Theodora Dimova discussed the inspiration for her novel Adriana, an excerpt of which (translated by Angela Rodel) appears in the March 2017 issue: From the Edges of Europe: New Bulgarian Literature.I…

This month’s issue features Bulgarian literature, and we were fortunate to speak with one of its champions, Elizabeth Kostova, founder of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. Now celebrating…

I walk along the seaside alley of my hometown and the oblique shadows of the poplars on the sand mark the approaching end of summer.I walk along the beach among the few remaining sunbathers. The familiar…

Words Without Borders spoke with Festival Neue Literatur curator Peter Blackstock about FNL’s eight annual celebration of German-language literature from Austria, Germany, and…

In the last three decades Montenegrin women authors have moved beyond and expanded the traditional registers.

Just like every other literature and viewpoint, Bulgarian literature has important contributions to make.

We must admit here that we, people on the side of literature, writers, publishers, and enthusiastic readers, have to a certain extent accepted our own defeat.

A herald will knock on your door / with news about what is yet to come

I cannot promise you much but a gray street and passionate darkness in the Ides of March.

Water drinks me while I drink the water itself.

This skin hanging like a wet sheet over bent bones would have seemed devastating to me.

How is it that in this big whoppin’ America there’s not a single little piece of baling wire?

Then the generous autumn of ’44 suddenly thrust into your hands the power to shape human fates.

“You’ve been trading in stolen knickers, haven’t you!”

He spoke quietly, calmly, with a certain despair that was discernible only on the fringes of his personality.

Soon I will be leaving this town too

The first question is “Why did you get a dog?”

Diego Zúñiga’s Camanchaca, translated by Megan McDowell and out March 7 from Coffee House Press, follows a young man on a long, near-silent drive with his father across Chile’s…

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…

This is the city I come from, where suitcases sit next to the door, ready to take flight.

Jamie Richards’s translation of “An Endless Green Line,” by Gianluca Costantini and Elettra Stamboulis, appears in the February 2017 issue: International Graphic Novels: Volume XI.Comics…

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…

Dacia Maraini is a renowned Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and social activist. Tonight at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City she will discuss, with Professor Jane…

It is a city that adopts stragglers, passersby, and visitors.

Last week, WWB was in Washington DC for the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference, where executive director Karen Phillips moderated the panel “Tipping the Scales:…

Read Part One of the interview.Margaret Carson speaks with Eugene Richie and Rosanne Wasserman, the editors of John Ashbery’s Collected French Translations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,…

Read Part Two of the interview.When the poet Eugene Richie mentioned to me several years ago that he and his wife, the poet Rosanne Wasserman, were coediting a collection of John Ashbery’s translations…

Sometimes it is two thousand years old, sometimes it is young.

With Valentine’s Day upon us, many go in search of persuasive romantic gestures. Some will bring flowers, others chocolates. But if you prefer to seduce with language, we offer the following international…

Poorna Swami attended the Jaipur Literature Festival, which took place January 18–23 in Jaipur, India.Bodies pushing against each other, limbs undeciphered, a mass of people stirring in more directions…