Mona Douglas’s three rousing poems testify to the indomitable spirit of the Manx people. Read “Strong Still Is Ellan Vannin: Three Poems,” translated from Manx by Robert Corteen Carswell, in our latest issue “The Beating Heart: New Celtic Writing”: buff.ly/UjeB5KP

Check out Helle Helle's work on our website! wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?

In two allusive poems by Aonghas MacNeacail, feelings and atmospheres emerge from surfaces botanical and textural. Read “A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems” (translated from Scots Gaelic by Taylor Strickland) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Tsering Woeser’s melancholy poem (tr. Fiona Sze-Lorrain) mourns the lives lost to the violence of an unfree Tibet. Read “Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak” here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

If you haven't read Solvej Balle's series, now is the time! We interviewed Balle and the translator of her first two books, Barbara J. Haveland, as apart of our National Book Award interview series. Read the interview here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the inaugural winner of the Poetry in Translation Prize, Osdany Morales’s Security Questions, translated by Harry Bauld. Read more about the winning collection here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2026/02/osda...

Los Angeles friends, attend this reading of Suzanne Jill Levine's new memoir! You can read her work on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Read three poems translated from Manx in “Strong Still Is Ellan Vannin” by Mona Douglas (tr. Robert Corteen Carswell), which explore the fight for freedom and celebrate the indomitable spirit and resilience of the Isle of Man. Find them here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The "In Translation" Ebook Bundle is live! Basic tier features three novels translated from Shona, Korean, and Arabic! For $25 or more: the bonus tier! Includes 9 MORE ebooks, including two Blaft titles -- Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home & The Aayakudi Murders! storybundle.com/translation

🦌We are excited to announce a limited edition of Polly Barton’s debut novel WHAT AM I, A DEER?🦌 This edition is available exclusively through independent bookshops and on our website, with a run of 2,500 copies. Pre-order now: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/what-a...

Joining our new Celtic issue are two poems by Aonghas MacNeacail. Translated from Scots Gaelic by @taylor-strickland.bsky.social these pensive poems evoke emotions through the beauty of the Scottish landscape. Read “A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems” here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

"Yagi and her translator Yuki Tejima have a gift for finding beauty in the quotidian—a kind of ekphrasis of the everyday." — @artforum.com buff.ly/5OZ40Hc

Pen America names "The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman" in its collection of 2026 translations to look forward to. bookshop.org/lists/books-...

Discover the most anticipated novels in translation to read this spring:

Join us for our next book group, online or in Downtown San Francisco from 12-1 pm PST. February's pick is the novel TOMB OF SAND by Geetanjali Shree, translated from the Hindi by @shreedaisy.bsky.social (HarperVia). Register here: buff.ly/ZKgNe7o

New York, don't miss this event with our contributor Cristina Rivera Garza! wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

A new book translated by our contributor Forrest Gander: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

KOLYMA STORIES, translated by our contributor Donald Rayfield: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Reminder you can still submit a solution to the translation puzzle in @nplusonemag.com which this month is my poem MARG URÞÚ SEMS YRGR

"I can do nothing but cry and write poems." Read "Only This Useless Poem" by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social, from her new book "Ocean, as Much as Rain," in @wwborders.bsky.social.

#SFinTranslation on the web for 2026: from @clarkesworldmagazine.com and @wwborders.bsky.social so far! www.sfintranslation.com?p=16184

Read Tsering Woeser’s poem “Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak” (tr. Fiona Sze-Lorrain). Woeser’s poem is an elegy to the Tibetan monks and nuns protesting Chinese rule since 2011. . Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Zalman S. Davis reads Thơ Mới poetry as a space where male intimacy could appear through ambiguity & restraint. Xuân Diệu’s sensuous lyricism & Huy Cận’s melancholic reserve express modern subjectivity inflected by suppressed queer desire. ⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/v...

Happy pub day to WWB contributor Geetanjali Shree! wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Lovely shot of a book translated by WWB contributor, Ellen Jones! wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Part One, Emile Habiby’s ‘The Six-Day Sextet’ Over the next six weeks, we will be publishing installments of Emile Habiby's The Six-Day Sextet, which is available in an open-access, non-commercial translation by Invisible Dragoman. The next installment is set to appear February 9, 2026.

Cheers to that!

Today, we’re remembering WWB contributor Vénus Khoury-Ghata, (1937–2026), a Lebanese poet and novelist who lived in France. You can read her work on her work on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Hungarian #SFinTranslation

“The novel is, at its core, an exploration of silence and disconnection, coupled with a stirring intimacy,” writes critic Suzana Vuljevic. Read Suzana Vuljevic’s review of THE OLD FIRE by Elisa Shua Dusapin (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

I show almost no traces of rust— / I’m still a man of some use.

A cliff by the shore conceals untold riches in this magical tale by Goulc’han Kervella (translated from Breton by Michelle Couny). Read “The Sandy Shore”: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... ‎

In two tonally different poems by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, language articulates the contours of identity and love. Read “My Other Tinfoil Tongue: Two Poems” (tr. Ellen Corbett) here: buff.ly/PerIy97

Don’t miss World in Verse, a free virtual reading today at 11am ET! Readers include Eileen O’Connor, Jackson Watson, Katerina Iliopoulou, @michehut.bsky.social, Nathalie Handal, Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad, @samanthaschnee.bsky.social, and Yolanda Castaño. RSVP here: wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2026

Great titles on this list! Suzana Vuljevic reviewed THE OLD FIRE for our website. Check it out here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

Suzana Vuljevic reviews THE OLD FIRE (@summitbooks.bsky.social) by Elisa Shua Dusapin and translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins. Vuljevic explores the depiction of silence in the novel and considers how we become disconnected from the people we love. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

SF friends! Read WWB contributor Geetanjali Shree's excellent novel and join the @catranslation.org's book club. You can find her work here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

So happy to be working with you!

This week, read two poems by @laoighseach.bsky.social, translated from Irish by @ellenfcorbett.bsky.social, in our latest issue “The Beating Heart: New Celtic Writing.” . Read these poems, steeped in Irish history, hegemony, and love, here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Applications are open until February 28th!

If you wanted to peak inside this brilliant book before purchasing, it's available on our website! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Check out our first translation from Breton! “The Sandy Shore” by Goulc'han Kervella (tr. Michelle Couny) follows Pêrig Skoarn as he discovers a forgotten palace brimming with riches, where each treasure he finds seems to be greater than the last. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... ‎

@tobiascarroll.bsky.social recommends BECKOMBERGA on this months January Watchlist. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The book is They by Danish writer, Helle Helle, translated by Martin Aitken.

What did you dream about today?

"'I had a dream about a plane full of napoleon cakes,' she said, her voice hoarse from sleep. 'There was already snow on the ground, but it was sort of pink.' — "The Knight", by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Jennifer Croft) Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Another day, another great book in translation.

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