Archive of Aurelia Guo

Celebrating #WomenInTranslation month this August, our last post in this series highlights foreign editions of Kate Evans' illustrated biography of Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born German Jewish revolutionary whose life, work and writings in German, Polish and Russian have inspired generations in the nearly 100 years since her untimely death.

Befitting the status of an icon for worldwide socialist revolution, Kate Evan's beautifully drawn Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg has been translated since its 2015 publication into Korean, Turkish, Slovenian, Spanish and French.

Celebrating #WomenInTranslation month at Verso, we are highlighting international editions of Verso books by women whose writing has made an impact around the world.

The second in our series showcases Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler, an impassioned response to the wars of post-9/11 America and a call for solidarity in shared precariousness across borders, now available in French, Italian, Turkish, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese translated editions since first publication by Verso in 2004.

We are thrilled at Verso when our titles make an impact, especially so when they reach audiences worldwide in translation as foreign editions. 

To celebrate #WomenInTranslation month, we are highlighting international editions of Verso books by women. The first in our series showcases Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship by Claire Bishop in Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Polish and Slovenian, all testaments to the international audience for Claire Bishop's incendiary ideas and to the gamechanging impact of this book, first published by Verso in 2012.