World Editions
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
World Editions is a publisher of literary fiction in translation, based in New York.
It’s the last day of Pride Month and we're in the middle of a heatwave. What a perfect time to share a steamy teaser of our 2027 title Bed Works by Khaled Alesmael, translated from the Arabic by @leriprice.bsky.social Enjoy! worldeditions.org/product/bedw...
World Editions - Bed Works
These stories give voice to ten queer Arab men. They are inspired by real-life events.
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Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan: Identity, belonging and food alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/06/good... @worldedbooks.bsky.social
Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan: Identity, belonging and food - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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@worldedbooks.bsky.social published SELAMLIK: a lovely idea, a word we need in the WHOLE world, longlisted for the 2025 PEN Translation Prize! #PrideMonth around the world! 🌈📚 #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/06/sela...
PEN Translation Prize
The PEN Translation Prize invites submissions of book-length translations from any language into English published during the current calendar year.
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@worldedbooks.bsky.social published SELAMLIK: a lovely idea, a word we need in the WHOLE world, longlisted for the 2025 PEN Translation Prize! #PrideMonth around the world! 🌈📚 #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/06/sela...
SELAMLIK, a lovely idea, a word we in the world need
SELAMLIK KHALED ALSMAEL (tr. Leri Price) World Editions $19.99 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.5* of five The Publisher Says:...
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"Portrays a changing Hong Kong alongside developments in London’s Chinatown, delivering a touching look at the search for home." @ala-booklist.bsky.social "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the lived generational texture of what’s happening now in Hong Kong.” @naoisedolan.bsky.social
My review of Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan #GoodbyeChinatown #books #bookreviews #booksky @worldedbooks.bsky.social
Book Review – Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan @WorldEdBooks
About the Book As her native Hong Kong seethes, torn between two world powers, Amber Fan tries to build a career as a chef in London’s Chinatown. Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London’s Chinatown following the failure of her father’s traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as well as the haunting secret surrounding his birth, Amber is left alone in London.
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Books to Look Out For in June 2026: Part Two alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/05/book... including titles from @worldedbooks.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com @jonathancape.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com
Books to Look Out For in June 2026: Part Two - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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It’s @consortiumbooks.bsky.social Sales Conference today and we’re bribing our sales team 😉. Those are alfajores, traditional Argentine sweets to celebrate our inaugural Read the World A to Z novel from Argentina. @willmorningstar.bsky.social @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @marianatravacio.bsky.social
Don't miss this exciting event at @penamerica.bsky.social World Voices Festival with @jeremytiang.bsky.social! Writing Across Forms: A Conversation With Author-Playwrights on Fri. May 1, 7pm at Goethe-Institut New York. worldvoices.pen.org/event/writin...
Writing Across Forms: A Conversation With Author-Playwrights - PEN World Voices Festival
Throughout the twentieth century, it was common for writers to work across forms. Now, however, there is a void between the role of “author” and “playwright” that few dare cross. Daniel Kehlmann (The ...
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Also in September—US & UK @worldedbooks.bsky.social—preorder now The Long Version, by Petra Hůlová, trans. @alexzucker.bsky.social A novelist’s daughter is convinced her mom’s teenage affair with an older writer scarred her for life. Her mom disagrees. Who’s right? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
World Editions - The Long Version
The Movement’s founding ideology emphasizes that women should be valued for their inner qualities, spirit, and character, and not for ...Can a woman wake up one day and say “#MeToo” 20 years after the...
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THE PERFECT CIRCLE by CLAUDIA PETRUCCI and translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel via @worldedbooks.bsky.social is a beautiful, not perfect, read: #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
THE PERFECT CIRCLE, exploring the odd geometry of Love
THE PERFECT CIRCLE CLAUDIA PETRUCCI (Tr. Anne Milano Appel) World Editions ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, availabl...
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Publishing Today! The Perfect Circle by Claudia Petrucci, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel "A thrilling study of time that playfully intertwines birth and death, motherhood and human extinction." —Kirkus Reviews "A refined revenge story" —Il Piccolo
My review of the intriguing & atmospheric The Perfect Circle by Claudia Petrucci, translated by Anne Milano Appel @worldedbooks.bsky.social #books #bookreviews #booksky
Book Review – The Perfect Circle by Claudia Petrucci, translated by Anne Milano Appel @WorldEdBooks
About the Book In the round house on Via Saterna, its Palladian square exterior nothing but a trompe-l’oeil, the sun pierces through the central skylight. Its rays pass three floors unobstructed, before reaching the circle below at the heart of the house: four fingers of water filling a little silver basin. It is here that young Lidia dies, setting an end to her clandestine love affair with the ambitious architect.
