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Not so many people think of the local languages as literary languages.

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

London, which seems all sprawl and braggadocio, is at the same time self-contained and fiercely defended.

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

A multivoiced narrative was essential for the telling of the storm.

WWB Campus presents a collection of Korean literature and accompanying resources for high school and college classrooms.

That’s how it felt to sleep handcuffed to a table.

Humor was essential for my Ramayana.

Eyes gape at me over cups of coffee, forkfuls of delicate shrimp.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Mexico, Norway, Haiti, Argentina, and Japan.

The earthquake opened new sociopolitical avenues to be addressed in literary fiction.

Recent and forthcoming dystopian fiction from Argentina, Egypt, Iceland, Japan, and more.

The experiences gained from a lifetime of reading and pursuing other professions are invaluable assets.

New York, New York, January 12, 2022—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just announced that it will distribute more than $28 million in support of 1,248 arts and cultural organizations…

Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.

Around the time we were in second grade, Buckethead and I beat a snake to death.

WWB staff, contributors, and board members on the translated books they're most excited about in 2022.

I felt uncomfortable being who I was, raised on the idea of being from a Black family.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books translated from Maltese, Mè’phàà, German, Spanish, Arabic, and Greek.

In 2021, Mike Fu and Jenna Tang worked together through the Emerging Translator Mentorship Program of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), with a focus on prose from Taiwan. Fu had published…

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the election of acclaimed author Calvin Baker to its Board of Directors. “I am a great admirer of Calvin’s writing. A brilliant writer…

As the year comes to an end, our staff, contributors, and board members look back on their favorite international reads from 2021.Eric M. B. BeckerEditorOne of my most thought-provoking reads…

Each year, WWB is proud to offer a platform to dozens of international writers whose work has never before appeared in English translation. As 2021 comes to an end, we’re looking back at some of…

Today, a young writer working in Spanish arrives in New York City to find no shortage of role models.

Completely unaware that this was the kind of sacred moment when you pledge your undying allegiance to a team, through thick and thin, I stated my choice.

On a bad night, a train car on the red line takes more than half an hour to appear, and no fewer than twenty-one minutes to traverse the eleven stations to the southern tip of Manhattan.

While many Latinx writers work in English, there is a longstanding tradition of writers born or raised in this country who work in Spanish.

His lips are moist, as though he were stewing on more insults.

All she can think about is why it ever occurred to her to dress like this in public.