Personal reflections on Ismael Kadare
Translator David Bellos shares a series of revealing, funny and moving memories of the giant of Balkan literature, who died earlier this week. Between (...)
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Translator David Bellos shares a series of revealing, funny and moving memories of the giant of Balkan literature, who died earlier this week. Between (...)
The Sea Is History By Derek Walcott Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea (...)
The Clothes Pin By Jane Kenyon, USA How much better it is to carry wood to the fire than to moan about your life. How much better to (...)
The Sounds That Arrived By Milo De Angelis The wolf is still under the blanket and a thousand questions are needed to grasp it even if the (...)
Aubade By Yuki Tanaka I sit on a chair and the chair touches me back. According to my chair, I have two hips and bones inside them hard as (...)
Water Becomes Water By Zheng Xiaoqiong Water becomes water’s shape in the water, inside the machine we become the image of the machine, the dusk (...)
Malachi McIntosh was born in Birmingham but raised in the United States. He worked for five years in academia after completing a PhD in English, but (...)
María Pilar Nsue Angüe Osa (1945 or 1950 – 18 January 2017) was a noted Equatoguinean writer and Minister of Education and Culture. Background and early (...)
Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon) 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas (...)
Octavio Paz Lozano[a] (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the (...)
Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as (...)
Biographical Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the forests of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan. His family had lived (...)
