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July 10, 2018 |
The 2019 NSK Nominees (top, left-to-right) Margarita Engle (Photo: Sandra Rios Balderrama), René Colato Laínez, Ana Maria Machado, (middle, left-to-right) Isabel Minhós Martins, Hilary McKay... -
June 28, 2018 |
The winning design in the 2018 Neustadt Lit Festival poster design competition by Jill Craighead University of Oklahoma students Jill Craighead, Mikayla Baldwin, and Jacob Cullum have won first, seco... -
June 22, 2018 |
Photo: Pixabay Kenny Fries muses on the invisibility of people with disabilities in conversations about diversity in publishing. David Schuman of the Kenyon Review covers Aminatta Forna’s la... -
June 14, 2018 |
The winners of the WLT Translation Prize. From left to right: translator Allana C. Noyes, Argentine author Fabián Casas, translator Mattho Mandersloot, and Dutch writer Jamal Ouariach... -
June 15, 2018 |
Writing for NPR, Karen Grigsby Bates remembers Anthony Bourdain’s humanizing influence and voice on behalf on marginalized groups. This week Pierce Alquist, writing for Book Riot, published... -
June 8, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Rivka Galchen gives a fascinating account of the Oklahoma teacher strike of 2018. Galchen’s father was a professor at the University... -
June 1, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna’s new novel Happiness is getting rave reviews. Forna recently contributed to our November 2017 issue as part o... -
May 25, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker International Prize has been awarded toPolish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, which will be reviewed in our... -
May 24, 2018 |
World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, has announced who the jury members will be to select the finalists for the renowned NSK N... -
May 22, 2018 |
Are you on the edge of your seat waiting for the announcement of the 2018 Man Book International Prize winner? Ease back and brush up on the shortlist with reviews and interviews of the translators a... -
May 18, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews ArabLit has put together a collection of five poignant quotes from Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, who lives in Gaza, that p... -
May 11, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews This October brings the 25th Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the honoree this year is Haitian American writer Edwid... -
May 4, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Our new issue on speculative fiction includes an extensive list of international fiction in the genre. Carmen Maria Machado and Sofia... -
April 27, 2018 |
Photo by Cayla1 on Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews Our May/June issue is online and hurtling through the global postal consortiums as we type. Our cover s... -
April 20, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Kendrick Lamar dominated Pulitzer Prize headlines this week, but some other familiar faces to WLT readers appeared as well, including Patric... -
April 13, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews A rare document from the life of Marcel Proust has been uncovered and will make its public debut at the Paris International Rare Book and Fine Art Fair... -
April 6, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews This past Wednesday would have been Maya Angelou’s ninetieth birthday. Read It Forward asked several authors—among them Calv... -
March 30, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna, writing for the PBS NewsHour, analyzes the power of crafting one’s own narrative in the face of suffering... -
March 23, 2018 |
World Literature Today magazine and the University of Oklahoma are pleased to announce Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s Mestizos Come Home! has been recognized as a finalist in the 20th an... -
March 23, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The sixth edition of Life and Legends magazine is now out, and the theme is contemporary Indian poetry. The magazine’s edi... -
March 16, 2018 |
photo : pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews This month, the Poetry Coalition will kick off the series Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poet... -
March 9, 2018 |
photo: shevaun williams & associates News, Reviews, and Interviews World-renowned novelist Jenny Erpenbeck is being honored this week at the 2018 Puterbaugh F... -
March 2, 2018 |
photo: pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews In her latest blog post, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman shares the PEN International Women’s Manifesto, which was ratified at PE... -
February 23, 2018 |
photo: pixabay / evgeni tcher News, Reviews, and Interviews Kathleen Rooney creates a playlist for largehearted boy’s B... -
February 16, 2018 |
A detail from the cover to Black Panther Vol 3 #1, art by Mark Texeira and Joe Quesada. Marvel Comics. News, Reviews, and Interviews...
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