Tobias Carroll on the five books in translation that should be on your radar this month, from Egypt, India, Poland, and more.

The prize recognizes Words Without Borders for its commitment to persecuted writers, essayists, poets, and journalists.

I long for you myself.

"These poems are laden with grief, but also, to my ears, carry a tremendous love and hope, without which, surely, there could be no endurance," writes critic Mandana Chaffa. With members across ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Brahim El Guabli offers an absorbing overview of the “construction of Amazigh indigeneity,” and Amazigh literature’s blossoming in its midst. Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a ...

In commemoration of Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a poem by an imprisoned writer, translated by an imprisoned writer.

Join WWB for a festive virtual evening of literary readings by some of the world's most dazzling writers and translators. Join WWB and a marvelous group of authors and translators for a celebration of ...

What particular translation challenges arose as you brought Layla Martínez’s Woodworm into English? Listen to Sophie Hughes ...

From Drawn & Quarterly | Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong | Graphic Novel | 212 pages | ISBN 9781770467866 | US$24.95 What the publisher says: “Yuna never ...

Is beauty a gift? Is the body itself? Beauty could be understood as a quality passed down from parent to child and thereby given or “gifted,” even if only in a passive sense, through genetic ...