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July 21, 2019 |
From left to right: Top: Emmanuel Carrère, Jorie Graham, Jessica Hagedorn. Middle: Eduardo Halfón, Ismail Kadare, Sahar Khalifeh. Bottom: Abdellatif Laâbi, Lee Maracle, Hoa Nguyen. World Litera... -
June 11, 2019 |
Norman, Okla. (June 11, 2019) – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announ... -
November 2, 2018 |
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has named its 2018 National Translation Award winners. Third-Millennium Heart (Action Books) by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated from the... -
October 22, 2018 |
On Oct. 10, the Nebraska Library Commission announced Daniel Simon as the winner of a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. Simon’s book Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017 (2017),... -
October 9, 2018 |
Photo by Marshall W. Johnson World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Margarita Engle as the winne... -
September 13, 2018 |
The Neustadt Lit Fest, a legendary celebration of international literature and culture, will take place Oct. 9-11 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Headlined by Edwidge Danticat, winner of... -
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...
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