TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Senja Požar - Publisher Cecilia Brainard's Foreign Translations

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Senja Požar - Publisher Cecilia Brainard's Foreign Translations

Senja Pozar

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 Senja Požar who is also my literary agent!

Senja Pozar translated into Slovenian for Super založba, The Newspaper Widow.

Founder of Ljubljana Book Academy, Senja Požar has nearly 30 years publishing experience, holding roles as editor, editorial director, and editor-in-chief for fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, reference works, education books, and magazines. Since 2016 she advanced international cooperation for Mladinska knjiga and Cankarjeva založba, working on Frankfurt 2023 and Bologna 2024 GOH. She later launched the Academy, became editor-in-chief, represents IRCAI under UNESCO, and since 2020 has been part of Publishers Without Borders.

The Newspaper Widow

Finalist for the 37th Philippine National Book Award

Shortlisted for the Inaugural Cirilo F. Bautista Prize for the Novel

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

Cecilia Brainard Fiction: After the Ascension

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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.