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The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Oct 9
OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
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László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders
László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.
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“That woman belongs to me.”

Explore fiction from our archive and read “That Woman” by Rodolfo Walsh (tr. Cindy Schuster). A meditation on obsession, power, and truth via the disappearance of Eva Perón’s body after the coup, you can read the story here: www.canva.com/design/DAG4U...
That Woman By Rodolfo Walsh, translated from Spanish by Cindy Schuster “The day will come (I think in moments of anger) when I will go in search of her. She means nothing to me, but even so I will pursue the mystery of her death, track down the distant graveyard where her remains lie slowly rotting.” from the archive: Fiction. Image: Woman in black and white staring at her mirrored self.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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For anyone looking to deepen their craft... check out this Mst in Creative Translation!
eparpillee.bsky.social Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 13h
We're launching a really exciting new MSt in Creative Translation - details here. Oxford has a wealth of brilliant translator energy and I am excited to see what will come out of this. Please forward to likely sorts! www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
MSt in Creative Translation
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is delighted to announce the launch of a new course, the MSt in Creative Translation.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Congratulations to our contributors Évelyne Trouillot, Krisztina Tóth, and Han Kang for being shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! If you're interested in reading more from these fantastic authors— head to our website!
womenintranslation.bsky.social Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 3d
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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In commemoration of Day of the Imprisoned Writer on November 15th, we’re presenting this poem by imprisoned Georgian writer Zviad Ratiani. Read “Fathers” (tr. Dalila Gogia) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... ‎
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Amazing to see No featured here - thanks so much @wwborders.bsky.social and @tobiascarroll.bsky.social!
wwborders.bsky.social Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 8d
Did you miss Tobias Carroll's Watchlist? It's full of great recommendations of books in translation that you should read this fall. Keep scrolling for more information about each book on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The "stories of untethered lives" in Álvarez’s novel are "broken apart, admixed, and rearranged," writes critic Cory Oldweiler. Read Oldweiler’s review “'An Inexpressible Void': Exile and Longing in Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s FALSE WAR":
“An Inexpressible Void”: Exile and Longing in Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s False War - Words Without Borders
The "stories of untethered lives" in Álvarez’s novel are "broken apart, admixed, and rearranged," writes critic Cory Oldweiler.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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“Outside, it was a time of rain; inside, it was a time of darkness.”

A government official’s past comes back to haunt him in distressingly familiar form. Read “Mayai, Minister of Disease” by Euphrase Kezilahabi (tr. Richard Prins): wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
ALT: Mayai, Minister of Disease By Euphrase Kezilahabi, translated from Kiswahili by Richard Prins. There were ten kids at the table. Nine of them were sitting in chairs. The tenth, he saw, was Liberation, dressed in the clothes they buried him in and spreading butter and jam on slices of bread. Though well-dressed, he looked frail and sickly. The nine other children were ragged, filthy, their frocks torn to strips. Their eyes sank into their faces. They were piteous. Liberation signaled that his father should stand back, watch, and say nothing.” Mayai, Minister of Disease By Euphrase Kezilahabi, translated from Kiswahili by Richard Prins “The morning birds began to chirp their bewitching tunes that would haul the sun out of the sea. The minister opened the window facing the statehouse. He saw the guards circling and circling the gate, and in the garden, peacocks strutting and flashing their tails.” Image: Pencil drawing of a figure coming face to face with an elephant.
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Congratulations to Ia Genberg and our contributor Kira Josefsson. You can read more of Josefsson's work on our website here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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New on WWB: @jaybossrubin.bsky.social’s translation of “Rare Goods” by Esther Karin Mngodo. This excerpt depicts the lives of albino children who start a secret society to protect themselves from trafficking in body parts in Tanzania. Read Here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Rare Goods By Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from Kiswahili by Jay Boss Rubin “Every part of my body can help someone get rich. It’s as if God created a living mine—made of flesh and blood—that can lead to an actual mine, one in the earth that spits out gold and makes people get rich quick. Come to think of it, we albinos are many here in the shadow of the mine.” New Kiswahili Writing. Image: Black and white drawing of a knife.
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Newly translated #Swahili fiction from award-winning Tanzanian author Esther Karin Mngodo @koimolove.bsky.social, in the spotlight at @wwborders.bsky.social. From the story collection THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI, coming 12/1 from @hangingloosepress.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Rare Goods - Words Without Borders
The first thing every albino learns is that they are rare goods. And I mean “goods” in the literal sense. We don’t need a special cram course to understand we’re precious commodities; people hunt us d...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Iranian interdisciplinary artist Anima builds a truly avant-garde literary-performance piece involving a game of chess, a Shakespearean sonnet, mysterious instructions, and the Jiroft script. Translated from Persian by Kaveh Bassiri. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Chatrang by Anima Ehtiat - Words Without Borders
Iranian artist Anima builds an avant-garde piece involving a game of chess, a Shakespearean sonnet, mysterious instructions, and the Jiroft script.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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A great new article out from WWB contributor! Click here if you're interested in reading his translations or more articles by him: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Thanks to @wwborders.bsky.social for letting me write about FALSE WAR, by Cuban author Carlos Manuel Álvarez, trans. by Natasha Wimmer, a novel that stylistically and narratively looks at the fragmentation of exile. (And it gave me an always-welcomed opportunity to cram Dante into the lede.)
“An Inexpressible Void”: Exile and Longing in Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s False War - Words Without Borders
The "stories of untethered lives" in Álvarez’s novel are "broken apart, admixed, and rearranged," writes critic Cory Oldweiler.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A multilayered work by interdisciplinary artist Anima, in which the instructions for an alternative chess transform into visual poetry and musical pieces. Many thanks to Words Without Borders.

