Tobias Carroll kicks off 2025 with recommendations of six new titles in translation, from Japanese mystery-horror to Cuban prose poetry to a classic Vietnamese novel.

“Even if there isn’t anyone next to me, there will always be people inside my head.”

“But it makes no sense to become a robot so you can be a better parent! What is the child going to learn from a machine mother?

There are so many great translators out there with wonderful projects, and I want to see them published. If I can step into the breach, I try to, for the sake of the ecosystem and, by extension, myself.

I make a list of things with juicy, yellow centers: mango pit, egg yolk, infection, lemon.

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

We all know each other; we are all connected somehow, tightly or loosely. We are all from the same generation. Young, in a hurry, ambitious.

The award will support WWB’s award-winning digital magazine of international literature and its literary events series.

It seems to me that one of fiction’s most remarkable qualities is that it allows us access to subjectivity like no other art form.

Your grandmother died of stage four lung cancer nearly a year ago, and now here you are, reading a passage you will have to translate about a mother dying of a respiratory disease.

The clouds are sailing low. I adore you who makes the sky fall.

Editorial fellow Elete Nelson-Fearon talks with WWB about theater translation, living in Cairo, and her all-time favorite book.

In his last Watchlist of 2024, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry from Puerto Rico, memoirs of imprisonment from Tunisia, contemporary Brazilian short stories, and more.

I found the lions and tigers of Taipei / living in my empty stomach

Can this translation-adjacent labor be done, and done properly, if it must be squeezed in around . . . actually translating?

WWB staff members on their favorite translated books of the year and the 2025 titles they're most excited about.

After all, I was nearly seven and could take on some responsibility.

Hundreds of moons came and went / in the night the glow lit up faces you'd never noticed before

“How does it feel to hear the word of God in the language you understand?” 

In my country, dreams are monitored . . . One should only dream feasible dreams, and not exhaust oneself in the madness of impossible ones, like revolution!

Tobias Carroll on the five books in translation that should be on your radar this month, from Egypt, India, Poland, and more.

The prize recognizes WWB for its commitment to persecuted writers, essayists, poets, and journalists.

My language is Tamazight. / It will shatter / the age of silence

In the mirror I see another / He sometimes praises me / He sometimes imitates me

I unraveled our bond / I locked my heart

Brahim El Guabli offers an absorbing overview of the construction of Amazigh indigeneity, and Amazigh literature's blossoming in its midst.

Although the two protagonists have ostensibly opposing views on lots of things and are also two generations apart, they share a lot of linguistic mannerisms, as family members often do.

The here and there / are endless, boundless.

Lia Galván Lisker recommends 9 of the decade's best books by Mexican women writers, all translated by women.

Whenever I pronounce your name I become a child again, so much a child that my milk teeth grow back.