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"It was my love of literature and the English language that led me to translate Arnaud’s work." WWB-er @duarte_ilze on her translation of Marilia Arnaud's 'The Book of Affects'": cupblog.org/2024/08/20/ilz…

Join us virtually at the 2024 @GlobalEdAction GLOW Conference on 11/21, where WWB Campus will offer a workshop on bringing global lit alive through author classroom visits. If this sounds like your cup of tea, you can learn more about how to attend here: buff.ly/4fHyK3v

Join @LKTuffaha, guest editor of our collection "Against Silence" at this livestreamed event tomorrow: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

Kerima Lorena Tariman, translated by Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis @wwborders wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Adore his poetry — congrats 🎉

Join us tonight for the Virtual Gala in T-45 minutes! wwborders.live/2024VirtualGala

"Does the camera make the unspeakable more speakable in the digital age? Is that a good thing or just a thing? The horror not subject to live-streamed narration versus the horror that is."

“Sze’s imaginative capaciousness pulls in languages, traditions and systems from both East and West, and it can speak to the cosmos then turn to the smallest natural detail.” Congrats to WWB Contributor Arthur Sze on winning the 2024 Bobbitt Prize! publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/i…

@DonMeeChoi @NewDirections @PoetKimHyesoon "Every aspect of the experimental, feminist South Korean writer’s voice is captured here, taken well beyond what we have seen translated into English thus far." !

With every book in Kim Hyesoon’s canon, bars are raised, ambitions are explored, and readers are gifted with incredible and incredibly challenging reinventions of poetry.— Greg Bem ⁦@NewDirections⁩ ⁦@PoetKimHyesoon⁩ iexaminer.org/phantom-pain-w…

Now on WWB: three new interviews with writers & translators on the National Book Award for Translated Literature Shortlist! Go to the link in our bio to read what they have to say. buff.ly/4ffXMah

Carve some time out today for new Han Kang (co-translated by WWB-er @p_niyahmorris)!

"The textures of Kinsky’s novel, like the angled glint of the film-paint, are richly contradictory..." If this review in @clereviewbooks has you curious about Kinsky's work, check out some of it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

9 Contemporary #Mexican Women Writers to Read Now - Words Without Borders wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Publishers Need More Black Translator Friends by Aaron Robertson - Words Without Borders wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Excited to hear that this new book from ⁦@DorothyProject⁩ will be the topic for the next ⁦@pod_bright⁩ discussion. I was fortunate to sit at the same ⁦@wwborders⁩ gala table with Damion Searls, who recommended it, with a mischievous grin.

NBCC Vice President/Membership and Technology @Ofbooksandbikes reviewed Suzumi Suzuki's novella "Gifted," translated by Allison Markin Powell, for @wwborders: buff.ly/4fhFl4I

In this story from the archives, a woman is haunted by memories of committing violence during war, and a walk to the bakery turns into a harrowing, guilt-filled odyssey. Read “The Scream” by Claudia Salazar Jiménez (tr. Elizabeth Bryer): buff.ly/4fibwBc

Celebrate this book's tenth birthday with an excerpt on our site, first published in 2013! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

@p_niyahmorris So excited to read!