Elete Nelson-Fearon

1 month ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Elete Nelson-Fearon |Lia Galvan Lisker |Alexander Aguayo |Tobias Carroll

Each year, WWB is proud to publish over a dozen writers whose work has never before appeared in English. This IWD, meet eight women writers who we introduced to anglophone readers this past year. 1. Emma BraslavskyEmma Braslavsky writes, moderates, curates, and directs. In her short story “The VANISHÄVEN Furniture System: A Demonstration,” Braslavsky introduces a furniture system that aims to solve one of the world’s crises—but creates a few problems of its own.

2 months ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Bora Chung |Mandana Chaffa |Elete Nelson-Fearon

When her little sister said she was going to become a machine, Sang was against it. This was around the time when the new billionaire fad was sending manned and unmanned spacecraft into space for fun, and the news was reporting on the possible discovery of life on other planets. The billionaires’ companies that had made them billionaires were all preparing for a transhuman era where people could exist beyond space, and were advertising the fact.

2 months ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Mandana Chaffa |Bora Chung |Kyung-sook Shin |Elete Nelson-Fearon

Award-winning translator Anton Hur can add another achievement to his vita: successful novelist. Toward Eternity is an ambitious, rewarding, and dazzling meditation on the intersections of biology and technology, mortality and eternity, and collective and individual memory, as well as the meaning and necessity of art, and love.