#words without borders

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Words Without Borders. The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology, Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman, Introduction by Andre Dubus III, Anchor Books, New York, NY, 2007 [City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA]

Authors:

Ma Jian ('Where Are You Running To?', Introduced by Jonathan Safran Foer, Translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew);

Can Xue ('Meteorite Mountain', Introduced by Ha Jin, Translated from the Chinese by Zhu Hong);

Jo Kyung-ran ('Looking for the Elephant', Introduced by Don Lee, Translated from the Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl);

Seno Gumira Ajidarma ('Children of the Sky', Introduced by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Translated from the Indonesian by John H. McGlynn);

Parashuram ('The Scripture Read Backward', Introduced by Amit Chaudhuri, Translated from the Bengali by Sukanta Chaudhuri);

Goli Taraghi ('The Unfinished Game', Introduced by Francine Prose, Translated from the Persian by Zara Houshmand);

Jabbar Yassin Hussin ('The Day in Buenos Aires', Introduced by Alberto Manguel, Translated from the Arabic by Randa Jarrar);

Sania Saleh ('Two Poems', Introduced by Adonis, Translatedfrom the Arabic by Issa J. Boullata);

Adania Shibli ('Faint Hints of Tranquility', Introduced by Anton Shammas, Translated from the Arabic by Anton Shammas);

Hassan Khader, ('Shards of Reality and Glass', Introduced by Ahdaf Soueif, Translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif);

Gamal al-Ghitani ('A Drowsy Haze', Introduced by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins);

Akinwumi Isola ('The Uses of English', Introduced by Wole Soyinka, Translated from the Yoruba by Akinwumi Isola);

Gabriela Adameșteanu (from 'Provisional', Introduced by Norman Manea, Translated from the Romanian by Carrie Messenger);

Senadin Musabegović, ('Two Poems', Introduced by Aleksandar Hemon, Translated from the Bosnian by Ulvija Tanović);

Giorgio Manganelli (from 'Experiment with India', Introduced by Roberto Calasso, Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein);

Eleonora Hummel (from 'The Fish of Berlin', Introduced by Günter Grass, Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky);

Bronisław Maj ('Seven Poems', Introduced by the Editors, Translated by Clare Cavanagh);

Myriam Anissimov (from 'His Majesty, Almighty Death', Introduced by Cynthia Ozick, Translated from the French by C. Dickson);

Etel Adnan (from 'October 27, 2003', Introduced by Diana Abu Jaber, Translated from the French by C. Dickson with Etel Adnan);

Johan Harstad ('Vietnam. Thursday.', Introduced by Heidi Julavits, Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik);

Juan Villoro ('Lightweight Champ', Introduced by Javier Marías, Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman);

Mario Bellatin ('The Sheika's Condition', Introduced by Francisco Goldman, Translated from the Spanish by Cindy Schuster);

Ámbar Past ('When I Was a Man', Introduced by Elena Poniatowska, Translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee);

Horacio Castellanos Moya (from 'Revulsion', Introduced by Roberto Bolaño, Translated from the Spanish by Beatriz Cortez);

Évelyne Trouillot ('The Chareron Inheritance', Introduced by Edwidge Danticat, Translated from the French by Avriel Goldberger);

Marcela Sola (from 'Kind's Silence', Introduced by Luisa Valenzuela, Translated from the Spanish by Tobias Hecht);

Juan José Saer ('Baked Mud', Introduced by José Saramago, Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Waisman);

Juan Forn ('Swimming at Night', Introduced by Ariel Dorfman, Translated from the Spanish by Marina Harss).

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Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology

Edited by Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman and Samantha Schnee.

Design by Helen Yentus.

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A Palestine Reading List - Words Without Borders

A collection of writing from Palestine and across the diaspora, including work by Fady Joudah, Mahmoud Darwish, Mosab Abu Toha, Adania Shibl

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A Palestine Reading List

Following the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Words Without Borders brings you work by Palestinian writers we have published through the years, as well as writing about Palestine. This is but one step toward providing a broader and enduring platform for Palestinian writers. Beginning January 2024, Words Without Borders will embark on an ongoing series focused on work by Palestinian writers across the globe, working in many languages, in collaboration with poet, essayist, and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

— images and text from Words Without Borders

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Translating contemporary Korean women’s poetry is what led me to write my own poetry. Translation helped me to find my language, just as I had to create language for the poets I was translating.

Don Mee Choi interviewed by Kristin Dykstra for Words Without Borders’ “Translator Relay.”

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July/August 2021 - Backstories: Afro-Italian Women Writers

This issue presents writing by Afro-Italian women. In the face of xenophobic rhetoric and policies, Black Italians have pushed their country to confront its colonial past and engage with its present diversity. The writers featured here plumb both contemporary and historical experiences of Blackness within Italy.

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Read a selection from Contacts, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Mélanie Leclerc, in the February 2020 edition of Words without Borders 

Translation from French by Sean Gasper Bye

https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/graphic-lit/february-2020-graphic-novel-contacts-melanie-leclerc-sean-gasper-bye

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The City and the Writer: In Athens with Alicia E. Stallings

A beautiful declaration of love to Athens

Athens is full of energies and contrasts. For ancient Greeks, “hope” (elpis) was a mixed emotion rather than a purely optimistic one: “anxiety about the future” as well as the possibility that things are looking up. Poverty is still shockingly visible—elderly Greeks riffling through trash bins, many homeless. One construction of cardboard boxes used by a homeless man for sleeping near the central post office has “Person not Trash” written on it to avoid its removal. And there is anxiety about what is happening in terms of property sales—a lot of foreign investors have come in to buy up the foreclosed properties, often partly because of “golden visas.” And Airbnb has also had a mixed effect on locals (sometimes a source of extra income, but often a reason to be kicked out of an apartment). Athens is covered in lively graffiti and street art—every surface a potential canvas. Street protests and bustling open-air cafés, tear gas and the heavenly scent of bitter orange blossoms; these are some of the juxtapositions that give Athens its liveliness. Creativity—in street musicians, theatrical productions, art galleries, poetry readings—is everywhere on display.