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Esther King @esthermavis.bsky.social · 11h

This was such a fantastic read, and a real pleasure to review for @wwborders.bsky.social

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“From the harsh, sterile confines of prison, the novel returns to the central question: Who gets to be a mother?” writes critic Esther King. For WWB, King reviews Brenda Lozano’s latest novel MOTHERS (tr. Heather Cleary).

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$Book Review “With the echo of these looping, obsessive questions, the narrator suggests that both women already share the same all-consuming nightmare: the blunt injustice of the times in which they live.” “Redoubled Fire”: Fear and Love in Brenda Lozano’s Mothers by Esther King. Image: Black text with pink background, image of a fractured doll.$

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Ena Selimović @enaselimo.bsky.social · 13h

The Turkoslavia Collective is thrilled that our contributor Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega in issues 2 + 4) is the honorary chair of @wwborders.bsky.social's 2025 Gala!

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13h

Have you heard the news? The honorary chair of our 2025 Gala is none other than WWB contributor Hamid Ismailov! Come spend time with him and all of our dazzling literary hosts on 10/29 at the Edison Ballroom in NYC, and snag your ticket at the link: wwborders.live/2025Gala

Honorary Chair
Hamid Ismailov
Author of
We Computers
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Hosted by
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Author of
The Storm We Made
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 15h

“From the harsh, sterile confines of prison, the novel returns to the central question: Who gets to be a mother?” writes critic Esther King. For WWB, King reviews Brenda Lozano’s latest novel MOTHERS (tr. Heather Cleary).

Read the review: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

$Book Review “With the echo of these looping, obsessive questions, the narrator suggests that both women already share the same all-consuming nightmare: the blunt injustice of the times in which they live.” “Redoubled Fire”: Fear and Love in Brenda Lozano’s Mothers by Esther King. Image: Black text with pink background, image of a fractured doll.$

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BOOKSNS @booksns.bsky.social · 19h

What are the best translations of Crime and Punishment?

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I have the penguin classics version translated by David McDuff and I find this hard to read and often get lost while reading it. Are there better translations out there? by SweatLogic

What are the best translations of Crime and Punishment? - Trending Books

I have the penguin classics version translated by David McDuff and I find this hard to read and often get lost while reading it. Are there better translations

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 7d

Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 9d

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
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Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1d

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 28d

“The anthology’s constellation of animals, children, misfits and survivors reshapes the image of Poland for the English reader...”

Agnes Dudek interviews ALTA member Antonia Lloyd-Jones about her recent translation project, a collection of Polish short stories. At Culture Pi:

From the Forgotten to the Famous: Antonia Lloyd-Jones on 'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories'

'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories', edited and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, shatters clichés of Poland as only war and sorrow, unveiling a dazzling century of fiction alive with humour,…

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 1d

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is a FINALIST for the National Book Award @nationalbook.bsky.social for Translated Literature! Congratulations author Anjet Daanje+translator David McKay. "Superb...an unforgettable picture of marital love." @ssacks.bsky.social in @wsj.com.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Last year we had the pleasure of sitting down with Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland for our NBA Interview Series. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The National Book Award Interviews: Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland - Words Without Borders

Solvej Halle and Barbara J. Haveland's "On the Calculation of Volume" is longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, shortlisted for We Computers, are longtime contributors. On our website, you can find their NBA interviews, fiction translations, a book review of We Computers by Hannah Weber, and much more.

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The National Book Award Interviews: Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega - Words Without Borders

Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega discuss We Computers, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

You can also check out our NBA interview series with Anjet Daanje and David McKay, where they discussed the process of translating THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, and McKay's translation of THE OHIO HAT. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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The National Book Award Interviews: Anjet Daanje and David McKay - Words Without Borders

Anjet Daanje and David McKay discuss The Remembered Soldier, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Translator Polly Barton discusses the process of translating HUNCHBACK by Saou Ichikawa, which has been longlisted for the NBA for Translated Literature. Read the interview here, as well as all our other interviews in this series:

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National Book Award Interviews: Polly Barton on Hunchback “It’s rare (for me) to read a book that is both totally thrilling and utterly unique. It’s tiny, but it feels like it contains universes. ” — Polly Barton, Words Without Borders. Image: Black background with white and blue text. Circular author photo of Polly Barton in the bottom right corner, and book jacket of Hunchback in blue and orange, on the upper left.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Myers, who is shortlisted for her translation of WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, is a longtime contributor to WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors....

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Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and translator.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Huge news for WWB readers: Several of our contributors, including writers and translators highlighted in our NBA interview series, are featured on the shortlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature! @nationalbook.bsky.social

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Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Aren't they amazing?

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 2d

Just in time to kick off your October, we have another interview from an author-translator duo longlisted for the NBA for Translated Literature! We spoke to Vincenzo Latronico and Sophie Hughes, author and translator of PERFECTION. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · 11d

“Cécé’s story is about resilience and adaptation, both from an individual and a societal point of view.”
In @wwborders.bsky.social‬‬, Benoit Landon reviews Emmelie Prophète’s newly translated novel, “Cécé” - wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

“A Thousand Untellable Stories”: Resilience and Adaptation in the Chaotic World of Emmelie Prophète’s Cécé - Words Without Borders

"Prophète is brutally honest, yet witty, about the reality of Cécé’s life," writes critic Benoit Landon.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 11d

“Night is falling in Santa Clara, and at 6:50, Yasmany decides it’s time to work.”

Read Abraham Jiménez Enoa’s essay “Luck’s Children”—translated by Lily Meyer—in @wwborders.bsky.social as #TranslationMonth comes to a close: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Luck's Children by Abraham Jiménez Enoa - Words Without Borders

Cuban writer Abraham Jiménez Enoa draws us into the underground network that runs La Bolita, Cuba’s wildy popular—and illegal—daily lottery.

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 9d

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, longlisted @nationalbook.bsky.social's Natl Book Award for Translation, featured @wwborders.bsky.social. Translator
David McKay "was bowled over by just about every facet" of Anjet Daanje's novel: "the bold, unique style, the complex characters..the thought-provoking themes."

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 9d

"Never before had I felt as enthusiastic about a contemporary Dutch novel, or as confident that other discerning readers would share my opinion," translator David McKay tells @wwborders.bsky.social.

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The Remembered Soldier

Longlisted for the 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for TRANSLATED LITERATURE An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 8d

It’s International Translation Day! Great to see @tobiascarroll.bsky.social has included Ellen Elias-Bursać’s translation of Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić, winner of the 2023 European Union Prize for Literature, on the @wwborders.bsky.social September Watchlist. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders

This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 8d

I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!

The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders

This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 6d

Now out in English: Mia Couto's *The Cartographer of Absences*, one of the two or three best novels in Couto's stellar career, and by far the most directly autobiographical.
@wwborders.bsky.social @tobiascarroll.bsky.social

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The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders

This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 12d

Preorder SMOKE DRIFTS this #TranslationMonth!

In this @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social collection—translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar—Nadia Anjuman draws on “the lineage of Persian and Sufi writing and her life under Taliban rule.”
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Nadia Anjuman - Smoke Drifts — WORLD POETRY

NADIA ANJUMAN SMOKE DRIFTS: SELECTED POEMS Translated from Persian by DIANA ARTERIAN and MARINA OMAR

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