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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... -
June 16, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Newly announced US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith shares with NPR why she calls poems her anchor. Israeli author David Grossman and translator Jessica C... -
June 9, 2017 |
Sherman Alexie doing a lively reading of his children’s book Thunder Boy Jr. on the ASU Tempe campus. ASU Department of English/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Sherman Alexie has a new... -
June 2, 2017 |
Brian Doyle. Photo by Sam Beebe/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews “If we didn’t write poetry after the Holocaust it would be as if Hitler had won, or that the Nazis were right.” Neustadt laureate... -
May 26, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In its annual tradition of celebrating Memorial Day, Poets.org provides remembrance with these poem... -
May 19, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Central American writer Claribel Alegría, laureate of the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has won the twenty-sixth “Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamerican... -
Check out the following book reviews from our reviews section that feature new anthologies, poetry collections, and works of fiction by Native writers. For more reading ideas, check out our Native Lit... -
Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing ed. Allison Hedge Coke (Salt Publishing, 2014) Christopher Felver Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits (University of... -
May 5, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 Best Translated Book Award winners were announced last night! Lúcio Cardoso’s Chronicle of the Murdered House, translated from the Portuguese by Margar... -
April 28, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The second issue of Latin American Literature Today will launch Sunday, April 30. The issue puts a spotlight on the Caribbean and on queer literature from acros... -
Photo: Bequest/Pixabay By a lake, on a train, deep in a canyon, or at home on your back porch: it’s time to catch up on the outstanding global writing publishers have been bringing out since January.... -
April 21, 2017 |
Photo: Alice Hampson/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The Best Translated Book Award shortlist for fiction and poetry was announced this week at The Millions. For more, check out revie... -
April 18, 2017 |
The Best Translated Book Awards shortlist has been announced and it includes many notable books. Doomi Golo by Boubacar Boris Diop is the first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, a... -
April 14, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The International Dublin Literary Award shortlist has been announced! The list includes Neustadt Prize laureate Mia Couto, Neustadt finalist and Puterbaugh Fellow Orhan... -
April 7, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The new double issue of Poetry International, edited by Ilya Kaminsky, is out and features works by many Neustadt Prize-affiliated authors including Derek Walco... -
March 31, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The Best Translated Book Award longlists have been announced, and they include many authors and translators who have recently appeared in WLT. For our readers i... -
March 28, 2017 |Celebrating its tenth iteration, the Best Translated Book Awards announced its longlists for fiction and poetry this morning, highlighting the best international works of literature published in the...
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March 24, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews These 14 authors who have received NEA grants share the life-changing impact of the National Endowment for the Arts. The UK has a new prize for women in translation cal... -
March 17, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced and recent WLT contributor and Puterbaugh Fellow Alain Mabanckou is among the finalists. The 2017 Oklahoma Bo... -
March 10, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The #Read4Refugees campaign is encouraging a worldwide “read-in” for refugees and is gaining momentum with the support of Jodi Picoult, Junot Díaz, Yann Martel, Sherman... -
March 3, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced the 2017 recipients, and recent WLT contributors Marina Carr and Carolyn Forché are among the winners. Australian a... -
February 24, 2017 |
Little Free Library design competition Judges’ Choice winner. Owlie by Bartosz Bochynski, FUTUMATA / London, England News, Reviews, and Interviews PEN America announced its 2017 literary award winne... -
February 17, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews AWP 2017 came to a close last weekend with a candlelight vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House, and the conference itself featured dozens of panels on wor... -
February 10, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews We’re delighted to announced that WLT has been shortlisted for the London Book Fair International Excellence Award in Translation! Follow WLT @worldli...
