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November 18, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Award winners have been announced! Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Daniel Borzutzky have won for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectively.... -
November 11, 2016 |
Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival. News, Reviews, and Interviews Via PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, a... -
November 4, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews 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... -
October 29, 2016 |
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)... -
October 24, 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.... -
October 21, 2016 |
Photo by Steve Halama/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for t... -
October 19, 2016 |
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),... -
October 14, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews 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... -
October 7, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews 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... -
September 30, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews 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... -
September 23, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews 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... -
September 16, 2016 |
Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Awards longlist is now online, and the finalists will be revealed on October 13. Chicano author Rud... -
September 9, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews 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... -
September 2, 2016 |
Interior of the DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Zorro2212/Wikimedia News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners have been ann... -
August 18, 2016 |
Photo by Eli Samuelu/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews For #WITmonth, Words Without Borders lists 31 women authors in translation to read now. A “working-class academic” reports to VI... -
Verse Au jour le jour (1993) L’usure des lendemains (1995) La Légende de l’errance (1995) Les arbres aussi versent des larmes (1997) Quand l... -
August 12, 2016 |
From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191 News, Reviews, and Interviews In this Big Think video, NSK Neustadt Pri... -
August 5, 2016 |
The Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews International visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympics can leave a little of their count... -
July 29, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews 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... -
July 22, 2016 |
Radio Atlas use subtitles to translate various forms of audio. News, Reviews, and Interviews Radio Atlas is a new project that aims to translate sound art without destroying the poetry of its deliver... -
July 15, 2016 |
Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re... -
July 1, 2016 |
Photo: Frankieleon/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT contri... -
June 24, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P... -
June 17, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature jury and finalists were announced this week. For the first time ever, the finalists are all women. Author Alexander... -
June 14, 2016 |Nominees for the $25,000 children’s literature award selected by jury panel of their peers NORMAN, Okla. (June 14, 2016) – World Literature Today, the University of Oklaho...
