TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Cross-cultural Exchange Via Cecilia Brainard's Translations

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Cross-cultural Exchange Via Cecilia Brainard's Translations

L-r: Filip Batkoski, Senja Pozar, Nenad Saponja, Mohamed Radi, Leonardo Garzaro, and Dejan Trajkoski

Press Release -10/19/25

Cross-cultural exchange via Cecilia Brainard's Translations

The 14 foreign translations of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's three novels (When the Rainbow Goddess wept, Magdalena The Newspaper Widow) and her Selected Short Stories were celebrated on October 17, 2025. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fiction brought together these publishers:

Filip Batkoski (Bata Press, North Macedonia),

Leonardo Garzaro (Editora Rua do Sabao, Brazil),

Nenad Saponja (Agora, Serbia)

Mohamed Radi (Egyptian Office for Publishing and Distribution),

Dejan Trajkoski (Prozart Media, North Macedonia).

Brainard's literary agent, Senja Pozar, who also did a Slovenian translation of Brainard's novel moderated the program. She credits Cecilia Brainard's books for promoting cross-cultural exchange, which is one of the goals is the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Publishers who were not present were noted in the joyful event, including: Dimitris Tsoukatos (Lemvos Editions, Greece); Takuya Matsuda (Genki Shobou, Japan); and Jale Mammadova, (Qanun, Azerbaijan).

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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.