"In less than 200 pages, Ricardo Silva Romero grapples with the ripple effects of societal upheaval and state violence, in what is described as both an intimate and politically charged portrayal of Colombian village life." Electric Literature electricliterature.com/10-novels-in-t…

"Set against the backdrop of a remote town in Ecuador, Natalia García Freire’s newly-translated novel A Carnival of Atrocities (translated by Victor Meadowcroft) Reactor Magazine reactormag.com/cant-miss-indi…

Selamlik has been longlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize! Congratulations, Khaled Alesmael and Leri Price.

#WeAreLight has been shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 🍾🍾🍾!!! Congratulations, Gerda Blees and Michele Hutchison! We couldn't be more thrilled! EUPL Dutch Culture USA @Letterenfonds

The #horrorcommunity has some incredible #indieauthors publishing new works in the month of April. Come find your new favorite author! Push – Ruth Ann Evans A Carnival of Atrocities - Natalia García Freire These Bleak Atrocities – Sirius Those That Remain - Matthew A. Clarke

We are thrilled to announce today's publication of A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia García Freire🦬, translated by Victor Meadowcroft! Just selected by Book Riot as one of the biggest books out this spring #bipoc edition! bookriot.com/the-biggest-bo…

A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES, things going wrong? blame a woman!, via World Editions in Victor Meadowcroft's translation. expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-carn…

Author Spotlight: Gerda Blees ✨ Gerda Blees taught at universities while researching Dutch-German lingua receptiva. Her debut novel We Are Light won the EU Literature Prize and Dutch Booksellers Award in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Libris Literature Award. World Editions

Library Spotlight - Bibliotheek Utrecht ✨ Bibliotheek Utrecht is a place to read, borrow eBooks and digital resources, and acquire knowledge. It also offers space to work, hold meetings, study, and relax. World Editions Dublin City Libraries

"The novel is an almost biblical tale of comeuppance about a city wiped clean off the face of the earth due to its wicked, wayward ways." Cory Oldweiler reviews Ecuadorean author Natalia García Freire's new novel, "The Carnival of Atrocities." lareviewofbooks.org/article/step-r…

So excited to read this review of a Carnival of atrocities (Trajiste contigo el viento)💚 World Editions

"The book has parallels with both 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' and 'The Leftovers' in that its drama centers upon the unexplained disappearance of several people." Cory Oldweiler reads Natalia García Freire's "The Carnival of Atrocities." lareviewofbooks.org/article/step-r…

winstonsdad.blog/2025/04/15/a-c… the first novel from Ecuador on the blog today !!

“You read the account by witnessing it by means of bystanders but also by means of other characters, such as the night, a cigarette or even the story itself!” Bibliotheek Utrecht on Gerda Blees’ We Are Light. World Editions Dublin City Libraries

A cursed girl. A rotting town. A forest that swallows secrets. This month, we’re reading A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia García Freire—a fever-dream of superstition, violence & myth: tinyurl.com/5euuynjb

"Translated masterfully by Victor Meadowcroft, García Freire’s prose is visceral and magical, with an eerie fable-like quality that blends earthly violence with detritus and beauty". 🩵 World Editions asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/04/3…

'Singapore, 1963. A remarkable blend of the sweep of history and the minutiae of people’s lives.' #EditorsChoice: State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang, review by A. K. Kulshreshth historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/state-…

"I try to find answers in nature, in the mountains, the volcanoes, the animals—I wait for them to tell me something." Natalia García Freire and Victor Meadowcroft on postcolonial fractures, ecological conflicts, and more in our April Book Club selection: tinyurl.com/tf2e4ckv

We are thrilled to announce today's publication of State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang! With a foreword by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, State of Emergency is an "important piece of work from one of Singapore's finest living authors" The Straits Times

How do translators become ambassadors of their practice—and their culture? In this profile of frequent contributor and translation superstar Anton Hur, Soumashree Sarkar considers the ways translators like Hur challenge simple narratives in their work: thewire.in/books/translat…