Name: Sophie Hughes discusses her cotranslation of Layla Martínez's "Woodworm" – Words Without Borders by Words Without Borders
Duration: 3 min 33 s
Description: In this interview for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Fiction, finalist Sophie Hughes discusses her cotranslation—with Annie McDermott—of Layla Martínez's novel "Woodworm," out from Two Lines Press. The entire interview can be found on Words Without Borders at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-10/the-national-book-award-interviews-sophie-hughes-and-annie-mcdermott

In this interview for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Fiction, finalist Sophie Hughes discusses her cotranslation—with Annie McDermott—of Layla Martínez's novel "Woodworm," out from Two Lines Press. The entire interview can be found on Words Without Borders at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-10/the-national-book-award-interviews-sophie-hughes-and-annie-mcdermott

Sophie Hughes discusses her cotranslation of Layla Martínez's "Woodworm" – Words Without Borders

"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

Rap artist praCh and poet U Sam Ouer trade stanzas and stories about the sorrows of the Khmer Rouge time.

"GaSouht" (Sadness)

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

Words Without Borders expands cultural understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of vital international voices in literature.

Sophie Hughes discusses her cotranslation of Layla Martínez's "Woodworm" – Words Without Borders

Words Without Borders

Related tracks