Words Without Borders

Food as a treat, food as a weapon, food that brings us together, and hunger that compounds our isolation . . . The stories collected here are united by the common theme of food or its absence. Ta...

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1. Mamali dishes food onto plates—two plates, four plates, six—and says to put them on the floor, where a tablecloth has been laid out for dinner. There are fewer people today than usual: Far...

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Marcia Lynx Qualey, the founder of ArabLit and an award-winning editor, writer, and translator, will receive the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, Words Without Bo...

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From Open Letter | The Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešic, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth | Essays | 260 pages | ISBN 9781948830782 | US$15.95 What the publisher says: “The...

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We said     It was a certain arrangement of words that was meant for nothing more than the birthing of storms or revelations of thunder that record every conspiracy rooted in dense, dark fores...

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Late last year, the Queen Sofía Institute in New York invited me to do, for a few minutes, something I would happily do for hours on end: talk about translation and translators. The occasion was...

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I called it “Shakharbanu’s Curse.” It accompanied me all through my childhood, and when I came of age, it bore witness to my agony of trying to fit in with those around me. A good title det...

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They leave without turning the moon of longing off behind them, without shutting the door overlooking the dew of the steps they’d taken, they don’t drink water to know how to return to water,...

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In your room, whatever you hang on your wall— an image of a horse, a picture of the masters, or even a sketch of St. Petersburg— will become your self-portrait. And on the street you walk, wh...

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“What’s there to say? Mom’s crying all day, Dad refuses to speak to her. He says she’s buried her alive, that he won’t talk to her anymore if she keeps crying. And Mom just keeps callin...

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-04/nepal-marina-gudelj-ena-selimovic/