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...
A Devil Comes to Town, by Paolo Maurensig and translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award for fiction in translation as one of the best works by a northern California author published in 2019. There will...
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 nave di Teseo), and the 23rd edition of the Malaparte...
Amin Maalouf & Jonathan Sacks: Rediscovering Our Moral Compass Fri 28 Aug 4pm - 5pm (Edinburgh), 11am (New York) Free, online Amin Maalouf and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Rediscovering Our Moral Compass Amin will be discussing his new book, Adrift. How Our World Lost Its Way, published in Frank Wynne’s English...
Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country, on writing, activism, and motherhood for the Melbourne Writers Festival via The Guardian: click here to read! ...
Maryse Condé, author of The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, has been selected as the London Review Bookshop's Author of the Month for August! Click here to find out more information. Click here to read more about The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan...
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Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf, translated from the French by Frank Wynne, received a starred review from Kirkus: “A Camus for our time, Maalouf urges that civilization is “fragile, shimmering, evanescent”—and perhaps doomed. The Summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser,...
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...