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The covers of the six titles featured in the Watchlist: Beijing Sprawl, Happy Stories, Mostly,...

The Watchlist: June 2023

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends new and forthcoming books in translation from Bolivia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Norway, and Poalnd.

The covers of the books featured in the list

Your #IWD2023 Reading List

By Words Without Borders

In honor of International Women’s Day 2023, WWB recommends 10 forthcoming books written and translated by women and published by small presses.

The covers of the books featured in the list

The Best Books of 2022—And What We’re Looking Forward to in 2023

By Words Without Borders

Our staff, contributors, and board members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they’re looking forward to in 2023.

An International Menagerie: Animal Stories

By Susan Harris

Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.

Trial Run

nothing is certain but and taxes

Translated from Chinese by Chenxin Jiang

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A Note from Contest Judge David Tomas Martinez

It was an Hunahpúan effort to choose only four poems from this extraordinarily strong pool of poems.

Cloth Birds

There's no cloth hawker in the bazaar / willing to make dirty deals

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce

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The Winners of the Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poem-in-Translation Contest

By Words Without Borders

We received 717 poems from 282 poets from 87 countries translated from 55 languages.

Reimagined Cities: Fabulist Tales from Hong Kong

By Jennifer Feeley

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

A bunch of red apples

Photo by Matheus Cenali on Unsplash

Apple

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

Translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feeley

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Chewing on Words

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

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce

Puma

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

Translated from Chinese by Andrea Lingenfelter

Davin Chan Moves Out

No matter how many times he put the kitten back down on the floor, it leaped right back up, even though the bed was many times its height.

Translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury

The Cat’s Coming (in a Left-Handed Version)

Translation of “Zuopiezi manhuazhi mao laile.” Copyright Chihoi 2005. By arrangement with the author and Joint Publications. Translation copyright 2011 by Steve Bradbury. All rights reserved.

Translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury

From “Seven”

By Leung Shing Him

If he hadn't asked for me, then everything that followed wouldn't have happened.

Translated from Chinese by Joyce Hau

From “Alive in the Mortuary”

By Chong Mui Ngam

25 years of war, aren't you sick and tired of it?

Translated from Chinese by Candace Chong