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…

Virginia Woolf famously noted, “On or about December 1910 human character changed . . . When human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature.”…

As the year draws to a close, our team, board members, and friends of WWB select favorite works-in-translation of 2016 and look ahead to the exciting reads forthcoming in 2017. Eric M. B. BeckerEditorIn…

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 worth all…

New York City, New York, December 13, 2016—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today awards totaling more than $30 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2017, including…

It is this ready route to the public, and the immediacy of response to some of the most urgent questions of our time, that gives microtheater its enduring appeal.

I believe [theater translators] should be invited to participate, to investigate, to collaborate with theaters, working alongside theater practitioners and actors.

Theater translation seems to have struggled to establish itself as a discipline, not least because it has no single field in which to sit exclusively.

The wait appears to be over: on the sixtieth anniversary of its publication, Grande Sertão: Veredas (Bedeviled in the Badlands), the masterpiece of twentieth-century Brazilian writer João…

Thai literature has had a long tradition of delivering social critique and promoting activism.

The artistic production of a group of leftist artists, poets, and editors in Central Europe in the interwar period reflects an optimism for a “new Europe.”

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 worth our…

Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary…

These pieces paint a picture of a Singapore that has ceased to be.

The art of poetry is closely linked to finding solace in the midst of the noise of a city.

Ghosts and all they represent lurk perennially in the universal consciousness and in literature around the world.

So he passed most of that night under the corpse.

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, steady business.”—John SteinbeckAs the Nobel Prize announcement nears, the pace is picking up in both speculations…

Image: Igor Isakovski.Paired Post: In Skopje with Igor IsakovskiA moment with the poems of the energetic, soulful, and eminent Macedonian poet and writer Igor Isakovski on his birthday—September…

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 worth our…

Who is Italian, what is the Italian language, and who deserves to write in it?

How can we grieve for those we cannot identify?

“I gallop in English, I am a towering dervish in Urdu, and Hindi is my Kama Sutra. I am still on all fours in Italian.”

Why has the memory of this body of literature been so appallingly suppressed in Italy?

Yiddish literature occupies the precarious position of an informed outsider.

Every month, from the reviews desk to you, Words without Borders shares a handful of new titles they are excited about and think you should be excited about, too. This month’s list…

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Brazil-based literary journal Revista Pessoa. Through the partnership, Revista Pessoa will feature selected work from WWB translated into Portuguese,…

Taiwanese women have proved adept at carving out spaces for themselves.

Flemish literature at its best is linguistically pyrotechnic, daring, and original.

Every month, from the reviews desk to you, Words without Borders shares a handful of new titles they are excited about and think you should be excited about, too. This month’s list…

The writers here—both those from abroad and those from Brazil—set out to rediscover and portray the diverse Brazils within this dynamic country.

But first they sever José Cláudio’s right ear.

I’d taken a few capoeira classes that left me barely able to walk.

Image: Gregory Rabassa. Photograph taken by his daughter Clara Rabassa.Daniel Shapiro, a Distinguished Lecturer at The City College of New York, CUNY, and editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the…

June 6–17, Words Without Borders is raising support for its new online education program, WWB Campus, with a crowdfunding campaign to #InspireGlobalReaders. Find out more about WWB Campus and…

Every month, from the reviews desk to you, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of forthcoming titles he’s excited about and thinks you should be excited about,…

Behind the bigotry and hyperbole lurk the fear of the unknown, the threat to the status quo.

I’ve been unfaithful on Good Friday, Mother’s Day, Christmas and even during a coup d’état.

Writing by authors of Latin American descent living in Canada is seldom read, taught, or reviewed beyond the country’s borders.

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the election of Rebecca Liao and Cristóbal Pera to its board of directors.“We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Liao and Cristóbal Pera…