Thanks to my literary agent Senja Pozar for negotiating all but one of my foreign translations, putting me in the ‘Top Translated Authors’ of the Philippine Works and Translation Data base.
The data base chart, maintained by Anthony John Balisi, a project begun by the NBDB, is from September 2025.
It’s dynamic and changes. In this chart I tie with Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa in getting 17.2 percent of the total number of translations.
As of 2024, my Selected Short Stories and three novels (When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, The Newspaper Widow) have been translated into:
Azerbaijani (Qanun Publishing House);
Arabic (Egyptian Office for Publishing and Distribution);
Greek (Lemvos Editions);
Japanese (Genki Shobou);
Portuguese (Editora Rua do Sabao, Brazil);
North Macedonian (Bata Press),
North Macedonian (Prozart Media Dooel);
Serbian (Agora Press);
Slovenian (Super Zalozba); and
Turkish (Bilge Kultur Sanat).
Several of my short stories have been translated into Finnish.
I’m sharing this primarily to give credit to my literary agent Senja.
For more information:
PHtranslationdatabase@gmail.com
Read the latest (30 September 2025) update:
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