Today the English PEN Writers in Translation Committee announced nineteen PEN Translates awards to titles from fifteen countries and thirteen languages. Maryse Condé's Waiting for the Waters to Rise is among them, and is the first book from Guadeloupe to be awarded. Books are selected...
At World Editions, we aim to enhance dialogue between cultures and we have dedicated ourselves to bringing attention to outstanding writers from all over the world. We cannot stay silent about the systemic racism flaring across the United States and elsewhere. World Editions stands in...
Portals is a special podcast series from International Literature Festival Dublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its postponement. Hosted by Caelainn Hogan. In...
Christine Otten, author of THE LAST POETS, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the last album from The Last Poets. The anniversary will be celebrated on May 19, 2020 with various live-streamed events on Facebook (at midnight UK time) and Instagram. https://youtu.be/SxzGuoiTrpE...
The book is creating quite a buzz. Our friends at the Institut Francais have made it book of the week – more information here, and was reviewed in the FT link, Sunday Times and featured on Bookblast, link the New Scientist link and the Literary...
The Guardian listed Two Blankets, Three Sheets as one of the best books of 2020 to date – Rodaan and translator Jonathan Reeder are in fine company with Hilary Mantel, Evie Wyld, Maggie O’Farrell and Jennie Offill! Catch up with Rodaan and Jonathan on 10 June...
Here our author Christine Otten introduces her ‘fictional biopic’ of the Poets. You can read her article in the Guardian here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/21/the-last-poets-america-in-poetry-from-black-power-to-black-lives-matter ...
Philip Boehm, whose translation (from the Polish) of Anna Janko's A Little Annihilation is forthcoming from World Editions on November 26 in the UK, has won the 2020 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, which is awarded by the Goethe-Institute of New York, for his...
If you missed the Sant Jordi in NYC Online Festival, do not fret! The fabulous conversations with our authors and their translators are available on our YouTube Channel. Find the full playlist here, or the individual videos below. Author Adeline Dieudonné & Real Life with publisher...
World Editions is proud to have five of our authors and their translators participating in the Sant Jordi Festival in New York, now being celebrated online! All times are in Eastern (New York). 23 April 3:30 pm: The Bitch with author Pilar Quintana and translator Lisa Dillman 4:30...