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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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The Best Translated Book Award shortlist for fiction and poetry was announced this week at The Millions. For more, check out revie...
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...
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The International Dublin Literary Award shortlist has been announced! The list includes Neustadt Prize laureate Mia Couto, Neustadt finalist and Puterbaugh Fellow Orhan...
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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...
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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...
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced the 2017 recipients, and recent WLT contributors Marina Carr and Carolyn Forché are among the winners. Australian a...
Little Free Library design competition Judges’ Choice winner. Owlie by Bartosz Bochynski, FUTUMATA / London, England
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PEN America announced its 2017 literary award winne...
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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...
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We’re delighted to announced that WLT has been shortlisted for the London Book Fair International Excellence Award in Translation!
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The World Literature Today team. From left to right: Terri Stubblefield, Jen Rickard Blair, Merleyn Bell, R.C. Davis, Michelle Johnson, Kay Blunck, Rob Vollmar and Daniel Si...
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Bharati Mukherjee, a 2008 Neustadt Prize juror and chronicler of the Indian-American immigrant experience, passed away this week at the age of 76. In tribute, we rememb...
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This week, George Orwell’s 1984 saw a resurgence in interest after presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway described some of th...
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Last Friday, President Obama spoke about the indispensable role that books played during his presidency and throughout his life.
The 2...
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Electric Literature rounds up a farewell to “Reader-in-Chief” President Obama, recalling each and every one of President Obama’s book recommendations, reading lists, b...
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Literary Hub examines the “Murakami effect” and how the dominance of English affects how authors reach an international audience.
NPR’s Juan Vidal named five of the ye...