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Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.When We Only Have the Earth, by Djibouti poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi, begins with “One Saturday i…
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London. Seagull Books. 2024. 140 pages. Samira Negrouche (b. 1980, Algiers) likes mathematics and art. Science balances the infinitesimal and the cosmos; it organizes, labels, and co…
London. Seagull Press. 2023. 72 pages. Translators Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder struggled to find a term that would capture the complexity of Cuban-born Wendy Guerra…
Photo by Fía Yang on Unsplash Une pointe de sel sur ma confession On vient me voir On me demande la mer Les algues et les poissons Je ne suis pas doué comme Jésus Po…
London. Seagull Books. 2021. 124 pages. ALAIN MABANCKOU, a native of the Congo and a longtime professor at UCLA, is one of the world’s leading francophone authors. I…
Kolkata. Seagull Books. 2021. 200 pages. THROUGH NANCY NAOMI CARLSON’S translation of the French original, anglophone readers finally have access to Khal Torabully’s groundbreaking p…
Photo: Glenn Ruben Berg / Unsplash [draw your strength] draw your strength from the lifeless leaf break all bonds until you can tie your fate to the baobab trunk don’t hold within y…
Calcutta. Seagull Books. 2018. 256 pages. Who am I? And who are you? Suzanne Dracius explores identity in her recently translated novel, The Dancing Other. First published in French as L…
Photo: Michael Olsen/Unsplash [Carry my metaphor] Carry my metaphor; I touched the sea before waves deceived me. Carry my dream; I saw it all without opening eyes of salt. Carry my soul; I me…
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