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"It was my love of literature and the English language that led me to translate Arnaud’s work." WWB-er @duarte_ilze on her translation of Marilia Arnaud's 'The Book of Affects'": https://t.co/M6dIwFMI0R

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Join us virtually at the 2024 @GlobalEdAction GLOW Conference on 11/21, where WWB Campus will offer a workshop on bringing global lit alive through author classroom visits. If this sounds like your cup of tea, you can learn more about how to attend here: https://t.co/0C5bPKlKTd

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Join @LKTuffaha, guest editor of our collection "Against Silence" at this livestreamed event tomorrow: https://t.co/7Sn54wHizf

[E_Abalajon @JLaneria]

Kerima Lorena Tariman,
translated by Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis @wwborders

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Join us tonight for the Virtual Gala in T-45 minutes!
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Last call to get (free) tickets to our Virtual Gala on 11/13! Join from any time zone and any hemisphere. You just need a wi-fi connection and a love of global lit. Get tickets here: https://t.co/b4zItO5AoS

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"Does the camera make the unspeakable more speakable in the digital age? Is that a good thing or just a thing? The horror not subject to live-streamed narration versus the horror that is."

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

“I still get my parents water before they ask for it. And when I ask my kids for water, I feel my parents in me and feel my kids feeling good.” — @FadyJoudah https://t.co/bOLuwy2VrO

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“Sze’s imaginative capaciousness pulls in languages, traditions and systems from both East and West, and it can speak to the cosmos then turn to the smallest natural detail.” Congrats to WWB Contributor Arthur Sze on winning the 2024 Bobbitt Prize! https://t.co/ygjUiBEljo

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@DonMeeChoi @NewDirections @PoetKimHyesoon "Every aspect of the experimental, feminist South Korean writer’s voice is captured here, taken well beyond what we have seen translated into English thus far." !

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Now on WWB: three new interviews with writers & translators on the National Book Award for Translated Literature Shortlist! Go to the link in our bio to read what they have to say. https://t.co/BGt7KK283I

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Carve some time out today for new Han Kang (co-translated by WWB-er @p_niyahmorris)!

[New Yorker Fiction @NYerFiction]

This week's fiction is "Heavy Snow" by Han Kang (translated, from the Korean, by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris). https://t.co/p1z1m1FP64

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"The textures of Kinsky’s novel, like the angled glint of the film-paint, are richly contradictory..." If this review in @clereviewbooks has you curious about Kinsky's work, check out some of it here: https://t.co/LypwpAODZz

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"Kinsky maintains that film is a contact sport: not simply fingertips feeding celluloid through a projector... but also eyes carrying images like palmfuls of water."

@saffronmaeve on Esther Kinsky's "Seeing Further" @NYRB_Imprints
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[Sherna Khambatta @ShernaKhambatta]

9 Contemporary #Mexican Women Writers to Read Now - Words Without Borders https://t.co/86Brb3LjYf

[ተረት:ተረት TeretTeret @TeretTeret]

Publishers Need More Black Translator Friends by Aaron Robertson - Words Without Borders https://t.co/fXwGrH6Pod

[Ron Restrepo @Drhr90]

Excited to hear that this new book from ⁦@DorothyProject⁩ will be the topic for the next ⁦@pod_bright⁩ discussion. I was fortunate to sit at the same ⁦@wwborders⁩ gala table with Damion Searls, who recommended it, with a mischievous grin.

[National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics]

NBCC Vice President/Membership and Technology @Ofbooksandbikes reviewed Suzumi Suzuki's novella "Gifted," translated by Allison Markin Powell, for @wwborders: https://t.co/PJkYOFYoN5

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In this story from the archives, a woman is haunted by memories of committing violence during war, and a walk to the bakery turns into a harrowing, guilt-filled odyssey. Read “The Scream” by Claudia Salazar Jiménez (tr. Elizabeth Bryer): https://t.co/CC7Zbg7ooO

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Celebrate this book's tenth birthday with an excerpt on our site, first published in 2013! https://t.co/zPcGQG8ASp

[Deep Vellum @DeepVellum]

Ten years ago, we published our first book—TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT by Carmen Boullosa, a sprawling contemporary classic.

We’re thrilled to announce a special anniversary edition, translated by Samantha Schnee, with an introduction by Merve Emre ( @mervatim )

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@p_niyahmorris So excited to read!