Top row (left to right): Laurie Halse Anderson, Eric Gansworth, Meg Medina. Middle row: Linda Sue Park, Mitali Perkins, Jason Reynolds. Bottom row: Cynthia Leitich Smith, Laurel Snyder,...
(Photos: Joseph Legaspi, OU's Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, and Margarita Engle and Lilliam Rivera)
Over the course of three days (October 15–17, 2019), WLT’s most recent festival involved som...
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Wednesday evening that Isma...
Eleven internationally acclaimed writers will read from their work and sign books beginning at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Scholars Room (Room 315) of Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave.,...
Margarita Engle will deliver the keynote address for the Neustadt Lit Fest at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center, 560 Parrington Oval, on the University of Oklahoma Nor...
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, recently was awarded the 2019 APEX Grand Award for Publication Excellence...
We asked our readers, “What work of fiction, poetry, theater, or nonfiction has had the most profound impact on your understanding of climate change?” Here's what you said:
“We need a new voc...
With a two-week driving vacation ahead of her this summer, Managing and Culture Editor Michelle Johnson is already setting aside books for the trip—plus a few to read poolside when she returns. ...
Norman, Okla. (June 11, 2019) – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announ...
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has named its 2018 National Translation Award winners. Third-Millennium Heart (Action Books) by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated from the...
On Oct. 10, the Nebraska Library Commission announced Daniel Simon as the winner of a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. Simon’s book Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017 (2017),...
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Margarita Engle as the winn...
The Neustadt Lit Fest, a legendary celebration of international literature and culture, will take place Oct. 9-11 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Headlined by Edwidge Danticat, winner of...
The winning design in the 2018 Neustadt Lit Festival poster design competition by Jill Craighead
University of Oklahoma students Jill Craighead, Mikayla Baldwin, and Jacob Cullum have won first, sec...
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Kenny Fries muses on the invisibility of people with disabilities in conversations about diversity in publishing.
David Schuman of the Kenyon Review covers Aminatta Forna’s la...
The winners of the WLT Translation Prize. From left to right: translator Allana C. Noyes, Argentine author Fabián Casas, translator Mattho Mandersloot, and Dutch writer Jamal Ouariach...
Writing for NPR, Karen Grigsby Bates remembers Anthony Bourdain’s humanizing influence and voice on behalf on marginalized groups.
This week Pierce Alquist, writing for Book Riot, published...
This year’s fiftieth-anniversary Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature & Culture set a new high-water mark in the cultural life of the University of Oklahoma, in a series already distin...
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The 2018 Puterbaugh Festival (March 7–9) marked the fiftieth anniversary of the renowned Puterbaugh tradition at the University of Oklahoma. German novelist,...
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Rivka Galchen gives a fascinating account of the Oklahoma teacher strike of 2018. Galchen’s father was a professor at the University...
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Aminatta Forna’s new novel Happiness is getting rave reviews. Forna recently contributed to our November 2017 issue as part o...
News, Reviews, and Interviews
The Man Booker International Prize has been awarded toPolish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, which will be reviewed in our...