Answers aren’t always easy to come by in the real world when you’re a kid.

We highlight 9 writers working in their heritage languages, from Galician and Cebuano to Guaraní and Kaaps.

While some of this writing engages directly with the country's history of armed conflict with Russia, the majority addresses more quotidian themes.

This prize-winning translation haunts.

As a pandemic defined by isolation stretches ever onward, our third Poems in Translation Contest brought together 606 poems from 327 poets and 79 countries, translated from 61 languages. We are thrilled…

In the wake of 2020’s racist violence, and subsequent organizing by the Black Lives Matter movement and others to combat white supremacy, literary magazines and publishers everywhere have, to differing…

This month, WWB took a look back at some of the important writing on race and racism to be found in the magazine's archives.

In the midst of a pandemic defined by isolation, our second Poems in Translation Contest brought together 935 poems from 448 poets and 87 countries, translated from 58 languages. We are thrilled to announce,…

Words Without Borders is leaning into poetry's ability to fill the void of isolation.

A note from the editors on the occasion of our Rojava poetry feature.

Not enough is known about the Philippines.

We received 717 poems from 282 poets from 87 countries translated from 55 languages.

This year, we partnered with the Academy of American Poets for our first ever poetry in translation contest. We received 717 poems from 282 poets from 87 countries translated…

Words Without Borders Launches Poems in Translation ContestMónica de la Torre to Judge We're pleased to announce a new contest to spotlight some of the groundbreaking poets working around…

Tonight, “No Direction”—a microplay by Miguel Alcantud and Santiago Molero, translated by Sarah Maitland, and directed by Debra Caplan—will be performed, along with two other plays…

Tuesday night WWB staff, board, contributors, supporters, and readers gathered at Tribeca 360, where the panoramic view mirrored the sweep of our content, to celebrate our thirteenth anniversary…

Our Gala & Globe Trot Are Tonight!The 2016 WWB Gala is tonight, Tuesday, November 1. A terrific group of authors and translators will join us at Three Sixty° Tribeca…

Image: Bookstore. Creative Commons.In honor of International Translation Day, here are 7 things you can do to support translation every day (plus a list of publishers and journals committed…

Image: Darrin Zammit Lupi, from “Isle Landers,” 2014, photograph. @ Darrin Zammit Lupi. To celebrate our September issue, There Is No Map: The New Italian(s), Words Without…

The Brooklyn Book Festival is this Sunday, with a stellar lineup of literary conversations, preceded by exciting Bookend events all this week. Below is our itinerary of not-to-be-missed festival…

Pictured: Roxana Saberi (photo by Nadia Dara Diskavets); Barbara Epler; Edith Grossman (photo by Miguel Rajmil).We’re thrilled to announce the lineup of table hosts and special…

Image: Douglas Pérez, “Pictopía III: Still I Have a Dream,” 2009, Courtesy of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection.Celebrate WWB's current issue and…

To celebrate National Poetry Month, on Wednesday, April 27, Words Without Borders and Poets House present an evening with three poet-translators featured in the April issue of WWB.…

Every issue from the last ten years of graphic novels in translation.

We’re pleased to welcome M. Bartley Seigel as the new book review editor of Words without Borders.Matt comes to us with experience as poet, writer, literary editor and publisher, journalist,…

Words Without Borders introduces Manal Al-Sheikh and Mazen Maarouf, two poets living in exile in Scandinavia.

Ramadan's dazzling poem evokes Adonis's famous “Funeral for New York.”