References and Further Reading Alves, Miriam.Mulher Mat(r)iz. Belo Horizonte: Nandyala, 2011.Alves, Miriam. Entrevista. Duke, Dawn (Org.). A escritora afro-brasileira: ativismo e arte literária.…

If the literature of a country with the second largest black population worldwide (only Nigeria has a larger black population) does not include that population in its literature, one must ask which Brazil we’re speaking of when we speak of Brazilian…

What these authors share, as insiders to the Japanese language, is a firsthand perspective on a culture whose monoethnic self-image often excludes them by default.

Politicians know I’m a poet. And that poets face death when their people are oppressed.

According to Barreto himself, the aim of his crusade was to produce a type of literature that he defined as “militante,” engaging with the society’s most pressing issues and communicating these issues to a wider audience in accessible language.

Eliza Vitri Handayani reports from the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, which occurred October 24–28 in Ubud, Bali.This year is the fifteenth anniversary of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival…

The Valley of Death is where we learn the lay of the land, and it is also a time period in which we keep asking ourselves if this is what we want to do with our lives.

And I neither want nor can forget what I once felt from your gaze.

It's vile to disregard somebody's sense of aesthetics just because they're dead.

Silence, among Vietnamese authors, seems to have become a compelling tradition.

I don't want to put underground poetry into a concrete conflict with mainstream poetry.

All people mourn in their own ways.

Organized by English PEN, the International Translation Day celebration at the Free Word Centre occurred on September 28, 2018.International Translation Day was celebrated this year at the Free Word Centre…

We spoke with Janet DeNeefe, founder and director of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. Now in its fifteenth year, the festival will occur October 24–28 in Ubud, Bali. Check back on WWB Daily…

JLF at New York occured on September 20, 2018. The festival brought together acclaimed authors and thinkers at the Asia Society in New York City.On September 20, the 2018 JLF at New York…

Dalit literature represents some of the most meaningful, socially engaged narrative voices in India today.

The stories in this collection paint a complicated picture of Mongolia.

There were a few people in our basti who couldn’t bear our improved circumstances.

On September 20, JLF at New York will bring together acclaimed authors and thinkers at the Asia Society in New York City. We spoke with Sanjoy K. Roy, managing director of Teamwork Arts and festival producer,…

WWB is thrilled to announce a content partnership with the Academy of American Poets, who will be sharing poems in translation originally published in Words Without Borders on Poets.org.…

Amitav Ghosh, Dunya Mikhail, Katie Kitamura, Andre Dubus III, Ann Goldstein, Edith Grossman, Esther Allen, and Martin Puchner are among the stellar writers and translators who will mingle with guests…

The Brooklyn Book Festival is coming up on Sunday, September 16, with a wonderful lineup of literary luminaries. The festival is preceded by a week of exciting Bookend Events, including Words…

We are pleased to announce that Chad W. Post, director of Open Letter Books and managing editor of Three Percent, will receive the 2018 Words Without Borders Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International…

One year after the passing of John Ashbery, three poets and translators pay tribute to the great American poet.

Ashbery fetched me a drink. I got drunk fast. And what did I prattle on about? The art of translation!

Georgian writers have always had a powerful influence on the nation’s consciousness, and this is as true now as it was in the past.

John Ashbery wrote to be read rather than heard.

All I had to do was wait for the right circumstances.

Translator and cofounder of the Women in Translation tumblr Alta L. Price spoke with three women translators of classical literature—Emily Wilson (Homer’s The Odyssey), Sholeh Wolpé…

As we celebrate Women in Translation Month, we’re looking back at exciting works by women writers from around the world published this past year. Here are 31 to add to your reading…

Norah Lange’s People in the Room, translated by Charlotte Whittle and introduced by César Aira, is forthcoming from And Other Stories. You can read an excerpt from People in the…

These stories are cautionary tales whose camera pulls back to reveal the universal quality of their characters’ flaws and missteps.

For a small former colony, Macau definitely punches above its weight when it comes to literary production.

Olivia Snaije attended the 2018 Litlink Festival, which ocurred June 29–July 1 in Croatia.Just days before Croatia’s incredible performance in the 2018 World Cup, the sixth annual edition…

Lebanese literature preceding the civil war represented a friendly place, a land of milk and honey; the Mediterranean…” The war “swept all that away.”

Punjabi poetry stands on ashes, reinforced by a blend of spirituality and dissent.

Fairuz was only to sing on stage.

Words Without Borders, A Public Space, and Fence to receive first annual awards for outstanding literary magazinesWords Without Borders (WWB) has been named a winner of the inaugural Whiting…

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

The contributors to our Queer issues produce narratives that elude facile compartmentalization.

Why was he the one with the keys to Michel Foucault’s apartment?

The Education Website Brings Eye-opening World Literature into the ClassroomWWB Campus, the education initiative of Words Without Borders, has received an honorable mention for the 2018 Innovations in…

Special anniversary issue looks back at magazine’s impact on writersWords Without Borders has launched its fifteenth anniversary with the publication of a special issue, “The World Through…

This fifteenth anniversary issue takes a look back at the work of fifteen of these authors.

“Would I take a bullet for this man?”

Denise Muir attended the 2018 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which took place March 26–29 in Bologna, Italy.The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is about more than just books. Of…

Frank social critique and a fascination with relationships have been central tropes of classic and contemporary Estonian literature.

The writers here lead us to a much more nuanced understanding of twentieth-century Argentina and its literature.

The Spanish and I said very different things using almost the same words.

The comparison of Buenos Aires to Paris is an image of desire.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, meet women writers and translators from around the world who are pressing for progress through their activism and their literature.Writing Outside…

“Aren’t you ashamed, you, a schoolgirl, to be sitting here on this bench?”

This feature introduces the Anglophone reader to three monuments of Lithuanian literature and history.

An important slice of recent Hungarian writing is indebted to the literature of the 1980s and ’90s that subverts the ideological remainders entrenched in language.

We are very pleased to welcome Núria Codina as an editorial fellow! Núria is a researcher, lecturer, and translator from Barcelona. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from…

We’re pleased to welcome Tobias Carroll as the new curator of WWB’s Watchlist. Tobias is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn and the author of the short…

Janice Pariat attended and presented at the 2018 ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, which took place January 25–29 in Jaipur, India.Early in 2017, I made a resolution to read largely, if…

New York, New York, February 7, 2018—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today awards totaling more than $25 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2018, including an…

The current decade has seen a wave of new talent.

Though much of the art here may be in black and white, the topics addressed are anything but.