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Contact: W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager

Organization Name: Words without Borders

Telephone Number: 646-460-0551

E-mail Address: brandon@wordswithoutborders.org

Web site Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org

Words without Borders announces its April issue: PEN World Voices

New York City, New York, April 1, 2010—Words without Borders (WWB) magazine announces the publication of an issue celebrating the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival. Words without Borders gratefully acknowledges Amazon.com for its grant in support of the publication of the April 2010, Pen World Voices issue.

All the writers in this month’s issue are also featured in the festival.

Susan Harris, WWB Editorial Director, stated, “The PEN World Voices Festival always presents an impressive array of both established and emerging writers. We’re delighted to showcase their work.”

See how Alina Bronsky, Assaf Gavron, Valter Hugo Mãe, Quim Monzó, Sofi Oksanen, Atiq Rahimi, Andrzej Stasiuk, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint create their own worlds in strikingly varied voices.

This broad cross-section of authors from the festival represents a diversity of voices and nationalities ranging from an Afghan living in Paris to a brilliant young Finnish-Estonian author writing about Soviet-occupied Estonia.

WWB will also sponsor a festival panel featuring Quim Monzó, Peter Schneider, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint discussing the essay on Saturday, May 1, from 5:30 to 6:30, at Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue.

For additional information, please contact:

Contact: W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager

Organization Name: Words without Borders

Telephone Number: 646-460-0551

Email Address: brandon@wordswithoutborders.org

Website Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org

Founded in 2003, Words without Borders is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that has translated over 1,100 pieces of literature and poetry representing 80 languages by writers from 111 countries. WWB has been featured in the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, the Guardian (UK), Vanity Fair, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as in various foreign-language papers and numerous literary blogs. We were selected as a featured “pick” by Yahoo immediately after our launch issue and voted one of Time magazine’s “Fifty Coolest Websites” in July 2004.

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