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What particular translation challenges arose as you brought Layla Martínez’s Woodworm into English? Listen to Sophie Hughes discuss her co-translation of Layla Martínez’s Woodworm Sophie Hughes: ...

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"These poems are laden with grief, but also, to my ears, carry a tremendous love and hope, without which, surely, there could be no endurance," writes critic Mandana Chaffa. With members across ...

In commemoration of Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a poem by an imprisoned writer, translated by an imprisoned writer.

Brahim El Guabli offers an absorbing overview of the “construction of Amazigh indigeneity,” and Amazigh literature’s blossoming in its midst. Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a ...

Join WWB for a festive virtual evening of literary readings by some of the world's most dazzling writers and translators. Join WWB and a marvelous group of authors and translators for a celebration of ...

We present writing from Syria, as Zakariya Tamer tells tales of djinns and talking walls, Abdelkader al-Hosni reflects on friendship, Golan Haji considers magic and loss, and Lukman Derky mourns a ...

Is beauty a gift? Is the body itself? Beauty could be understood as a quality passed down from parent to child and thereby given or “gifted,” even if only in a passive sense, through genetic ...

From Drawn & Quarterly | Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong | Graphic Novel | 212 pages | ISBN 9781770467866 | US$24.95 What the publisher says: “Yuna never ...