In this excerpt from Silvia Arazi's novel A Mother's Voice, a woman's desire to write about her recently deceased mother sparks conflict with her siblings.

A fraught parent-child relationship emerges in this excerpt from Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki’s novel Bornholm, Bornholm, in which a middle-aged man speaks to his comatose mother about their visits to the beach during his childhood.

Cape Verdean writer Joaquim Arena paints a picture of the life of Afro-Portuguese nobleman João de Sá Panasco in this excerpt from his memoir-history hybrid Under Our Skin, out now from Unnamed Press.

New this month: Tobias Carroll recommends eco-dystopia, a modern picaresque, innovative autofiction, and more, translated from Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, and Portuguese.

An unexpected narrator tells the story of a rift between a mother and son in this excerpt from a novel by the renowned Tamil author La. Sa. Ramamirtham.

A young man's desperate attempt to flee the civil war in Sri Lanka backfires in Appadurai Muttulingam's short story, a finalist for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.

In a landscape that shifts between Jabalia refugee camp, a UNRWA school in Gaza, and a family home in Jaffa, Sinan Antoon gives poetic expression to a Palestinian child's experience of Israeli bombardments, displacement, and a longing to return home.…

In this wry short story, Uruguayan writer Armonía Somers charts a life lived at the speed of light.

If every generation of language users expresses this constantly churning discomfort about the unworkability of language, then literary translation acknowledges the discomfort, examines it, and places it front and center.

disease came dwelling / now it eats my bread

Literature, storytelling, and fiction in particular can actually perform simple miracles.

Read coverage of WWB in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more.

As editorial fellow, I would like to draw readers in and provide them with the opportunity to pursue their own paths by engaging with our contributors and their stories every step of the way.

I find myself moved by these evenings at the zoo.

Tobias Carroll recommends a satirical French graphic novel, poetry from Hong Kong, novels from Côte d’Ivoire and Mexico, and a trans memoir from Italy.

WWB's 20th Anniversary Gala will affirm the urgency of engaging with the world’s literary voices.

The opinions of those who can’t speak are often treated as if they don’t exist.

I began to understand that a lot of the work that I found most interesting wasn’t coming out of English, but from other languages instead.  

When I translate, it’s just me and the text, and I work quickly, intuitively. If I ever try to slow down or analyze what I’m doing, I lose that sense of flow.

There is a sense of hidden English in my novels because of my family circumstances.

What curse come to roost in a barren house / These nightmares like the screech of falcons.

Grandma goes inside the house and a few minutes later comes out with a small ax in her hand.

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the election of two new members to its Board of Directors: Chantal Restivo-Alessi and Wim Vanderhoof.

At the end of the twenty-second century and in the midst of the explosion of what people across many parts of the world spontaneously began to refer to as “collective earth aesthetics,” it is perhaps disconcerting to return to a discussion of art and…

Trust creates room for play, which, in my opinion, is vital to the act of translation and to any artistic collaboration, says translator Lizzie Davis.

I always say that the last book I translated is the hardest book I’ve ever translated. But in this case, I think it’s true!

“This was just being at the right place at the right time,” says translator Bruna Dantas Lobato.

This novel is my answer to that fear, to that childhood fear says Pilar Quintana of her Abyss, longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Trust is the lifeblood of successful author-translator collaborations, and by trusting me so unwaveringly, Fernanda has also shown me how to trust myself.

It was fate that I translated this book, says National Book Award semifinalist Anton Hur.