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Essential Women Writers to Read in Translation - Flavorwire

Meytal Radzinski of the blog Bibliobio points out that women writers represent only 30% of translations into English. Not to mention, as Radzinksi also explains, "women writers in translation seem significantly less likely to get profiled by major literary outlets and are less likely to have their books sent for review."
So here's some absolutely fantastic writers, many of whom rival and even surpass their male contemporaries.
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My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
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The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante)
The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante)
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Elena Ferrante)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Elena Ferrante)
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The Story of the Lost Child (Elena Ferrante)
The Story of the Lost Child (Elena Ferrante)
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The Days of Abandonment
The Days of Abandonment
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The Lost Daughter (Elena Ferrante)
The Lost Daughter (Elena Ferrante)
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Cheri
Cheri
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Claudine at School (Claudine)
Claudine at School (Claudine)
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Claudine in Paris (Colette)
Claudine in Paris (Colette)
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Claudine Married (Colette)
Claudine Married (Colette)
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Claudine and Annie (Colette)
Claudine and Annie (Colette)
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The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
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The Hunger Angel (Herta Müller)
The Hunger Angel (Herta Müller)
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Land of Green Plums
Land of Green Plums
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The Appointment (Herta Muller)
The Appointment (Herta Muller)
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The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star
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Clarice Lispector: The Complete Stories (Clarice Lispector)
Clarice Lispector: The Complete Stories (Clarice Lispector)
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Kitchen
Kitchen
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Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto
Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto
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The Lake (Yasunari Kawabata)
The Lake (Yasunari Kawabata)
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Extracting the Stone of Madness (Alejandra Pizarnik)
Extracting the Stone of Madness (Alejandra Pizarnik)
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex
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Sphinx (Anne Garreta)
Sphinx (Anne Garreta)
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The Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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My Bird (Fariba Vafi)
My Bird (Fariba Vafi)
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Kassandra (Christa Wolf)
Kassandra (Christa Wolf)
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Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset
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The Age of Suspicion (Nathalie Sarraute)
The Age of Suspicion (Nathalie Sarraute)
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Portrait of a Man Unknown (Nathalie Sarraute)
Portrait of a Man Unknown (Nathalie Sarraute)
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Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
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The Last Lover (Can Xue)
The Last Lover (Can Xue)
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Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution
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Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
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The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher
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Women as Lovers (Elfriede Jelinek)
Women as Lovers (Elfriede Jelinek)
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Lust (Elfriede Jelinek)
Lust (Elfriede Jelinek)
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So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter
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Astragal
Astragal
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Alina Bronsky)
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Alina Bronsky)
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Broken Glass Park (Alina Bronsky)
Broken Glass Park (Alina Bronsky)
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