Alex Aguayo

Nov 9, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Saskia Vogel |Alex Aguayo

What drew you to Words Without Borders (and literature in translation more generally)? What is your personal relationship to language and translation? My first really memorable encounter with WWB happened a few years ago, when I was teaching English in Bulgaria. A lot of my students were very advanced, which meant I got to skip the grammar and vocabulary and go right to English-language literature.

Nov 7, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Julia Fiedorczuk |Alex Aguayo

it was dreamedto take a living child out of a paltry gravethere was no childunder the rubble of the schoolMary came hauntingwind sucked out the water of the oceandisease came hauntingattached itselfdisease came dwellingnow it eats my breadwe eat togetherexpelled from rock and soilwe flourishside by side we flourish— From Psalms by Julia Fiedorczuk. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.

Nov 6, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Georgi Gospodinov |Sohini Basak |Alex Aguayo

Georgi Gospodinov gave the third Lancaster International Fiction Lecture on Monday, October 23, 2023, as part of Litfest’s “Autumn Weekend.”What can fiction (including in translation) do in times like ours? Nothing. That would be the shortest, punchiest, and most pessimistic answer to this question.

Nov 1, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Saskia Vogel |Alex Aguayo

What drew you to Words Without Borders (and literature in translation more generally)? What is your personal relationship to language and translation? I remember learning about Words Without Borders when I was a graduate student of comparative literature at the University of Michigan and taking a course led by Christi Merrill.

Oct 30, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Souhaib Ayoub |Alex Aguayo |Patryk Pufelski

May 20, 2015They’ve taken me on at the Kraków Zoo. I can still barely believe my eyes—I’ve pinched myself like thirty times, but it keeps being true!(Walking to my interview with the Director of Breeding, I saw some pygmy hippos just as they were going to bed. And later, I lied that I’m not afraid of heights.)May 25, 2015On the first day of my new job, I discovered that:—I work in the Hoofed Animal Section, which is further divided into smaller units, called allotments (that’s zoo jargon for you).