Shared some thoughts on March books in translation at @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Don't miss this wonderful event with Cindy Juyoung Ok, translator for WWB contributor Kim Hyesoon's new book THE HELL OF THAT STAR. Read Kim Hyesoon's work here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

"Kawakami provides no illusions regarding loyalty or love, whether platonic or romantic, between women," writes critic Grace En-Yi Ting. Read her review “‘Our Home': Female Bonding in Mieko Kawakami’s SISTERS IN YELLOW” here: buff.ly/xeV9VZq

Joanna Elmy's BORN OF GUILT translated by WWB contributor Angela Rodel is now available for preorder! Explore Rodel's work here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

In this excerpt from Gigi Leung's novel-in-progress SURVIVORS’ NOTES, a Hong Kong woman remembers a former coworker while trying to escape the unrest in the city. Read “The Best Years,” translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feeley, here: buff.ly/mLbRryn

C.J. and L.L. introduce the “intimate” stories in this collection of post-2019 fiction from Hong Kong. Read “The Latest Chapter: Post-2019 Fiction from Hong Kong” here: buff.ly/IUmoYe2

Congratulations to NBCC winners and WWB contributors Han Kang, Paige Aniyah Morris, Neige Sinno, and Natasha Lehrer! Head to our website to read their work: wordswithoutborders.org

New this week: our latest book review by @graceenyiting.bsky.social. In “'Our Home': Female Bonding in Mieko Kawakami’s SISTERS IN YELLOW,” Ting explores the ways poverty and marginalization complicate the bonds between the novel’s protagonists. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

Two poems from the late Iranian activist and poet Baktash Abtin, for whom poetry and revolutionary life were inseparable. Read "The Translation of War: Two Poems" (translated from Persian by Nasim Basiri) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

So nice to have an audio track of Gigi Leung reading her original text along your translation and being able to get at the musicality and rhythm. Congrats also on the prize for your translation of Wong Yi, which I had totally missed! Love that piece, prob my favourite of the anthology we did in 2022

Also, find the guest editors' rich introduction to the series here: 'A new wave of realist fiction has, over the past decade, attempted to confront Hong Kong’s political situation, portraying the shared experience of betrayal and abandonment...' wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Thank you to @wwborders.bsky.social & the guest editors for featuring my translation of the prologue to Gigi Leung's 梁莉姿 novel in progress for their post-2019 fiction from HK series. Stay tuned for more pieces in the series coming next week!

Check out this wonderful collaboration between WWB contributors Jeannette L. Clariond and Forrest Gander! You can read more of their work on our website. Read "who were these goddesses" by Jeannette L. Clariond here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Congratulations WWB contributor Daniel Borzutzky! Check out his other translations on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

The maxim “don’t judge a book by its cover” takes on new extremes in “The Best Years,” an excerpt from Gigi Leung’s novel in progress (tr. @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ). Read it here: buff.ly/mLbRryn

Calling all translators!

"The practice of reading, writing, and publishing translations reminds us, and humbles us all in doing so, that every book is a collaborative and continually (re)generative creation, expansive and refractive across time and space." — WWB contributor Robin Myers

New on WWB: An issue of contemporary literature from Hong Kong. In the intro “The Latest Chapter,” C.J. and L.L. consider the rise of realist fiction in the wake of the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, and provide an overview of the collection Read the intro here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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

As a solo horn plays in the background, a young woman reconstructs the beginning of her parents' doomed relationship. Read “Self-Portrait in Blue” by Katia Dansoko Touré, translated from French by Maren Baudet-Lackner:

"Mother Tongue" by Osdany Morales, on @wwborders.bsky.social in my translation. It is about Italo Calvino. It is not about Italo Calvino. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

An alternate life for Italo Calvino: "Mother Tongue" by Osdany Morales, tr from Spanish by Esther Allen (@wwborders.bsky.social) wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... #SFinTranslation

Polish poet Urszula Honek pens three grief-tinged, haunting elegies for a neighborhood emptying of its people and its spaces in “I Try to Remember His Face: Three Poems,” translated by Dawid Mobolaji: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

In searing prose, indigenous Mexican writer Dolores Dorantes details the events that made her an unwilling political exile in the United States. Read “Overmigrating,” translated from Spanish by Robin Myers, here: buff.ly/XGuPgZV

📣 The @benningtonwriting.bsky.social will offer a dual-genre concentration in Literary Translation directed by National Book Award–winning translator Bruna Dantas Lobato. Applications opened on March 5. Program launches in January 2027. Learn more here:

