Here, translation unlocks stories from languages afar, people unknown yet familiar in voices that stun you and resonate with you. Here is your book of world stories
The Favor – Megan Marie Sullivan
Megan Marie Sullivan graduated from Northwestern University with an MA in Creative Writing in 2012. She currently lives in Chicago and train robots for a living...
City Nightmares – Hisham Bustani
Translated from the Arabic by Mala Tabet The building is dark and gloomy, full of ghosts from the past. They wander around, in and out of apartments and rooms, and up…...
Boundaries – Deb Bandyopadhyay
Deb Bandyopadhyay is a scientist and a student of poetry. Deb’s poems portrait vivid imagery of scattered pieces of his life in distant continents...
The Great Patriotic Parade – Matheus Borges
Matheus Borges was born in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines, both Brazilian (Subversa, Gueto) and international (Waccamaw, Fiction International, Scoundrel Time), as well as anthologies...
No Man’s Land – Mojaffor Hossain
Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bangla literature. His signature style is using native realities as his settings, and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colours. The story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta...
Nevermore – Tara Thiel
Tara Thiel is a Visual Artist pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing & Literature. Her work has been published in anthologies and periodicals including Twyckenham Notes, Variant Literature, Inkwell Journal, NOVUS Literary Arts and others...
Unregistered – Giuseppe Pensabene Perez
Giuseppe Pensabene Perez was born in Italy in 1984, is a Pisces, a linguist, a tobacco smoker and polyglot. A voracious, omnivorous reader. His favorite authors are Steven King and Roberto Bolaño...
The Shawl – Ansar Uddin
Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri...
If – Allison Whittenberg
Allison Whittenberg is a Philadelphia native and her novels include Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored and The Sane Asylum. ...
Very insightful interview taken by Owshnik Ghosh of my work and reflections. Thank uou Owshnik.
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Nicely done
Beautiful 😊😊👌🏽
Loved the way Debraj links it a full circle, though they're 3 characters from different novels. Kudos!!
Excellent translation doing full justice to the essence of the original poems