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Institutional Supporters

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 


This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

 

New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

 

Hawthornden Foundation

 

The Whiting Foundation

 

The Poetry Foundation

 


The Amazon Literary Partnership

 

The Flora Family Foundation

The Sigrid Rausing Trust

The Cornelia Bessie Memorial Foundation

The Sumner Scholarship Endowment Fund

The Rea Charitable Trust

The Reed Foundation

The Grace Fund, an advised fund of the Brooklyn Community Foundation

The Milton and Beatrice Wind Foundation

The Malecha Family Foundation

2023 WWB Gala Supporters

Publishing Champions
Apple Books
Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation
Curtis Brown
The Gernert Company
Hachette Book Group
HarperCollins Publishers
Ingram Content Group
Irwin & Hsuan LLP
London Literary Scouting
Macmillan Publishers
Maria B. Campbell Associates
Open Road Integrated Media
Penguin Random House
The Phyllis and Bennett Cerf Foundation
The Robbins Office, Inc.
Simon & Schuster
Spotify
Susanna Lea Associates
United Talent Agency

Individual Supporters*

Ambassadors ($1,000+)**
Anonymous (2), Agnes Ahlander Turner, Esther Allen, Douglas Armer, Alberta Arthurs, Amy and Peter Bernstein, Maria Campbell, Katherine Vaz and Christopher Cerf, Chris Chaput, Simon Close, Miriam Cohen, Richard d’Albert, Alessandro d’Ansembourg, Viviana Denechaud, Cedering Fox, Katie Freeman, Stephen Fuzesi, Susan Gillespie, Mina Hamedi, Balram Kakkar, Esq., William Kistler, Anthony Knerr & Susanne Kastler-Knerr, Starling Lawrence, Carol and Joel Levy, Alane Salierno Mason and Clive Priddle, Maaza Mengiste, Jennifer Moross, Nancy Novogrod, Jim and Mary Ottaway, Tara Parsons, Tom Perrotta and Mary Granfield, Gregory Phillips, Enid Prasad, Kalpana Raina, Ron Restrepo, Corey Sauer, Samantha Schnee and Michael Hafner, Rebecca Servadio, Eldar Shafir, Charles Siegel, Eric Simonoff, Jenny Staff Johnson and Mark Johnson, Doug and Carola Unger, Anthony and Margo Viscusi, Nicholas Vlietstra, Katherine Wenning, Alan James Young

