Melissa Weiss

Melissa Weiss is a former WLT intern.

The Conversation Continues: An Interview with Alison Anderson and David Shook on Women in Translation

September 21, 2016 | Melissa Weiss

Alison Anderson and David Shook. Shook photo by Travis Elborough Three years ago, in a post published on Words Without Borders, Alison Anderson asked, “Where Are the Women in Translation?” T...
4 New May Translations

May 3, 2016 | Melissa Weiss

Juan José Saer The Clouds Trans. Hilary Vaughn DobelOpen Letter Doctor Real’s manuscript, located on a computer disk found by Pichón Garay, describes his trip with five mental patients to a...
City Profile: Kolkata

January 2016
Melissa Weiss

Kolkata. Photo by Matthew Winterburn/Flickr Kolkata has much to offer any traveler, whether history buff, literary aficionado, culture seeker, or wandering flâneur. In several places around the city,...
Shel Silverstein: Five Things You Might Not Know About the Famous Children’s Poet

April 30, 2013 | Melissa Weiss

1. He wrote the song “A Boy Named Sue” popularized by Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Live At San... by DJ_DirtyDevil 2. In 1956 he started drawing comics for...
Poetry on Screen: Five Films Inspired by Poetry

April 24, 2013 | Melissa Weiss

The Man from Snowy River (1982, Australia) Director: George Miller; Screenplay: Cul Cullen, John Dixon; Poem: Banjo Patterson (same title) Jim Craig is eighteen when his father dies, and to...
Four Female Poets You Should Know

April 22, 2013 | Melissa Weiss

Retrato de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. por Miguel Cabrea, 1750. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–95) was born in San Miguel Nepantla, Tepetlixpa, Mex...
5 Poets Your Children Should Know

April 15, 2013 | Melissa Weiss

While we’re celebrating poetry, let’s not overlook the poets who have written for children. Here are five international poets you should know, all of whom have included children’s poetry among their w...
Discovering a Long-overlooked Literary Culture in Tibet

December 6, 2012 | Melissa Weiss

Tibetan poet Woeser Since China’s invasion in the 1950s, the West’s main focus has been on the struggle for independence in Tibet, reporting the monks’ fiery suicides and protestors or journalists d...
New Books in Translation

December 4, 2012 | Melissa Weiss

November 27–December 11 Tears in Rain Rosa Montero, Lilit Žekulin Thwaites, tr. AmazonCrossingNovember 27, 2012 Detective Bruna Husky, a replicant or “techno-human,” was designed by humans to perform...
New in November

November 13, 2012 | Melissa Weiss

The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte Walter Murch, tr. Counterpoint For the first time, the works of Curzio Malaparte, an Italian journalist, novelist,...
Poetry Found: Genocide and War Memorials

October 24, 2012 | Melissa Weiss

A poet often sculpts language to invoke memory, feelings, and reflection. In this list of found poems, we discovered seven memorial sites all over the world that have incorporated poetry to commemorat...
Corruption, War, and Long-Lost Diaries: Recent Translations of Graphic Novels

October 9, 2012 | Melissa Weiss

A Game for Swallows Zeina Abirached, tr. Edward Gauvin Graphic Universe Born in the midst of the Lebanese war when the city of Beirut was divided between Christians and Musli...
Hammering More than a Small Chink into the Obsidian Wall of Ignorance: Melissa Weiss on Margaret Sayers Peden

September 18, 2012 | Melissa Weiss

“I think that’s what a lot of us want to do—bring something new to people who wouldn’t have it otherwise. And even though I’ve lost my naiveté about the translator’s ability to make much of an impres...