Tobias Carroll recommends a Palestinian memoir, a novel of mid-century Suriname, a surreal generational saga from Canada, and ...

WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will be awarded to M. Lynx Qualey, founder of ArabLit, in ...

In this prose poem, Pakistani writer Enver Sajjad considers the power of words against censorship and oppression.

Join Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp on a mouth-watering tour of four continents through thirteen picture books, middle grade and YA fiction, and graphic novels. Food as a treat, food as a weapon, food that brings ...

In this essay, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez praises the translator and translation’s ability to increase our access to the world and broaden our sense of humanity. Late last year, the Queen ...

Leyla Shukurova is an Azerbaijani writer, translator, and researcher. Her previous work has been published in Tint Journal (Austria), Turkoslavia (USA), and Nargiz (Azerbaijan). Raised between Siberia ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Ena Selimović is a Yugoslav-born writer and co-founder of Turkoslavia, a translation collective and journal. Her work has received support from the American Literary Translators Association, the ...

She received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a PEN Translates award for her translation of Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To Hell with Poets, a short story collection published by Tilted Axis Press in ...