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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 six books featured in the article: Solitaire, I'd Like to Say Sorry But There's...

The Watchlist: February 2022

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Morocco, Argentina, Poland, Chile, Sweden, and Tunisia.

A Pun, an Idiom, and an Expletive Walk into a Bar: International Humor

By Susan Harris

When we think of translating humor, we may think in terms of capturing jokes.

Recalculating the Hexagon: The New French Literature

By Susan Harris

These writers have migrated geographically and, in some cases, linguistically.

Hot Chocolate

I was thirteen years old, it was time to steal.

Translated from French by Emma Ramadan

The Foreign Daughter

By Najat El Hachmi

I’ve chosen a life where I should be illiterate like my mother.

Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush

Hauntings: International Ghost Stories

By Susan Harris

Ghosts and all they represent lurk perennially in the universal consciousness and in literature around the world.

From “Tazmamartyrs”

By Aziz BineBine

So he passed most of that night under the corpse.

Translated from French by Lulu Norman

Crossing Boundaries: Ten Moroccan Writers

By Emma Ramadan

These authors are doing important things in post-independence Moroccan writing, a period fueled with a new energy, vitality, and honesty.

The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers

By Fouad Laroui

So, nichts pairs of pants and Europe awaits me at nine o’clock sharp.

Translated from French by Emma Ramadan

From “Photograms”

By Ahmed Bouanani

I will paint my death on a canvas of autumn

Translated from French by Emma Ramadan

A Red Lighter in the Heart of M.

By Mohammed El Khadiri

You tell her things she isn’t supposed to hear.

Translated from Arabic by Chris Clarke

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From “The Dove-Text”

By Abdallah Zrika

But the world that had disappeared around me has returned.

Translated from French by Pierre Joris

Anatomy of the Rose

By Soukaina Habiballah

The blooming petals: a navel.

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

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Infinite Fall

By Mohamed Leftah

Her best years were burnt to ash by a searing fidelity to the memory of her dead husband.

Translated from French by Eleni Sikelianos

From “Dreams of a Berber Night, or The Tomb of Thorns”

By Siham Bouhlal

I would like to hide in your kiss.

Translated from French by Emma Ramadan

Multilingual

The Red Triangle Café

By Mourad Kadiri

One folded like a switchblade, one open like a book

Translated from Arabic by Kristin Hickman

Delusion

By Malika Moustadraf

His dreams were full of his future invasions of all those blonde women’s beds.

Translated from Arabic by Alice Guthrie

The Garden of Tears

By Mohamed Nedali

Those people there have broken off all ties to God or humanity!

Translated from French by André Naffis-Sahely

from “Horses of God”

By Mahi Binebine

The spurting blood only excited him more.

Translated from French by Lulu Norman

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