Words Without Borders
| Words Without Borders
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| description | Literary magazine |
| language | English |
| First edition | 2003 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editor-in-chief | Susan Harris |
| executive Director | Karen Phillips |
| Web link | www.wordswithoutborders.org |
| ISSN |
1936-1459 |
Words Without Borders is an international literary magazine founded in 2003 and published online. Their program is the translation and dissemination of outstanding contemporary texts that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to access for the English-speaking readership. Up to twelve times a year, literary texts and essays by both unknown and established authors from 126 countries and 105 languages (as of June 2016) appear in the journal - for example by Fadhil al-Azzawi , Tahar Ben Jelloun , JMG Le Clézio , Mahmoud Darwish , Jenny Erpenbeck , Paweł Huelle , Herta Müller , AB Yehoshua , Naguib Mahfouz , Per Petterson , Ricardo Piglia , WG Sebald , Sjón , Rabindranath Tagore , Marlene van Niekerk , Ko Un and Can Xue .
The non-commercial magazine will u. a. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts , the New York State Council on the Arts, the British Center for Literary Translation, the Nippon Foundation and the Mission Culturelle et Universitaire Française aux Etats Unis.
In cooperation with various publishers, several printed anthologies were created, including a. Literature from the “Axis of Evil”: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations (2007), The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain (2009), Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes of the Middle East (2011).
In 2014, the magazine launched the teaching program Words without Borders Campus, which provides teaching material on contemporary international literature.
Ottaway Award
Words Without Borders has been presenting the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature for special achievements in literary translation into English since 2013 . The award was named after James H. Ottaway Jr., the magazine's founding chairman.
Previous winners were:
- 2013 Drenka will
- 2014 Carol Brown Janeway
- 2015 Sara Bershtel
- 2016 Barbara Epler
- 2017 Jill Schoolman
- 2018 Chad W. Post
- 2019 Edith Grossman
Web links
- Words Without Borders. The Online Magazine for International Literature
- Words without Borders Campus teaching program
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b WWB, About Words Without Borders , on: wordswithoutborders.org, accessed on June 21, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Julie Salamon, Online Magazine Removes Cultural Blinders (February 18, 2004) at: nytimes.com, accessed June 21, 2016 (English).
- ↑ WWB, Supporters , on: wordswithoutborders.org, accessed on June 21, 2016 (English).
- ^ The Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature at: wordswithoutborders.org, accessed on September 7, 2019.
- ↑ Words Without Borders' 2019 Ottaway Award: Edith Grossman , article on Publishing Perspectives of September 5, 2019, accessed on September 7, 2019.