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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
November 3 at 6:01am
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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

Geoff Wisner
Geoff Wisner
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 ...
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Words Without Borders Words without Borders editorial director, Susan Harris will be on on "Here on Earth" on Wisconsin Public Radio today talking about the October issue from 3 to 4 CDT: http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/

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A grant from the national Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has allowed UW-Madison and Here on Earth to launch a multimedia series called Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates. We welcome your comments which we may air during our mail bag segment. ...
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Words Without Borders The top piece from our archive this month is a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=DarwishTragedy

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They returned…from the end of the long tunnel to their mirrors…they returnedwhen they recovered their brothers’ salt, single or in groups, they returnedfrom the myths of defending citadels to what is simple ...
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Words Without Borders NYC area fans, Help us create a viable market for international literature in the English speaking world. Join us at our first fundraiser. Drinks! Food! Paul Auster! Dean Wareham! Only 45 (of 200) tickets left: wwb2009fundraiser.eventbrite.com

October 26 at 7:41am
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We may need one or two volunteers. A photographer, for sure. If you're interested please e-mail Joshua at info@wordswithoutborders.org. Thanks!
October 28 at 8:47am
Lisa
Lisa
oooh! thanks. i just emailed Joshua.
October 28 at 9:20am
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Words Without Borders Geoff Wisner is still looking for the best African memoirs: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?post=DispatchesAfricanMemoirs

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Lately I’ve been reading a lot of African memoirs: books like Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz, An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete, and Return to Childhood by Leila Abouzeid.
Peter Hunter
Peter Hunter
Zanzibar Chest by Adrian Hartley. I'm a Canadian living in Cameroon and have read a lot of "African memoirs" -- this ranks with the best.
October 15 at 3:28am
Geoff Wisner
Geoff Wisner
Thank you all for your suggestions! Richard Onyango's book is new to me.
October 15 at 6:26am
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Words Without Borders Still wondering about 2009 Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller? We just added a translation from her new novel to the site:

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I carried everything I had. It wasn't actually mine. It was either intended for a different purpose or somebody else's. The pigskin suitcase was a gramophone box. The jacket was from my father. The town coat with the velvet neckband from my grandfather. ...
Clifford Kapono
Clifford Kapono
Mit tiefer Dankbarkeit!
October 14 at 11:22am
Bill
Bill
oh, i'm looking forward to seeing the whole book translated, just to see what the translator does with the wordplay RUTH - RUHT...
October 14 at 4:07pm
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Words Without Borders Our friends @PolishCultureNY have a symposium, After Kapuscinski: The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century, on Oct. 6 + 7 http://ow.ly/sNcC

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="2">Kapuscinski's writing, always wonderfully concrete and observant, conjures marvels of meaning out of minutiae... [The Emperor] transcends reportage... - Salman Rushdie="2">="2">This two-day event ...
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Words Without Borders Have you seen our new issue, Foreign Correspondents: International Reporting? http://www.wordswithoutborders.org

October 5 at 9:36am
Teresa Peacock
Teresa Peacock
Yes, and I like it very much!
October 5 at 9:47am
Clifford Kapono
Clifford Kapono
Obviously a huge undertaking worthy of praise by the most ambitious: 5 Stars
October 5 at 12:02pm
Lusine Haroyan

Lusine Haroyan Thanks for this worldwide literature forum

Rita Cenni

Rita Cenni I am an old friend, I've been receiving your newsletter from the beginning; bravo!

Jag Och Du

Jag Och Du I'd like to point out a little error that can be found on your homepage. When one search for "Nazik al-Malaika" the text about her ends with: " Al-Mala'ika currenly resides in Cairo." Which is not correct since al-Malaika passed away 2007. I thought you might want to know and update the information.

September 28 at 2:22am · Report
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Words Without Borders
Thank you for informing us. We're not always made aware of such things. Will correct asap.
September 28 at 6:22am