Three of our translators, Anne Milano Appel (for her translation from the Italian of Paolo Maurensig), and Sinéad Crowe & Rachel McNicholl (for their translation from the German of Pierre Jarawan), are shortlisted for the Society of Authors 2020 Translation Prizes. Winners will be announced February...
Pilar Quintana, author of the National Book Award Finalist, The Bitch, has two upcoming online events with indie bookstores. Please join us! Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 7 pm Eastern Hosted by Scuppernong Books in North Carolina Click here for the event page on Scuppernong's website. Click here to register...
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....