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Original-Language Texts in Spanish and Mandarin

Posted on May 09, 2019

Tang Dynasty copy of 新婦地黃湯帖 by Wang Xianzhi (344–386), currently in the Taito Ward Calligraphy Museum.

Do you teach Spanish or bilingual-Spanish classes? You'll find original-language versions of these pieces of literature: “A Failed Journey” (Un Viaje Fallido), the journalistic essay “Violence and Drug-Trafficking in Mexico” (“¡Qué manera de perder!”: Violencia y narcotráfico en México), and the poems “Sleepless Homeland” (La patria insomne), and “Notes on a Zombie Cataclysm” (Notas en torno a la catástrofe zombi), all in the Mexico Unit.

Teach in New York? Consider the Cullman Center's Summer Institute

Posted on May 03, 2019

"The Cullman Center Institute for Teachers provides opportunities for teachers to enrich their understanding of the humanities in The New York Public Library's landmark building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Leading our seminars are scholars and writers who have won Cullman Center Fellowships and pursued their excellent work using the research collections of this Library."

Just Published: Lives of Muslim Girls and Women

Posted on April 30, 2019

Author Jokha Alharthi, published in the May 2019 issue of WWB.

"Why don’t words come automatically with threads that we can yank to pull them back inside ourselves?" asks the young woman narrator of Booker finalist Jokha Alharthi's recent novel Bitter Orange. An excerpt, translated by Marilyn Booth, appears in the May issue of Words Without Borders.

What's it like to translate children's books?

Posted on April 12, 2019

"Words and pictures talk to each other," notes Daniel Hahn, one of five translators of international children's books recently interviewed in the magazine Words Without Borders. Other featured translators include Ginny Tapley Takemori (far left above), who translated the wonderful short story "When My Wife Was a Shiitake" and other pieces in our collection of Japanese literature. Takemori comments:

Global Literature: Live in New York

Posted on April 03, 2019

Summer program leaders Zoia Choudhry and Ledwin Rodriguez at WWB Campus literacy workshop at the Partnership for Afterschool Education, March 22.

At several recent live events, Words Without Borders Campus connected with teachers, professors, and after-school program leaders to discuss such questions as: