What if translation were a person? If it were, then for me it would be male, and it would most definitely be avoidant.

There are so many great translators out there with wonderful projects, and I want to see them published. If I can step into the breach, I try to, for the sake of the ecosystem and, by extension, myself.

Your grandmother died of stage four lung cancer nearly a year ago, and now here you are, reading a passage you will have to translate about a mother dying of a respiratory disease.

I wanted to create a journey for a book censor who becomes eventually a reader, and then he needs to protect this new identity as a reader in a world that deals with it as if it's a crime or something.

The first sprout I think to Ædnan was an image I saw, an inner image, of a woman, an older woman and her kind of silence, the silence she had in her face and the seriousness she had. I struggled for a long time to approach her and get into her life and…

I was working on tuning my instrument with the next books at the same time as Barbara was tuning her English instrument with the books.

I know that the first time I read the book I was very confused, which is the point.

Fernanda really captures the sensation of moving through a city stripped of not only most of its inhabitants, but also of most of its natural and human-made sounds.

In this introduction to our collection of writing from the Francophone Pacific, Jean Anderson advocates for a view of the region that encompasses both its linguistic diversity and its interconnectedness.

Yasmine Seale lauded Marcia Lynx Qualey, the winner of the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, at an in-person ceremony in New York on June 4, 2024.

On June 4th, Marcia Lynx Qualey accepted the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature at a ceremony in New York.

A conversation about Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian writer serving a life sentence in Israeli prison.

More than once I have reworked a sentence with its translators in mind: to make it better or clearer, not lazy or self-indulgent: making sure it is worthy of their attention and their talent.

Aimé Césaire is essential to the way I understand myself and my work in the world.

The substance of Wittgenstein’s theories in the Tractatus is intimately tied to a vision of lan­guage that, among other problems, tends to produce bad translations.

Errant translation may take the form of performance, at any time or place. Such translations are difficult to see, publish, or police.

Read coverage of WWB in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more.

The WWB team recommends seven ways to promote translators and global literature on International Translation Day—and all year round!

Still, I have reservations about signing with a Pisces agent.

An anthology like this challenges literary marketing and literary history.

For translators from under-represented languages like ours, the act of translation can also be a mode of recovery and reclamation.

Translation is an extension of my preoccupations as a creative writer.

I have been opening this book since 2018 and over the years, I have become many different readers.

Translation, an obsessive interpretive art in which the boundaries between guest and host are tenderly and strenuously unstable, is my constant companion while I learn what it means to build a life in a country and culture different from the one I was…

We do not see translations of books that will unsettle the reading community, and provoke them to be different than who they want to be.

We shall see if the hype in the United States reaches the levels Cărtărescu garners in Colombia, where he needed a police cordon to get through his crowd of fans.

We must be careful not to equate the word echo with simple repetition, and it speaks to me personally, acutely, about what it means to shift from writer to translator and back again.

It is all the more disturbing, then, that neither Gyllenhaal in her interviews nor the film’s end credits or press kit makes any mention of the translator whose work was the basis for the script: Ann Goldstein.

I allowed myself to be very playful and unafraid, and to try everything.

Despite this recent wave of SFT, there are still a number of barriers preventing more of it from going mainstream in the Anglophone world.

In 2021, Mike Fu and Jenna Tang worked together through the Emerging Translator Mentorship Program of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), with a focus on prose from Taiwan. Fu had published…

Whatever you do in Turkey, you do it alone.

In the wake of 2020’s racist violence, and subsequent organizing by the Black Lives Matter movement and others to combat white supremacy, literary magazines and publishers everywhere have, to differing…

Translator Anton Hur takes a hard look at race and translation in this essay.

Scholar and translator Corine Tachtiris reflects on the inherent privilege of translating while White in this essay.And if there are few Black translators, there are few representatives of the possibility…

Translator Yilin Wang addresses various forms of bias in translation from Asian Languages in this essay.“You must teach yourself how to carry loan words,tiny seeds gift-wrapped like hand-me-down heirlooms…

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

Tunisia’s experience with despotism and revolution is universal.

I tried to find books by renowned authors and illustrators from Latin America and realized that very few have been translated into English.

The most honest way to review translation is to first admit that any translation problem has multiple solutions.

This month, WWB took a look back at some of the important writing on race and racism to be found in the magazine's archives.

There are obstacles translators must face before the international sections of bookstores reflect the world more equitably.

It would be naive to speak of editorial decisions without taking into account power relationships and established patterns of prejudice that undergird the publishing industry.

Running a start-up publisher in Mozambique is challenging, particularly because sales are low due to a nonexistent distribution network and too few bookshops, all located in the capital city.

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

We are acutely aware of the danger of the 'single story.'

A lot of readers really appreciated seeing a novel set in a kitchen, seeing their own experience depicted.

I was fascinated by the art of ekphrasis: the discipline of transforming the visual into the verbal to stimulate different kinds of seeing.

Each unexpected twist the poem takes is fatal.

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

The difficulty was mainly in how concise the Spanish was—to re-create that in English took some trial and error.

Making texts that are potentially wrong or slippery keeps me heedful of officious frames of correctness.

Just as the chameleon gains its identity by its precise act of mimicry, the translator begins to build a style through the words of others.

 WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different,…