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J. Rodolfo Wilcock Author

Born in Buenos Aires, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (1919–78) was a member of the circle of innovative writers that included Jorge Luis Borges. Later self-exiled in Rome, Wilcock became a leading Italian…...

Magnus William-Olsson (b. 1960, Bromma, Stockholm county, Sweden), poet, literary critic, and translator, has published seven volumes of poetry, three books of essays on poetry, and a book of autobiographical…...

Natasha Wimmer Author

Natasha Wimmer's translation of Bolano's Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. She lives in New York City.

Simon Winchester Author

Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of The Map That Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, and Krakatoa.

Mario Wirz Author

Mario Wirz was born in 1954 in Marburg and has been living in Berlin since 1988. He is an actor, director, and writer. His most recent volumes of lyric poetry are Sieben Leben hat die Woche (2003) and …...

Michal Witkowski Author

Born in 1975, Michal Witkowski is a writer living in Wroclaw, Poland. His debut Copyright was published in 2001. He is also the author of Lubiewo, a novel on gay subculture which catapulted Witkowski into…...

Austin Woerner Author

Austin Woerner is an editorial and publicity intern at Words Without Borders. He recently graduated from Yale University with a degree in East Asian Studies, and is now working as a freelance writer and…...

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Grzegorz Wróblewski Author

Grzegorz Wróblewski, born in 1962 in Gdansk and raised in Warsaw, has been living in Copenhagen since 1985. He has published nine volumes of poetry and two collections of short prose pieces in Poland;…...