The texts we were working with were profoundly unstable.

The Fang forest is a free space. Now you are free.

He was a candy you wanted to pop in your mouth and suck real slow.

Go and find a father for your child.

There are feminist or postcolonial translation strategies so why not queer ones, too?

© 2017 Beldan Sezen. Translation of the text © 2017 Charlotte Collins. Translation of the signs and newspaper headlines © 2017 Canan Marasligil. All rights reserved.

It's this: we’re seeking water / Where there is only thirst.

Damned parents,” he said in a soft voice, “look what they’ve made of me.”

You cover it up, disguise it, use Vaseline, soap . . .

Because of all that, I only rode buses that were almost empty.

For Jamaican–born Jacqueline Greaves Monda, home cooking was traditional Jamaican fare with its rich culinary influences, including Africa, Asia, and Europe. Her marriage to a Southern Italian required…

Words Without Borders is thrilled to announce the public launch of our online education program, WWB Campus, which offers students and educators a window into other cultures through literature.The resource…

The mood whenever I step off the plane is one of home, of relief; that I’m away from the madness, chaos, and hypocrisy of the West.

We spoke with Alessandro Raveggi, editor of The Florentine Literary Review, a new bilingual literary magazine (in Italian with English translations) published in Florence, Italy.Congratulations…

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator each month. This month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. For…

Translator Florin Bican shares his experience of being investigated by Romania’s Securitate for the dangerous practice of vegetarianism.When, back in the ’80s, my boss summoned…

Chiara Marchelli’s novel Le notti blu is shortlisted for the 2017 Premio Strega national Italian literary prize. For a long time I thought I was born in the wrong place,…

Mexico City will make you worry about tomorrow while at the same time liberating you from tomorrow.

In honor of the May 2017 issue, The Global Feast: Writing about Food, a recipe contributed by author Carmen Boullosa. Guest editor Rohan Kamicheril, who tried the recipe out, confirms that the rich, gently…

I notice how the spices call to me, how they’re the ones to dictate the sequence, the amount, the proportions, so I don’t have to reflect, it’s already been decided even before my hand…

Every month, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles he’s excited about, books he hopes you’ll agree are…

Liran Golod shares childhood memories of her Russian emigré father’s dedication to his orange grove in northern Israel. I have always admired the beginning of the first…

For the Lit Crawl portion of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, Words Without Borders and Slice Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story written by four international…

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 2017 longlist of thirteen…

“Three Fires” originally appeared in the Brazilian journal Revista Pessoa. It appears here as a part of WWB’s ongoing partnership with Revista Pessoa. Each month, WWB…

Scott Shanahan’s translation of Borja Bagunyà’s “You’ve Likely Never Been to a Party This Big” appears in the April 2017 issue: You Will Not Be Born Again: Catalan…

If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains.—Italo Calvino,…

Today marks the kickoff of the 13th annual PEN World Voices Festival in New York City. Founded by Esther Allen, Salman Rushdie, and Michael Roberts in the aftermath of 9/11, the festival brings together…

Oral and written literary traditions in Basque follow two very distinct paths, both very rich and alive.

Hardly anyone comes to visit when you live with a tiger.