The Bitch by Pilar Quintana and translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman is a Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Please join us and the National Book Foundation for two upcoming events to celebrate the finalists and announce the winners. National Book...
Amin Maalouf will participate in an interview with the Toronto International Festival of Authors. DATE: Saturday, October 31, 2020 TIME: 11:00 am Eastern (3 pm UK, 4 pm Central Europe) DURATION: 45 minutes INTERVIEWER: Gregory McCormick VIRTUAL event via Vimeo (please sign up below) https://festivalofauthors.ca/book-author/amin-maalouf/ Please register for the event here to...
This tribute documentary video is courtesy of the Ake Festival. [embed]https://youtu.be/3wwpprswWi8[/embed]...
Pilar Quintana's The Bitch, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, has been named a Finalist for the National Book Award in Translated Literature. Congratulations to Pilar, Lisa, and all of the finalists! Read the announcement from the National Book Foundation and The Washington Post here. graphics by the...
On Thursday, October 8, 2020, at 10 am CEST (4 am New York), Carl Nixon, author of The Tally Stick (forthcoming from World Editions in November 2021) will be in conversation with World Editions director Judith Uyterlinde. This event is hosted by Anna Soler-Pont of...
From the festival: Award-nominated works of literary translation by former participants in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program will be discussed in this panel. Anja Kampmann, a German poet and novelist was a part of the IWP in 2010. She will discuss her novel High as the...
The annual Brooklyn Book Festival will take place virtually this year from September 28 through October 5, 2020. The main festival day will be Sunday, October 4. Visit the Brooklyn Book Festival website for the full line-up of events. You can visit the World Editions vendor page...
"Young people party like there’s no tomorrow because they know there might not be one" Novelist Pierre Jarawan (author of The Storyteller) describes Beirut, where every adult knows what to do when there’s an explosion, for The Irish Times Read the full article here....
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 Disaster (Trade Paperback • 4/7/2020 • 978-1-64286-068-9) written by Linda Boström Knausgård and translated from...
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 American Literary Translators Association's annual National Translation Award in Prose. Martin Aitken is a full-time translator of...