Not as a multitude, but as one.

It's shocking to reach a place where you cannot imagine you could be still shocked by something in this country, and then you are proven wrong.

In honor of International Translation Day, we’ve compiled a list of nine of the most innovative anthologies of translated literature from the past two decades. These collections move beyond the…

Each unexpected twist the poem takes is fatal.

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. From Open Letter Books | The Clerk by Guillermo Saccomanno,…

nothing is certain but and taxes

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

The difficulty was mainly in how concise the Spanish was—to re-create that in English took some trial and error.

When do the provocative girlie girls turn into discreet wives who put on conservative dresses?

Soon the volunteers will arrive

London is a self-enclosed world that contains all worlds.

Making texts that are potentially wrong or slippery keeps me heedful of officious frames of correctness.

Just as the chameleon gains its identity by its precise act of mimicry, the translator begins to build a style through the words of others.

It was an Hunahpúan effort to choose only four poems from this extraordinarily strong pool of poems.

The dead don't let us go, I say to my friend Sirius, putting my father's letters in a drawer.

September is World Kid Lit Month—a celebration of translated literature for young people. We invited World Kid Lit advocate and children’s book translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp to tell us about…

Some of them have often called upon their Chinese or Japanese roots; others have alighted upon the topic only a few times, if at all.

Nobody knows why he went to such great lengths.

“She was hot, your aunt Carmen, / she didn’t look Chinese.”

In his spare time, he wears clothes.

My eyes fill with rowboats

The old woman refused to wear any clothing she had not sewn herself.

I have licked the tip of evil

Ever since our orgasms became supernatural, we’ve been taking better care of our energies.

In the midst of a pandemic defined by isolation, our second Poems in Translation Contest brought together 935 poems from 448 poets and 87 countries, translated from 58 languages. We are thrilled to announce,…

Damián Cabrera is a Paraguayan writer, researcher, teacher, cultural manager, and curator. He is the author of the lyric novels Xirú (2012) and Xé (2019). He lives…

After the successful English-language publication of her debut novel The Wind That Lays Waste, Argentinian author Selva Almada returns with Dead Girls, a journalistic novel centered…

Today on WWB Daily, Gitanjali Patel and Jessie Spivey of Shadow Heroes, an organization that runs creative translation workshops for students, take on the myth of the “good” translation. Deconstructing…

In his Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami, David Karashima synthesizes research, correspondence, and interviews with dozens of individuals—including Murakami himself—to…