Ukrainian poet and 2022 Grammys performer Lyuba Yakimchuk reads her poem "The Making of Tenderness" in Ukrainian and in English translation. Translation by Oksana Maksymchuk. Read the poem on wordswithoutborders.org.

Lyuba Yakimchuk reads "The Making of Tenderness"

Listen to author Emiliana Bernard-Stephenson read her poem "Kriol Soldier" in the original San Andrés-Providencia Creole. Read the poem translated by the author on wordswithoutborders.org.

Emiliana Bernard-Stephenson reads "Kriol Soldier"

Listen to author Jean D'Amérique read his poem "Poem for Children with Trouble Sleeping" in the original Haitian Creole. Read the poem, translated by Nathan H. Dize, on wordswithoutborders.org.

Jean D'Amérique Reads "Poem for Children with Trouble Sleeping"

In a landscape that shifts between Jabalia refugee camp, a UNRWA school in Gaza, and a family home in Jaffa, Sinan Antoon gives poetic expression to a Palestinian child's experience of Israeli bombardments, displacement, and a longing to return home. From Antoon's poetry collection "Postcards from the Underworld,
 published by Seagull Books. Read the poem at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-11/afterwords-for-gaza-children-sinan-antoon/

Writing from Palestine: Sinan Antoon reads "Afterwords"

Igiaba Scego reads from "Jiro" in the original Italian. Read the full piece in Barbara Ofosu-Somuah's English translation on wordswithoutborders.org.

Igiaba Scego reads from "Jiro" in the original Italian

Carol Sansour reads "A Censored Poem" in the original Arabic. Read the full piece in Katharine Hall's English translation on wordswithoutborders.org.

Carol Sansour Reads "A Censored Poem" in the Original Arabic

Translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads his English translation of Najwan Darwish's poem "Merely a Dream." Read the poem on wordswithoutborders.org.

Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads Najwan Darwish's "Merely A Dream" in English translation

Translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads his English translation of Najwan Darwish's poem "This Breeze." Read the poem on wordswithoutborders.org.

Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads Najwan Darwish's "This Breeze" in English translation

Yang Licai reads his poem "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer" in the original Chinese. Read the poem in Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

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Yang Licai reads "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer" in the original Chinese

Joshua Edwards reads his and Lynn Xu's English translation of Yang Licai's poem "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer." Read the translation, and the Chinese-language original, on wordswithoutborders.org

Joshua Edwards reads his and Lynn Xu's translation of "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer"

In this interview for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Fiction longlisters, Solvej Balle discusses the translation of "On the Calculation of Volume," her novel translated by Barbara J. Haveland for New Directions. The entire interview can be found on Words Without Borders at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-10/the-national-book-award-interviews-solvej-balle-and-barbara-j-haveland

Music credit: "Glacier," Jon Salmon, Free Music Archive. Used with permission under CC BY-NC-SA.

Solvej Balle on "On the Calculation of Volume" — Words Without Borders

In this interview for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Fiction longlisters, Barbara J. Haveland discusses her translation of Solvej Balle's novel "On the Calculation of Volume," for New Directions. The entire interview can be found on Words Without Borders at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-10/the-national-book-award-interviews-solvej-balle-and-barbara-j-haveland

Music credit: "Glacier," Jon Salmon, Free Music Archive. Used with permission under CC BY-NC-SA.

Barbara J. Haveland on "On the Calculation of Volume" — Words Without Borders

In this interview for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Fiction, finalist Bothayna Al-Essa discusses her novel "The Book Censor's Library," out from World Editions in a translation by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain. The entire interview can be found on Words Without Borders at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-10/the-national-book-award-interviews-bothayna-al-essa-ranya-abdelrahman-sawad-hussein

Music credit: "Glacier," Jon Salmon, Free Music Archive. Used with permission under CC BY-NC-SA.

Bothayna Al-Essa on "The Book Censor's Library" — Words Without Borders

In this interview for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Fiction, finalist Ranya Abdelrahman discusses her cotranslation—with Sawad Hussain—of Bothayna Al-Essa's novel "The Book Censor's Library," out from World Editions. The entire interview can be found on Words Without Borders at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-10/the-national-book-award-interviews-bothayna-al-essa-ranya-abdelrahman-sawad-hussein

Ranya Abdelrahman discusses her cotranslation of Bothayna Al-Essa's "The Book Censor's Library" – Words Without Borders

Maniniwei reads "I Live at the Foot of Taipei" in the original Chinese. Read the poem in Emily Lu's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Maniniwei reads "I Live at the Foot of Taipei" in the original Chinese

Patron Henekou reads "My Love Lives on Wind" in the original French

Sirpa Kähkönen reads from "The Paradise Lily" in the original Finnish

The World is Moving Around Me

Primal Needs

Port-au-Prince on an IV Drip

La Belle Amour Humaine

Detour

We Cried a River of Laughter

Poem for Children with Trouble Sleeping

Adèle Rosenfeld reads from “The Hearing-Aid Brigade” in the original French

Lim Sol-A Reads from "The Brightest World I Knew" in the Original Korean

Yordan Slaveykov Reads from "The Little Brother" in the Original Bulgarian

Gabriela Wiener - Viaje a traves de ayahuasca

"NGUXTAPAX, YOXI, AND THE FIVE COUNTRIES," read by José Fernandez Muratu.

Recording by the Project for the Investigation, Preservation, and Diffusion of the Cultural Heritage of the Tikuna People. Ministry of Culture of Peru. Recorded by Paula Letts, researcher for the Department of Cultural Heritage. 2013.

5 Países Yoí Ipi Ngutap - Tikuna Storytelling - José Fernandez Muratú

Taiwanese poet Ye Mimi reads her poem “12–25,” part of the August 2016 Words without Borders issue.

Taiwanese writer Ye Mimi reads her poem ”12–25”—Words without Borders

Gëzim Hajdari reads his poem ”I am leaving you Europe” in Albanian.  The poem appears in the September 2016 Words without Borders issue in English and Italian.

Gëzim Hajdari reads his poem ”I am leaving you Europe” in Albanian—Words without Borders

Listen to Sang Young Park read "The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta" in the original Korean.

Sang Young Park reads "The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta" in Korean

Listen to Catalina Mena read "Manifiesto Jefa De Hogar" in the original Spanish.

Writing from Chile: "Manifiesto Jefa De Hogar" by Catalina Mena

It’s A Chick, Not A Dog

Alba Eiragi Duarte reads "Che Rata" in the original Mbyá Guaraní. From the July 2020 issue of Words Without Borders.

Alba Eiragi Duarte Reads "Che Rata" ("My Fire")

Listen to Bernard Capinpin read his translation of Filipino poet Enrique Villasis's "Birds in Flight,” one of four winning selections in the Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest chosen by Pushcart Prize winner David Tomas Martinez.

Poems in Translation Contest: "Birds in Flight, 1965," by Enrique Villasis, tr. Bernard Capinpin

Listen to poet Nguyen Hoang Quyen read from her translation of her poem "Learning Late Letters,” one of four winning selections in the Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest chosen by Pushcart Prize winner David Tomas Martinez.

Poems in Translation Contest: "Learning Late Letters," written and translated by Nguyen Hoang Quyen

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