It’s a gorgeous rubbish heap too, a city of the timeless now.

On the occasion of Words Without Borders’ fifteenth anniversary, editorial fellow Núria Codina looks back at pieces in which writers explore the unique opportunities and challenges of living and writing…

The contributors to our Queer issues produce narratives that elude facile compartmentalization.

It was on that afternoon that the cat began talking to me.

It wasn't their voices that they'd lost, it was all memory of their language.

In honor of the first Internationalization Campaign, they decided to put on an Apple Pageant.

Hong Kong is situated at the convergence of multiple literary and linguistic traditions.

He’s the third white soldier I’ve met this month.

Why was he the one with the keys to Michel Foucault’s apartment?

I didn’t know Dori’s wounds, and Dori didn’t know mine—perhaps that’s why we could see each other as we were in that moment.

I can’t stand that one the way someone with a chronic sinus infection can’t stand abnormal shifts in weather.

In the wilderness, you live in a simple house, you wake to your beloved’s face, you almost exclusively hear her voice.

One day this violation will be in the past, consigned to oblivion, long forgotten.

'Mantique thought today at sunrise would be a good time to kill herself.

The present, very often, takes its definitive shape in the past.

Geet Chaturvedi remembers Dalit-tribal poet Bhujang Meshram (1959–2007).Our heart is a pyramid. In it, our dead stay safe and secure, with all their embellishments and paraphernalia—their…

One experiences solely the phantom of a city that once existed.

Translator Elisa Wouk Almino explores the narrative and historical context for Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral’s work, which is being exhibited through June 3 at the Museum of Modern Art in…

Antonio Muñoz Molina and his translator Camilo A. Ramirez are shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Like a Fading Shadow. Words Without Borders (WWB): ​Tell…

Camilo A. Ramirez is shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for his translation of Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Like a Fading Shadow.Words Without Borders (WWB):…

The Man Booker International Prize is awarded annually to a single work of international fiction that has been translated into English and published in the UK. The 2018 shortlist of…

Ahmed Saadawi and his translator Jonathan Wright are shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Frankenstein in Baghdad. Words Without Borders (WWB): Tell us about…

Jonathan Wright is shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for his translation of Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad. Words Without Borders (WWB): What drew you to Ahmed…

Deborah Smith is shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Han Kang’s The White Book. Words Without Borders (WWB): What drew you to Han Kang’s work?Deborah…

Virginie Despentes and her translator Frank Wynne are shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Vernon Subutex 1. Words Without Borders (WWB): Tell us about how you became…

Frank Wynne is shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for his translation of Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 1. Words Without Borders (WWB): What drew you to Virginie Despentes’s…

Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft are shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Flights. Words Without Borders: What’s your favorite book from a literary…

Jennifer Croft is shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. Words Without Borders (WWB): What drew you to Olga Tokarczuk’s work?Jennifer…

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From Scribe US | Familiar Things by Hwang So-Yong, translated…

The Education Website Brings Eye-opening World Literature into the ClassroomWWB Campus, the education initiative of Words Without Borders, has received an honorable mention for the 2018 Innovations in…