Words Without Borders

Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries,Words Without Borders: The World through the Eyes of Writerstransports us to the frontiers of the new literature for the twenty-first century. In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literatureamong them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, and Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Gunter Grass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Naguib Mahfouzhave stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. Most of their workshort stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from novelsappears here in English for the first time. The Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman introduces us to a story of extraordinary poise and spiritual intelligence by the Argentinian writer Juan Forn. The Romanian writer Norman Manea shares with us the sexy, sinister, and thrillingly avant garde fiction of his homeland's leading female novelist. The Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri spotlights the Bengali writer Parashuram, whose hilarious comedy of manners imagines what might have happened if Britain had been colonized by Bengal. And Roberto Calasso writes admiringly of his fellow Italian Giorgio Manganelli, whose piece celebrates the Indian city of Madurai. Every piece herebe it from the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Caribbeanis a discovery, a colorful thread in a global weave of literary exchange. Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman From the Trade Paperback edition.

ALANE SALIERNO MASON is a senior editor at W. W. Norton & Company. She lives in New York City.

DEDI FELMAN is a senior editor at Oxford University Press. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

SAMANTHA SCHNEE is the former senior editor of Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in Houston, Texas.

All three are editors at WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS (WWB), the online magazine for international literature (www.wordswithoutborders.org). A partner of PEN American Center, WWB is hosted by Columbia University and Bard College and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.