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Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers: An Anthology (Cambria Press, 2018) is a collection of short stories in translation featuring contemporary Taiwanese aut…
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November 4, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews American poet, children’s book author, and translator Marilyn Nelson is the laureate of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Literature! After accepting the 2016 Neustadt P…
October 7, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Award finalists have been announced! WLT contributor Viet Thanh Nguyen and NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Jacqueline Woodson are among the t…
September 30, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Via the Boston Review, Rafia Zakaria presents a new series titled Reading Other Women that will focus on “reading as self-making.” The third annual Festival Alb…
September 21, 2016Alison Anderson and David Shook. Shook photo by Travis Elborough Three years ago, in a post published on Words Without Borders, Alison Anderson asked, “Where Are the Women in Translation?” T…
September 13, 2016Zofia and Kazimierz Romanowicz in front of the Galerie Lambert in 1962 / Courtesy of the Archiwum Emigracji, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Toruń, Poland For more, read these four poems by Zo…
September 9, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Three Percent has announced the judges for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award, and the guidelines for eligibility and submissions are online as well. WLT cont…- January 15, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews In preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Academy of American Poets has curated this list of poems in honor and celebration. Poet Allison Hedge Coke, recently pu…
August 21, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte…- August 7, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine just released its list of the best books published in 2015 so far. Rebecca L. Walkowitz’s latest book is now available. Born Translated: The Co…
July 15, 2015Idea Vilariño in Paris, ca. 1954 | Photo by Michel Sima, from Idea: la vida escrita, by Ana Inés Larre Borges (2007) | Source: elmalpensante.com Translator’s note: Idea Vil…
June 1, 2015The author’s three-foot stack ofIndian books. Photo © Doug Wolf. I’m reading nonwhite this year. That’s what many readers/writers around the world are proclaiming. What they mean is that they’re foc…
May 29, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists were announced tonight! Congrats to Can Xue, Caryl Churchill, Carolyn Forché, Aminatta Forna, Ann-Marie Mac…
April 10, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Some controversy surrounded the publication announcement of Harper Lee’s new work, Go Set A Watchman, and some wondered if she was manipulated into signing a co…
April 4, 2014Photo by Diane Cordell/Flickr This week was a mix of news, commentary, and fun. Below, you’ll find stories on the very first ebook and a new reading list for poetry skeptics. And don’t forget to chec…
March 28, 2014Andrés Neuman autographing a book after opening night. Photo by Laura Hernandez We’ve been buzzing on the WLT Facebook and Twitter accounts all week with exciting reports from the 2014 Puter…
March 21, 2014Andrés Neuman, the 2014 Puterbaugh Fellow, will be visitingWLT at the University of Oklahoma March 26-28th. All this week, we’ve been preparing for the Puterbaugh Festival, where we will be…- May 30, 2013Recent issues of WLT have featured Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh), Marina Carr (Ireland), and Julia Franck (Germany) on the cover. Two weeks ago, in a post on Words Without Borders, Alis…
April 22, 2013Retrato de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. por Miguel Cabrea, 1750. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–95) was born in San Miguel Nepantla, Tepetlixpa, Mex…
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Photo by trentinness / Adobe StockHunger Strike
In the last watch
of blood and memories,
in the last neighing
of empty stomachs,
the human tree…
