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Yesterday, Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, recipient of one of this year’s Genius Grants, was onNPR’s Here & Now, talking about poetry and translation, and most ……Read More

A proposal for publishers — to take on a collection of stories by Rasha Abbas — has recently hit PEN’s “Writers in Translation” page:   Abbas’s 2008 collection. The “Writers ……Read More

The “year’s best” book lists — be they 10 or 50 or 100; poetry or celeb memoirs or children’s books — are such a widespread phenomenon in English-language newspapers and magazines that the Wall Street Journal does a compilation, a ……Read More