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.

The 2018 ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, January 25. Now in its eleventh year, the five-day festival, and the accompanying Jaipur BookMark program, brings together…

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the election of three new members to its Board of Directors: Abe Hsuan, Jennifer Moross, and Rebecca Servadio.“With their diverse international backgrounds…

We’re pleased to welcome Segacy Roberts as the development associate at Words Without Borders. After graduating from Dartmouth with a degree in English literature, Segacy returned…

It was the old grandmas themselves, each and every one of them, who were most interesting to me.

Kazakhstan is the largest country by landmass to emerge from the breakup of the Soviet Union aside from Russia itself, but it has had an undersized impact on world literature.

The intensity of the parent-child relationship, with its high emotional stakes, life-and-death responsibility, and inescapable physical proximity, makes for powerful stories.

It has been an exciting year on WWB Daily! Here are some of our most-read blog articles of 2017, including classic stories brought into new languages and to the big screen, international women writers…

Arunava Sinha introduces the four stories in our December feature exploring Bollywood’s debt to Bengali writers.India’s Hindi film industry is the largest in the world in terms of the number…

What do Tunisian women write today?

You are in a liminal space, a no man’s land where you are visible and invisible.

Martha Collins is the coeditor, with Kevin Prufer, of Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries (Graywolf Press, November 2017).Some years ago, I was asked to teach a two-week summer workshop about…

Last Wednesday evening WWB staff, board members, contributors, supporters, and readers gathered at Tribeca 360 to celebrate our fourteenth anniversary and to honor Jill Schoolman, founder and publisher…

At the 2017 WWB Gala, Edwin Frank presented Archipelago Books publisher Jill Schoolman with the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. His remarks are below.It’s an honor to…

Each of the stories chosen for this feature presents us with characters in the midst of what are to them life-altering situations.

This issue is not a departure but a continuation.

In San Marcos I could be poor and cholo and I didn’t have the pressure of hiding or explaining myself.

“I’m the Girl-Homer with her eyes wide open.”

While snow was striking the windowpanes, my ears could only hear the sound of screaming and crying from a distant land.

Masha Gessen, Osama Alomar, Uzodinma Iweala, and Idra Novey are just a few of the 26 outstanding writers and translators who will join us for our annual celebration this November, chaired by James…

The 2017 Nobel Prize in literature goes to British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the…