Posted on October 10, 2024
We couldn't be more excited that South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature! Han received the award “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
Posted on September 25, 2024
This past spring, Quechua-Peruvian author Marco Avilés joined us here in New York City to lead writing workshops for high school students at three local schools. Students read his thought-provoking essay "I Am Not Your Cholo" (translated by Sophie Hughes) and excerpts from the collection De dónde venimos los cholos, then enjoyed an interactive presentation by Marco featuring childhood memories of eating street food in Lima and coming to the United States for the first time.
Posted on September 12, 2024
(Content warning: This story and blog post include mentions of death that may be disturbing to some readers.)
Posted on August 26, 2024
Join Re-Imagining Migration and Words Without Borders for a webinar on the power of storytelling and highlighting underrepresented narratives. The webinar will begin by highlighting the Re-Imagining Migration framework, the importance of building cultures of belonging, and the impact of telling our individual stories.
Posted on August 12, 2024
Have you ever heard the phrase “goudougoudou”? Used by some survivors of the Haitian earthquake of 2010, the phrase is onomatopoeia for “the sound of the earth shaking,” according to the Duke University project “Sonic Signatures of Trauma in Haiti.”