By Words without Borders, May 6, 2021. Interviews. In recent years, a proliferation of books in translation for children and young adults has brought imaginative stories from around the world to new readers. We’re speaking with some of the extraordinary publishers who make these books possible about their experience working in this vital field. For …
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By Hongling Zhang, SupChina, 9 april, 2021. Wang Xiaobo’s translator writes about the enduring cult status of this important Chinese writer, who still remains obscure outside his home country. In some ways, Wang is more necessary now than ever. Considered one of the most important literary and intellectual figures of 20th-century China, Wáng Xiǎobō …
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By July Blalack, Words without Borders, May 2021 The release of the Hollywood film The Mauritanian earlier this year made a harrowing tale of torture and injustice at Guantánamo Bay the first Mauritanian story to truly reach the world. When the book the film was based on—Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi—came out in 2015, there were …
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By Nusrat Sidiq, Daily Sabah, 22, March 2021. Many female figures throughout Islamic history have been admired for their lives, knowledge and morals. A biographical work from Ottoman literature, ‘Meşahirü’n-nisa,’ illuminates the stories of 1,165 renowned figures among them International Women’s Day, marked on March 8, emerged in the early 1900s as part of …
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By Hakan Arslanbenzer Turkish literary history has had some very sharp turns on the aesthetic account since the Turks adopted Islam as both a religion and civilization. As the Oghuz tribes settled down in Anatolia for two centuries following the first Seljuk conquests, the Turkish language and literary tradition entered into a complete metamorphosis. Though …
By Omnia Saed Here’s 7 of our favorite female writers who are reshaping poetry worldwide to hold you over this summer. When Beyoncé dropped Lemonade earlier this year, the world opened their ears to the brilliant work of the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire. But while the mainstream is only catching on to her now, Warsan has been a …
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Anappara, Bhaskar, Zaidi, and Majumdar also happen to be debut writers selected for the longlist this year. By PTI Having authored six out of the ten books selected for the JCB Prize for Literature longlist, women writers dominated the list announced on Tuesday. The women writers on the list include Deepa Anappara for “Djinn Patrol on …
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Catholic News Service – 24 August 2020 Back in June 2013 an intrepid social media user set up a Twitter account to post lines from Herman Melville’s novel, “Moby-Dick.” Individual lines, one at a time, for seven years now. The lines are posted in no particular order and they are sometimes accompanied by an illustration or a …
With our increased physical distance from each other, novels about forbidden touch and longing are more seductive than ever. Joanna Briscoe 22 May 2020 I n our time of social distancing, the desire for physical contact has never been so intense. And yet we are untouchable. This experience has had its more conspicuous consequences, such …
Look, don’t touch: what great literature can teach us about love with no contact Read More »
How to avoid being white poop. I came across this compelling article that really got me thinking about my earlier life. I don’t think people give our four-legged counterparts the respect they deserve. For your own sake, it’s important not to assume animals are stupid. Case in point, disregard ‘expert’ suggestion that you engage in …
