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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...
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In this Big Think video, NSK Neustadt Pri...
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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...
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On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re...
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The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.”
Recent WLT contri...
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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...
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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...
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...
Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia Commons
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NPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguistic thea...
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Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massac...
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Via Utne Reader, 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić shares about the experience of being a finalist—and then winner—for a big literary prize, her st...
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South Korean writer Han Kang—featured on the cover of the current issue of WLT—has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her no...
World Literature Today congratulates its May 2016 contributor and South Korean author Han Kang for winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literar...
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Deepak Unnikrishnan is the inaugural winner of the Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize.
Polish poet and Neustadt laureate Adam Zagajewski has won the 2016 Leopo...
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The winners for the Best Translated Book Awards have been announced! WLT contributing editor David Shook’s press Phoneme has taken home the BTBA in poetry for...
Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. Painted by Evert A. Duyckinick, based on a drawing by George Richmond
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In this interview with Saikat Majmudar, he discusses his new novel...
Whether spent at home, driving cross-country, or venturing abroad, summer demands its own reading list. These new books of 2016 will more than fill a backseat, suitcase, Kindle, or hammock. ...
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Archivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled...
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The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced!
The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won the fict...
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The AWP Conference continues through this weekend! Catch WLT’s editor in chief this afternoon and evening, and be sure to attend our poetry reading “Crossing t...
Later this week, World Literature Today editor in chief Daniel Simon will travel to LA to attend the 2016 gathering of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), the largest li...