It is one thing to be published in your native tongue, but when your work gets translated into other languages, it becomes a different ball game. eelive.ng has put together a list of five celebrated books by African writers that have been translated from English to other languages.
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1. Happiness Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
Translated from English to Italian, Chinelo Okparanta explores the lives of Nigerian women in the United States. We are led into their lives running with longings, hope, faith, struggle, and disappointments.
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2. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Translated from English to French, Manyika mirrors in her book a 75year old Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman who lives in San Francisco. She enjoys good health at her age, until she falls, her health deteriorates and the seams that once held her life began to come off.
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3. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Translated from English to Portuguese, What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, is a collection of short stories woven around women, motherhood, loss, wars, memories, dystopia, pain, and overcoming.
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4. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Translated from English to German, Yaa Gyasi’s debut, follows three hundred years old history in Ghana. Homegoing, makes history visceral and captures with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
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5. My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Translated from English to Portuguese, My Sister, The Serial Killer, follows the story of a young lady with a weird penchant for killing her boyfriends.
