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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.
Norman, Okla. (October 29, 2016)...
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...
Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash
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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...
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For #WITmonth, Words Without Borders lists 31 women authors in translation to read now.
A “working-class academic” reports to VI...
From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191
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In this Big Think video, NSK Neustadt Pri...
The Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr
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International visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympics can leave a little of their count...
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The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow.
PEN America has ann...
Radio Atlas use subtitles to translate various forms of audio.
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Radio Atlas is a new project that aims to translate sound art without destroying the poetry of its deliver...