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March 22, 2013 |
Photo by Stuart C. Shapiro/Wikimedia Twice-nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1994 and 2004), and a juror for the prize in 1974, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe died on Thur... -
February 12, 2013 |
Rights free potrait. Library of Congress. Join us in celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s birthday by adding your translations of this short Lincoln quote in the comments of this blog post. Thanks to WL... -
February 5, 2013 |World Literature Today is proud to announce new rigorously researched and up-to-date figures for the magazine’s total annual circulation and readership. The circulation is a firm figure...
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January 30, 2013 |
Helsinki in winter. Photo Anthony Tison/Flickr If you’re like most of us, you’re interested in visiting cities all over the world but unable to do so, or at least do so as much as you’d like. In our... -
January 18, 2013 |
A bookshop in Norway. Photo readingoutloud/Flickr All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania [Oslo]—that strange city no one escapes from until it has left i... -
January 16, 2013 |
Don’t miss this chance to submit to PEN’s awards for translated literature. PEN is still accepting submissions for the $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the $3,000 PEN Translation Prize, and... -
December 14, 2012 |RC Davis-Undiano, the executive director of WLT and CLT, was recently interviewed for a Beijing radio broadcast on the status of Chinese literature overseas. Listen to his discussion...
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Kim Kyŏnguk (b. 1971, Kwang-ju, South Korea) earned his bachelor’s in English and master’s in Korean literature from Seoul National University. Since hi...
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November 20, 2012 |
In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we—the editors at WLT—have each listed a few of our favorite books in translation that we are truly thankful for. Let us know in the comments if you... -
November 8, 2012 |
We are pleased to officially present the WLT shortlist of Pushcart Prize nominations for 2012. The Pushcart Prize annually honors the best poetry, short fiction, or essays published in small... -
November 7, 2012 |Left: WLT intern Alyssa Boutelle's illustration of a quote from the September issue of WLT. Right, a screenshot of the new WLT Pinterest. We’ve been pinning away in our new...
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November 19, 2012 |WINNERSThe following students were chosen by Mr. Stern and Ms. Macari as the first, second, and third place winners in the WLT Poetry Contest. The students read their poetry in front of the t...
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October 30, 2012 |
WLT interviews Fantagraphic Books editor and publisher Kim Thompson about his recent translation of Nicolas Mahler’s Angelman. WLT: The Fantagraphics websit... -
July 2, 2012 |WLT is delighted to announce its participation in the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program (CSP), a project to bring archival and current content together on a single platform. Effective July 1,...
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July 1, 2012 |The July issue of World Literature Today will go live next week with new, exciting web exclusives including a full video interview with Irish playwright Marina Carr. As a primer to the releas...
