Celebrate #WorldKidLitMonth with thirteen new children's and YA books in translation, from Colombia, the Netherlands, South Korea, and more. Read the list here:

Celebrate #WorldKidLitMonth with thirteen new children's and YA books in translation, from Colombia, the Netherlands, South Korea, and more. Read the list here:

From the 2025 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets National Translation Month series, a poem of grief and mourning by José Mármol, translated by Eileen O’Connor. Read "Another April, Too Cruel":

Will you be in New York City on 9/21? Venture out to downtown Brooklyn and come see us at the Brooklyn Book Festival's Festival Day! We'll have a festival "passport," and every stamp is an entry in a raffle for global lit, totes, pins, and more. Pop by booth #308!

Colombian journalist Andrés Felipe Solano goes undercover in a Medellín factory in this grim dispatch from the ranks of the working poor. Read “Six Months on Minimum Wage,” translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Join us TODAY for the DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. The first 3 events will be livestream and video links will be emailed to everyone who registered a couple of weeks after the event.

This week, we bring you three poems translated from Welsh on the mixed feelings of speaking a disappearing language. “OK, I understand / what you're thinking. / And yes, it can be dispiriting." Read “To Translate,” by Llŷr Gwyn, translated by Robert Minhinnick www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

In this blog post, Liz Evans Weber reflects on her translation journey, evolving from rigid academic brackets to confident literary translator. buff.ly/5xyXydG #NationalTranslateMonth #ReadTheWorld #SciFi #Fiction #LiteratureInTranslation

We’re thrilled that @gayadorno.bsky.social, who is responsible for the brilliant translation from Kurdish of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, is one of the literary hosts for this year’s @wwborders.bsky.social gala!

more #kidlit recommendations for #worldkidlitmonth over at @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

After you pick up your @wwborders.bsky.social passport @bkbookfest.bsky.social this weekend, swing by booth #334 to get your passport stamped, and, you know, buy some books!

Hurray for #WorldKidLitMonth! Seven contributors have assembled a list of thirteen children’s, middle-grade, and YA reads translated from nine languages. Whether you're looking for a book for yourself or the kids in your life, we have something for everyone! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

“Inlanders with an artistic soul are best off hiding it as deeply as possible in the pocket of their overalls.” In “Cloud Pavilion” (Jannie Regnerus, tr. Michele Hutchison), the main character muses on how the place that raised him also resides in his body. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

"Words fail to find support in words, / and silence becomes a treacherous sonata in a dance of laments." Dedicated to the victims of the Jet Set night club disaster, "Another April, Too Cruel" (José Mármol, tr. Eileen O'Connor) is the latest in our AAP collab: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Dutch writer and visual artist Jannie Regnerus creates a luminous portrait of a villager who defies family expectations to pursue an artistic life. Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison. Read "Cloud Pavilion" here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Exciting news for your Monday: Today, we announced the literary hosts for our Annual Gala on October 29! Join host Vanessa Chan and @natashawimmer.bsky.social , @meghamaj.bsky.social , @monaeltahawy.bsky.social , and more writers and translators for an evening of global lit: wwborders.live/2025Gala

Join translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega for a conversation on her work and two new translations, "Castigation" and "We Computers" at on Wednesday at Third Place Books. www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/shelle...

Two weeks left! Send us your poetry, fiction, essays, translations before September 30. theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

We are thrilled to showcase a special focus on Tibet in our latest issue, Wasafiri 123. Many Tibets are displayed here. Old and new, sacred and secular, real and imagined, lost and found.' - Editorial by @sanagoyal.bsky.social Wasafiri 123 is available to order now: buff.ly/89LLR9Q

This past week, Héloïse Press published Swiss writer Laura Vogt’s Woman, Idle, translated from German by Caroline Waight. In this excerpt, a woman named Romi is summoned to the childhood home of a friend in distress. Read “A World Penned In”: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Spain's Yolanda Castaño considers multiple monthly cycles in this second selection in the 2025 Words Without Borders–Academy of American Poets National Translation Month series. Translated from Spanish by @samanthaschnee.bsky.social . Read “Wheel of Fortune”:

Are you headed to the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Festival Day on September 21? So are we! Come find us at booth #308. We’ll have a raffle full of books and other goodies from our partner presses, WWB stickers, international candy, and as always, we’ll be excited to chat about our work with you!

“I have emigrated three times in my life.” In our 2004 issue “Prose Tangos,” Alicia Dujovne Ortiz reflects on how the varied experiences of exile and emigration affect how Argentinians relate to and think about each other (tr. Amanda Hopkinson): wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

WWB has been awarded a major grant from Hawthornden Foundation. The general operating grant will enable WWB to continue to serve as an anchor in the literary ecosystem, even in a particularly difficult moment for the literary arts. Read the full press release at the link: buff.ly/drgNmLE

On WWB contributor Adam Zagajewski's poem "Try to Praise the Mutilated World," translated by Clare Cavanagh: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Congratulations to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, whose translation of Verdigris by Michele Mari has been shortlisted for the 2025 @littranslate.bsky.social Italian Prose in Translation Award! 🎉

Didn't realize @henarpress.bsky.social was here on Bsky. Read our talk w/publisher & founding editor Aryan Omar Hassan & then make sure to follow them for updates on what's coming next. arablit.org/2025/09/11/a...

