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Heritage

Black and white photograph of Sámi people traveling with reindeer

Swedish National Heritage Board, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

The Deportation of the Northern Sámi

By Elin Anna Labba

The children ask where they are going. They, too, have begun to grasp that they are not heading home.

Translated from Swedish by Fiona Graham

This Language Called Kaaps: An Introduction

By Olivia M. Coetzee

Language is more than just a method of communication. It is about the ability to lay down roots, to settle into an identity, to have a place in history, in the present, and in the future. Language is…

Children of the Xam

By Khadija Tracey Heeger

Watch Khadija Tracey Heeger read her poem “Children of the Xam” in the original Kaaps.Poet Khadija Tracey Heeger honors a rich and complex heritage.Between the vertebrae of the Langeberg…

Translated from Kaaps by Olivia M. Coetzee & Khadija Tracey Heeger

Multilingual

The Voices of Contact Languages in Asia: An Introduction

By Stefanie Shamila Pillai

For multilingual writers, choosing to write in their heritage languages can be seen as an expression of agency, an active choice to communicate in a nondominant language.

The Forsaken

Listen, all of you, to what will later be said of the Forsaken by one of their descendants.

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

Adabai

Their nayffara is a flutelike instrument heavy with history, deeply immersed in sorrow.

Translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain

You Will Tell Them

By Mariem Mint Derwich

You will say to them that she sleeps in the calabash of worlds

Translated from French by Emma Ramadan

Multilingual

Sinkings

By Haukur Ingvarsson

the glacier is black / polar bears run on hot sand

Translated from Icelandic by Meg Matich

Multimedia

[My mother works in a cannery]

By Luisa Castro

A mother-daughter conversation and a child's search for her origins lead from the grandiose to the dreary in this poem by Luisa Castro.My mother works in a cannery.One day my mother said to me:love…

Translated from Galician by Laura Cesarco Eglin

Multilingual

Basma’s Dream

By Amna al-Fadl

She hovers overhead, aimless, surrendering herself to fate.

Translated from Arabic by Katherine Van de Vate

The Red Rooster and Inevitable Saint

By Julia Wong Kcomt

“She was hot, your aunt Carmen, / she didn’t look Chinese.”

Translated from Spanish by Jennifer Shyue

Multilingual

The Final Stretch

The old woman refused to wear any clothing she had not sewn herself.

Translated from Spanish by Julie Hempel

Ñe’ ẽ: An Introduction to Contemporary Guaraní Poetry

A real work of Amerindian literature makes perceptible another way of ordering and being in the world.

Time-Travelers, Fisherwomen, and Sleuths: Arabic Young Adult Literature

By Elisabeth Jaquette

While Arabic publishing has historically focused on literature for adults and young children, recent years have seen an increasing number of titles aimed at a young adult readership.

Razor Blade Rattle and the Beginnings of Being Tamed

By Ishraga Mustafa

How could they, when these women themselves had been through so much pain?

Translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain

Multilingual

Beyond Representation: Life Writing by Women in Arabic

By Sawad Hussain & Nariman Youssef

One cannot write about real-life experiences from the place of the “I” without laying claim to a place in the world.

Enduring Tales: The Qatari Oral Tradition

By Autumn Watts

The stories are abundant with social wisdom, moral instruction, and cultural knowledge.

The Sunni and His Friend

By Qatari Oral Tradition

Cats. Carry cats!

Translated from Arabic by Tariq Ahmed

Al Fisaikra

By Qatari Oral Tradition

Set me free and I'll make you rich.

Translated from Arabic by Kholoud Saleh

Fatoum and Hamoud and Hamed

By Qatari Oral Tradition

The mother sheep would warn her children of the wolf that prowled the town.

Translated from Arabic by Rana Elmaghraby

Writing Against the Grain

By Alice Guthrie

The writers here are pushing the boundary of the known and working against the grain of the status quo.

photo of a half-open blue wooden door with a latch

Photo by Jan Tinneberg on Unsplash

The Latch

By Amar Nyaupane

Why did he have to sleep with his bride?

Translated from Nepali by Ajit Baral

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