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The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
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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Bryan Alistair Charles @bryanacharles.bsky.social · 14h
The art of literary translation is a source of fascination and amazement to me now-- I will never skim over another translator's name again--Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social brought a book I had read 3 times into miraculous new realms on a 4th read.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 15h
“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.”

Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social
On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead
Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 14h
Amazing amazing job alert!
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Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · 2d
We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 16h
Translator Polly Barton talks with us about HUNCHBACK, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read the interview here, as well as all our interviews in this series:
The National Book Award Interviews: Polly Barton - Words Without Borders
Translator Polly Barton talks with us about "Hunchback," longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
Take a look back in our fiction archive and read this 2009 excerpt (tr. George Szirtes) from EL ÚLTIMO LOBO by Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai (later published as THE LAST WOLF in 2016). wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
El último lobo By László Krasznahorkai translated from Hungarian by George Szirtes “in any case it wouldn’t be full-hearted laughter, because futility and scorn were what continually oppressed him”from the archive: fiction. Image: Black and white photo of László Krasznahorkai.
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 1d
And will be in later today to answer all your questions! bsky.app/profile/port...
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 1d
WHY YES, YOUR WEIRD BOOKSTORE DAD AND #WeirdBookWednesday POSTER IS EXCITED ABOUT THIS!

Hungarian 'Master of the apocalypse' Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature | Reuters share.google/Jl6EvD4UqB07...
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
Whatever's on László Krasznahorkai's #tbr should probably be on your TBR! Preorder this book by our contributor Krisztina Tóth (tr. by another contributor, Ottilie Mulzet):
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
Actually lol'd
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
(Barbara Epler if you see this I'm kidding)
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
“In Brenda Lozano’s latest novel, mothers have the unrelenting force of the ocean,” writes critic Esther King. Read King’s book review of Lozano’s MOTHERS (tr. Heather Cleary):
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“Redoubled Fire”: Fear and Love in Brenda Lozano’s Mothers - Words Without Borders
“In Brenda Lozano’s latest novel, mothers have the unrelenting force of the ocean,” writes critic Esther King.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
Who?
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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 1d
the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now
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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
The ultimate Nobel prophet: Susan Harris
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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d
read WWB; become a Nobel prophet
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
For those of you keeping score at home... yes, that means we've now published 10 Nobel Prize winners in our 22 year history ❤️‍🔥

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
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Lenaskaffepaus @lenaskaffepaus.bsky.social · 1d
His Swedish translator is Daniel Gustafsson.
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Henar Press @henarpress.bsky.social · 1d
COVER REVEAL — Our fabled first anthology is (almost) here!

WHO'S AFRAID OF KURDISTAN? may be the first collection of Kurdish plays to be published in English.

If you're a playwright, we want to hear from you! Please submit your work through the submission form on our website (henarpress.org).
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
You were right to say it!
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
We can! And we should!
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In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Can we take this opportunity to say how much we also love the work of Krisztina Tóth?

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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · Aug 25
Final cover for Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, publising in Oct. by @sevenstories.bsky.social in the US and @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social in the UK. Available for preorder now
Cover of Eye of the Monkey, by Krisztina Tóth, trans. Ottilie Mulzet. An abstract image of a fence or gate at the top in brownish-taupe hues, with the title, author, and translator at the bottom.
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 1d
Okay, my best attempt: CROSS-naw-hor-kaw-ee
But the first four vowels are all the same. So keep the “o” sound from “cross” and repeat it three more times. (Somewhere between “aw” and “ah”)
“Hor” gets the second most emphasis.
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Percy Balemans 📚 @creative-xl8.bsky.social · 1d
His Dutch translator is Mari Alföldy.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
Ah no 💔 just watched a lot of Hungarian interviews to try to make sure I got it!
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
Same 🫡
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...
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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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
This is such a good way of putting it
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d
Lolllll
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