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WWB staff members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're most looking forward to in 2024.

In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese

The President of the Regional Government of the Azores José Manuel Bolieiro joined UMass Dartmouth’s Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture officials on Monday to celebrate the creation of the Bellis Azorica book series featuring works by Azorean authors in translation.

Book: ‘Sea Loves Me: Selected Stories’ by Mia Couto – Editor’s Note Posted on 04 May 2021. Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. Covering the entire arc of Couto’s career, this collection displays the Mozambican author’s inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness than any previous c...

The jury has praised the “exceptional quality of the writing, which subtly mixes orality and  narrative, letters, tales, fables, dreams, and beliefs that are at the heart of a historical reality—that of Mozambique in the late 19th century as it grapples with Portuguese  colonization. “The author excels at portraying with  great empathy characters faced with the inhumanity of war, offering them an epic inspiration out of the lush natural world of Africa.” The French edition translated...

The Best Translated Books You Missed in 2020 As we approach the end of 2020, we’ve been speaking with translators, critics, publishers, writers, and booksellers about outstanding books in translation that readers might have missed this year. Read on for recommendations from Daniel Hahn, Maya Jaggi, Meng Jin, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Boyd Tonkin, and more.   Ulysses and  Mrs. Dalloway, this book, first published in Hindi in 1963, traces the experiences of a flaneur wandering through...