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@wwborders.bsky.socialToday on WWB, Hannah Jochmans delves into Miljenko Jergović’s acoustically-centered short story collection INSHALLAH, MADONNA, INSHALLAH (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać and Mirza Purić, @archipelagobooks.bsky.social) in our latest book review. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
@wwborders.bsky.socialOur executive director, Elisabeth Jaquette, is at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year to accept the 2026 Aficionado Award on behalf of Words Without Borders.
Read Elisabeth's interview with Sam Spratford at Publishers Weekly here:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
@wwborders.bsky.socialAuthor Vicente Luis Mora and translator Rahul Bery discuss CENTROEUROPA, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read their interview on frozen farming discoveries, translating under meticulous word counts, and more at the link: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialThis Thursday, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the TEN Nobel laureates in literature in the WWB archive! From 1988’s winner Naguib Mahfouz, to Olga Tokarczuk in 2018, to 2025’s László Krasznahorkai, check out work from these renowned global writers on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...
@sunypress.bsky.socialReposted by @wwborders.bsky.socialJoin Nathan H. Dize as he takes part in the 2026 Words Without Borders Literary Gala in New York City on October 28th. Dize's forthcoming book, ATTENDING TO THE DEAD, will be available in March 2027. @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/.../the-2026...
@wwborders.bsky.socialDid you miss excerpts from the finalists for, and winner of, the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation? Read translations from Tamil, Sinhala, Kashmiri, and more, including an excerpt by prizewinner Mehdi Khawaja: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...
@wwborders.bsky.socialWWB's 2026 National Book Awards interview series continues with Ping Lu and @jeremytiang.bsky.social on TO THE EAST OF THE EAST. Read about the author’s inspiration in “mirrors within mirrors” and the “misrecognitions and misreadings” of the world here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialIn Ersi Sotiropoulos’s claustrophobic story, a woman juggles the needs of her employer’s ill daughter and the demands of her drunkard husband. Read Karen Emmerich’s translation of “Can Anybody Hear Me?”, along with other pieces from our archives, at the link: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialNext up in our 2026 series of National Book Awards interviews, @vicenteluismora.bsky.social and @rahulbery.bsky.social on CENTROEUROPA, a “brilliant and unsettling” story set in 1820s rural Prussia. Read their interview on the longlisted novel here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@rahulbery.bsky.socialReposted by @wwborders.bsky.socialinterview with me and @vicenteluismora.bsky.social in @wwborders.bsky.social about Centroeuropa. Tomorrow we find out if we’re finalists in the national book award translated fiction category! 🤞
@littranslate.bsky.socialReposted by @wwborders.bsky.social📣 UPDATE! ALTA is delighted to announce that the 2027 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open - and now include a mentorship in Polish with Bill Johnston!
See more details, and apply by November 30: buff.ly/LRfX9nP
@clmporg.bsky.socialReposted by @wwborders.bsky.socialOur September roundup features @onestorymag.bsky.social, @pinchjournal.bsky.social, @prairie-schooner.bsky.social, @rawheadjournal.bsky.social, @therebis.com, @remediatelitmag.bsky.social, @tintjournal.bsky.social, @wwborders.bsky.social, and more lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/septemb...
@readjapaneseliterature.comReposted by @wwborders.bsky.socialA body horror story for spooky season
Takami Nieda translates Asa Nonami's "Face" from the collection Body
@wwborders.bsky.socialAuthor Karim Kattan and translator Jeffrey Zuckerman discuss EDEN AT DAWN, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read the first in our 2026 series of National Book Award interviews at the link: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialAuthor Maria Stepanova and translator Sasha Dugdale discuss THE DISAPPEARING ACT, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read the next interview in our 2026 National Book Awards series at the link: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialDemons, primates, and quirky villagers: Find all this and more in the six new books Tobias Carroll recommends this month. Check out titles translated from Spanish, Dutch, Korean and beyond in the September Watchlist: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialA woman balancing the care of an ailing child with the impositions of her alcoholic husband wonders: “Can Anybody Hear Me?” Read Ersi Sotiropoulos’s dense short story (tr. Karen Emmerich), resurfaced from our 2009 “Greece, Inside (and) Out” issue, here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialMaria Stepanova and @sashadugdale.bsky.social on THE DISAPPEARING ACT, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read about their “ongoing conversation” in translating the novel, its echo of Leonora Carrington paintings, and more: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.socialLast but never least, Berta García Faet’s A LITTLE PRETTY PERSONALITY (tr. Kelsi Vanada, Cardboard House) takes an unconventional approach to language that “turns familiar stories and fables into fresh and invigorating experiences.” asterismbooks.com/product/a-li...
@wwborders.bsky.socialENCHANTMENT by Riikka Pulkkinen (tr. Tabatha Leggett, Scribe) is at once a dreamy and haunting psychological thriller with the definite addition of “Twin Peaks” DNA: bookshop.org/p/books/ench...
