In this introduction to our collection of writing from the Francophone Pacific, Jean Anderson advocates for a view of the region that encompasses both its linguistic diversity and its interconnectedness.

I say: I’m lying for you, Lisé. You say: You’re lying for your mother, Nesta.

One day you’re a revolutionary, and the next you’re a civil servant. 

Yasmine Seale lauded Marcia Lynx Qualey, the winner of the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, at an in-person ceremony in New York on June 4, 2024.

She could strangle Ajodiadei. The old woman is one of the only guilty ones still alive.

On June 4th, Marcia Lynx Qualey accepted the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature at a ceremony in New York.

The $75,000 general operating grant will support WWB’s efforts to expand access to international literature.

Jenna Tang, translator of Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han, recommends 8 books and short stories in translation from Taiwan to read now.

In this excerpted story by Korean writer Cho Yeeun, a dying widow takes in a starving creature found outside her doorstep.

Here, yesterday and now, / what did they gather as they fled

Take this city / bite it like an apple

Icelandic dystopia. A Quebecois graphic novel. Queer short stories from Puerto Rico. Tobias Carroll recommends all this and more in his May Watchlist.

The translators of the four stories in the Matrilineal collection consider matriarchal influence and the uncanny power of feminine inheritance.

Between 1975 and 1980, around 300,000 Surinamese—nearly half of the population—seized the opportunity and left for the Netherlands. Among them was my father.

Mothering and translating get described in similar ways; they are often devalued in similar ways.

In this excerpt from Igiaba Scego’s Cassandra a Mogadiscio, a writer considers how her diasporic Somali family has managed to remain close despite the distances—and the many languages—between them.

My mother was very careful with those gold crescent-shaped earrings, boasting that they were a gift from her mother-in-law.

The song of the mosque and the song of the church are two birds falling upward at dawn.

A conversation about Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian writer serving a life sentence in Israeli prison.

Another “only in Vegas” site: a yacht graveyard in the middle of the desert.

Join Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp on a mouth-watering tour of four continents through thirteen picture books, middle grade and YA fiction, and graphic novels.

The news that Mamali’s youngest daughter has decided to go study in Baku somehow spreads quickly through their village—much more quickly than Ulfet has counted on. 

WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will be awarded to Marcia Lynx Qualey in 2024.

Tobias Carroll ranges far and wide in this month's Watchlist, recommending a memoir by Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, Astrid Roemer's novel of mid-century Suriname, newly translated essays by Dubravka Ugrešic, and more.

Why did they insist on war when they heard of elements other than water that flow in rivers?

More than once I have reworked a sentence with its translators in mind: to make it better or clearer, not lazy or self-indulgent: making sure it is worthy of their attention and their talent.

Whenever I think of the old woman, I remember her not as my great-grandmother but as the first person I learned to loathe.

They leave without turning the moon of longing off behind them . . .

You, then, have no basis to be self-righteous.

Mom was like, ‘The Himalayas? She’s never even climbed the Mosor, right here on her doorstep.’