WhitmanWeb: a multilingual gallery

A gallery featuring Walt Whitman’s emblematic poem “Song of Myself," accompanied by commentaries and live readings, in English, Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Khmer, Kurdish, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian, and the poet's Civil War writings, in English, French, and Arabic.

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On the long-running Indian culture blog The Middle Stage, Chandrahas CHOUDHURY (IWP '10) casts a new light on women and/in books in India's 19th c literary landscape.
"The Rose" by Soukaina HABIBALLAH (IWP'19), translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, graces the front page of Words Without Borders on this Valentine's Day..
A new book of poems, this time in an English translation, by the prolific Ester DISCHEREIT (IWP '17).
Kristian Sendon CORDERO (IWP '17) co-edited a special issue of Words Without Borders on writing in the Philippines. Its range of poetry in the country's many languages includes Filipino work of Genevieve ASENJO (IWP '12).
Muhamed "Nabo" ABDELNABI (Egypt, IWP '13) has been awarded France's 2019 Prix de la littérature arabe for his 2016 novel, published last year in the UK as In the Spider's Room .

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