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Plans and Commitments

He checked Mel’s Instagram and Twitter accounts again, waiting anxiously for her to post something, anything.

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Ortega

Void

By Miguelángel Meza

Miguelángel Meza's poetry chapbook, Dream Pattering Soles, was published this month by Ugly Duckling Presse in Elisa Taber's translation. A leading Guaraní poet, Meza was…

Translated by Elisa Taber

Little Check Marks on Our Names

By Saša Stanišić

Winner of the German Book Prize, Saša Stanišić's Where You Come From will be out from Tin House next week. Translated by Damion Searls, this autofictional work explores…

Translated by Damion Searls

An Evening of Sugar-Eating

By Lee Young-ju

Next week, Black Ocean will release Lee Young-ju's poetry collection Cold Candies, translated from Korean by Jae Kim. The collection includes “Roommate, Woman,” one of the winners…

Translated by Jae Kim

The Watchlist: November 2021

By Tobias Carroll

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. This month’s selection includes books translated…

Introducing WWB’s Education Fellow, Allison Tim

By Words Without Borders

We're pleased to welcome Allison Tim as the first-ever WWB education fellow. Allison is a writer, photographer, and budding filmmaker. After graduating from Macalester College with…

Portrait of a Libyan Scream

By Najwa Bin Shatwan

Later this month, UEA Publishing Project will release Mo(a)t: Stories from Arabic, an anthology of short fiction by Arabophone writers from the African diaspora, edited by Garen Torikian and…

Translated by Sawad Hussain

Introducing WWB’s Editorial Fellow, Soleil Davíd

By Words Without Borders

I see translation as a way for me to engage with one facet of my country’s literature, a hopefully productive excuse to read works in Tagalog and Bikol.

Telling the Stories of China’s “Illegal Children”: Shen Yang and Roseann Lake in Conversation

By Shen Yang & Roseann Lake

“Excess-birth” or “illegal” children (usually girls) were those born to a family who already had a child during the years when China’s one-child policy, in force from the…

The Literary Life of K-pop Lyrics

By Sang Young Park

I’d accumulated what is surely the biggest collection of gem-like K-pop lyrics in the world.

Translated by Anton Hur

This Language Called Kaaps: An Introduction

By Olivia M. Coetzee

Language is more than just a method of communication. It is about the ability to lay down roots, to settle into an identity, to have a place in history, in the present, and in the future. Language is…

Children of the Xam

By Khadija Tracey Heeger

Watch Khadija Tracey Heeger read her poem “Children of the Xam” in the original Kaaps.Poet Khadija Tracey Heeger honors a rich and complex heritage.Between the vertebrae of the Langeberg…

Translated from Kaaps by Olivia M. Coetzee & Khadija Tracey Heeger

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Affirm

By Martin SIEP Muller

Watch the music video for “Affirm” performed by SIEP, in the original Kaaps.This rap performance by SIEP uplifts and speaks truth.I affirm the soul in each personI affirm the soul in each…

Translated from Kaaps by Andre Trantraal

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The Wind Blows Where It Wishes and You Hear Its Sound

By Andre Trantraal

It should be patently obvious to anyone but the most resolutely blind that he is not aching with impatience to go to the house of the Lord.

Translated from Kaaps by the author

I Lift My Eyes Up

By Nashville Blaauw

Where moving out is mostly in a coffin

Translated from Kaaps by Andre Trantraal

Grayscale image of a stack lottery scratch cards fanned out

scratch cards

By Shirmoney Rhode

and that which has no use will be discarded

Translated from Kaaps by Andre Trantraal

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Snake’s Hill

By Olivia M. Coetzee

JB was the one to start that fire inside my head.

Translated from Kaaps by the author

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Portrait of Meena Kandasamy

Image Copyright © Varun Vasudevan

The Poetry of Radical Female Fighters

By Suhasini Patni

When you are not held back by any fear, you can write songs of liberation.

The Watchlist: October 2021

By Tobias Carroll

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. This month's selection includes books translated…

“Don’t Go Dancing in the Cemetery Tonight”: 7 Translated Tales in Classic Horror Settings

By Susan Harris

If you’re looking for a seasonal chill, we direct you to our archives for these seven narratives that nod to classic horror tropes. While the settings may be familiar, you’ll find no clichés…

The Spectator Sentenced to Death

By Matéi Visniec

Edited and translated by Jozefina Komporaly, Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion is out today from Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. This unique transnational anthology…

Translated by Jozefina Komporaly

Introducing WWB’s New Books Editor, Adam Dalva

By Words Without Borders

We’re pleased to welcome Adam Dalva as the new books editor of Words Without Borders.Adam’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Paris…

The Privilege of Language: Manon Steffan Ros on Self-translation, Welsh Literature, and Her New Book

Manon Steffan Ros was nervous about presenting Llyfr Glas Nebo to the world. Before it won the 2018 National Eisteddfod Prose Medal and the 2019 Wales Book of the Year, before it became a best seller,…

What Does Victory Look Like If Not This?

By Petra Hůlová

Petra Hůlová's dystopian novel The Movement, translated from Czech by Alex Zucker, is available now from World Editions. The novel follows the narrator, a prison guard at…

Translated by Alex Zucker

Cinephilia: On Hindi Movies, My Mother, and Me

By Anandi Mishra

After a while, movies themselves began to take on a maternal air.

Photo of a newspaper being printed

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez: Fiction as the News

By Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Like most Colombians, I had several close encounters with “chaos” during those years.

The Voices of Contact Languages in Asia: An Introduction

By Stefanie Shamila Pillai

For multilingual writers, choosing to write in their heritage languages can be seen as an expression of agency, an active choice to communicate in a nondominant language.

The Gut Demons

By Melaka Portuguese Oral Tradition

“When you go in search of food, you must do so at night, and you must only go with your head and intestines.”

Translated from Melaka Portuguese by Sara Frederica Santa Maria

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A blue and yellow ceramic bowl in the shape of an ocean wave.

Wave bowl attributed to Christopher Dresser, ca. 1880. Glazed earthenware. Public domain, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase, James David Draper Gift, in memory of Robert Isaacson, 2001.

Eyes of the Wave

By Francis C. Macansantos

Eyes of blue-green watch you, / Dimpled smiles hidden in water.

Translated from Zamboangueño Chavacano by the author

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Mr. Marcos (A Soliloquy)

By Francis C. Macansantos

The moon taunts, smiles, / “Come into my parlor, old man.”

Translated from Zamboangueño Chavacano by the author

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