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Kaddish: For Miklós Radnóti

Romanian poet Radu Vancu channels the Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, murdered in the Holocaust.
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“Swimming in an Ocean the Same Temperature as Your Blood”: A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir
By Urvashi Bahuguna
Urvashi Bahuguna talks with Rajiv Mohabir about Chutney music, Indo-Caribbean heritages, and the spiritual and lived aspects of translation.
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Christopher Merrill to Receive 2025 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature
By Words Without Borders
WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will be awarded to Christopher Merrill in 2025.
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Tarnished Flask
By Donald Rayfield
Distinguished scholar and translator Donald Rayfield details his ethical objections to accepting a lifetime achievement award from Georgia's Writers' House. This is a slightly edited version of the speech he delivered at the March 2025 ceremony.
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Menace
By Sema Kaygusuz
In Menace, Sema Kaygusuz tells a tense story of power, class, and cruelty, where the line between victim and aggressor blurs as the reader wonders who truly holds control.
Translated from Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury

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WWB Campus connects students and educators to eye-opening global literature
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Purépecha Mother
By Gilberto Jerónimo Mateo
This poem from an indigenous Purépecha author celebrates the heroism of a seemingly ordinary woman.
Translated from Purépecha by Earl Shorris & Sylvia Sasson Shorris
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It’s a Chick, Not a Dog
By Jar al-Nabi al-Hilw
My mother knew he was walking after her. Almost certainly she knew. Do you want me to tell you why?
Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth
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A Dominican “Self-Portrait” to Inspire Students’ Self-Reflections
By Nadia Kalman
Which experiences have a greater influence on us—our successes, or the times when we've been hurt?
Find global literature and multimedia learning resources for your students.
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Political Fictions: Contemporary Novels by Libyan Women
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Tripoli, 1911
By Aisha Ibrahim
As Italy invades Tripoli in 1911, a young girl witnesses the beginnings of war in this excerpt from Aisha Ibrahim's Box of Sand, longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Translated from Arabic by Nashwa Nasreldin
Colonel Ali at Wadi Doum
By Kawther Eljehmi
Translated from Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman
1973–1978: The Green March
By Najwa Bin Shatwan
Translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain
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Translating Disability
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Face Value: Translating Divergence
By Clare Richards
Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms.
Translation and Erasure
By Daniela Tiranti
The Hearing-Aid Brigade
By Adèle Rosenfeld
Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
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Against Silence: A Palestinian Writing Series
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Against Silence: Palestinian Writing in English
By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
For as long as Palestinians have resisted their occupiers, a companion narrative questioning our very existence, a profoundly dehumanizing narrative rooted in the West’s still unexamined anti-Arab racism, has also thrived, writes Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Between Sky & Earth
By Olivia Elias
Translated from French by Jérémy Victor Robert
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Remembering Dr. Refaat Alareer
By Nadya Siyam
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Lucy Greaves

Lucy Greaves is a translator and plumber; they like problem solving and making things flow. 

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María José Giménez

María José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet and translator.

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A portrait of poet Ghayath Almadhoun.
Ghayath Almadhoun

Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet based between Berlin and Stockholm.

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Portrait of novelist and poet Olga Ravn
Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn is a poet and novelist. The Employees was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

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Portrait of translator Saskia Vogel
Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel is a Swedish-to-English translator and the author of Permission (2019).

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Lucy Greaves

Lucy Greaves is a translator and plumber; they like problem solving and making things flow. 

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María José Giménez

María José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet and translator.

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A portrait of poet Ghayath Almadhoun.
Ghayath Almadhoun

Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet based between Berlin and Stockholm.

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Portrait of novelist and poet Olga Ravn
Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn is a poet and novelist. The Employees was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

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Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel is a Swedish-to-English translator and the author of Permission (2019).

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Unconscious Spells: On Mansoura Ez Eldin’s The Orchards of Basra
By Alex Tan
The cover of Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes.
The Things They Posted: Empty Aesthetics in Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection
By Irene Katz Connelly
The cover of Laura Vinogradova's The River.
“A Road to the Sea”: Despair and Renewal in Laura Vinogradova’s The River
By Wayne Catan
The Orchards Of Basra Cover
Unconscious Spells: On Mansoura Ez Eldin’s The Orchards of Basra
By Alex Tan
The cover of Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes.
The Things They Posted: Empty Aesthetics in Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection
By Irene Katz Connelly
The cover of Laura Vinogradova's The River.
“A Road to the Sea”: Despair and Renewal in Laura Vinogradova’s The River
By Wayne Catan