For this month’s PEN Translates Bookshelf we’re recommending six books in translation from South America.
- Out of Earth by Sheyla Smanioto, translated from the Portuguese by Sophie Lewis and Laura Garmeson
- The Bitch by Pilar Quintana, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
- The Thinking-about-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero, translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott and Kit Schluter
- The Wars of The Interior by Joseph Zárate, translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West
- This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire, translated from the Spanish by Victor Meadowcroft
Browse and buy the selected books now at the English PEN Bookshop.