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Chatrang by Anima Ehtiat - Words Without Borders
Iranian artist Anima builds an avant-garde piece involving a game of chess, a Shakespearean sonnet, mysterious instructions, and the Jiroft script.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Last week, we were thrilled to celebrate the first 3 years of the Armory Square Prize at @wwborders.bsky.social's annual gala at the Edison Ballroom in New York City! Novelist @meghamaj.bsky.social was our gracious table host.

Stay tuned for Prize round 4 updates soon!
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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If you'd like to read more from our contributor László Krasznahorkai, check out EL ÚLTIMO LOBO (later published as THE LAST WOLF in 2016): wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Great titles for you to peruse! Did you know that Kim Hyesoon, Olga Tokarcszuk, Krisztina Tóth, and Han Kang are all WWB contributors? Head to our website to check out some of the pieces they've written for us throughout the years. wordswithoutborders.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Explore our archive with the poem "Love of Chile," the great Raúl Zurita’s hymn to his native land. Translated from Spanish by Cristina de la Torre & Diana Glad, it was published by Words Without Borders in 2009. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
ALT:“White-water rivers and glaciered peaks touch and speak words of love because in this world all things speak of love;” from the archive: Poetry Love of Chile By Raúl Zurita translated from Spanish by Cristina de la Torre & Diana Glad. Image: Desert.
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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An adoptee navigates an encounter with biological family members in Korea with help from her interpreter—who also happens to be her girlfriend—in this excerpt from Lee Langvad’s novel. Read “My Interpreter," translated from Danish by Hazel Evans: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
My Interpreter by Lee Langvad - Words Without Borders
An adoptee navigates an encounter with biological family members with help from her interpreter—who also happens to be her girlfriend—in this excerpt from Lee Langvad’s novel.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Tobias Carroll is back with new autumn reads for your TBR list: fiction from Cuba, nonfiction from China, poetry from Uruguay, and much more. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The October Watchlist by Tobias Carroll Featuring fiction translated from Yiddish, Spanish, Turkish. Poetry from Sweden and Uruguay, and a memoir translated from Chinese. Image: 6 book covers.
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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@coryoldweiler.bsky.social examines FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez. In this choral novel, characters navigate a purgatory of displacement and existential uncertainty, akin to the DIVINE COMEDY. Read Oldweiler’s book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

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BOOK REVIEW “The collective isolation captured in False War is told via nearly two dozen voices desperate for some sort of comfort or compassion—whether from the touch of another’s body, the oblivion of illicit drugs, the sound of a familiar accent, or the recognition of common experience—whatever can get them through one more night.”“'An Inexpressible Void': Exile and Longing in Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s 'False War'" by Cory Oldweiler. Image: Book Cover
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Happy Thursday! Check out this great poem in translation from @thetls.bsky.social with courtesy of @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social
thetls.bsky.social The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 8d
'Here they come / thirst-struck, grimy from the desert / their breaths burning like mirages / mouths dry and coated in dust ...'

Silent Cry by Nadia Anjuman, translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
Silent Cry
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November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Did you miss Tobias Carroll's Watchlist? It's full of great recommendations of books in translation that you should read this fall. Keep scrolling for more information about each book on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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This week, we’re publishing an excerpt from Lee Langvad’s novel TOLK (tr. by Hazel Evans). This scene follows an adoptee who has returned to Korea to visit her biological family, accompanied by an interpreter who’s also her girlfriend. To read click here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
My Interpreter: A Samgyetang Restaurant in SeoulBy Lee Langvad, translated from Danish by Hazel Evans Fiction “I think: I wonder if she got sick because she knew I was coming. My mother drinks her insamju in one gulp.” Image: Hand holding chopsticks.
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Did you miss Tobias Carroll's Watchlist? It's full of great recommendations of books in translation that you should read this fall. Keep scrolling for more information about each book on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM