news | Thursday August 7, 2025

Women in Translation Month 2025

August is Women in Translation Month! We’re so grateful there exists a month to celebrate the tremendous talents, skills, and labours of women who translate. To work with a text in translation is to give it the gift of expanding its circles of possibility and impact. The amount care, thought, and mastery of languages that goes into the deft treatment of translation isn’t spoken of nearly often enough. Works in translation are an important part of Talonbooks’ mission and makes up a significant selection of our catalogue. Here are just a handful of recent texts in translation we urge you to pick up in your celebrations of Women in Translation Month.

For readers of Men Explain Things To Me, The Boys’ Club: The Many Worlds of Male Power by Martine Delvaux and translated by Katia Grubisic is the perfect book to help make sense of these seemingly senseless times. A thorough investigation of the way men and patriarchy uphold their structural dominance whilst subjugating others across industries, this evergreen text is a must-read for all invested in the work of justice and feminism.

Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Jessica Moore is a remarkable dual-language poetry collection. These crystallized, utterly devourable poems appear in Innu-aimun and English, relaying Bacon’s stirring depth of insights and experiences in unforgettable ways.

Hot hot hot off the press is the final book in Michel Tremblay’s Desrosiers Diaspora series, A Great Consolation. Made available in English by the inimitable, multi-award winning translator Linda Gaboriau, A Great Consolation contains Survive! Survive! and Crossing the Gulf of Misfortune, which follows the scrappy and nonconformist Desrosiers family through the 1930s and 1940s as they contend with their private and shared sorrows, joys, and lives. This work of suite of Canadian historical fiction is unlike any other and isn’t to be missed.

Happy Women in Translation Month! We wish you only the best reading.