Tobias Carroll recommends a Palestinian memoir, a novel of mid-century Suriname, a surreal generational saga from Canada, and ...

WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will be awarded to M. Lynx Qualey, founder of ArabLit, in ...

"'Juja' uses its constituent narratives to explore the various degrees of intensity with which humanity can interact with art ...

In this prose poem, Pakistani writer Enver Sajjad considers the power of words against censorship and oppression.

In this essay, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez praises the translator and translation’s ability to increase our access to the world and broaden our sense of humanity. Late last year, the Queen ...

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 ...

An all-star cast of writers and translators discuss the joys and challenges of translation. Relationships between authors and their translators are each unique in their own way, moving across time and ...

Ena Selimović is a Yugoslav-born writer and co-founder of Turkoslavia, a translation collective and journal. Her work has received support from the American Literary Translators Association, the ...

She received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a PEN Translates award for her translation of Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To Hell with Poets, a short story collection published by Tilted Axis Press in ...

Poet Wang Jiaxin considers the self and its private and public reflections. The poem appears in The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry, edited and translated by Arthur Sze and published by ...