#words without borders

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology

Edited by Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman and Samantha Schnee.

Design by Helen Yentus.

#Words Without Borders #Alane Salierno Mason #Dedi Felman #Samantha Schnee #Helen Yentus #books #book covers

[lovelydisarray]

#💙 #palestine #words without borders

[clareeewolf]

A Palestine Reading List

Following the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Words Without Borders brings you work by Palestinian writers we have published through the years, as well as writing about Palestine. This is but one step toward providing a broader and enduring platform for Palestinian writers. Beginning January 2024, Words Without Borders will embark on an ongoing series focused on work by Palestinian writers across the globe, working in many languages, in collaboration with poet, essayist, and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

— images and text from Words Without Borders

#words without borders #palestinian writers #free palestine

[newvesselpress]

“Ann Goldstein gracefully captures Jarre’s alternation of warmth and indignation, of poignant observation and buried regret—the breadth of a most human writer . . . Return to Latvia is a memoir with real questions about shared history and atrocity. How can we look for the truth when no one will speak it?”—Words Without Borders

https://wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/to-tell-is-to-betray-marina-jarres-return-to-latvia/?src=hp

#New Vessel Press #Return to Latvia #Marina Jarre #Words Without Borders #translation #Ann Goldstein #Latvia #Italian literature

[agardenandlibrary]

In planning the first translation seminar at Princeton, I asked myself how to begin, how best to introduce and open up the conversation. I had read many essays, many theories of translation in the past. I could easily have begun by citing essays by Walter Benjamin or by Vladimir Nabokov. Instead, I turned to Ovid's Metamorphoses, a work that never fails to illuminate life's mysteries to me. Let us keep in mind that Ovid's masterpiece is itself a translation, in a broad sense, of Greek mythology, inspired perhaps by the Roman poet's travels to Greece as young man, and his study of the ancient Greek language and culture. Like almost all Latin poetry, the Metamorphoses is a work that grows out of an encounter with, and rerendering of, a preexisting literature composed in another tongue.1 Within the poem, I thought immediately of the myth of Echo and Narcissus, and it began to orient me, providing me with certain keys with which to begin exploring what it means to translate a text from one language to another.

I began, on the first day of class, by saying that all translation must be regarded first and foremost as a metamorphosis: a radical, painful, and miraculous transformation in which specific traits and elements are shed and others are newly obtained. In this sense, I told the class, nearly every episode in Ovid's great narrative poem can be read metaphorically as an example of translation, given that creatures are constantly changing states of being. That said, the myth of Echo and Narcissus is particularly resonant when considered from a translator's point of view, and it speaks to me personally, acutely, about what it means to shift from writer to translator and back again.

#translations #words without borders #jhumpa lahiri #hmmmm maybe i'll sign up for that ovid daily newsletter

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizontober 2023 | 18: tarot

#horizontober2023 #horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfwbs #aloy #pls don't come at me if this isn't a good interpretation of this tarot card bc i've never studied tarot T_T #but i looked it up and this is the one that spoke to me (that i thought i'd be able to do in photomode lol) #i actually got pretty into designing the border but it needs a lot more work and then i realized i saved my wip as a flattened image >.< #so....... all my layers are gone. fuck me. #still! i can recreate it without too much trouble (the pattern is an svg in inkscape) #and my quest to make svgs of the whole alphabet imitating the logo 'brushstrokes' on the horizon font continues #i think i've done most letters by now? just missing like q x y z and a few others #i also have a few variants (esp r/h/n) with different ascenders/descenders and some with the gaps in the vertical strokes #if anyone wants a word/title you're welcome to ask me and i'll see what i can do if i have time!

