The four writers featured in this portfolio are all celebrated contemporary novelists born outside of Canada but who publish in French, their second language.

With much of our world deeply divided, stories such as these become more essential than ever to ease our collective pessimism.

The Brooklyn Book Festival is this Sunday, with a stellar lineup of literary conversations, preceded by exciting Bookend events all this week, beginning with tonight’s kickoff party. On…

Tickets are now on sale for the 2017 Words Without Borders Gala. Hosted by Maaza Mengiste with honorary chair Ian Buruma, the gala will be held Wednesday, November 1 at  Tribeca Three…

The writers here capture the past and present of a country remaking itself and its history.

The old story is changing.

We’re pleased to welcome Miguel Conde as the new book review editor of Words Without Borders.Miguel is an editor and journalist based in Rio de Janeiro. He worked for eight years as a reporter and…

Taxi drivers are indiscreet types.

Sculpted from the blood of mothers and the water of children, their hands birth a piece of Brazil.

This is a tiny country famed for its happy cows, football fanatics, and melancholy.

The writers in this month’s feature provide assurance that the genre is source of some of today’s most vibrant and compelling stories, fictional or otherwise.

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

WWB editor and translator Eric M. B. Becker remembers the Brazilian writer, who passed away on July 10, 2017.On Sunday morning, July 9, I was on the island of Sal, Cape Verde, preparing for the last of…

This demonstrates how overwhelmingly crude his rhetoric is.

In the current environment of relentless political strife . . . debate deteriorates into name-calling; partisans morph into zealots, complex issues are reduced to binary terms, and hostility seethes just beneath the surface.

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

Most massacres occurred after Friday prayers.

Everyone knew that the way to become a revolutionary was through the Chinese language and not Tibetan.

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the election of Kalpana Raina to its board of directors.“Kalpana brings a deep connection to international literature, expertise in global…

Congratulations to longtime Words Without Borders contributor Jessica Cohen, who has been awarded the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, along with David Grossman, for the translation of A…

Every month, Words Without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles he’s excited about, books he hopes you’ll agree are…

In this troubling context, the need for portrayals of queer lives around the world becomes even more urgent.

The texts we were working with were profoundly unstable.

Go and find a father for your child.

There are feminist or postcolonial translation strategies so why not queer ones, too?

Words Without Borders is thrilled to announce the public launch of our online education program, WWB Campus, which offers students and educators a window into other cultures through literature.The resource…

Every month, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles he’s excited about, books he hopes you’ll agree are…

Oral and written literary traditions in Basque follow two very distinct paths, both very rich and alive.

Though food may fail to broker communication, this is often one of its major supposed roles.

The asado and political violence are linked in Argentina.

Israeli cuisine is a mystery, a black hole, a utopia.

Whereas shelter and safety must come first, the question of food is so fundamental.

The most astonishing thing about these men was their ability to eyeball measurements.

I had never before paid so much attention to the act of eating.

Day in and day out, so many personal habits can drive us crazy.

Every month, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles he’s excited about, books he hopes you’ll agree are…

Catalan literature’s survival has been hard-won in a context that remains unfavorable economically, socially, and politically.

The three poets collected here are “outliers,” who yet may be read as having points of commonality with developments in post-war American poetry.

We swallowed up everything they told us . . . We were the pride of our homes.

Adam Morris, translator of João Gilberto Noll’s Atlantic Hotel and Quiet Creature on the Corner, remembers the Brazilian writer.  This week the literary world lost a hero.…

Every month, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles he’s excited about, books he hopes you’ll agree are…

We are thrilled to announce that Jill Schoolman, founder and publisher of Archipelago Books, has been selected to receive the 2017 Words Without Borders Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International…

Words Without Borders spoke with Festival Neue Literatur curator Peter Blackstock about FNL’s eight annual celebration of German-language literature from Austria, Germany, and…

We must admit here that we, people on the side of literature, writers, publishers, and enthusiastic readers, have to a certain extent accepted our own defeat.

Just like every other literature and viewpoint, Bulgarian literature has important contributions to make.

In the last three decades Montenegrin women authors have moved beyond and expanded the traditional registers.

Every month, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles he’s excited about, books he hopes you’ll agree are…

Last week, WWB was in Washington DC for the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference, where executive director Karen Phillips moderated the panel “Tipping the Scales:…

In early January at the Cockpit Theatre in London, I attended a production of Borderline: a comedy about a tragedy, a hilarious pastiche of day-to-day life at the Calais Jungle, a refugee camp in France,…

February 1, 2017—Words Without Borders has joined others in the translation community in issuing the following statement on an executive order that restricts immigrant and refugee entry into the…

The authors who appear in this special feature illustrate the diversity and dynamism of modern Polish fiction.

Comics themselves have a role to play in the construction of a more globally aware social consciousness.

City of Asylum, a nonprofit organization in Pittsburgh that offers sanctuary for exiled writers and literary programming, recently opened City of Asylum Books, a bookstore specializing…

Every month, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles he’s excited about, books he hopes you’ll agree are…

This article originally appeared in Spanish in El País.In my daughter’s bedroom there is a chest full of toys. It’s a large chest, finished in black leather, with copper corners. We…

¡Guan Melón! ¡Tu Melón! is a relatively new Cuban play which debuted in 2016 at the Festival Internacional de Teatro de La Habana. I attended performances during the opening…

Macedonian literature has a long tradition going back to common Slavic times.

Many greet the clean slate of a new year by pledging to chalk up only virtue and moderation.

Once people hear “religious husband,” they lend two thousand on the spot.

Before the year is out, catch some of our most-read WWB Daily articles of 2016, including interviews with award-winning writers and translators, international women writers to add to your reading…