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Tim Parks, Milan, Italy

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. Do I pull up the shutter before my cappuccino or afterward? That’s the first decision of each new day. I need to see if it’s...

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Binyavanga Wainaina, Nairobi, Kenya

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I have lived in this cramped little cottage near Ngong Forest in Nairobi for the past year. After many winters abroad, I find...

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Sheila Heti, Toronto, Canada

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. Can you see that beautiful shrub? It has no bald patch, right? That’s because the shy, moustached, Portuguese man, who seems to...

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Etgar Keret, Tel Aviv, Israel

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. The nicest place I ever got to write in was in MacDowell. My studio there was surrounded by a beautiful snowy forest, and looking...

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Harris Khalique, Islamabad, Pakistan

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. In the afternoon when the sun is blazing and in early evening when its orange hue allows me to stare into the horizon, I look out...

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Luljeta Lleshanaku, Kruja, Albania

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I usually prefer to write in my bedroom at my childhood home in Kruja. Traces of the old living style are in the yard in the front...

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G. Mend-Ooyo, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. When I was young, every morning I would take our hobbled horse and walk it in the dawn light. My father would say, “Sleep late...

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Alejandro Zambra, Santiago, Chile

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I’m not sure that my little studio is the best place in the house to write. It’s too hot in summer and too cold in winter. But I...

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Andrea Hirata, Jakarta, Indonesia

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. Since my childhood, I have rarely had the power to control where I can be. Life has not given me many choices. But after writing...

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Tatiana Salem Levy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. Although I have an office in my apartment, every day I wake up and take my laptop to the dining room table. The view from my...

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Rebecca Walker, Maui, Hawaii

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I have been looking out this window for three years. I have stared out of these rectangular panes full of hope and also despair,...

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Andri Snær Magnason, Reykjavik, Iceland

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. This is my window. Or my windows—the view from my living room, where I sit and write. Might not seem very inspiring. I wish I...

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Lidija Dimkovska, Skopje, Macedonia

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. My late childhood and entire youth window. I began to write in front of this view, and while I am here, I still do, at a low,...

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Taiye Selasi, Rome, Italy

A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. This summer I wrote my first ever article in Italian, considering why the Eternal City lures so many expat authors. In my limited...

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Nastia Denisova, St. Petersburg, Russia

I’ve been living here for four months. The center of the city. Fifth floor. I usually look out the window at night, but it’s not exactly a window—it’s the door of a balcony. I can see all the windows...

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Announcing Our Windows on the World Contest

Matteo Pericoli’s drawing of the view from Lidija Dimkovska’s window in Skopje, Macedonia. For the past few years, readers of the Daily have enjoyed an occasional series called “Windows on the World,”...

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Points of View, Points of Origin

This essay prefaces Matteo Pericoli’s Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views, out this week. We’ve featured Matteo’s work for years on the Daily, and his sketch of the view from our old...

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The Windows on the World Finalists

Earlier this month, we announced our Windows on the World contest, giving readers the chance to have the views from their windows sketched by Matteo Pericoli. We’re happy to share the views from our...

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Announcing the Winner of Our Windows on the World Contest

Earlier this week, we announced the five finalists in our Windows on the World contest; today we’re happy to say that the winner is Simon Rowe, with his view from Himeji City, Japan. Simon will have...

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Simon Rowe, Himeji City, Japan

Windows on the World is a series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. This is the final entry in the series, which we began in January 2012: it’s Matteo’s sketch for last...

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