The “Translation and Publishing” roundtable q&a was predominated by questions from translators on how to get contracts. Having once been the marketing director for a translation publishing…

Anne Ishii is a writer, consultant and blogger (http://ill-iterate-anne.blogspot.com) specializing in pop culture and publishing. She has written for The Village Voice, BUST, Giant Robot and various other…

Sunday marked the end of Columbia’s three-day Graduate Student Translation Conference. Panel discussions revolved around various aspects of the work, business and craft of translation. Chad Post…

(Pescasseroli, Easter 2005)To meet with Dacia Maraini and speak with her in peace means going up to the bitter and severe lands of Abruzzo where the writer, who lives in Rome, takes refuge during holidays…

Market share of world literature is dominated by U.S. publishing conglomerates and literary agents who, together with their British counterparts, are increasingly promoting celebrities rather than professional…

The Pan-African Literary Forum announces its Summer Writers’ Conference, as well as two scholarships that will take the winners, with all-expenses paid, to Ghana to attend. The conference will gather…

A couple of weeks ago on a cold night I walked to the Mercantile Library—for the first time in all these years that I have been living in Manhattan I have to admit—to listen to a discussion…

Jerome of Stridonium is the patron saint of theological learning in the Roman Catholic Church and is also recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Remembered in particular for his version…

Hot off the presses…the winners of the 2008 PEN Translation Fund grants…PEN Translation FundAnnouncement of 2008 Grant RecipientsThe PEN Translation Fund, now celebrating its fifth year of…

Many readers of WWB will probably still remember the exchange between historian Paul Kennedy and translator Esther Allen in the letters section of Harper's Magazine in fall of 2002. In his letter,…

Sophie Powell is the author of the novel The Mushroom Man, which has been translated into several languages, as well as several short stories and essays. Raised in London and on a sheep farm in Wales,…

WWB translator and author Daniel Borzutzky will be appearing this Sunday, March 9, 2008, at Myopic Books in Chicago along with Mark Tardi, Joel Calahan, and V. Joshua Adams.The Myopic Poetry series has…

Grants, awards and prizes such as the Nobel Prize in literature, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature…

Rebecca Myers holds an MA in English from The University of Georgia and an MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is the full-time assistant to poet Sharon Olds. A resident of Brooklyn, Rebecca is currently writing…

While looking for something else, I recently stumbled upon Cynthia Ozick’s essay íPublic Intellectualsë in her collection Quarrel and Quandary.The essay itself is worth reading—as…

Some witnesses claimed to have seen a dragon, others a dinosaur.

The druggist has closed up shop without a word to anyone, the scoundrel, and it's not even five o'clock.

Perused that evening by lamplight, that essay made the schoolmistress' hair stand on end.

The snail is necessary the bindweed is necessary

I gaze at my corpse where it lies and I find myself beautiful.

Balancing the World on His Chin The posters advertising movies or dances were not the only ones that occasionally clamored for our attention from Olleros’ walls and tree trunks. Sometimes, too,…

A character knocked on the door of the woman with short hair. Tapping timidly with her knuckles, the character entered the room without making a sound. She’s a modestly dressed mountain woman. On…

“Etel Adnan’s language takes the reader on passages that thread in and out of their own feelings, their own consciousness.”—Diana Abu Jaber

A name engraved on stone isn't much, I have to admit, but it is the name of my relatives and the missing proof of their transatlantic dream.

As far as Bullet and his companions were concerned, these volumes were made of paper, and paper is good for warming their feet.

Amitava Kumar and Michael Ryan edit the Rotten English issue of Politics and Culture. The issue takes its cue from Dohra Ahmad’s book Rotten English: A Literary Anthology. The title of the book…

Hosam Aboul-Ela teaches in the department of English and the program in World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston. He has lived most of his life in two exotic foreign countries—Egypt…

Raport z oblężonego miasta Report from a Besieged City by Cynthia Haven In the final installment in our discussion on Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems Cynthia Haven leads us through Herbert's…