[news4dzhozhar]

#anti zionism isnt anti semitism #stop weaponizing words to prevent debate #thats not what the word means #save the children #doctors without borders #unicef #jews against israel #false narrative #ceasefire #end the blockade #save palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸 #israel is committing genocide #the us is complicit in genocide #genocide #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #illegal settlements #illegal occupation #this was never about hamas #stolen future #stolen culture #stolen lives #stolen land #stop the killing #stand for justice #stand up for humanity #israeli war crimes #icc war crimes tribunal #the hague

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#well. today was a nice day of not doing anything but drawing really. theres an au where i went to art school and am a happier person lol #except not really bc im sure my head would ruin that too. anyway. its a shame i have to return to the pain tomorrow. i have so much to grade #plus a paper to write plus data to work with. a protocol to figure out. and an exam to study for and a final project thatll kill me #god. i also have to get ready for lab Monday. christ. and what shall i say to my therapist Tuesday? well we could try to tackle the deep set #looming issue that prevents me from getting better in our tiny 50min session or i could be like listen. just fucking listen. let me give u #the case 4 and against me having adhd so i can stop feeling fucking nuts. just like give me feedback. ya kno? #it would b inattentive bc im not hyper unless im losing my mind and bordering on hyp0mania. but my focus is something i cant control #executive functioning has always been a problem but now im so worn down im in danger of actual consequences. and its not just things i dont #wanna do. im not just anxiously avoiding. i cant start tasks and stick with them. i flip back and forth and get nothing done. i spiral #sometimes for hours. im not doing anything fun im just not doing anything. frozen in anguish. i dont even wanna think abt how much money ive #lost by not filling out reimbursement sheets which arent hard to do. theyre easy i just never do them. why??? i dont fucking kno. but im not #forgetful. im thinking constantly abt these things. i just cant make them happen. theyre stuck buffering. i do have memory issues tho #my short term working memory is like that of a literal child. so i cant follow complex instructions. i constantly need new info. constantly #need sound. spoken words plus music at the same time. but the main reason i need an answer to this is the reading issue. which is that im #dyslexic but also my thoughts r like an interfering frequency. without realizing ill b thinking and not reading. its a problem no matter #what im reading. its severely disruptive. i will physically read out loud to try to hold my attention in place and still get distracted by #my own head. do u kno how frustrating it is to read something aloud 3 times and not know wtf u just read bc u arent thinking abt anything #interesting u would rsther b reading but u can't fucking pay attention long enough. genuinely if its not adhd and i cant get medication to #fix my focus issues i dont kno wtf im gonna do. im so bad at reading and its extremely frustrating. but is it just dyslexia? idk what i #described doesn't fucking seem normal or like a reading problem. sounds like a focus issue. so riddle me that #idk ive got adhd on both sides of my family plus my focus fluctuates with ny hormones plus homones possibly induce hyp0mania. like i mean #ive got other issues which make a diagnosis difficult to parse but like i feel like that's decent evidence for possibly adhd? my friend said #she was always worried she had a brain tumor before she was diagnosed. to me ive always felt like my brain is full of holes. im missing the #parts that would let it operate correctly. the frontal lobe is just fucked. ugh. i wonder how much accommodation i could get from the #disability office if i actually went to them. i wont bc im fucked up and i dont think they could actually do anything for me at this stage #but alas im curious. ugh. y do i do this to myself? i kno y but not enough time for that in 50min. bad attitude mostly. half my brain #just craves death. the other half is just trying to tread water but its hard with someone trying to drown u. so its all fucked #unrelated

[johnmeowston]

why did  big boss do all that 

#HELP sorry thinking abt the boss's will nd how she was like yeag i want .world peace/world without borders (in her words). nd big boss was #like yeagggg . SOLDIERS without borders lets go .LIEK WHAT !!!! #txt

[llamasgotoheaven]

In other news the followers of Ambiguousamphibian literally paid 8,000 USD to charity yesterday, largely so we would be allowed to see 25% of his face. We also got hot leg arm and toe pics

#the man of mystery ‘whored’ himself out to raise money for doctors without borders #his words not mine #ambiguousamphibian #the man with the golden voice #as if we needed more reasons to love this guy #twitch

[mabith]

You know those little tiny facts about friends and family members that stick in your brain forever? I'm listening to this podcast about the history of timekeeping and in talking about early US daylight savings time and as an example of how dysfunctional it was (individual cities could opt in or out and choose when to start and end it) they mentioned that in the 35 miles between Moundsville, West Virginia and Steubenville, Ohio you could go through seven time zones. Only all I can hear is my grandma saying "well that's Stupidville all over," because that's what she and everyone in her area called Steubenville.

