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The professor of Spanish at Kenyon College in Ohio, USA, talks about translating Almost Obscene by marginalized Colombian queer poet Raúl Gòmez Jattin

Tobias Carroll recommends noteworthy new books in translation from Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Colombia, South Korea, and Norway.

Maryam Parhizkar reflects on Thresholes by Lara Mimosa Montes.

The Academy of American Poets Announces the Winners of the 2021 Poems in Translation Contest - New York, NY (September 20, 2021)— The Academy of...

Linguistic experimentation and political rebellion went hand in hand in the work of the Ecuadorian Adoum, a leading figure of the Latin American neo-avant-garde who wrote his verses in what he called

Translation as a Collaborative Mode: An Interview with Sarah Booker Sarah Booker I met Sarah Booker virtually in 2018 when she spoke with a graduate student reading group about translating Cristina Rivera Garzas  The Iliac Crest. During her virtual visit, Booker was gracious enough to talk with us about her translation process, and I have kept an eye on her work ever since. In this interview, conducted over email, Booker tells WWB about what drew her to translation work, her praxis, and h...

From these finalists for the PEN America Literary Awards, winners will be announced on April 8 and receive a total of more than US$380,000. Dining tents in New York City’s Bryant Park, February 4. Image – iStockphoto: Massimo Giachetti From 1,850 Submissions, 55 Finalists A total of 55 titles in 11 categories have been named today (February 10) as finalists in the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards. They now are in contention for an aggregate purse of more than US$380,000. PEN America, of cou...

This morning, PEN America released the 2021 Literary Awards Finalists. More than forty-five imprints and presses are featured on the list, with half of the titles coming from university and indie presses. Twenty books are from writers making their literary debuts, and half the titles among the open-genre awards are poetry collections. Chosen by a cohort of judges representing a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, identities, and aesthetic lineages, these fifty-five Finalist books represent...

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...