World Editions

03/06/2025

We are thrilled to announce today's publication of State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang! With a foreword by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, State of Emergency is an "important piece of work from one of Singapore's finest living authors" The Straits Times

Jeremy Tiang has won the Singapore Literature Prize with both "State of Emergency" and his translation of "Cocoon" by Yueran Zhang.

Please join us in congratulating Jeremy on his US debut and come out for his upcoming events at Brookline Booksmith and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - SNFL, NYPL

02/06/2025

Here they are! Our Spring babies „State of Emergency“ by and „A Carnival of Atrocities“ by and Victor Meadowcroft, and our three buns in the oven, expected in the Fall 🥲!
We can’t wait to meet the finished copies of „All That Dies in April“ by , translated by and , „The Cracks We Bear“ by and , and „The Cut Line“ by and Darcy Hurford.
So proud to be publishing books from Singapore, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile and Estonia 🥰

14/05/2025

03/04/2025

Snagged a copy of the Best Literary Translations 2024 at the actual Deep Vellum Bookstore in Dallas today !
Super excited because it includes a short story by translated by . We’re publishing the debut novel The Cracks We Bear of this author/translator duo in November!

01/04/2025

On Sale Today! A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia García Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft.

We are taking you to Natalia García Freire's mad and disturbing universe in the Ecuadorian Andes, where the residents of an entire village go collectively insane. A Carnival of Atrocities has it all: A little bit of horror, a little bit of magical realism, hints of fable and myth...

Cocuán, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she had—her animals, her home, her lands—was taken from her after her mother’s death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow of death that has hung over the town ever since she was wronged. The voices of nine characters—Mildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, Víctor, Baltasar, Hermosina, and Filatelio—tell us of the past and present of that doomed place and Mildred's fate. Natalia García Freire’s vivid language blurs the lines between dreams and reality and transports the reader to the hypnotic Andean universe of Ecuador.

04/02/2025

Today is the publication day of by Ricardo Silva Romero, translated by
Victor Meadowcroft.
"Colombian writer Silva Romero makes his English-language debut with a wrenching tale of murder and survival. Near the remote Colombian town of Belen del Chami, a mute man named Salomon Palacios is gunned down by hooded assassins in 1992. His distraught widow, Hipolita, sets off on a rambling odyssey of retribution, accompanied by their sons Max, 12, and Segundo, eight. Salomon, meanwhile, has become a ghost, and he meets with the ghosts of other victims of political violence. Romero captures the intensity of the family’s grief, as they’re poorly consoled by a gravedigger and are ignored by the police, all while Salomon shadows them, unable to intervene. Silva Romero seamlessly weaves lyrical depictions of Salomon’s afterlife, a “dense, black, clammy, stinking jungle that looked to him like hell,” with pointed observations of the country’s decades-long guerrilla war, which “continues to break the extraordinary open hearts of thousands of Colombians.” Meadowcroft’s crystalline translation introduces readers to an important Latin American voice." Publishers Weekly

08/01/2025

So thrilled by this wonderful review for DENDRITES by
World Literature Today

A fascinating and absorbing read, Dendrites captures the intricate and convoluted lives of everyday people and, like a museum, preserves their stories, aspirations, fears, and ambitions.

Trans. Karen Emmerich. World Editions. 2024. 228 pages.

22/11/2024

I, Li Kotomi, am a le***an. Since my debut, I have consistently written stories about LGBTQ+ topics, actively supported same-sex marriage legalization, and have participated in Pride parades almost every year. These are already public facts and are undoubtedly true.

However, today, on this “Transgender Day of Remembrance,” I would like to make another coming out: I, Li Kotomi, am also transgender.

Read Li Kotomi's full statement here https://likotomi.com/en/news/717.html

05/11/2024

We are thrilled to announce today's publication of by Franceska Michalska, translated by American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Interim Executive Director Sean Gasper Bye.

A memoir of the Russian occupation of Ukraine in the 1930s and the mass deportation of Poles from the region.

"Not an easy read, but an important one.” —

The end of the 1920s, the author’s first memory: a knock on the door and the arrest of her uncle, guilty of “anti-Soviet activities.” He is to be executed. Born in 1923, a dozen or so kilometers from the pre-war Polish-Soviet border, Franceska Michalska is a citizen of occupied Ukraine. Her family, finding a nest of eggs to eat, miraculously survive the great famine of 1931–32 before falling victim to growing Stalinist terror and the mass deportation of Poles from the region to Kazakhstan. All the while, Franceska dreams of studying medicine. 8,000 km and infinite difficulties later, she enters Poland and becomes a doctor, finally obtaining the Polish nationality she never had. Writing in a heartfelt yet matter-of-fact style, Michalska brilliantly evokes daily life under Russian occupation. Now more than ever, this memoir reads like a warning against history repeating, while at the same time offering a testament to human strength and to hope.

26/09/2024

Na Zdraví! A Night of Czech Books & Beers
7:00 pm EST
September 27, 2024

Join Czech authors from a variety of literary styles to celebrate their books & enjoy Czech-style beers at Wild East. Featuring Petra Hůlová, Patrik Banga, and Milan Děžinský, along with guests Kateřina Tučková, Jáchym Topol, and Vojtěch Mašek, the night will include short readings, “guess the author” and “that’s untranslatable” games. From 1990s Prague to a carnivalesque novel, deep image poetry to absurdist humor, healing women to feminist dystopias, these writers offer a brilliant taste of all Czech literature has to offer. Special drink tickets for the first 25 attendees.

https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/na-zdravi-a-night-of-czech-books-beers-in-person/

Wild East Brewing, 623 Sackett St., Brooklyn, NY 11217
Hosted by Brooklyn Book Festival

25/09/2024

"When he’s worried or upset Basil throws himself into cooking—the bigger the problem, the more complex the dish—and as a result Susan has enjoyed the most inventive delicacies of her life after their biggest arguments, at moments of personal disappointment for her husband, and during his intermittent periods of anxiety over their precarious finances, which recently seem to be cropping up more and more frequently, or maybe it’s just her imagination, a byproduct of suddenly finding everything so overwhelming, their tentative decisions, the love they share, their daughter, how every day reminds her of days gone by..."

Continue reading DENDRITES by Kallia Papadaki on On the Seawall: A Community Gallery of New Writing & Commentary.

https://www.ronslate.com/from-dendrites/

Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich

06/06/2024

10 Novels by BIPOC Norwegian Writers
Rashi Rohatgi recommends fiction in translation by Norwegians from Indigenous and minority backgrounds in Electric Literature

Emily Forever by Maria Navarro Skaranger, translated by Martin Aitken
Navarro Skaranger’s debut novel All Foreigners Keep Their Curtains Closed delved into the life of a teenage girl in a predominantly ethnic minority suburb of Oslo. The 2020 film adaptation is currently available to stream on Netflix.

Her latest book Emily Forever presents its young, pregnant, working-class protagonist through a kaleidoscope. The sharpness of the details describing Emily’s changing life are softly satirical—chosen, it feels, to match those that would delight a newspaper reporter penning their first expose about multiculturalism—and her dulled responses leave her something of an enigma. A quietly rebellious novel that sees Emily through the lens of others, the 19-year-old expectant mother refuses to grasp for something to make meaning of her life, stubbornly defying societal expectations.