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15 Nov

Two Days of Events with Maryse Condé at the marvellous MUCEM in Marseille, France

November 15, 2022
By Karin Wessel

25 and 26 november: two days of meetings, readings, shows and concerts, all dedicated to Maryse Condé's important work at the marvellous MUCEM museum in Marseille, France. Author of some fort...

31 Oct

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Women on the Verge of a Holy Breakdown

October 31, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Books@Hikayat Hikayat and Gerakbudaya Bookshop (Malaysia) present Women on the Verge of a Holy Breakdown Karina Robles Bahrin and Preeta Samarasan with Mohani Niza Authors Karina Robles Bahrin and...

25 Oct

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Preeta Samarasan meets her readers at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Indonesia

October 25, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Preeta Samarasan meets her readers at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Indonesia IN CONVERSATION WITH TASH AW AND PREETA SAMARASAN Oct. 28, Rumah Buku. Taman Baca, 09,00-10.00 Tash ...

25 Oct

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Preeta Samarasan meets her readers at Lit Books in Selangor, Malaysia

October 25, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Malaysian author Preeta Samarasan will be in conversation with Lit Books’ Fong Min Hun about her new novel Tale of the Dreamer's Son (pub date November 1). When: Sunday 5 November, 8 pm Audience...

26 Sep

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Brooklyn Book Festival launch of Cocoon & Meet the Team

September 27, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Come meet us at our booth 527, 2pm, Sunday October 2nd For the launch of Cocoon by Zhang Yueran Meet the Translator Jeremy Tiang Meet Publisher Judith Uyterlinde and US Director Christine Swe...

26 Sep

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Natalia García Freire and Pierre Jarawan at the Vancouver Writers Fest, October 2022

September 27, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Natalia García Freire, author of This World Does Not Belong to Us, and Pierre Jarawan, author of The Storyteller and Song for the Missing, will be appearing at this year's Vancouver Writers Fest in O...

18 Sep

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The Bitch and The Helios Disaster Longlisted for the National Book Award

September 18, 2020
By Karin Wessel

It is our immense pleasure to share that two World Editions titles were longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature yesterday, as announced via the New Yorker. The Helios Dis...

18 Sep

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Welcome to America Longlisted for ALTA’s National Translation Award

September 18, 2020
By Karin Wessel

Welcome to America (World Editions, 2019), written by Linda Boström Knausgård (The Helios Disaster, October Child) and translated from the Swedish by Martin Aitken, has been longlisted for the America...

18 Sep

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The Bitch and The Helios Disaster Longlisted for the National Book Award

September 18, 2020
By Karin Wessel

It is our immense pleasure to share that two World Editions titles were longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature yesterday, as announced via the New Yorker. The Helios Dis...

26 Aug

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Double recognition for Amin Maalouf, winner of the Terzani Prize 2020 and of the Malaparte Prize.

July 20, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Double recognition for Amin Maalouf. The Lebanese writer won the 16th edition of the Terzani Prize, with the Italian edition of the book Adrift. How Our World Lost Its Way (published in Italy by La na...