I tried to get rid of the idea, but it kept coming back. In the end, I realized the only way out was to write it.

I tried to find my own multifarious freedom in the attempt to honor hers.

I’ve never worked as closely with a writer as I worked with Neige. Because Neige’s English is so good, she was able to pick up all sorts of subtleties.

I remember almost tearing my hair out trying to translate the extracts from Paz's first letters to Elena, from before their marriage.

It's rare (for me) to read a book that is both totally thrilling and utterly unique. It's tiny, but it feels like it contains universes.

This translation was born lucky—with an author who supports a notion of translation as interpretation, it had every chance of flourishing.

I have a close friend who is one of the leading specialists in generative poetry, and thanks to him I became immersed in the theme of AI long before the arrival of ChatGPT.

Before The Remembered Soldier was published, I had published eight novels, but I was quite an unknown writer.

I found some of the work here challenged my thinking of Caribbean Hindustani language and culture, poetry, and the translational act, and I am here for all of this.

A border-dweller is someone for whom the existence of a limit is not a reason to stop.

The city felt like a place of shame and powerlessness. I have written so much about this, yet no amount of writing and rewriting helps.

There are so many great translators out there with wonderful projects, and I want to see them published. If I can step into the breach, I try to, for the sake of the ecosystem and, by extension, myself.

Editorial fellow Elete Nelson-Fearon talks with WWB about theater translation, living in Cairo, and her all-time favorite book.

Although the two protagonists have ostensibly opposing views on lots of things and are also two generations apart, they share a lot of linguistic mannerisms, as family members often do.

I wanted to create a journey for a book censor who becomes eventually a reader, and then he needs to protect this new identity as a reader in a world that deals with it as if it's a crime or something.

The first sprout I think to Ædnan was an image I saw, an inner image, of a woman, an older woman and her kind of silence, the silence she had in her face and the seriousness she had. I struggled for a long time to approach her and get into her life and…

I was working on tuning my instrument with the next books at the same time as Barbara was tuning her English instrument with the books.

I know that the first time I read the book I was very confused, which is the point.

Fernanda really captures the sensation of moving through a city stripped of not only most of its inhabitants, but also of most of its natural and human-made sounds.

The Nakba of 1948, and the endless states of exile and refugeedom into which it cast the Palestinian people across the Arab world and beyond, sparked many new trends and movements in modern Arabic literature and art during the second half of the twentieth…

I have learned that imperfection can be a motor for creativity.

The songs are part of our lives in the chars. They have been passed down to us and adapted through generations and are a testament to how life and religion become one in the everyday.

Mothering and translating get described in similar ways; they are often devalued in similar ways.

A conversation about Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian writer serving a life sentence in Israeli prison.

“I was also fortunate to be in an environment where there was already some consciousness about the literary richness of Rajasthani, the fact that the language does not get its due, the importance of learning and speaking it.”

I’m very excited to read works from all over the world and especially hope to engage with translators of color and early-career translators.

Although I’m inclined to become a novelist and narrative journalist, I secretly wish I was a poet, and often find myself poring over lines written by my college poet-friends and WWB contributors.

As a writer, I don't ever place myself with a point of view about morality or ethics. I have characters whom I create, and I try to give each of these characters his or her chance.

Ultimately I am curious to explore how we can cultivate appreciation, access, understanding, and preservation of the literary arts (and the arts more broadly) with the digital technologies of today.

If every generation of language users expresses this constantly churning discomfort about the unworkability of language, then literary translation acknowledges the discomfort, examines it, and places it front and center.

As editorial fellow, I would like to draw readers in and provide them with the opportunity to pursue their own paths by engaging with our contributors and their stories every step of the way.

The opinions of those who can’t speak are often treated as if they don’t exist.

I began to understand that a lot of the work that I found most interesting wasn’t coming out of English, but from other languages instead.  

When I translate, it’s just me and the text, and I work quickly, intuitively. If I ever try to slow down or analyze what I’m doing, I lose that sense of flow.

There is a sense of hidden English in my novels because of my family circumstances.

Trust creates room for play, which, in my opinion, is vital to the act of translation and to any artistic collaboration, says translator Lizzie Davis.

I always say that the last book I translated is the hardest book I’ve ever translated. But in this case, I think it’s true!

“This was just being at the right place at the right time,” says translator Bruna Dantas Lobato.

This novel is my answer to that fear, to that childhood fear says Pilar Quintana of her Abyss, longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Trust is the lifeblood of successful author-translator collaborations, and by trusting me so unwaveringly, Fernanda has also shown me how to trust myself.

It was fate that I translated this book, says National Book Award semifinalist Anton Hur.

To me, the text doesn't resolve itself even when I write the final sentence.

An anthology like this challenges literary marketing and literary history.

In Switzerland people tend to be reticent, but reticence is—from both literary and theoretical perspectives—the best starting point for sudden passion.

I came here looking for the East Berlin I saw across the Berlin Wall in 1987 as an eighth grader on an exchange program.

On clear days, the Alps and Apennines lift Parma to the heavens.

Gaza is the soil where the tree of my consciousness and enlightenment has grown.

In a world of enforced transparency and readability, Jericho provides lush and deep gardens where no one can find you.

One is hopeful from the moment one enters the city of Ziguinchor.

It’s in everyone’s interest to fund the often-unpaid labor of sample translation.

Gela, my odd Gela, a provincial soul in an overgrown urban body, a clash of ancient and modern.

Literature and, inevitably, theater, have belonged to Siracusa since its Greek colonization.

Everyone around me spoke both languages and we could move back and forth between them almost unconsciously, which is why I often say that my real first language is Spanglish.

Palermo moves a lot but hardly budges.

Translation is an extension of my preoccupations as a creative writer.