TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Dejan Trajkoski (Prozart Media) - Publisher Cecilia Brainard's Foreign Translations

Friday, September 19, 2025

Dejan Trajkoski (Prozart Media) - Publisher Cecilia Brainard's Foreign Translations

Dejan Trajkoski

On October 17, 2025, at 1 pm at the Frankfurt Book Fair, seven international publishers and I will gather at the Pilipinas Stage, Philippine Stand Hall 5.1 A95 & B95 to celebrate the translations they have done of my fiction.

To honor these publishers who are working hard to finish their translations for FBM25, I'm going to highlight each one of them in my blog. I'll be posting the covers of the book, in the various editions. If the featured publisher's cover isn't done yet, check back in.

Meet Dejan Trajkoski!

Dejan Trajkoski, from North Macedonia, is a publisher, writer, poet, and editor. He is the founder and director of the publishing house Prozart Media, the International Literature Festival PRO-ZA Balkan, and the Skopje Fellowship Program—the first publishing fellowship in Eastern Europe (and the only one in the region until 2021), established in 2013. His philosophical novel Infidelity has been translated into nine languages, including English, German, and Turkish. He published translations Cecilia’s When the Rainbow Goddess Wept and her Selected Short Stories.

Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Winner 40th Philippine National Book Award and Cirilo Bautista Prize

Finalist Gintong Aklat Award

Cover study of Selected Short Stories by Prozart Media

When the Rainbow Goddess Went

A beautifully written novel in which the words flow smoothly across the pages, weaving a story that is half lyrical myth and half brutal reality. Enchanting throughout, this novel will mesmerize the reader right up until its victorious ending. ~ Booklist

Cecilia Brainard Fiction: The One-Night Stand a t the Frankfurt Book Fair

Cecilia Brainard Fiction: After the Ascension

Celebrating Translations of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fiction

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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.