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Articles by Niloufar Talebi
“I’ll lay down my life for you all”: Poetry and Activism on the Streets of Myanmar, by James Byrne
Poet and teacher K Za Win (1982–2021) / Photo courtesy of the author When I last visited Myanmar in 2013, it was to participate in the Irrawaddy Festival to launch Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets. Soon after arriving, I realised the festival was somewhat dubious. They put me up in a colonial relic called the British Club, and the festival itself was organised by the then–British ambassador’s wife, who often kept separate the international from the local writers.
My Childhood Bedroom, by Loubna El Amine
Beirut; Credit: George Azar A writer reflects on her relationship to home in Beirut. Why the windows of the room did not shatter from the August 4 explosion is still a mystery. The building is only five kilometers away from the port of Beirut, and the windows of the neighbors’ apartment broke. In other buildings nearby, even the aluminum frames came off; photos circulating showed the big metal pieces, mixed with glass shards and drops of blood, covering disordered furniture.
What’s Left Unsaid: How Ismail Kadare Escaped Suppression but Embraced the Style It Taught Him
Ismail Kadare has a remarkable quality of saying a great deal and with much clarity, but in an elusive, oblique, and allegorical way. Peter Constantine situates Kadare’s work in the long history of the Balkans and in the broader tradition of writers who practice their craft under the constraints of censorship.
To Be or Not to Be, That is Not the Question — The Markaz Review
The Markaz Review is particularly pleased to bring you this commemoration of Ahmad Shamlou by perhaps his foremost English-language translator, Niloufar Talebi, who grew up in Iran at a time when Shamlou was a family visitor. Last year Talebi published a unique genre-busting memoir, Self-Portrait in Bloom, that melds her own history with the trajectory of Shamlou and his extensive body of work.
An Orpheus and Eurydice Remix: Talking to Lilliam Rivera about Never Look(ing) Back, by Bayleigh Acosta
Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of children’s books who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Rivera’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Rivera’s latest novel, Never Look Back (Bloomsbury, 2020), retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in New York and influenced by various elements of Latin culture.
Lilliam Rivera’s Orpheus and Eurydice Remix: Talking about Never Look(ing) Back, by Bayleigh Acosta
Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of children’s books who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Rivera’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Rivera’s latest novel, Never Look Back (Bloomsbury, 2020), retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in New York and influenced by various elements of Latin culture.
Cynthia Leitich Smith Named Winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature
Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smith as the winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. Awarded in alternating years with the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the biennial NSK Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in the world of children’s and young adult literature.
Festival Five with Translator and Scholar Ani Kokobobo, by The Editors of WLT
Ani Kokobobo is associate professor and chair of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Kansas and editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal. She received her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation on the grotesque and the body in late Russian realism. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as Balkan modernism.
Festival Five with NSK Juror Janet Wong, by The Editors of WLT
Janet Wong is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former lawyer who switched careers to become a children’s author. Her dramatic career change has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN’s Paula Zahn Show, and Radical Sabbatical.
Festival Five with NSK Juror Monica Brown, by The Editors of WLT
Monica Brown is the author of the Lola Levine chapter book series, Sarai chapter book series, and many award-winning picture books, including Waiting for the Biblioburro (illus. John Parra), Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match / Marisol McDonald no combina (illus. Sara Palacios), and Maya’s Blanket / La manta de Maya (illus. David Diaz). Her picture book biographies include Tito Puente: Mambo King / Tito Puente: Rey del mambo (illus. Rafael López) and Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People (illus.
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Children’s and Young Adult Titles, by Niloufar Talebi
To mark the upcoming 2020 Neustadt Lit Fest and the announcement of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, here is an excerpt featuring the children’s and young adult books selection from 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers, curated by past Neustadt Prize juror, and WLT contributor, Niloufar Talebi. To read the full introduction and list, visit AAWW’s The Margins, where it was first published.
33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers
To read the full list of 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers, visit AAWW’s The Margins. Two impulses led me to compile this list: to resist the forces that stifle the publication and distribution of literature created by Iranians and keep it off the world stage, and to celebrate the books that have reached readers of English. The idea for this list originally came about as I raised these questions to myself: What is this literature?
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Fiction
[Editor’s Note: This week, we relaunched our monthly Bookmarks feature with a five-part series on 100 essential books by Iranian writers available in English, researched and curated by author and translator Niloufar Talebi. Read the introductory essay to the series and the first list of books here. Today, in our final installment, we turn to a feast of fiction.] ◻︎◻︎◻︎ 68.
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Classics in Translation
[Editor’s Note: This week, we relaunch our monthly Bookmarks feature with a five-part series on 100 essential books by Iranian writers available in English, researched and curated by author and translator Niloufar Talebi. Read the introductory essay to the series and the first list of books here.
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Graphic Novels, Culinary Books, & Children’s Literature
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Graphic Novels, Culinary Books, & Children’s Literature [Editor’s Note: This week, we relaunch our monthly Bookmarks feature with a five-part series on 100 essential books by Iranian writers available in English, researched and curated by author and translator Niloufar Talebi. Read the introductory essay to the series and the first list of books here.
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Poetry, Hybrid Works, Anthologies
We continue in our bookmarks series with works that sing, dissolve boundaries, and gather voices together [Editor’s Note: This week, we relaunch our monthly Bookmarks feature with a five-part series on 100 essential books by Iranian writers available in English, researched and curated by Niloufar Talebi.
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction
I embarked on this list with an assumption of scarcity. But I discovered an embarrassment of riches. [Editor’s Note: This week, we relaunch our monthly Bookmarks feature with a five-part series on 100 essential books by Iranian writers available in English, researched and curated by Niloufar Talebi.
Famed Neustadt Lit Fest for 2020 Goes 100% Online
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced today that the 2020 Neustadt Lit Festival will be held entirely online from Oct. 19-21. The festival will feature numerous panels exploring 2020 Neustadt laureate Ismail Kadare’s multi-decade legacy.
Abraham in Flames (opera)
Our Abraham in Flames workshop residency at San Francisco’s Wilsey Center for Opera was a huge success on all fronts: artistic, collaborative, audience, educational etc. We spent 5 days exploring the first half of the opera and offering viewings of it, all 3 of which were packed with diverse, curious, and riveted audiences, most of whom stayed for the post-Q&A.
So You Want to Make an Opera?
Opera sounds grand, doesn’t it? Not only in a staging sense, but in psychic dimension, drama, emotional scope. Because opera is grand — even without a major production. Opera tackles both the lowest and the highest — the lowest points in our suffering souls and the highest peaks of ecstasy. Making an opera also can mean highs and lows.
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