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Check it out! @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @marianatravacio.bsky.social @willmorningstar.bsky.social @jeremytiang.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
New World Editions Series Spans the Globe
Read the World A to Z will feature translated novels by authors from one country for every letter of the alphabet. The series debuts with a trio of books from Argentina, Belgium, and China, slated for...
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Thank you to J. Walsh for this beautiful review of Catalina Infante's The Cracks We Bear in @worldlittoday.bsky.social! The Cracks We Bear is out now, in my translation, from @worldedbooks.bsky.social.
World Literature Today@worldlittoday.bsky.social · 5mo ago“The Cracks We Bear is a text that transcends its context with character, symbolism, and themes universal.” J. Walsh reviews the first novel-length work from duo Catalina Infante Beovic and translator Michelle Mirabella. @michellemirabella.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/c...
Co-Translating All That Dies in April: A Conversation between @willmorningstar.bsky.social and @samanthaschnee.bsky.social in Latin American Literature Today @marianatravacio.bsky.social latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2026/03/co-t...
Co-Translating All That Dies in April: A Conversation between Will Morningstar and Samantha Schnee - Latin American Literature Today
All That Dies in April, a novel by Argentine writer Mariana Travacio, was published in English by World Editions in September 2025, in co-translation by Will
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Authoritarian leaders “are shit-scared of these things called books”. UK-based Hong Kong writer Kit Fan on the impact of authoritarianism on publishing at a panel with @englishpen, as quoted by @guardian. Read more below! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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World Editions - Announcing Read the World A to Z
Travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia! Published by the award-winning press World Editions, the collectible Read the World series features translated novels from A...
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We are so excited to launch our new READ THE WORLD A TO Z series. Travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia! @marianatravacio.bsky.social @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @willmorningstar.bsky.social @jeremytiang.bsky.social
So proud 🥲!
Michelle Mirabella@michellemirabella.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy author, Catalina Infante Beovic, is on the cover of @worldlittoday.bsky.social!!! Inside you’ll find a new Infante Beovic story in my translation, my Q&A with Infante Beovic, and a review of our English-language book-length debut The Cracks We Bear (@worldedbooks.bsky.social)!
A book review of The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas, translated from the Estonian Lõikejoon, is now out on our site. Check it out below! #litmag #literarymagazine #translation #revistachilena #revistaliteraria #bookblog #publishing #carolinapihelgas www.ultramarinereview.com/post/the-cut...
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Reading/finishing off some cool books this w/e &week.
To read the full list of WWB’s 2025 staff recommendations, head to our website or click the link below: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Best Books in (and on) Translation We Read in 2025 - Words Without Borders
13 staff members, 11 countries, 9 languages: The WWB team recommends our favorite books in translation from 2025.
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Violet and I chose these 48 books as our top feminist reads of the year for @msmagazine.com! Feat @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @annanorth.bsky.social @kweingarten.bsky.social & more msmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...
2025 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year
You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read the other one, for the rest of us. Here are Ms. magazine's top feminist books of 2025.
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@worldedbooks.bsky.social brought out THE CUT LINE by CAROLINA PIHELGAS (translated from Estonian by Darcy Hurford) for a deep look into 21st-century struggles...personal, societal, existential #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
THE CUT LINE, survival...contingent contentment...solitude
THE CUT LINE CAROLINA PIHELGAS (tr. Darcy Hurford) World Editions ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now R...
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Published today! The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas, translated from the Estonian by Darcy Hurford. Recommended as Must Read translation by @electricliterature.com
THE CRACKS WE BEAR by Catalina Infante and translated by Michelle Mirabella "sings with a strong voice and incisive questions about mothering, both the act of being mothered and that of becoming one, and the interplay between these roles of mother and daughter." @worldedbooks.bsky.social
Incisive Questions about Mothering in “The Cracks We Bear”
“The Cracks We Bear” by Catalina Infante (translated by Michelle Mirabella) asks incisive questions about mothering, both the act of being mothered and that of becoming one.
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Announcing 50 finalists for our 2026 Literary Awards and two career achievement honorees—Edwidge Danticat will receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, and Julia Cho will receive the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award. pen.org/press-releas...
50 Finalists Named for 2026 PEN America Literary Awards
PEN America today announced 50 finalists for its 2026 Literary Awards, showcasing excellence from literary superstars and new voices alike and spanning genres including fiction, poetry, drama, essays,...
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