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December 8, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The “Silence Breakers” who have spoken out publicly and anonymously about sexual assault and harassment were named Time’s 2017 Pers... -
December 1, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Buenas noticias for the Hispanic community in Los Angeles! The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) will be taking Les Figues Press under its wing to hel... -
November 30, 2017 |
Norman, Okla. – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, executive director of World Literature Today and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, will be recognized with the Hispanic Arts Coun... -
November 17, 2017 |
World Literature Today is hiring! Are you a guru of strategic communication and lover of literature? WLT is searching for a marketing specialist with experience in various... -
November 17, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Congratulations to forthcoming WLT contributors Seth Michelson and Derick Mattern who were announced this week as recipients of 2018 NEA Literature Translation... -
November 10, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Autostraddle’s list of 8 speculative fiction short collections featuring queer characters lists Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, an editor’s pick... -
November 9, 2017 |
Haitian-American writer wins $50,000 “American Nobel” NORMAN, OKLA. (Friday, Nov. 10, 2017) – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-... -
November 3, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Zadie Smith will be awarded the 2017 Langston Hughes Medal in Harlem on November 16. She is the New York Times best-selling author of White Teeth, ... -
October 27, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Tillman Miller interviewed Sokunthary Svay, the first voice of what she hopes is a new generation of Cambodian American literature. Rediscover the Khvoshchinskaya sister... -
October 13, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews This week marks the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Writing Program in Iowa! Today at noon, WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon will lead a pane... -
October 6, 2017 |
Photo by Tanisha Pina News, Reviews, and Interviews Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has written eight books which have been translated into over 40 lan... -
September 29, 2017 |
International Translation Day also marks the inaugural launch of the World Literature Today Translation Prize! The prize is open for entries through January 1, 2018. News, Reviews, and Inter... -
September 22, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In this week’s episode of the American Scholar’s Smarty Pants podcast, former Poet Laureate of the UK Andre Motion talks about his work, Jennifer Choi unearths... -
September 15, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards longlist for Young People’s Literature includes previous NSK Prize jurors Mitali Perkins and Rita Williams-Garcia! Visit the National Book Award... -
September 12, 2017 |
Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s book Mestizos Come Home! has won the 2017 International Latino Book Award for “Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book.” The prize was announced at a ceremony held on S... -
September 8, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists have been announced! Via the New Yorker, 2018 Neustadt Prize finalist Edwidge Danticat writes a... -
September 5, 2017 |
Nine nominees chosen for the $50,000 literature award known as “The American Nobel” NORMAN, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s a... -
August 25, 2017 |
Photo: Pexels News, Reviews, and Interviews Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie has published a new poem commenting on the current state of America. Scroll.in comments on translations as resistance an... -
August 4, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The jury for the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature has been announced! Read about each author on the 2018 jury on Neustadt Prize website. Latin Americ... -
August 3, 2017 |Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announced the names of nine jurors chosen t...
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July 28, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews On Wednesday, PEN America launched an online archive, chronicling 50 years of American literary and cultural history with more than 1,500 hours of audio and video dating... -
July 21, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Signature Reads delivers an essay primer for adults that showcases the “6 essay types you should know.” Among the examples is a triptych by Samina Najmi... -
July 14, 2017 |
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By Benjamin D. Maxham active 1848 - 1858 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons News, Reviews, and Interviews Henry David Thoreau was born 200 years ago on July 12, 1817. Via NPR, bi... -
June 30, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 Lambda Literary Writers Workshop Retreat fellows have been announced. The annual retreat for emerging LGBTQ voices was established in 2007 and is a one-week imm... -
June 23, 2017 |
The Parthenon of Books behind the Museum Fridericianum. Wikimedia News, Reviews, and Interviews A “Parthenon of Books” has been built at the site of Nazi book burning in central...
