Posted on August 09, 2019
Literature written in indigenous languages on this site includes, from Mexico, the poems Purépecha Mother, Marías Mazahuas, and Nothing Remains Empty, as well as the story Dreams and Memories of a Common Man.
Posted on August 01, 2019
"Sometimes I think it's impossible for someone to be as beautiful and ugly as my mother," comments the fourteen-year-old co-narrator of Manon Steffan Ros's award-winning Llyfr Glas Nebo (The Blue Book of Nebo). The novel, translated from the Welsh and excerpted in this month's issue of Words Without Borders, is in the form of dual diary entries from a boy and his mother following a world-ending war.
Posted on July 28, 2019
July 28th marks the anniversary of Peru's 1821 independence from Spain. To celebrate, we're re-publishing a post about Peruvian author Marco Avilés, as well as the audio story "Pijo y yo," about Marco's adventures with his dog in their adopted home of Maine.
Posted on July 22, 2019
A new UN program invites students around the world to create media projects around the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which include such aims as "No Poverty," "Gender Equality," "Good Health," and "Climate Action."
Posted on July 15, 2019
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In a recent essay published in the New York Review of Books, Nigerian-American author Teju Cole explores the etymology of the word translation---literally, to carry across ---and draws a connection between literal and linguistic border crossings:
