The award will support WWB’s award-winning digital magazine of international literature and its literary events series.

In this year's Lancaster International Fiction Lecture from Litfest's “Autumn Weekend,” award-winning writer Guadalupe Nettel considers how writers turn the pain of human experience—physical, emotional, psychological—into moments of literary gold.

In this personal essay, translator Nathan Dize discovers striking links between the fiction he translates and his own family history.

From Togo, a poem about clouds, cacao, and climate change.

Editorial fellow Elete Nelson-Fearon talks with WWB about theater translation, living in Cairo, and her all-time favorite book.

In his last Watchlist of 2024, Tobias Carroll recommends a dystopian novel from Venezuela, memoirs of imprisonment from Tunisia, contemporary Brazilian short stories, and more.

In this poem, poet and illustrator Maniniwei paints a raw and tender picture of living in a bustling city.

Just how broad is a translator's remit? Kotryna Garanasvili calls for translation-adjacent tasks to be duly acknowledged.

WWB staff members on their favorite translated books of the year and the 2025 titles they're most excited about.

In this excerpt from Dinçer Güçyeter's autobiographical novel, a kindergartener does his best to support his Turkish guest-worker parents as they adapt to life in Germany.

A poem and its landscape are haunted by a strawberry moon that shows up everywhere.

Frustrated by his congregation’s lack of engagement with his sermons, an imam takes a daring linguistic chance in this excerpt from a novel by Mohamed Akounad.

Fearlessness and determination are the means to go on in this excerpt from Azergui's novel Ravens' Bread, set during Morocco's Years of Lead.

Tobias Carroll on the five books in translation that should be on your radar this month, from Egypt, India, Poland, and more.

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.

Although the two protagonists have ostensibly opposing views on lots of things and are also two generations apart, they share a lot of linguistic mannerisms, as family members often do.

The here and there / are endless, boundless.

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

Whenever I pronounce your name I become a child again, so much a child that my milk teeth grow back.

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.

Modern humans are the ones in crisis, not poetry.

If this longing could ebb / Only the earth would remain.

Ever since that particular night, I’d felt an entire universe taking shape inside my womb.

Leave the place where it lies / and go dream

Once a week (sometimes more), he swallowed his pride and took money from his father, and he got used to it.

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