#I don't know if they had a sports rivalry with them or it was more personal or just because they sound alike #also WV vs OH feelings vary all along the border so could be that #I never asked her because I just thought yeah grandma stick it to those guys #she's been dead for fifteen years but I'm never going to hear Steubenville without thinking of her (along with various other things) #and yes I know that wasn't all Steubenville's fault but I won't hear a word against Moundsville where I spent many happy hours on the mound

[newvesselpress]

OF SAINTS AND MIRACLES by Manuel Astur is on the Words Without Borders July watchlist of recommended summer reading list. “Astur takes the narrative to a series of strange places, some folkloric and some horrific ... Ambitious and unpredictable—the best kind of new spin on a timeless story."

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2022-07/the-watchlist-july-2022-tobias-carroll/?src=twitter

#Of Saints and Miracles #Manuel Astur #Spanish literature #translation #claire wadie #Words Without Borders #literary crime fiction

[butimjustaliar]

people always talk about how translations are limiting, but personally sometimes i realize I completely misinterpreted sth until i read a translation and go wait that's what they meant???

#the german word for border is the same as the one for limit and boundary #and for some reason my entire life i thought it's “doctors without limits” #as in they give their everything for other people's lives #and not “doctor without borders” #learning sth new every day :') #til #though i think it's a pretty lucky word play since it's a very positive second meaning #hostmblr

[faultsofyouth]

I know a textbook must be super hard to write but some of the things this woman says makes me think she's stupid

#my posts #(external locust of control) (shes stupid for writing in a nonsensical way and im not stupid even tho i find her language confusing) #i mean her writing is clunky. theres a reason she published a textbook and not a novel. she doesnt have the linguistic skills #she lacks certain linguistic skills that better writers have so several of her sentences are worded in a way that borders on nonsensical #the sentence wouldnt mean Anything without the context of the preceding and following sentences

[snallavanta]

how are we feeling about the 1989 tv cover art

#taylor swift #i love the photo #but idk the words just doesn't do it for me #i feel like it should've just been the photo & the border without the text 😕

[news4dzhozhar]

Doctors Without Borders/MSF calls US veto of Gaza ceasefire resolution “a vote against humanity”

"The US veto makes it complicit in the carnage in Gaza," said Avril Benoît, executive director of MSF-USA.

Today, December 8, the United Nations Security Council failed to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza—blocked by a veto from the United States. The Security Council held an emergency meeting to discuss the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. This followed a letter from the UN Secretary-General invoking Article 99 to call on the Security Council to prevent further escalation and end this crisis. In addition to demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, the draft resolution tabled by the United Arab Emirates reiterated the Security Council's demand on all parties to comply with their obligations under international law, notably with regard to the protection of civilians in Palestine and Israel.

Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA gave the following statement:

“As bombs continue to rain down on Palestinian civilians and cause widespread destruction, the US has once again used its power to block an attempt by the UN Security Council to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. By vetoing this resolution, the US stands alone in casting its vote against humanity.

The US veto stands in sharp contrast to the values it professes to uphold. By continuing to provide diplomatic cover for the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, the US is signaling that international humanitarian law can be applied selectively—and that the lives of some people matter less than the lives of others.

Israel has continued to indiscriminately attack civilians and civilian structures, impose a siege that amounts to collective punishment for the entire population of Gaza, force mass displacement, and deny access to vital medical care and humanitarian assistance. The US continues to provide political and financial support to Israel as it prosecutes its military operations regardless of the terrible toll on civilians. For humanitarians to be able to respond to the overwhelming needs, we need a ceasefire now.

The US veto makes it complicit in the carnage in Gaza.”

#where is the humanity? #doctors without borders #the US has the blood of millions of innocents on its hands #complicit in genocide #shame on the us #genocide #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #ethnic cleansing #collective punishment #nakba 2023 #israeli war crimes #netanyahu is a war criminal #israel is a terrorist state #israel is not the victim #anti zionism isnt anti semitism #stop weaponizing words to prevent debate