Friends**
Anonymous (14), Salar Abdoh, ML Abrahams, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Lynne Adams, Humera Afridi, John Aitken, Anne Aleshire, Henrietta Alexander, Kalau Almony, Martha Alston, Allison Amend, Nina Aron, Arash Azizi, Agnes B. Mottern, Caitlin Baker, Andrew Baldwin, Michele Bantz, Juliana Barbassa, Sarah E. Barbour, Elena Barcia, Ian Barnett, Veronica Barzelatto, Anthony Bastow, Kirsten Bates, Patsy Baudoin, John Beasley, Janet Becker, Subhashree Beeman, Edward Benitez, Viken Berberian, Robert Bergman, Susan Bernofsky, Hans Bertram-Nothnagel, Donica Bettanin, Jill Bialosky, Sallie Bingham, Kate Blackwell, Lisa Blumenfeld, Betsy Blumenthal, Sarah Booker, Albert Bork, Jeanne Bornstein, Carmen Boullosa, Tara Bray Smith, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Maha Buddhipala, Julia Burke, Amy Burroughs, Stacy Burton, Sean Bye, Yahaira Carrillo, Caroline Casey, Victoria Caudle, Donald Cellini, Mandana Chaffa, Jessie Chaffee, Vanessa Chan, Wah-Ming Chang, Edward Charlton-Jones, Linda Chase-Jenkins, Shih Chiung-Yu, Donna Clementi, Catherine Cobham, Jonathan Cohen, Charlotte Collins, Katherine Conover, David Conrads, Elisabeth Contadino, Nanette Cooper-McGuinness, Melanie Corbett, Judith Curr, Ryan d’Agostino, Adam Dalva, David Damrosch, Tasha Darbes, Rachael Daum, Kadriye Davis, Lizzie Davis, Paul Curtis Daw, Marjolijn de Jager, Whitney DeVos, Roopa Dewan, Gregory Divers, Arthur Dixon, Nathan Dize, Marcie Dobyns, Ariel Dorfman, Paul Doyle, Grazyna Drabik, David Drake, Olena Ebel, Anne Edelstein, Belle Edwards, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Jim Ellis, Yana Ellis, Gerard Elson, Umit Emre, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Dan Feldman, Jon Fine, Lija Fisher, Anne Flueckiger, Evelyn Fok, Sibelan Forrester, John Foster, Sonja Franeta, Alexa Frank, Jane Friedman, Lauren Galaty, Ingrid Galusha, Joaquin Gavilano, George Geib, Jill Gibian, Cathe Giffuni, Steinar Gil, Virginia Gilbert, Matthew Ginal, Sarah Girner, Lauren Goldenberg, Erika Goldman, Ann Goldstein, Michael Gonzalez, Gail Goodman, Pamela Goodyear, Marlene Gottlieb, Lisa Gray Fisher, Stephen Greenblatt, Garth Greenwell, Katy Gross, Mark Gunderson, Helen Gunnarsson, Judith Gutman, Caroline Hafner, Genevieve Halkett, Doris Hambuch, Richard Harman, David Harper, Lydia Harris, Marguerite Harrison, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Kay Heikkinen, Gabrielle Herbertson, Bertram Hirsch, Margaret Hivnor-LaBarbera, Regan Hofmann, Carole Horne, May Huang, Wenguang Huang, Andy Hunter, Anton Hur, Hamid Ismailov, Akiko Itoyama, Austen J. Hyde, Sam Jackson, Susan Jackson, Adriana Jacobs, Z. Jamie Behar, Elisabeth Jaquette, Chenxin Jiang, Kira Josefsson, Jeroen Jurg, Paul Kaiser, Keton Kakkar, Elena Kalman, Rohan Kamicheril, Aija Kanbergs, Marjorie Kandel, Sheba Karim, Jennifer Kasoff, Kavery Kaul, John Keene, Conor Kelly, Thomas Kerr, Ruth Kessler, Sara Khalili, Minseung Kim, Damaris King, Charles King, Jeremy Klemin, Elaine Koh, Dragana Kovijanic, RS Kranidis, Chitralekha Kumar, Charles La Shure, Andrea Labinger, Catherine Lacey, Michael Lange, Sarah Lantz, Linggawatti Laoh, David Latham, Deirdre Lavrakas, Starling Lawrence, Meaghan Leahy, Alexis Leatherwood, Tamara Lee, Merrill Leffler, Yvonne Lehr, Madeline Levine, Teresa Lewis, Susan Lilienfeld, Karen Linder, Andrew Logan, Jeanette Lozano Ayub, Branon Lyle, Lilit M. Thwaites, Kizito Madu, Ann Malaspina, Ricardo Maldonado, Allison Malecha, Lisa Malecha, Allison Markin Powell, Elizabeth Mathews, Kenneth Matthews, Celia Mattison, Bob McArthur, Keith McCarthy, Heather McClelland, Fiona McCrae, Jeffrey McCurry, Gretchen McFarland, John McGreevy, Andrew McLaughlin, Elizabeth McLean, Jenny McPhee, Carol McQuire, Joyelle McSweeney, Nadia Middlebrook, Juan Mila, Salam Mir, Poupeh Missaghi, Katherine Montague, Sheryn Morris, Maureen Moynagh, Sahar Mustafah, Appabdurai Muttulingam, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Michael Nardone, Sabauon Nasseri, Ann Neary, Harry Newman, Lulu Norman, Ethan Nosowsky, Claire O’Donoghue, Christine O’Hanlon, Lisa Ochs, Nnenna Ofobike-Lewis, Alejandra Oliva, Lindsey Olmon, Kyle Olmon, Lisa Oppenheim, Eric Ozawa, Yolanda Padilla, Gabriella Page-Fort, Margaret Pannett, Lesley Pasman, Teresa Sessions-Peacock, Laura Perciasepe, Zoe Perry, Lars Axel Petersen, Tracey Peterson, Allan Phillips, Lauren Phillips, Michael Phillips, Howard Pizer, Suwan Poopoksakul, Marlene Poor, Louise Popkin, Alexandre Vidal Porto, Margaret-Dorothy Potter Snyder, Carol Powell, Sierra Prasad, John Prebble, Carol Price, Britta Querner, Daniel Reid, Alain Reul, Michael Reynolds, Clare Richards, Barbara Riess, Christopher Roberts, Marcia Roberts, George Robinson, Daisy Rockwell, Jacob Rogers, Sally Rosenthal, Alice Rowan, Beatrice Rueckert, Tanya Rulon-Miller, Mark S. Bryant, Leo Saajasto, Ramona Sakiestewa, Edward Bryan Samuel, Carole Sargent, Jennifer Sarha, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Frank Schaer, Gretchen Schmid, Anna Schmitz, Elizabeth Schneider, Bettina Schrewe, Sebastian Z. Schulman, Marian Schwartz, Frances Schwartz, Amy Scott, Olivia Sears, Ena Selimovic, Leyla Selmi Moghadam, Veronica Selver, Timothy Sergay, Monica Setterwall Wranne, Lorraine Shanley, Susan Sherer Osnos, Peter Sherwood, Motoyuki Shibata, Leslie Shipman, Frida Shroyer, Seth Shulman, Joan Sidney, Charles Siegel, Rosalie Siegel Wolarsky, Peter Simon, Barbara Sjoholm, Dan Slobin, Nicky Smalley, Olivia Snaije, Philip Snead, Dorothy Solomon, Michael Sprinker, Karen Steele, Catharine Stimpson, John Stormer, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Virginia Sullivan, Sabir Sultan, Mary Sutton, Arthur Sze, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Corine Tachtiris, Alison Taylor, Martha Tennent, Elaine Terranova, James Thomas, Jeremy Tiang, Jill Timbers, Emily Todd, Carolyn and Mauricio Trabuco, Rachel Tzinberg, Bella Urbanowski, Alex Valente, Gidon van Emden, Clare E. Vassallo, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Michael Ventura, Shelby Vincent, Greta Vollmer, Upasena Walahene, Ruth Walker, Gary Waltenbaugh, Rosanna Warren, Masumi Washington, Penelope Weiss, Abigail Wender, Marie White, Drenka Willen, Frank Wilson, N. Rebecca Wood, Sharon Wood, James Woodham, Karl Wurst, Frank Wynne, Susanne Wyss, Ryo Yamaguchi, Sally Yerkovich, Katherine Young, Daniel Zinn, Zoran Zivkovic, Alex Zucker, Jeffrey Zuckerman

