The prize recognizes WWB for its commitment to persecuted writers, essayists, poets, and journalists.

Ali Sadqi Azaykou writes an ode to Tamazight, and the multitudes within it.

Poet Mohamed Ouagrar turns the mirror's reflective qualities upon the writing self.

Fadma Farras claims the world as her own in this defiantly assured poem.

Brahim El Guabli offers an absorbing overview of the construction of Amazigh indigeneity, and Amazigh literature's blossoming in its midst.

Translators Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott discuss Woodworm, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

In commemoration of Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a poem by an imprisoned writer, translated by an imprisoned writer.

Lia Galván Lisker recommends 9 of the decade's best books by Mexican women writers, all translated by women.

Ghayath Almadhoun writes a transformative love poem as the beloved and the lover negotiate minefields and soldiers, Adorno, and a collapsing Tower of Babel.

Stuck in a reading slump? Check out Tobias Carroll's recommendations of six new books of fiction, poetry, and graphic lit to read now, translated from Greek, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and more.

Jordanian poet and writer Lana al-Majali delivers a sweeping essay on the brilliance, and urgency, of poetry.

Maha Alautoom pens an enchanting poem that takes us through Amman's streets.

An expectant mother finds herself nurtured, then threatened by a circle of women in this short story by Jordan's Rema Hmoud.

Jordanian poet Zuhair Abu Shayeb questions the limitations of history, water, and the past in this fervent poem.

The familiar tale of a recent college graduate trying to make his way in the world devolves into something more chilling in Hisham Bustani's short story.

In this introduction to our collection of Jordanian writing, guest editor Addie Leak details the country's diverse culture and vital literature.

An aimless young man finds unexpected guidance in his village's marsh in this surreal short story from Chinese writer Can Xue.

Novelist Bothayna Al-Essa and translators Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain discuss The Book Censor's Library, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Linnea Axelsson and Saskia Vogel discuss Ædnan, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Novelist Solvej Balle and translator Barbara J. Haveland discuss On the Calculation of Volume, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Translator Leri Price discusses Samar Yazbek's Where the Wind Calls Home, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Novelist Fernanda Trías and translator Heather Cleary discuss Pink Slime, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

An exasperated mother takes a dim view of homework and snails in this short story by Slovak writer Soňa Uriková.

Chinese poet and activist Yang Licai considers the eternal question of human suffering in this final selection in the 2024 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets National Translation Month series.

From an anthology of Yazidi poetry to Scholastique Mukasonga's latest novel, Tobias Carroll recommends September's must-reads in translation.

Yes, love was time, and it too / splintered and cracked

This WorldKidLit Month, join us for a survey of some of the most innovative and compelling Latin American children's books recently translated into English.

what is language? and what is the translation of war?

a sensation of intricate webs / soft, possibly smooth, and heavy

Slowly, with a crack, the snail shell breaks— / you don’t need it anymore.