We publish books that matter — narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international, and translated fiction.

Observed on 30 September, International Translation Day is a chance to appreciate the work of language professionals, whose roles are crucial in continuing to strengthen and develop world peace and security. The 2022 theme is ‘A World Without Barriers: the role of language professionals in building culture, understanding and lasting peace’.

In the literary landscape, translation also gives us access to books originally written in other languages that we would otherwise not be able to read. Scribe is the proud publisher of many translated titles, acquiring fiction and non-fiction from around the world.

Most recently, we have The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin; translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, this is a nuanced and beguiling exploration of identity and otherness, unspoken histories, and the loneliness you can feel within a family. Translated from the German by David Shaw, Tobias Hürter‘s The Age of Uncertainty is a page-turning history about how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world. A Dutch translation by David Doherty, Hiding in Plain Sight is an extraordinary Holocaust survival story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who survived wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic. Coming to us from Brazil and translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin, Vista Chinesa is a novel that turns a tragic, real chapter in the story of a woman into great literature. Lastly, we have the upcoming novel The Picture Bride translated from the Korean by An Seon Jae; a sweeping saga, this novel follows three women who, in 1918, journeyed from Korea to Hawai‘i to marry men they‘d seen only one photograph of. 

See below for all the translated work that Scribe has published in the second half of 2022, or browse here for more fiction in translation.