I hope you can come with me–and so many other literature-in-translation devotees–to this inspiring, stimulating, and very fun event.

Words Without Borders is a miraculous publications and organization that has done, and continues to do, so much to support world literature and literature in translation–something that has always been fundamental to our global joy–and security–and is now more essential than ever. So even if you can’t come, please read Words Without Borders and buy a book in translation every time you pass a bookstore! Hope to see you there (at the Gala or the bookstore!)

Announcing our 2026 Gala literary hosts! Celebrate over two decades of Words Without Borders with Sigrid Nunez, Tanaïs, Álvaro Enrigue, and other distinguished voices in contemporary and international literature. Get your tickets today! Make a donation Ayad Akhtar, Honorary Chair Author of The Radiance Alta L. Price Translator of About People by Juli Zeh Álvaro Enrigue Author of Now I Surrender Charlotte Whittle Translator of Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo Daniel Kehlmann Author of Afrika Jacob Rogers Translator of What Remains by Brais Lamela Jenny McPhee Co-translator of The Soul of Others by Alba de Céspedes Katie Yee Author of Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar Ken Chen Author of The Encounters Lynn Xu Co-translator of Prison Poems and Temple Speak by Yang Licai M Lin Author of The Memory Museum Madhu H. Kaza Author of Lines of Flight Mark Polizzotti Author of Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics Michel Nieva Author of Technology and Barbarism Molly Crabapple Author of Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund Mónica de la Torre Author of Repetition Nineteen Nathalie Handal Author of Roma Roam Nathan H. Dize Author of Attending to the Dead: Haitian Literature and the Practice of Mourning Paulo Lemos Horta Author of The Storyteller and the Magician Ross Benjamin Translator of The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka Ross Perlin Author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York Sigrid Nunez Author of It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories Soleil Davíd Translator of The Compendium of Impossible Objects by Carlo Paulo Pacolor Tanaïs Author of Stellar Smoke

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