Dhumketu
The Shenai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
Trans. Jenny Bhatt
Deep Vellum
DEEP VELLUM PUBLISHED this first substantial collection of Dhumketu…
New in Translation
Eleni Kefala Time Stitches Trans. Peter Constantine Deep Vellum We’ve been waiting for this new collection of poems by WLT contributor Eleni Kefala. The Gr…
In the world of translation, especially as a translator of color myself, I find it important to read both translations and writings that are about various languages (including emotions), about acknowl…
Hwang Sok-yong The Prisoner: A Memoir Trans. Sora Kim-Russell & Anton Hur Verso, 2021 Written by renowned Korean author and famous democracy activist Hwang So…
In the children’s market, very little is translated into English from languages beyond western Europe, and until very recently Korean children’s books, for all their vibrancy and stunn…
There’s never enough space to cover them all, but in an effort to account for as many titles as possible, here are thirteen 2021 translations for your reading list, including novels, nonfict…
SINCE THE MILLENNIUM, the availability of English translations of Icelandic literature has grown exponentially. It is impossible to dismiss the effect of Nordic Noir in this developme…
SOUTH ASIA—which, per the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation definition, includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and t…
We love new-translation news. Here, WLT intern Alex Crayon offers four new translations—from Spanish, Korean, French, and Catalan—all releasing in February 2021. …
