February 28, 2023
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The Editors of WLT
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March 7, 2023 |
On Thursday, March 23, 2023, noted French American scholar and translator Alice-Catherine Carls will deliver a public talk called “Translation as a Laboratory for Life” on the University of Oklahoma (... -
February 28, 2023 |
The editors of World Literature Today are nominating the May/June 2022 “Muses” issue for the annual Best Cover Contest sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the principal or... -
We’re intrigued by these short, often speculative fictions arriving early this year. No Edges: Swahili Stories Trans. Various Two Lines Press In April, Two Lines Press wil... -
A Sufi in Ecstasy in a Landscape, Iran, Isfahan, circa 1650–1660. The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, LA County Museum of Art “Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980) has p... -
February 2, 2023 |
On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, from 12:00–1:30pm est, World Literature Today, the Romanoff Center for Russian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Pennsylvania’s Departmen... -
Festival Presenters Anna Badkhen and Marame Gueye / Photo by Gavyn Redd FOR THE FIRST time since the start of the pandemic, World Literature Today resumed hosting the... -
It’s a new year, and we’re looking forward to new books. Here are eight scheduled for publication in January and February—fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—to get a strong start on a new year of rea... -
Photo by Erin Doering on Unsplash “After extensive renovations and the repair of bomb damage incurred during World War II, the famous Reading Room of the British Museum, London, has been reope... -
October 31, 2022 |
“Tar Creek Below Contamination Area,” “Chat Pile,” and “Sinkhole,” from Picher, Oklahoma, by Todd Stewart worldlittoday · “Red Dirt and Brownfields: Humanities Perspectives on Ecological Res... -
Dhumketu The Shenai Virtuoso: And Other Stories Trans. Jenny Bhatt Deep Vellum DEEP VELLUM PUBLISHED this first substantial collection of Dhumketu’s (1892–1... -
October 14, 2022 |
Photo by Amador Loureiro / Unsplash Submissions open: October 15, 2022, to January 2, 2023 ~ for translations published during 2022 ~ early submissions encouraged At midnig... -
Paz receiving the 1982 Neustadt Prize from University of Oklahoma president William Banowsky “I wonder—once more, now, when everything seems about to go up in flame again—if there is a place f... -
Eleni Kefala Time Stitches Trans. Peter Constantine Deep Vellum We’ve been waiting for this new collection of poems by WLT contributor Eleni Kefala. The Greek origin... -
Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017) / Courtesy of IMDB “When Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale appeared in 1986, readers regarded it as interesting science... -
May 23, 2022 |
Top Row (left to right): William Alexander, Raúl Colón, Veera Hiranandani. Middle row: Jessica Kim, Trung Le Nguyen (credit: Laura Duholm), Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. Bottom row: Lawrence Sch... -
May 17, 2022 |
The 2022 Student Translation Prize Winners, Emily Graham and Aziza Kasumov. Aziza Kasumov and Emily Graham were recently named the recipients of the fifth annual translation prize for students... -
December 2, 2021 |
Photo by Parée / Flickr The editors of World Literature Today are delighted to announce our annual shortlist of Pushcart nominations for 2021. Pushcart Prize XLVII will honor... -
November 23, 2021 |
Photo by Ann Arbor When we heard the news of Robert Bly’s passing yesterday, our thoughts turned not only to his poetry but to his prolific career as a translator. In these pages alone, review... -
September 22, 2021 |
Photo by Connie Smothermon In the lead-up to National Punctuation Day (September 24), we asked writers and translators to comment on their favorite mark of punctuation. I... -
There’s never enough space to cover them all, but in an effort to account for as many titles as possible, here are thirteen 2021 translations for your reading list, including novels, nonfiction, p... -
August 2, 2021 |
Have you read the work of the ten jurors who will be selecting the next laureate of the Neustadt Prize? (You can read more about them on the Neustadt website.) We’ve put together a short list with so... -
June 28, 2021 |
Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate a single book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with... -
June 24, 2021 |
WLT is joining the BookTube world! The show is WLT Book Buzz, hosted by two former interns who now work in children’s book publishing. After watching Laura Hernandez and Bunmi Ishol... -
May 20, 2021 |
Mariah Rust and Xin Xu recently were named the recipients of the fourth annual translation prize for students sponsored by World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Consistent wi... -
March 31, 2021 |
Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate one book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a bri...
