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Q&A 10 A Conversation with Pere Gimferrer by Adrian Nathan West Crime & Mystery 14 A German Triple Play by J. Madison Davis Fiction 17 Venom by Zsófia Bán about the cover David B.’s illustration for L’Association’s 2013 general meeting and festival at Paris’s Point Éphémère arts center. Courtesy of the artist. special section Five Younger Women Poets from Azerbaijan 22 Introduced by Alison Mandaville & Shahla Naghiyeva Featuring Rabiqe Nazim qizi 25 Aysel (Nino) Novruz 26 Jale Ismayil 27 Elnaz Eyvaz 28 Feyziyye 29 The Puterbaugh Essay Series 31 We Were Born in the Houses of Storytellers by Ghassan Zaqtan Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 13 Editor’s Pick | 76 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost MARCH – APRIL 2016 10 50 cover feature International Comics 37 Introduced by Bill Kartalopoulos Interview David B. 40 Profiles Ilan Manouach 44 Anke Feuchtenberger 50 Frémok 56 International Publishers 60 Portfolio Yūichi Yokoyama 48 With a special section of comics reviews beginning on page 64 26 ali photo : felipe trueba / epa / thinking images v . 9 worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Visit our website for exclusive content including original audio recordings, photo galleries, blog posts, and more. A bilingual audio poem by Azerbaijan’s Rabiqe Nasim qizi (page 25) Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. web exclusive photo gallery audio video An essay on the Oscarnominated film Son of Saul, by Zsófia Bán (page 17) A Spotify playlist highlighting cross-cultural musical collaborations (page 08) Web Exclusive Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday On the WLT Blog A World of Wandering and Potentiality in a Latin American Novel: A Conversation with Gisela Heffes by Grady C. Wray “Many of the mechanisms I used in writing Ischia were put together with the purpose of submerging readers in a concatenation of stories, plots, and itineraries that fluctuated between what was completely out of control and absurd and a state of melancholy and grief.” “Something More Broken”: A Poem and Meditation by Najwa Ali “Not long after I wrote the poem, we fled the sanctuary of that lovely retreat in search of higher ground, shelter from an immense wave coming toward us at an incredible speed, all the way from Japan.” Read more at worldliteraturetoday.org/blog Join the conversation Join our community of readers and writers on Twitter. Use the hashtag #IReadWLT and tell us about your favorite features from this issue. Laura Gibbs @OnlineCrsLady I am so excited that I will have great world lit stuff to share with my students again this semester: thank you!!! Shaun Randol @shaunrandol Maaaaaaaan. Your essay in @worldlittoday is so good. Fiction as transgressive when it talks about love. LOVE. @KAnisAhmed Carlos Pintado @carlospintado74 Thrilled to have my Nine Coins in @ worldlittoday’s 75 annual year-end list of notable translations. Find us on flickr flickr.com/wltonline WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 3 Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Let us hear from you via the feedback link on the WLT website, Tweet us @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief at dsimon@ou.edu. editor’s note In “We Were Born in the Houses of Storytellers,” the latest installment in the 2016 Puterbaugh Essay series, Ghassan Zaqtan reflects on the achievement of his longtime friend, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, one of the “towering trees” of contemporary poetry (page 31). Zaqtan, in his own right—a two-time finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2014, 2016)—is one of the foremost Arab poets of his generation. In his essay, he offers both “a definition of the Arab poetic achievement” since the 1950s and “a defense of it at the same time.” Fady Joudah, who has translated both Darwish and Zaqtan into English, calls it “a stunning, important narrative.” Darwish was first profiled in these pages in Mohammed Bakir Alwan’s essay “Contemporary Palestinian and Jordanian Literature: Fractured Vision,” in which the author...