Saskia Vogel's translation of Linnea Axelsson's Ædnan has been longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature. In this essay, Vogel reflects on her years of rereading and translating Ædnan and considers how readers, texts, and…

I aim to commemorate the many beloved lives taken from us during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran. 

It must be an effect of the light, but Rome can be a maze . . .

“You don't want to appear as the father, do you?”

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books translated from Arabic, Kalmyk, Spanish, and Italian.

This grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace.

The award will support WWB’s digital magazine of international literature, education programs, and events.

The stench of country liquor assaults her. Her husband is tottering.

The city is ghosted by otherness, living in the shadow of the many world cities that preceded its planning and influenced its conception and development.

As a writer I feel like I am a creator of marginal lives, or, more appropriately, a kind of witness of time passing.

Just as Hansel and Gretel are destroying the evidence, down through the chimney plops Ernst Stavro Blofeld . . .

I guess that’s one approach to pitching an encyclopedia sale.

How was it possible that there was another me buried within? And how could someone else feel his presence even before I could?

Our staff, contributors, and board members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're looking forward to in 2023.

You might not believe this, but in that little autumn prison courtyard, the dogs and humans are grieving together, wishing for freedom together.

Translation, an obsessive interpretive art in which the boundaries between guest and host are tenderly and strenuously unstable, is my constant companion while I learn what it means to build a life in a country and culture different from the one I was…

Join the editors of the World Kid Lit blog on a tour of their favorite international children's books of 2022, from picture books to YA fiction and graphic novels.

We do not see translations of books that will unsettle the reading community, and provoke them to be different than who they want to be.

The $75,000 grant will support the expansion of WWB Campus, WWB's education program.

Early the next morning, I got a call from Mom. The first words out of her mouth: Will you take me to the hospital today?

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Mauritius, Romania, Japan, Spain, Germany, and Puerto Rico.

Every time I write something in English, I’ve been left feeling guilty, as if I had betrayed someone.

Words Without Borders (WWB) seeks an individual or agency to manage technology needs for its website, wordswithoutborders.org.

Ten recent books in translation that the readers in your life are sure to enjoy this holiday season.

We shall see if the hype in the United States reaches the levels Cărtărescu garners in Colombia, where he needed a police cordon to get through his crowd of fans.

The thing that surprises me the most is that parchment paper was invented in Izmir.

Those days of leaping carefree into the Sabarmati / Are long gone

“Do not make the water angry,” they say.

Today, you finally saw the earth after its rebirth.

I thought I unburdened / myself / but even invisible / the braid grows / with memory