The clock is winding down—have you applied for our education fellowship yet? If you’re an early-career education or publishing professional who’s excited to learn about international literary arts education and program administration, we want to hear from you:

In this First Read, a woman heads to the childhood home of a friend to figure out why she’s fallen mysteriously ill. “A World Penned In” is excerpted from WOMAN, IDLE, a new release from Héloïse Press by Laura Vogt and (tr. Caroline Wright). Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Good news for ENL teachers and foreign language classes: You can now filter your searches on the WWB Campus “find” page to focus on literature published in the original language! Head to the "find" page and check "bilingual" in the right-hand toolbar. Give it a try today:

A dark-skinned Russian woman accused of kidnapping her children gets a singular revenge in this story from Marianna Suleymanova’s 2024 Momentum Award–winning translation of Evgenia Nekrasova’s collection She-Bear. Read “Mordavian Cross”:

“all those cells waiting just to rush / headlong into dying so easily”: Poet Yolanda Castaño explores biological and financial cycles. Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee, this is the second poem in our #NationalTranslationMonth collaboration with AAP: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Congrats to our contributors Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega!

On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature-- WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

Intrigued by #WorldKidLitMonth but not sure where to start? Our website is for you! We've featured children’s/YA books from 180+ countries and translated from 100+ languages. Search bar on every page, 550+ blog posts and dozens of reading lists. Happy exploring! worldkidlit.org/read-the-wor...

This should not be limited to English. We've reached out to people who can help with lists of Palestinian lit in Turkish, Indonesian, Malayalam, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German. If you can help with these or other languages, please message. arablit.org/2025/09/08/l...

Deeply grateful to @sawadhussain.bsky.social for selecting my translation for the Momentum Grant and to the team at @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing Mordovian Cross, a tale of racial profiling, revenge, and embroidery. The first story I ever chose to bring into English has found a perfect home🥲

After a long day at the Moscow circus, a dark-skinned Russian woman is accused of kidnapping her children—then gets revenge on her accusers. Read “Mordovian Cross” by Evgenia Nekrasova, translated by our 2024 Momentum Grant winner @marsnova.bsky.social : wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

For Indonesia's Mahfud Ikhwan, mangoes conjure up a host of memories—and nostalgia for a food culture that no longer exists. Read "Mango Melancholy," translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

ICYMI, for @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about why you’ll never read another author like Lalla Romano. With some reflections on what it meant for me to translate a book as devastating & before-its-time as In Farthest Seas. @pushkinpress.com @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social lithub.com/lalla-romano...

For this year's #WITMonth, Tobias Carroll shares 6 new books by women in translation that you won't want to miss:

We start the 2025 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets National Translation Month series with a poem by Katerina Iliopoulou, translated by Jackson Watson. Read “Cape Tenaron” here:

“Each tree receives the wind’s gust differently”: Excited to share the first poem in our #NationalTranslationMonth collab with the Academy of American Poets! Read all of “Cape Tenaron” by Katerina Iliopoulou (tr. Jackson Watson) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

WWB’s annual Gala on 10/29 is a moment to gather in community with fellow champions of international writing—and it’s a time when your support makes a big difference. Get a ticket and come together with our community, including host Vanessa Chan and chair Mitzi Angel: wwborders.live/2025Gala

For Indonesia's Mahfud Ikhwan, mangoes conjure up a host of memories—and nostalgia for a food culture that no longer exists. Translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker.

Russian writer and poet Dmitry Kuzmin is compelled to consider the “state of human interaction in society at large,” from the Soviet gulags to the 2000s LGBT movement, after taking the metro late at night. Read the essay (tr. Alexei Bayer) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

What’s the difference between imported fruit, like pears and grapes, and native fruit, like papayas and mangoes? For Mahfud Ikhwan, it’s decades of connections to the community where he grew up. Read his rumination on the mango, translated by Annie Tucker: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

WWB’s annual Gala on 10/29 is a moment to gather in community with fellow champions of international writing—and it’s a time when your support makes a big difference. Get a ticket and come together with our community, including host Vanessa Chan and chair Mitzi Angel: wwborders.live/2025Gala

At WWB, reading in translation isn’t something we do only for the 30 days of August—we do it every month, all year. Last week, we published Tobias Carroll’s latest Watchlist featuring all women in translation, so that you can keep the #WITMonth vibe going: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

“Each tree receives the wind’s gust differently”: Excited to share the first poem in our #NationalTranslationMonth collab with the Academy of American Poets! Read all of “Cape Tenaron” by Katerina Iliopoulou (tr. Jackson Watson) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...