The Watchlist: October 2018
October 16th, 2018by Tobias Carroll
The Latest from WWB Daily
- Book Fairs/Festivals
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival: An Interview with Janet DeNeefe
by Jessie Chaffee
“The UWRF has often been described as a human rights festival in the guise of a literary festival; from environment to religion, feminism to immigration, regional politics to how Indonesia’s ...read more
- First Read
First Read—From “Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl”
by Uwe Johnson
“It wasn’t so much that he was afraid of anyone ‘going a bit hungry’—it wasn’t a hardship yet, that would come in winter. It was that he couldn’t keep the talk under control, the ...read more
- Essays
The Person Who Bears My Name—A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse Story
by Glaydah Namukasa, Ibtisam Azem, Amir Ahmadi Arian, and Silvana Paternostro
At PEN America’s Lit Crawl Brooklyn 2018, WWB and SLICE Literary partnered to present a story penned by four international writers and translators. ...read more
- Book Fairs/Festivals
From Language Extinction to Pearls Crushed in Wine: JLF at New York
by Noor Naga
“[The] 2018 edition at New York featured a range of discussion topics, from the consequences of colonialism and empire on best-selling author Shashi Tharoor’s Hindu faith to the potentially ...read more
- Essays
Flight: An International Exquisite Corpse
by Pema Bhum, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Krys Lee, and Kanako Nishi
For writers and translators work together to create a single story in multiple languages. ...read more
- City and the Writer
The City and the Writer: In Beirut with Jehan Bseiso
by Nathalie Handal
"Although Beirut is not my city of origin, it is the city of my heart." ...read more
- Reading Lists
For International Translation Day: 15 Ways of Looking at Translation
by Susan Harris
Essays, interviews, and conversations on the art and craft of translation, with topics ranging from translators as sci-fi heroes to the undeniable ubiquity of a phrase. ...read more
The Translator Relay
by Words Without Borders
WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator each month. ...read more
- First Read
First Read—From “What We Owe”
by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
"The day I was born, I was a disappointment. I was the sixth girl in a family with no sons. I was not what my parents had hoped for." ...read more
- Essays
The Longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
by M.A. Orthofer
M.A. Orthofer considers the new National Book Award for Translated Literature and walks us through the inaugural longlist titles. ...read more