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...
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Obama administration speechwriter Jonathan Reiber writes about “the end of a literary presidency” in this Literary Hub article.Guernica interviews K...
Munro’s Books in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: ThreeFishSleeping/Flickr
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Quartz examines the “giant influence” that Fidel Castro had on Latin American lite...
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WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in transla...
Norman, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will be honored this month with a Governor’s Media in the...
In its November 2016 issue, World Literature Today honors women writers, and Barnes & Noble has responded with an unprecedented campaign to feature the magazine in all of its stores in e...
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The National Book Award winners have been announced! Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Daniel Borzutzky have won for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectively....
Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival.
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Via PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, a...
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American poet, children’s book author, and translator Marilyn Nelson is the laureate of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Literature!
After accepting the 2016 Neustadt P...
Biennial $25,000 prize recognizes a storied literary career exploring history, race relations and feminism in America
Marilyn Nelson. Photo by Curt Richter.
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The 2016 Neustadt Festival of International Literature & Culture featuring Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić starts this Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman....
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The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for t...
George Lynn Cross (left) interviewing Roy Temple House as part of his weekly broadcast on radio station WNAD, ca. 1947 (courtesy of the OU Western History Collections). Dr. Cross (1905–98),...
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Bob Dylan (a 2012 finalist for Neustadt Prize) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for having created new poetic expressions within the great America...
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The 2016 National Book Award finalists have been announced! WLT contributor Viet Thanh Nguyen and NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Jacqueline Woodson are among the t...
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Via the Boston Review, Rafia Zakaria presents a new series titled Reading Other Women that will focus on “reading as self-making.”
The third annual Festival Alb...
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In this PBS News Hour interview, the newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, talks about being a “feisty fighter for freedom” and the first woman and African...
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The 2016 National Book Awards longlist is now online, and the finalists will be revealed on October 13.
Chicano author Rud...
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Three Percent has announced the judges for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award, and the guidelines for eligibility and submissions are online as well. WLT cont...
Interior of the DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Zorro2212/Wikimedia
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The 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners have been ann...