How does translation influence our understanding of different cultures, perspectives, and human experiences?

Jane Hirshfield reflects on this profound act: tinyurl.com/3vw8sphv

Drawing on the experiences of others and their own, gitanjali patel and Nariman Youssef evoke the challenges of being 'diverse' in a profession that is overwhelmingly white.

This important essay about literary translation needs to be shared far and wide: bit.ly/2UAA3x7

“If Indonesia were to ever gain a foothold on the international literary stage, something had to change.”

Translator and publisher John McGlynn on his interest in Indonesia, and the challenges faced by Indonesian literature both at home and abroad:
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Can Xue’s In Love in the New Millennium tells a tale around women living under constant surveillance.

In conversation with translator Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, the Chinese writer discusses East-West fusion, translation challenges, and human essence: tinyurl.com/4ybe7r74

'Suddenly I understood what the word 'FOREIGNER' meant ...”

Smuggling banned books and a palpitating heart, Li Cunyan hops on the Trans-Siberan to star in her own 'Journey to the West' in this fast-paced travel memoir set in 1985. Brace yourself! bit.ly/3hrwxOi

What is a stone in the hand, a stone thrown in the air, a stone used to lay a wall?

In this surging, fourth-person excerpt from his memoir, Nasser Abu Srour continues, under isolation and imprisonment, to channel the pulse of a nation under siege:
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Language extinction is a pressing issue, with nine disappearing every year.

Preserving endangered languages is vital not just for linguistic diversity, but also for safeguarding ancient ways of life and encoded knowledge within them. tinyurl.com/286khsjm

What has the history of haiku got to do with a Mexican poet?

Celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger maps the flows of literary forms to reveal a 'culturally multidirectional world' away from tropes of imperial and cultural conquest: bit.ly/3ckr8qj

This #TranslationTuesday , a twisted, rambling screed offers a window into the dark mind of a low-level bank clerk from Greek writer Tasos Leivaditis.

Plagued by seedy, morbid memories and obscure resentments, he begins to plan his ‘perfect crime’: tinyurl.com/48phfye8

How does the act of translation make, mix up, and unmake identity?

Award-winning translator Anton Hur grasps at the shapeshifting boundary between him and his author as he submerges himself in her work and finds her identity in himself: tinyurl.com/29v9yusv

Using numerical sequencing, narrative fragments, various configurations of speaker and addressee, and dream-like recurrences of theme, image, and setting Różycki explores dynamics between unconscious and conscious, self and other, individual and culture:
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Ready to start off your week with some world literature?

The Asymptote Podcast is back, and this week we interview leading academics about Vladimir Nabokov's twin passions—literature and lepidoptera, i.e., butterflies! Tune in: tinyurl.com/2m489zpt

Tackling issues of racism, poverty, and sexual exploitation, Curaçao-born poet Radna Fabias rocked the Dutch literary world with Habitus, winning an unprecedented number of literary prizes.

We're proud to debut her work in English: tinyurl.com/3a22vv3f

The “Balkan García Márquez' or the 'Bulgarian Calvino” —labels like these simply don't do justice to the work of Iana Boukova.

Let her own translator Ekaterina Petrova introduce you to this major writer of “minor literature”: tinyurl.com/yw2wsuy9

'...we’re the children who have to shoulder the destruction of our families post-exile, the trauma that can’t be healed by an order of democratisation.'

Mexican writer Ana Negri discusses linguistics tensions, stories of exile, and solemnity: tinyurl.com/mus3mvhd

In this bittersweet microfiction, Libyan author Ali Lateef evokes the changing face of Tripoli through the storied 'Belle and Gazelle' statue—at once a site of tender first love and scene of violent crime. tinyurl.com/yc642r3s