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March 4, 2016 |
Sponsored by World Literature TodayThe University of OklahomaNorman, OklahomaApril 6–8, 2016 Featuring Francophone Writer Alain Mabanckou Norman, OK, March 4, 2016 – Since... -
February 26, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Via the New Yorker, the story behind Salvadoran writer Jorge Galán’s choice to flee his country after the publication of his recent novel Noviembre. W... -
February 19, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Author Aleksandar Hemon reflects on the deadly error in dehumanizing millions of refugees. In this review of Inongo vi Makomè’s book Natives, Aaron Bady discus... -
February 12, 2016 |
Valzhyna Mort. Photo: Tyler Christian News, Reviews, and Interviews In this radio interview with OU’s NPR affiliate, recent Neustadt juror Valzhyna Mort details her passion for poetry and the power... -
February 5, 2016 |
Image: MyBookmark/Etsy News, Reviews, and Interviews This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership. Slovenian author Al... -
January 29, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews This week on the Race Matters radio show, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas discusses race and immigration with WLT art director Merleyn Be... -
January 22, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews We’re sad to report that Mexican Amercian poet Francisco X. Alarcón died of cancer last week. His poetry explored Chicano life in the US. He contributed a poem to WL... -
January 15, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Academy of American Poets has curated this list of poems in honor and celebration. Poet Allison Hedge Coke, recently pu... -
January 8, 2016 |
Welcome back to our weekly literary roundups! The year has gotten off to an exciting start with WLT’s 90th anniversary, and lots of interesting things are happening in the literary world. He... -
January 4, 2016 |
WHAT: This Thursday, January 7, students from Norman High School will compete in the national recitation contest known as Poetry Out Loud. World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’... -
December 18, 2015 |
This will be our last roundup of literary news and fun finds until we return from the holiday break. Thank you for reading along with us this year. We’ll see you in January, when we’ll be kicking of... -
December 11, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews The Huffington Post lists the best picture books of 2015 and gives a nostalgic tribute to NSK Neustadt Prize laureate Vera B. Williams. Robert J. Fouser takes a...
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December 4, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Literature in translation makes up 13% of the New York Times Notable Books for 2015 list. WLT contributor Claire Messud shares her reading highlights... -
November 25, 2015 |A cover feature on NSK Neustadt Prize laureate Meshack Asare featuring Asare’s keynote address and Prize lecture and nominating juror Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s tribute, “Meshack Asare in the Pantheon of An...
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November 20, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards winners were announced Wednesday night. The winners were Adam Johnson in fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates in nonfiction, Robin Coste Lewis in poetry, a... -
November 13, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the Korea Herald, translator Sora Kim-Russell points to a “dark, earthy humor” buried under the angst and sorrow in Korean literature. Ukr... -
November 6, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Many literary translation awards were announced last week! The ALTA blog showcases the winners of the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the National Translation Award i...
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November 4, 2015 |
The following is a clip from the Colorado Academy monthly newsletter. Four students from the school were selected to attend the 2015 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture. Says Hea... -
October 30, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Dubravka Ugrešić has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Neustadt Prize! Beyond Ugrešić’s win, there’s more good news for Croatian literature—the newly launched mag...
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October 23, 2015 |Dubravka Ugrešić Announced as 2016 Winner of Prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Dubravka Ugrešić. Photo by Judith Jockel. Novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić has been named the 24th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature.... -
October 16, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Catch one of our Reader’s Choice essayists Aleš Debeljak at a poetry reading October 21 at the University of Richmond. The event is part of the university’s Writers Serie...
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October 9, 2015 |
Demonstration for Raif Badawi outside the Embassy of Saudi-Arabia, Helsinki, Finland. Raif Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage this week. Photo by Amnesty International/Flickr.... -
October 2, 2015 |
Jenny Erpenbeck is shortlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize. News, Reviews, and Interviews Young-adult books are often challenged. This article from the Los Angeles Times lists the 10 mos... -
September 25, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2015 National Book Awards longlist is out, and Flavorwire has compiled a post that summarizes each of the books. A recent article from the New York Times po...
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September 18, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews In this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today. The Man Booker Prize r...
