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Debut Writers of 2022

December 2022

December 2022 Debut Collection Feature

Every year, WWB is proud to publish a number of international writers whose work has never before been translated into English. As we approach the end of 2022, we’re looking back at some of the most exciting stories, poems, and essays by debut writers that appeared in WWB’s pages this year.

Mirror over Water at Sunset

Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

We Only Live Twice

By Adel Tincelin

The transworld was so beautiful, so vast! There was so much to explore!

Translated from French by Evan McGorray

Multimedia

A rooftop in Riyadh

Photo by Rashyd . on Unsplash

Hi Maryam, It’s Arwa

The world appeared in stages with each rung of the ladder I climbed.

Translated from Arabic by Addie Leak

Multilingual

A herd of reindeer attached to a sled at sunset

Photo by Hans-Jurgen Mager on Unsplash

Polar Fire

By Moa Backe Åstot

Are there homosexual reindeer herders?

Translated from Swedish by B. J. Woodstein

A black-and-white image of battered market kiosks

Photo copyright © Kseniya Fuchs

Conservation

By Kseniya Fuchs

I knew I was born here and I would die here.

Translated from Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella

Photo of a man walking alongside his bike on a tree-lined path

Photo by Akshat Vats on Unsplash

To Loved Ones

By Jayesh Jeevibahen Solanki

The bazaar reveals this to us: / I sell / Get sold / Someone buys me / and I buy someone else

Translated from Gujarati by Gopika Jadeja

A wolf sleeping in the snow

Christian Pietzsch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Wolfskin

By Risten Sokki

When the forested valleys in Russia start filling up with snow, the wolf begins its journey from the south toward the plains in the north.

Translated from North Sámi by Olivia Lasky

A silver Vespa parked on a cobblestone road

Photo by Enrico Carnemolla on Unsplash

Uncle Andrea

By Antonio Calgan

Hypocrite that I am, I never acknowledged my true self out of cowardice, out of fear of being misunderstood, and, more than anything else, because I thought if they knew what I was, they’d despise me.

Translated from Italian by Wendell Ricketts

Vibrant green northern lights against a dark sky

Photo by Federico Bottos on Unsplash

Two Poems

By Rönn-Lisa Zakrisson

Show me to those southerners / Tell them about all the tongues that are mine / all the nature that’s mine

Translated from Swedish by Fiona Graham

Multilingual