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Words Without Borders Feridun Zaimoglu's The Knowledge Holder Doesn't Choke on Cleverness: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=ZaimogluKnowledge

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Feridun Zaimoğlu's Koppstoff: Kanaka Sprak vom Rande der Gesellschaft (1998) presents the fictionalized voices of twenty-six women of Turkish heritage living in Germany. "Koppstoff," which when translated ...
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Katy, I meant the woman's words were first translated by the author, then by the translators, hence the triple translation.
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Words Without Borders Did you know you can list items on E-Bay and donate a portion of the proceeds to Words without Borders? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150390506759

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eBay: Find Signed copy of The Long Road Home by Gary Trudeau in the Collectibles , Comics , Other category on eBay.
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Despite my tendency to discourage self promotion on the wall, I'm going to leave this as I think some of our fans would find it interesting. Well played, Kara Mokuena.
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thank you and much respect for this platform!
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On the evening of November 9th, this reviewer shuffled westward in the hunched crowd of what seemed to be mostly international tourists pressing slowly through the rain on Unter den Linden toward Brandenburger Tor. ...
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Clifford Kapono
Thank you for the recommendation. Dialouge and debate over the fall of the wall is necessary to better understand our growing global politics fast after the money. I look forward to reading "The Wall In My Head".
November 18 at 8:53am
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Words Without Borders Derik Badman reviews Jean Philippe Toussaint's Running Away: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=ToussaintRunningReview

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Dalkey Archive Press, 2009Reviewed by Derik BadmanMany of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s novels share a certain structure: a nameless narrator drifts through minimalist plots that are almost completely lacking in drama but pervaded by a sense of lightness and quiet humor. ...
Clifford Kapono
Clifford Kapono
Toussaint has an interesting writing style, enjoyed the read.
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Words without Borders will be publishing an issue of international science fiction this December and we've put together an event to get things started. Please join us at the Center for Fiction in New York City as we discuss the evolution of this misunderstood and underestimated genre.

Our panelists:

Musharraf Ali Farooq...i is an author and the translator of the seminal Indo-Islamic epic The Adventures Of Amir Hamza. His most recent work is his critically acclaimed translation of the first book of the 24-volume Hoshruba, the world’s first magical fantasy epic.

Michael Kandel has translated Polish writer Stanislaw Lem for Harcourt. He has written science fiction, short stories, and a few novels and is presently an editor at the Modern Language Association. He is putting together an anthology of short stories and novellas entitled A Polish Book of Monsters.

N.K. Jemisin is a speculative fiction writer currently living in New York City. Her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, is forthcoming in February 2010 from Orbit Books.
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Time:7:00PM Tuesday, December 1st
Location: A Panel with Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Michael Kandel, and N.K. Jemisin
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Words Without Borders Tonight's Words without Borders benefit might be sold out, but you can still come here Dan Sociu, Dorota Maslowska, and Kathrin Aehnlich tomorrow night at Idlwild Books in NYC:http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=Calendar-2

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The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain, A Words Without Borders AnthologyOpen Letter, 2009
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Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925
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Words Without Borders The new issue of Words without Borders, Twenty Years After: Germany Then and Now, is online: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org

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On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this month’s contributors address the events and aftermath of that transformative time in Germany. Whether witnessing the collapse of ...
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Be sure to make some time to listen to Uwe Mengel's radio play Three Times Germany: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=MengelThreeTimes
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Words Without Borders Copies of The Wall in My Head are in at Words without Borders HQ! Have you ordered yours yet: http://catalog.openletterbooks.org/authors/18

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Congratulations! :)
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Words Without Borders From the Wall in My Head blog: Paul Wilson's Tower of Song: http://thewallinmyhead.com/articles/15/tower-of-song

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On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, reuniting the two sides of ...