekistan: The Dancer from Khiva by Bibish (tr. Andrew Bromfield)
Vanuatu: Black Stone by Grace Mera Molisa
Venezuela: Southpaw by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (tr. Nina McPherson & Phantom Huy Duong)
Yemen: Our Women on the Ground (ed. Zahra Hankir)
Zambia: The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

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