Words Without Borders & WWB Campus

A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems - Words Without Borders In two allusive poems by Aonghas MacNeacail, feelings and atmospheres emerge from surfaces botanical and textural.

In two allusive poems by Aonghas MacNeacail, feelings and atmospheres emerge from surfaces botanical and textural. Read “A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems” (translated from Scots Gaelic by Taylor Strickland) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak - Words Without Borders Tsering Woeser’s melancholic poem mourns the lives lost to the violence of an unfree Tibet.

Tsering Woeser’s melancholy poem (tr. Fiona Sze-Lorrain) mourns the lives lost to the violence of an unfree Tibet. Read “Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak” here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

If you haven't read Solvej Balle's series, now is the time! We interviewed Balle and the translator of her first two books, Barbara J. Haveland, as apart of our National Book Award interview series. Read the interview here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Osdany Morales and Harry Bauld win the inaugural Poetry in Translation Prize | Fitzcarraldo Editions Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the inaugural winner of the Poetry in Translation Prize, Osdany Morales’s Security Questions, translated by Harry...

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the inaugural winner of the Poetry in Translation Prize, Osdany Morales’s Security Questions, translated by Harry Bauld. Read more about the winning collection here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2026/02/osda...

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Los Angeles friends, attend this reading of Suzanne Jill Levine's new memoir! You can read her work on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

An image of Milner's Tower, Bradda Head, Port Erin at night. Overlaid in white is text that reads: “When the Stanley ruled in Mannin, The Manx people were trampled down, But there were some amongst us, Striving to keep our nation alive. Strong still is Ellan Vannin: The fine young people, Standing for country and language, Crying out throughout the land of their love, ‘Rise up! Rise up!’” Strong Still Is Ellan Vannin: Three Poems By Mona Douglas, translated from Manx by Robert Corteen Carswell The Beating Heart: New Celtic Writing.

Read three poems translated from Manx in “Strong Still Is Ellan Vannin” by Mona Douglas (tr. Robert Corteen Carswell), which explore the fight for freedom and celebrate the indomitable spirit and resilience of the Isle of Man. Find them here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The 12 novels in the In Translation Bundle

The "In Translation" Ebook Bundle is live!

Basic tier features three novels translated from Shona, Korean, and Arabic!

For $25 or more: the bonus tier! Includes 9 MORE ebooks, including two Blaft titles -- Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home & The Aayakudi Murders!

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What Am I, A Deer? (Author Collection) | Fitzcarraldo Editions To celebrate the launch of Polly Barton’s What Am I, A Deer?, we are pleased to present the author collection, a series of occasional limited editions. Available exclusively through independent booksh...

🦌We are excited to announce a limited edition of Polly Barton’s debut novel WHAT AM I, A DEER?🦌

This edition is available exclusively through independent bookshops and on our website, with a run of 2,500 copies. Pre-order now: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/what-a...

An image of white crumpled sheets, above it is white text that reads “woke up i did from shell membrane a wee shirt & wished mi that saffron shirt my people’s celebrity ” A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems by Aonghas MacNeacail, translated from Scots Gaelic by Taylor Strickland The Beating Heart: New Celtic Writing

Joining our new Celtic issue are two poems by Aonghas MacNeacail. Translated from Scots Gaelic by @taylor-strickland.bsky.social these pensive poems evoke emotions through the beauty of the Scottish landscape. Read “A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems” here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

COOL TO THE TOUCH Rhoda Feng on Emi Yagi's When the Museum Is Closed

"Yagi and her translator Yuki Tejima have a gift for finding beauty in the quotidian—a kind of ekphrasis of the everyday." — @artforum.com

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Books in Translation We're Looking Forward to Reading in 2026 "Literature in translation invites readers into a global literary conversation. We are brought face to face with cultures and lives outsides of our own.

Pen America names "The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman" in its collection of 2026 translations to look forward to. bookshop.org/lists/books-...

15 Translated Novels You Should Read This Winter and Spring - Electric Literature The first half of 2026 is introducing literary voices from Iran, Mauritius, Brazil, and elsewhere

Discover the most anticipated novels in translation to read this spring:

Join us for our next book group, online or in Downtown San Francisco from 12-1 pm PST. February's pick is the novel TOMB OF SAND by Geetanjali Shree, translated from the Hindi by @shreedaisy.bsky.social (HarperVia). Register here: buff.ly/ZKgNe7o

New York, don't miss this event with our contributor Cristina Rivera Garza!
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A new book translated by our contributor Forrest Gander: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

KOLYMA STORIES, translated by our contributor Donald Rayfield: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Reminder you can still submit a solution to the translation puzzle in @nplusonemag.com which this month is my poem MARG URÞÚ SEMS YRGR

Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak - Words Without Borders Tsering Woeser’s melancholic poem mourns the lives lost to the violence of an unfree Tibet.

"I can do nothing but cry and write poems."
Read "Only This Useless Poem" by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social, from her new book "Ocean, as Much as Rain," in @wwborders.bsky.social.

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#SFinTranslation on the web for 2026:

from @clarkesworldmagazine.com and @wwborders.bsky.social so far!

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Wonderful poem. We're such huge fans of her work!

An image of a stone hut with a red door on a mountainside, overlaid is white text that reads: Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak, by Tsering Woeser, translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Poetry, “If you gaze at hell for too long you risk being eaten bit by bit Are you willing to negotiate? If so, we’ll listen in exchange for his safe return”

Read Tsering Woeser’s poem “Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak” (tr. Fiona Sze-Lorrain). Woeser’s poem is an elegy to the Tibetan monks and nuns protesting Chinese rule since 2011. . Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Zalman S. Davis reads Thơ Mới poetry as a space where male intimacy could appear through ambiguity & restraint. Xuân Diệu’s sensuous lyricism & Huy Cận’s melancholic reserve express modern subjectivity inflected by suppressed queer desire.

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Happy pub day to WWB contributor Geetanjali Shree!

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Lovely shot of a book translated by WWB contributor, Ellen Jones!

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Part One, Emile Habiby’s ‘The Six-Day Sextet’ Over the next six weeks, we will be publishing installments of Emile Habiby's The Six-Day Sextet, which is available in an open-access, non-commercial translation by Invisible Dragoman. The next installment is set to appear February 9, 2026.

Part One, Emile Habiby’s ‘The Six-Day Sextet’

Over the next six weeks, we will be publishing installments of Emile Habiby's The Six-Day Sextet, which is available in an open-access, non-commercial translation by Invisible Dragoman. The next installment is set to appear February 9, 2026.

Cheers to that!