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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 May issue: Mean Girls and Bad Boys

New York City, New York, May 5, 2010—Words without Borders (WWB) magazine announces the publication of an issue exploring the universe of teenager behavior.  Around the world, the teenage years are a time of growth, angst, ritual, and, ultimately, the transition to adulthood.

Susan Harris, WWB Editorial Director, quips, “Adolescents may have no monopoly on bad behavior, but they have the market cornered on inventive ways of displaying it.”

In this issue, teens scheme, double-cross, and otherwise terrorize their peers; "mean" is truly average, and every story includes a plot. Religious ceremonies lead to ritual humiliation, family vacations turn into holidays in hell, and even adults act out.

In Etienne Van Heerden’s Thirty Nights in Amsterdam, the rebellious Zan disgraces her politically prominent family with her drunken and very public promiscuity.  Zan’s dazzling narration is only one of the voices in this youth choir of misconduct. 

Denmark’s Naja Aidt, Spain’s Andrés Barba, Italy’s Leonardo Pica Ciamarra, Norway’s Lars Saabye Christensen, Brazil’s Angela Dutra de Menezes,  Mexico’s Eve Gil , and South Africa’s Etienne van Heerden are maestros at bringing the teen experience to life.

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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