World Editions is happy and proud to share that two of our titles have been longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, as announced via the New Yorker on September 15. Waiting for the Waters to Rise by Alternative Nobel-winner Maryse Condé is translated from...
Vancouver Writers Fest Presents The International Sunday Brunch With Joshua Ferris, Claire Fuller, Linda Boström Knausgård, Pilar Quintana, Jaap Robben, and Jeff VanderMeer on Sunday, October 24 at 11 am Pacific time Sunday is made for slow, quiet mornings of contemplation, relaxation… and deliciousness. Enjoy a...
Sponsored by Center for the Art of Translation World Editions publishing house returns to Litquake with this program of readings and discussion between authors Kit Fan and Petra Hůlová. Hear the latest from international literature in translation, in these works ranging from a socio-critical satire of...
World Editions is proud to announce that our first three audiobooks are now available exclusively on Audible! Linda Boström Knausgård's October Child is now available as an audiobook. Translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel and read by Jane Weatherstone. Buy here or listen to a sample here. Pilar Quintana's The...
WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH READING SERIES presented by PEN America SESSION 1: Arthur Reiji Morris and Li Kotomi's Solo Dance Thursday, August 12, 2021 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Eastern [VIRTUAL] Moderator: Piotr Florczyk Kelsi Vanada (translator) and Natalia Litvinova (Spanish) Arthur Reiji Morris (translator) and Li Kotomi (Japanese) Kira...
A glowing review of Alternative Nobel-winner Maryse Condé's Waiting for the Waters to Rise was recently published with NPR. Journalist Gabino Iglesias writes, "There's a difference between authors who set out to write a novel and authors who set out to tell a story. I don't...
It’s with great sadness we announce the death of our author Paolo Maurensig, whose novels A Devil Comes to Town and Game of the Gods are published by World Editions, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel. World Editions publisher Judith Uyterlinde says, "It...
Maryse Condé will be awarded the Prix Mondial Cino del Duca 2021 for her oeuvre. The Prix Mondial Cino del Duca is an international literary award intended to reward an author whose work, in either scientific or literary form, constitutes a message of modern humanism....
We’re delighted to announce that Jaap Robben’s Summer Brother, translated from the Dutch by David Doherty, is on the longlist for one of the world’s most prestigious awards: The International Booker Prize 2021. The Prize is awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and...
On Friday, February 5, at noon Eastern time, Adeline Dieudonné, considered one of the Francophone world’s most promising emerging voices, talks with Heather O'Neill (The Girl Who Was Saturday Night) about her debut novel, Real Life. Adeline Dieudonné’s first novel, Real Life, was a literary sensation in the...