July 2010: Sports

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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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 July issue: Sports

New York City, New York, July 6, 2010—Words without Borders (WWB) magazine announces the publication of an issue exploring the world of sports.

With the World Cup winding down and summer sports in full swing, Words without Borders magazine takes a look at sports both literally and metaphorically.  From chess to soccer and from France to Japan, the authors featured this month pick up the ball and run with it.

WWB Editorial Director Susan Harris stated, “Whether counting down the clock or going into extra innings, these writers bring the playing field to the page. We’re delighted to present this international lineup.”

In the short story “The Penalty,” by the Algerian writer Anouar Benmalek, Bashir, the main character, has lost his short-term memory; he sits quietly in a packed stadium at a match and tries to figure out why he has a strip of dynamite wound round his chest.  The story follows the protagonist’s search for answers from the stadium to a “holy man.” And this is just one example of the amazing stories and excerpts from “sports stories” covered in this month’s magazine.

The other sport fanatics represented in this issue are: Russia’s Andrei Sen-Senkov, Italy’s Fabio Stassi, Japan’s Motoyuki Shibata, Germany’s Burkhard Spinnen, The Netherlands’ Rene Appel, Italy’s Carmine Abate, and Spain’s Sergi Pàmies.

Play Ball!

For additional information, please contact:
 
Contact: W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager
Organization Name: Words without Borders
Telephone Number: 646-460-1462
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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