The prize recognizes Words Without Borders for its commitment to persecuted writers, essayists, poets, and journalists.

For as long as Palestinians have resisted their occupiers, a companion narrative questioning our very existence, a profoundly dehumanizing narrative rooted in the West’s still unexamined anti-Arab ...

Tobias Carroll on the five books in translation that should be on your radar this month, from Egypt, India, Poland, and more. What the publisher says: “Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland, edited by ...

I long for you myself.

This month we present work by women writing in indigenous African languages. In these stories and poems translated from Gun, Hausa, Luganda, Runyankole-Rukiga, Tigrinya, and Wolof, writers depict ...

Now she walked a step behind him, looking at everything suspiciously with her new, cold eyes, but without venturing a word. Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...