In Katia Dansoko Touré's "Self-Portrait in Blue” (tr. Maren Baudet-Lackner), a young woman reconstructs her parents’ turbulent, doomed relationship to the accompaniment of a jazz trumpet solo. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Peruvian author @marcoavilesh.bsky.social writes about his experiences as an immigrant in the U.S. and as an indigenous person growing up in Peru. “I Am Not Your Cholo" (tr. Sophie Hughes) is from our 2017 issue “Within (and Without) These Borders”: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

In her essay “Overmigrating,” translated from Spanish by @robinmeyers.bsky.social, Dolores Dorantes addresses displacement and migration in the United States. Dorantes writes, “In exile, life repeats itself, as it does in all lives.” Read the essay: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day! Celebrate by exploring our publications translated from Irish: wordswithoutborders.org/read/country... 🍀

"I Try to Remember His Face: Three Poems" collects three elegies by Polish poet Urszula Honek (tr. @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social) mourning the gradual loss of a neighborhood and its residents. Read the full poems here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

On 3/20/26 at 2pm EST the @nationalbook.bsky.social will be hosting a free virtual event with author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and translator Robin Myers! Head to their website to RSVP, and don't miss our interview with this pair here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Check out this wonderful review of WWB contributor Álvaro Enrigue's new novel NOW I SURRENDER. If you'd like to explore Enrique's work before purchasing this novel, you can read his contributions here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

WWB seeks applicants for its 2026-27 editorial and education fellowships, which are designed to provide in-depth experience to individuals interested in careers around the promotion of world literature, or as scholars, educators, or curriculum developers. Apply here:

Get excited about Liesl Schillinger's translation of CRAZY GENIE by reading her work for free on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

‼️ Call for Persian–English prose #translations, any genre or period, for the third cycle of the Mo Habib Translation Prize in #Persian Literature! Deadline: September 1, 2026. Details here 👉 melc.washington.edu/news/2026/03... #xl8 #UWTranslation 📢 @wwborders.bsky.social @arablit.bsky.social

So thrilled about Álvaro Enrique’s new book!!

“Readers are given plenty to think about and the space in which to do their thinking,” writes critic Cory Oldweiler in his review of Artem Chapeye’s THE WEATHERING: buff.ly/ZtAQCEZ

With equal parts humor and pathos, Osdany Morales imagines an alternate life for the Cuban-born Italian writer Italo Calvino in his short story “Mother Tongue,” translated from Spanish by Esther Allen: buff.ly/pYKSSeN

We interviewed Urayoán Noel in 2020! Read about his love of language, his translation rituals, and more here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN is one of our most anticipated releases of 2026! Read what @tobiascarroll.bsky.social has to say about it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Calling all translators! The deadline to submit is March 16th. WWB contributor Adrian Nathan West won this prize in 2024, you can read his work here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Today's Feature: "4" by Marie de Quatrebarbes, translated by Aiden Farrell from The Vitals published by World Poetry Books Read here: poems.com/poem/4-2/

“Lots of fundamental questions are raised by ‘The Weathering,’ none of which get satisfactory answers because such answers simply don’t exist.” In @wwborders.bsky.social, Cory Oldweiler reviews Artem Chapeye’s newly translated novel, “The Weathering” - wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

On the anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak, we’re sharing “Wuhan Lockdown Diary,” by Guo Jing (tr. @queercomrades.bsky.social), from our archives. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Weathering “denotes survival by adaptation and perseverance” writes @coryoldweiler.bsky.social in his review of Artem Chapeye’s new novel THE WEATHERING (@sevenstories.bsky.social). Read "Persevering Even After the End of the World” here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

🗓️ Happening in one week! Don't miss this (free!) event we are so pleased to partner on with the Fine Arts Work Center: "Human Translators in the Age of AI," feat. Chenxin Jiang, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Ian Giles, Umair Kazi & Kristen Renee Miller. Learn more and register here: buff.ly/zzGTHgf

Are you an early-career education or publishing professional? Want to learn more about international literary arts education or hands-on magazine experience? Words Without Borders is hiring for our 2026-27 fellowship program! Apply here: wordswithoutborders.org/jobs/

Calling all Italian prose translators and publishers! There's still time to submit to ALTA's 2026 Italian Prose in Translation Award. In 2024, WWB contributor Jenny McPhee won for her translation of LIES AND SORCERY (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social). You can find more of her work on our website.

2025 US/Canada Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize (@usrofc.bsky.social) Winner: The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay, published by New Vessel Press (@newvesselpress.bsky.social) #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature #bookprizes