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In this article from the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks details the “translation paradox.”
Recent WLT contributor Gabeba Baderoon has been annou…
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Shalama and Paul, Shanghai, 1950. Photo courtesy of Jean Hoffmann LewandaI met the author Jean Hoffmann Lewanda for lunch this past November in New…
Translators nominated for Best Literary Translations 2026 (top row, left to right): Vonani Bila, David Boyd, Whitney DeVos, Kit…
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In her semi-autobiographical novel The Camp: A Little Girl from Karabakh (Shuddhashar, 2022), Gunel Movlud refers to her life as an…
