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Women in Translation Month: Books by Women Published After Receiving a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
These works of literature have been judged to represent the finest writing by women worldwide, brought into English—from Russian, French, Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Spanish, Pashto, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew,… More
Journalists in Botswana working in ‘persistent climate of fear’
Bill Snaddon interviews Joel Konopo, former Botswana Guardian editor and co-founder of online news site INK, on press freedom in Botswana. More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women That Have Won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
This year, as a contribution to Women in Translation Month, the PEN America Translation Committee presents a series of blog posts featuring books written by women that have won… More
Dispatch from the 2016 Calabash Literary Festival
Calabash makes space for heritage, including local writers and vendors. It offers pit-cooked jerk, salt fish and fried dumplings, and Rastafarian-made ital juices. At the same time, it reaches… More
Read These Women in Translation Now
In celebration of Women in Translation Month, Translationista invited a number of publishers to select one book each by a female author to be offered as part of a… More
Seminar on the Extermination of Rats
"A thick wall as though a bag of rubbery rocks had been emptied from the roof now rolled in from every side in a rumble of tiny legs, squeaking,… More
João and Raimunda: On the Injustices of Brazil’s Belo Monte Project
“When victims suffer violence that goes unacknowledged, it inflicts even greater pain on them, and they are violated all over again by a feeling of unreality.” More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women That Have Won the PEN Translation Prize
This year, as a contribution to Women in Translation Month, created by Meytal Radzinski in 2014, the PEN America Translation Committee presents a series of blog posts featuring books written by… More
China: Activist Convicted as Lawyer ‘Confesses’
Chinese human rights activist Zhai Yanmin was given a suspended three-year prison sentence today, the day after human rights lawyer Wang Yu “confessed” in a televised interview to… More
Free Expression Digest: Wed., July 20
Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks, journalist in Ukraine killed in car bombing, Facebook under fire for deleting Kashmir-related posts More