women in translation month (all year long) + translated women's poetry

I want to do a better job at remembering the bookish year's calendar of events, and this post is a few week's late, but I think we should be reading women in translation all year long.

CLMP- "the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses" did a wonderful job or curating some fantastic work by women in translation. 

Here's a link for clmp's WIT reading list (including so much beautiful poetry) for 2026.

Pen America (The Freedom to Write) 

Keep your eyes on women writers and writers in translation. 

I will be ending August with a read of Elena Knows. It's been on TBR for years now, and I am excited to get to it.

my kindle fire edition

Publisher's Synopsis:

From the ‘Hitchcock of the River Plate’ (Corriere della Sera) comes Piñeiro’s third novel, a unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individual freedom.

After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.:

Happy reading ☕️