{"id":2026,"date":"2011-01-26T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2011-01-26T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:23:12","slug":"quick-hit-women-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2011\/01\/26\/quick-hit-women-in-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick hit: Women in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mere 3% of books published in the U.S. each year are translations. \u00a0An even smaller number of these books are written by women.\u00a0 What are the obstacles facing women writers around the world?\u00a0 What are their successes?\u00a0 Given the different barriers surrounding literary production and distribution, how can U.S. readers find excellent fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays by women writing and publishing outside of the U.S.?<\/p>\n<p>Read about the experience of Iranian author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shahrnushparsipur.com\/author.htm\">Shahrnush Parsipur<\/a> in the new column <a href=\"http:\/\/jeancasella.wordpress.com\/\">Jean Casella<\/a> (former editorial director and publisher of the Feminist Press) and I are co-editing over at She Writes.\u00a0 Jean\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shewrites.com\/profiles\/blogs\/literary-miracles-meet-iranian\">debut post<\/a> introduces readers to Shahrnush Parsipur&#8217;s story and her books, which include the novels\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1558615571\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1558614524&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=06WTTBEV9D18M9FA92Q0\"><em>Touba and the Meaning of Night<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Women-Without-Men-Novel-Modern\/dp\/1558614524\">Women Without Men<\/a><\/em>, recently made into a <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/14\/movies\/14women.html\">film<\/a> by Shirin Neshat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mere 3% of books published in the U.S. each year are translations. \u00a0An even smaller number of these books are written by women.\u00a0 What are the obstacles facing women writers around the world?\u00a0 What are their successes?\u00a0 Given the different barriers surrounding literary production and distribution, how can U.S. readers find excellent fiction, nonfiction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21111],"tags":[39268,1399,21941],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-hits","tag-book-publishing","tag-global","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}