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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 his memoir, "The Absent Moon," Brazilian publisher Luiz Schwarcz writes of survivor guilt and his own depression.

The Brazilian writer and publisher rejects the assumption, common in autobiographical writing, that memory should create meaning.

As we usher in the new year, our staff, contributors, and board members share the books in translation they're most looking forward to in 2022.

Eric M. B. Becker speaks with ko ko thett, coeditor of the anthology Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring, about witness poetry and writers' resistance to government persecution in Myanmar.

As we usher in the new year, our staff, contributors, and board members share the books in translation they're most looking forward to in 2022.   Eric M. B. Becker Editor In 2022, I'm particularly looking forward to Jokha Alharthi's Bitter Orange Tree, due out in May

As the year comes to an end, our staff, contributors, and board members look back on their favorite international reads from 2021.   Eric M. B. Becker Editor One of my most thought-provoking reads this year came rather late in the year: Natassja Martin's memoir of a harrowing

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...

search February 18, 2021 (New York, NY)— The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the 2021 Poems in Translation Contest produced by Words Without Borders—the digital magazine for international literature and a content partner of the Academy—to spotlight groundbreaking work by poets and translators around the world. The four winning translated poems will be co-published in Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series produced by the Academy of American Poets, and in Words Witho...

Words Without Borders Announces 2021 Poems in Translation Contest Winning Poems to Be Published in Poem-a-Day and WWB   We’re pleased to announce the 2021 WWB Poems in Translation Contest spotlighting groundbreaking work by poets and translators around the world. The contest is open to submissions of contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into English. Four winning poems will be co-published in Words Without Borders and Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series p...