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We’re pleased to welcome Adam Dalva as the new books editor of Words Without Borders. Adam’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Paris Review. His graphic novel, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. Adam serves on

Last night, Naveen Kishore, the founder and publisher of Seagull Books, received the 2021 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. At the celebratory cocktail reception in New York, Jeff Deutsch, the director of Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, accepted the Ottaway

The premier event of Bologna Children's Book Fair includes the debut of the International Publishers Association's 125th-anniversary video.

The Pittsburgh International Literary Festival, known as “LitFest,” hopes to get people talking through reading. Hosted by the City of Asylum @ Alphabet City based on Pittsburgh’s North Side, the virtual event will feature authors from all over the world discussing topics that encompass Black, Indigenous and all people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and the politics of publishing. Abby Lembersky, director of programs for City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, said planning’s been underway si...

Book Description City Lights Books, United States, 2001. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: Spanish. Brand new Book. The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorcas first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and siguiriyas, Lorca captures the passionate flamenco cosmos of Andalusias Gypsies, "those mysterious wandering folk who gave deep son...

Shanahan: ‘A Hard-Headed Refusal To Give In’ While translator and co-guest editor Scott Shanahan at Words Without Borders‘ magazine this month works well in his introductory essay to stress that Galician is neither a dialect nor a transcription of Spanish or Portuguese, the Galician region in northwestern Spain is known this year for its decree that the coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine is compulsory for all 2.7 million inhabitants. Fines for non-compliance are reported to range from €1,000...

Translating Dagestan in Alisa Ganieva’s “Munkar and Nakir” , via Wikimedia Commons Sabrina Jaszis translation of Alisa Ganievas "Munkar and Nakir" appears in the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders . Preparing to translate “Munkar and Nakir,” I reread the stories of Flannery O’Connor, whose darkly comic and grotesque portrayals of the American South are described as “Southern Gothic.” First published in the regional journal Dagestan, Alisa Ganieva’s “Munkar and...

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...

Translating Multilingual Wordplay in Danyil Zadorozhnyi’s “Letter to Ukraine” , via Wikimedia Commons Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humess translation of Danyil Zadorozhnyis "Letter to Ukraine" appears in the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders . How do you translate a poem into a single language when it is interested in the liminal space between two languages? That was the first question my cotranslator Reilly Costigan-Humes and I asked ourselves when we read D...