Author Signing with Shelley Fairweather-Vega
Thursday, March 9, 2-3 PM
Seattle Convention Center, T1009
Conference registration required

Words Without Borders’ Best Books of 2022
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2022

An unprecedented collection of women’s voices from the heart of Central Asia.

Diverse in form, scope and style, Amanat brings together the voices of 13 female Kazakhstani writers, to offer a glimpse into the many lives, stories, and histories of one of the largest countries to emerge from the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Shelley Fairweather-Vega, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington, translates fiction, poetry and screenplays from Russian and Uzbek to English. Aside from extensive work with the authors included in this volume, she has translated short stories and novels by the Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov and the Kazakh musicologist Talasbek Asemkulov, and her translations have been published in Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Brooklyn Rail, and Translation Review. She has been translating Kazakhstani authors since 2017.