TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Celebrating Translations of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fiction, Oct. 17 FBM25

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Celebrating Translations of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fiction, Oct. 17 FBM25

COMING UP at the Frankfurt Book Fair this October 17, 2025:

Celebrating Translations of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fiction

October 17, 2025, 10 am

Pilipinas Stage, Philippine Stand, Hall 5.1

Frankfurt Book Fair

Description of the Program:

Have you ever wondered how to get your books translated into other languages?

Join us to hear what Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s literary agent and publishers have to say, as we celebrate the translations of her novels and Selected Short Stories into Arabic, Greek, Slovenian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Japanese, and Azerbaijan.

Cecilia is the author of over 20 books, including the novels, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, The Newspaper Widow; and her Selected Short Stories.

Literary Agent, Senja Pozar, will start the talk, followed by the publishers: Leonardo Garzaro (Editora Rua do Sabao, Brazil), Mohamed Radi (Egyptian Office for Publishing and Distribution), Dejan Trajkoski (Prozart Media), and Dimitris Tsoukatos (Lemvos Editions, Greece).

Messages from Brainard’s other foreign publishers will be shared: Agora, Serbia, Bata Press, North Macedonia; Genki Shobou, Japan; and Qanun, Azerbaijan.

tags: book translations, foreign translations, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt Book Fair, #FBM25, Philippines GOH 25, Philippines Guest of Honor, #PhilippinesGOH

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.