*From January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023. Last updated on July 8, 2024. If you notice an omission or mistake, please contact giving@wordswithoutborders.org.

**Donation amount is net any tangible benefit received by the donor.

The WWB Endurance Fund

The Endurance Fund was named in honor of former executive director Karen M. Phillips, who took extraordinary steps to ensure WWB’s long-term sustainability. The Fund was established to expand the organization’s cash reserves and ensure WWB’s stability and growth in years to come. We are grateful to the generous donors who have supported the Endurance Fund:

Supporters
Anonymous (2), Esther Allen, Cecile Barendsma, Seth D. Shulman, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Susan Gillespie, Gail Goodman, Anna Kushner, Carol and Joel Levy, Allison Malecha, Jenny McPhee, Idra Novey, Lisa Ochs, Gregory Phillips, Kalpana Raina, Ron Restrepo, Elizabeth Schneider, Mary Sutton, Margo Viscusi, Alan Young

The WWB Future Fund

The WWB Future Fund is designated for capital and capacity investments that will help Words Without Borders expand its impact in years to come. So far, the Fund has enabled us to complete a major capital project: the construction of our new website, which launched in June 2022. The site was designed to meet the needs of a growing community of readers worldwide, updating our technology with a focus on accessibility, ease of navigation, and reader engagement. We wish to acknowledge the generous support of the following institutions and individuals:

Institutional Supporters
The Lannan Foundation
The Whiting Literary Magazine Prize
The Sonny Mehta Foundation
The Sumner Scholarship Endowment Fund
New York State Council on the Arts Literary Technical Assistance Program (LitTAP)

Individual Supporters
Anonymous (13), Esther Allen, Annamaria Arnall, Mike Aurini, Pete Ayrton, Andrew Baldwin, Saho Baldwin, Cecile Barendsma, Veronica Barzelatto, Janice Becker, Janet Becker, Jeffrey Belle, Susan Bernofsky, Morton Bernstein, John Gregory Brown, David Buuck, Catharine Campbell Blackwell, Evelyn Carr, Barbara Carroll, Caroline Casey, Jessie Chaffee, Padmasini Chakravarthy, Allison Charette, Joshua Cohen, Elizabeth Coleman, David Conrads, Kate Cooper, Elena Cryns, Adam Cullen, David Damrosch, Marjolijn de Jager, Nathan Dize, Judith Dollenmayer, Ming Shu Dong, Ariel Dorfman, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Sheryl Feldman, Kristina G. Fisher, Anne Flueckiger, Becky Folkerts, John Foster, Kathleen Fowler Wagner, Katie Freeman, Michelle Gil-Montero, Ann Goldstein, Sagi Gorali, Bedene Gail Greenspan, Angel Gurría-Quintana, Jane Hammons, Marguerite Harrison, Arlene Hetherington, Lori Hetherington, Ivan Huber, Kayhan Irani, Elisabeth Jaquette, Jenny Johnson, Aija Kanbergs, Lidwien Kapteijns, Sussy Komala, Heide Lange, Robyn Lansdowne, Mary LeMay, Daniel Levin Becker, Edward Levinson, Branon Lyle, Christina Lynch, Ian MacDonald, Kit Maude, Jenny McPhee, Jeffrey Middents, Lenore Millison, Sara Mirabito, Lucy Moffatt, Edilsa Sofia Monterrey, Luis Montesinos, Sarah M. More, Hollis Morrow, Mary Moss, Ann Neary, Claire O’Donoghue, John Patrick, Teresa Peacock, Allan Phillips, Michael Phillips, Mike Raggett, Anne Rashid, Ron Restrepo, Andy Rheinheimer, Frances Riddle, Kate Robinson, Juanit Rogowski, Edward Samuel, Frank Schaer, Susan Schmidt, Elizabeth Schneider, Elizabeth Schutt, Amy Scott, Robert Selim, John Shaffer, Seth Shulman, Erla Sigurdardottir, Olivia Snaije, Katharine Solheim, Michael Sprinker, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Larry Swain, Martha Toll, Katharine Turok, Margo Viscusi, Jessica Wang, Savannah Whiting, Charles Wilkinson, Ying Zhu Chin, Olga Zilberbourg