75 Notable Translations; World Literature; Translation
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December 14, 2020 |
Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved fro... -
December 10, 2019 |
In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pieces by trans... -
December 11, 2018 |
As the year’s news of rising nationalistic strains and attacks against the press continued, the urgent need for translation became ever more apparent. More and more, translation across borders embo...
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I kiss her
& death
is the shadow of that loving bird
shaking
on the pool
yet
when she turns to look...
