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'The Obscene Bird of Night, a sprawling, five-hundred-page masterpiece of psychedelic horror, is considered among the most mind-bending and formally ambitious books of the Latin American Boom...' on megan mcdowell's new translation of a classic!

Foodie World Kid lit: what a brilliant list! Great to see Na Willa in such illustrious company Anam Zafar Neem Tree Press Sawad Hussain Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social & so many more for us to explore...check out the full list below💡

Spring fellow, translator, & WordsWithoutBorders co-founder Samantha Schnee was quoted in Anderson Tepper's The New York Times piece about the Dallas-based publisher Deep Vellum, which, alongside the bookstore The Wild Detectives & others, put the city on the literary map: buff.ly/3U79Xww

It’s our annual Spring Fund Drive. WWB’s work is reader-supported, and we need to raise $10,000 by May 31st so we can keep bringing you vital literature from all over the globe while supporting writers and translators. Learn more: buff.ly/4bn47ya

Congratulations to Cristina Rivera Garza on winning the Pulitzer! We're so honored that she's a WWB contributor. If you love Rivera Garza's work, you can check out this recent essay on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

'we share poems, testimonies, articles, and reflections on the ongoing state of the war inside Gaza from October 2023...hoping that these texts and experiences create an opportunity, however small, for survival.'
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly X Majalla 28 for the spring issue ‘Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!’

‘I’d have liked a stable life like hers, with cloth napkins, and busy lizzies in the garden. A life as tranquil as a mountain landscape. Although, who really knows how many shadows lie just beyond those pleasant hills?’

Written by silvia arazi and tr. by Charlotte Coombe. 🌸

The American Academy in Berlin proudly extends heartfelt congratulations to spring 2023 alumna Cristina Rivera Garza on winning a Pulitzer Prize in memoir and autobiography. Learn more at buff.ly/44umtuQ

University of Houston Hogarth Books The Pulitzer Prizes
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'Spring was running late, so late
that my nightmare became
the spring itself.'

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From 'When Spring Comes' by Najwan Darwish, tr. Kareem James Abu-Zeid for Modern Poetry in Translation

This is such a brilliant deep-dive into WWB's rich archive--this time on the topic of the mother-child relationship. Take a read especially if yours is (like mine)
complicated.

Reading NO EDGES: SWAHILI STORIES from Two Lines Press !

#SFinTranslation from Kenya and Tanzania

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All this good talk about about my essays but here's a happy reminder I've BEEN a poet first and foremost for almost thirty years. 😅 (with big thanks to N'ou and Academy of American Poets!)