Ms. Condé is the author of “I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem,” “Segu,” “Windward Heights” and other emotionally complex novels that reach across history and cultures.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023 — Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival yesterday announced the winner of the third annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry…

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang.

With his powerful novels and essays, Mr. Oe tried to ensure that Japan learned the lessons of its 20th-century militarism.

Some independent shops flout the new limits on free expression. Others try to come to terms with them. For readers, they offer a sense of connection in a changed city.

From her distinctive style to her choice of topics, Mieko Kawakami is both a writer's writer and an entertainer, a thinker and constantly evolving stylist who manages to be highly readable and...

For thirty-five years I have had a secondary but constant side job as a literary translator from German. I have translated—and continue to translate—essentially for pleasure. Since translation for me...

Initial reviews of “Sisters in Yellow” say the hefty book is a fast read that leaves an almost painful impression.

Her final completed novel, “Dawn,” highlights voices of protest in Turkey amid political turmoil.

The first Omani woman translated in English and winner of the Man Booker International prize reflects on her ‘lucky book’ Celestial Bodies and Oman’s uneasy relationship with its history

“Broken Stars” gives voice to an eclectic group, serving as a who’s who of SF authors, critics, and other anchors in China’s burgeoning SF culture industry.

For decades, the brilliant Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector was hidden from American readers by awful translations that erased her dense, challenging prose (think James Joyce).

Yukio Mishima may have gone out in an inglorious blaze in 1970, but his previously untranslated works have only just entered the English-speaking world.

No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov. People long for understanding, and try to . . . .

The Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed today in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and four of her childr…

From legislative chambers to classrooms, and on the radio and TV, Indigenous languages are spoken and heard every day across the North thanks to dedicated elders, teachers, translators and broadcas...

Will the Japanese novelist Mieko Kawakami’s stark explorations of class translate to American readers?

An interview with the author of the Bulgarian novel translated into English as ‘Time Shelter’.

His first film, “Rashomon,” became a touchstone of world cinema. He went on to collaborate on celebrated pictures like “Ikiru” and “Seven Samurai.”

The founder of the literary magazine Monkey says a translator's first priority should be to honor the pleasure of reading.

It was June 2, 1934, when a group of young men published the first issue of al-Fajr. This twice-monthly magazine followed the short-lived Nahda, which closed after its founder’s death in 1933. Al-F…

Amistad Books recently called for the purchase of any two books by Black writers. "Our goal," they wrote, "is to Blackout bestseller lists with Black voices." As a translator, I've been thinking how...

Prestigious award follows the restoration of his citizenship last year after decades of exile in Paris

The Japanese author on the humour of Kurt Vonnegut, the joys of James Joyce and translating Beatrix Potter