Words without Borders announces its March 2012 Issue: The Mexican Drug War
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Information
Contact: Joshua Mandelbaum, Executive Director
Organization Name: Words without Borders
E-mail Address: joshua@wordswithoutborders.org
Web site Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org
Words without Borders announces its March 2012 Issue: The Mexican Drug War
New York City, New York, March 1, 2012—Words without Borders (WWB) magazine announces the publication of an issue of writing exploring Mexico’s drug war.
Guest edited by Carmen Boullosa (Las paredes hablan, El complot de los Románticos, and El Velázquez de París) the issue explores the effects of this devastating conflict on Mexico’s people, culture, and artists, through fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
Carmen Boullosa contributes an introduction and interviews Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez about the literary community’s response to the drug wars. Hector de Mauleon gives a chilling account of the disposal of bodies. Magali Tercero reports on living under "drugtatorship" in the perilous town of Sinaloa. Fabrizio Mejia Madrid draws on the testimony of a convicted drug lord. Juan Villoro explores the politics of the drug wars. Other contributors include Luis Felipe Fabre, Rafael Perez Gay, Yuri Herrera, Rafael Lemus, and Jorge Volpi.
Editorial director Susan Harris notes, “The Mexican Drug War issue is an example of why literature in translation is so important, and why both American publishers and schools need to be paying attention to literature from outside our borders. We can truly understand the devastating impact of this ongoing conflict only through the testimony of local witnesses.”
The issue also features poems by Japanese poets, Hirata Toshiko and Ohsaki Sayaka, reflecting on life one year after the devastating earthquake, as well as the first part of “The Hole in the Garden” by Sakumi Tayama, winner of Japan’s Bungakkai New Writer’s Prize in 2006.
For additional information, please contact:
Contact: Joshua Mandelbaum, Executive Director
Organization Name: Words without Borders
Email Address: joshua@wordswithoutborders.org
Website Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org
Founded in 2003, Words without Borders is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of global understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature. To date WWB has translated over 1,200 pieces of literature and poetry representing 90 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. Our most recent print anthology is Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010).
