Words without Borders announces a $10,000 grant from Amazon.com
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Words without Borders announces a $10,000 grant from Amazon.com
New York City, New York, August 9, 2010—Words without Borders (WWB) announces a generous grant from Amazon.com supporting the publication of Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, Words without Borders’ newest anthology, due out from W.W. Norton in November 2010.
Tablet and Penis edited by Words without Borders board member and New York Times bestselling-author Reza Aslan. Tablet & Pen spans a century of literature by the region's best writers—from the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk—all of them bound not by borders and nationalities but by a common experience of colonial domination and western imperialism. As Reza Aslan writes, “the mesmerizing prose of the Middle East-Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu-has been virtually excluded from the canon available to English readers.”
Continuing its generous support of Words without Borders, Amazon.com has provided a $10,000 grant to underwrite a portion of the author and translator fees for the forthcoming anthology. This marks the third grant from Amazon.com to Words without Borders.
Joshua Mandelbaum, WWB Managing Director, stated, “Amazon.com’s grant in support of Tablet & Pen goes a long way to strengthening the financial backbone of the organization. Our evolving partnership with Amazon.com is essential to expanding our outreach and continuing our efforts to translate, publish, and promote the world’s best literature.”
Words without Borders is grateful for the continued partnership with Amazon.com and their ongoing work to support literature in translation. Other recipients of grants from Amazon.com include Open Letter Books, PEN American Center’s Translation Fund, Archipelago Books, Center for the Art of Translation, and Poets & Writers. For more information on Amazon.com’s grants, visit: www.amazon.com/author-giving
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Contact: W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager
Founded in 2003, Words without Borders is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that has translated over 1,200 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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Organization Name: Words without Borders
Telephone Number: 646-460-1462
Email Address: brandon@wordswithoutborders.
Website Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org
