Thrilled to hear M Lynx Qualey is being honored with the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature after years of tireless & brilliant advocacy. Chapeau!

OMG, if *anyone* deserves this it is M Lynx Qualey!!!

As someone who has admired her translation work and advocacy for YEARS, I am over the MOON to hear this news!

Congratulations, dear Marcia! 🌟🌟🌟🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆

Literature would be poorer without all you have done.

Congratulations to M Lynx Qualey [founder of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly] on receiving the prestigious 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature [WordsWithoutBorders]. So very well earned!! I'm so glad!!

Glorious news. M Lynx Qualey is a force of nature, who consistently achieves the extraordinary.

📣📣We have an Ottaway! Hurrah for M Lynx Qualey and ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly!

I'll happily hang my hat on 'a place where humanity happens'. This essay also hit all the notes for me.

This article / hip party photos make it look easy, but for those of us who work in nonprofit lit orgs we know the blood/sweat/tears behind the rise of Deep Vellum and #literarydallas . Many congratulations, Will Evans and here's to the next 10, 20, 30 years!

'you, then, have no basis to be self-righteous.'

Read ARTHUR SZE's translation of 'In Your Room' by Wang Jiaxin, featured on WordsWithoutBorders: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Apparently nearly 500 people have signed up for the livestream for tonight's event because translators are endlessly fascinating.
#translationship (yes, starting that hashtag right here and now)

Congratulations to WWB contributor Jason Allen-Paisant, shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize! You can read his essay on Aimé Césaire, history, and poetry here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors/v…

Don't forget to livestream this star-studded event (happening tomorrow) with WWB's own @samanthaschnee!

Two poems by the one and only Binoy Majumdar in my translation on WordsWithoutBorders today. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

How I wish I were in Berlin for this event!

Happy #PoetryMonth , educators! This roundup of Caribbean poems—from Cuba, Martinique, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic—offers endless angles for students to personally connect, ranging from reggaetón music to romantic love. buff.ly/49nTvxu

'If you chance upon a plum blossom, flowering early
     amidst the snow, send a branch of it this way!'

I'm loving this púsāmán by Qiu Jin in Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths is OUT NOW's translation. Also thrilling to learn about Qiu Jin's revolutionary life. Read it here:
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

There are so many reasons to spotlight Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp’s work, from her prizewinning German/Arabic/Russian translations to her efforts in bringing translated lit to readers of all ages. Congrats on your accomplishments, Ruth! buff.ly/4cF0aX8