Interviews
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August 30, 2019 |
Audible’s new fiction podcast, Hag, launching August 29, features eight reimaginings of traditional British folktales by eight contemporary female writers, with folktales chosen from acr... -
August 12, 2019 |
Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, and raised in California. His first book, The Land Baron’s Sun: The Story of Lý Loc and His Seven Wives, won the 2015 Indie Bo... -
August 6, 2019 |
Ugandan novelist and short-story writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Et... -
July 29, 2019 |
Photo (from left to right): Caroline Green, Mel McGrath, Sabine Durrant (© Mark Mawson), and Sharon Bolton I couldn’t help noticing the sudden deathly spike in women crime writers. It’s as if... -
June 26, 2019 |
This year marks the centenary of the Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Peace Treaty signed between the Allied nations and Germany. We do not know if the signatories or architects of the V... -
June 25, 2019 |Of Tibetans’ Disenchantment, Reclamation, and New Literacy Space: In Conversation with Tenzin Dickie
Tenzin Dickie is a Tibetan writer and translator and editor of The Treasury of Lives, a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. Her edited anthology,... -
May 9, 2019 |
Ahmad Shamlou (left) | Photo by Hadi Shafaieh. Niloufar Talebi (right) | Photo by Devlin Shand In Self-Portrait in Bloom, Niloufar Talebi (www.niloufartalebi.com) tells her story... -
April 30, 2019 |
Garden mural from the triclinium of Livia, ca. 30–20 BC, Palazzo Massimo, Rome / Photo by Ian Scott / Flickr With the recent publication of her latest verse collection, This Bright Da... -
April 23, 2019 |
Blue corn / switthoft / Flickr Sara Mesa is a Spanish writer born in Madrid in 1976. Her novels include such titles as Un incendio invisible (2011, re-edited in 2017), wi... -
March 19, 2019 |
PHOTO: Edward Hill A prolific translator, playwright, novelist, and essayist from Singapore, Jeremy Tiang is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Grant, an NEA Literary Translatio... -
February 28, 2019 |
Marilène Phipps, Roots, 13 x 18 in., oil on linen canvas / Courtesy of the artist Whether she is a writer who paints or a painter who writes, Marilène Phipps combines the two gifts with a rare... -
February 14, 2019 |
Releasing the Truth, mixed media on canvas by Florine Démosthène. Courtesy of the artist. I first saw Florine Démosthène’s artwork Releasing the Truth, accompanying Anna... -
January 14, 2019 |
The Bookshop Band is traveling from Wigtown, Scotland, for its first US tour this week. Folk duo Ben Please and Beth Porter write and perform songs inspired by books using a var... -
October 31, 2018 |
Photo by Ernesto Rodríguez / Pixabay Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s play about the Day of the Dead premiered in Oklahoma City in October, leading up to the Day of the Dead on Novem... -
May 2, 2018 |
Photo (left) by Larami Serrano Shea Serrano’s path to the best-seller list was far from ordinary and, in the most literal sense, homegrown. Originally a middle-school science teacher, one... -
April 10, 2018 |
Swedish novelist Therese Bohman is a columnist for Expressen, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. The English translation of her debut novel, Drowned, ... -
March 21, 2018 |
photo : UNAMI/Sarmad Al-Safy Anoud, the pseudonym of an Iraqi-born author, was recently featured in Banthology: Stories from Unwanted Nations from Comma Press, an anthology that... -
March 14, 2018 |
photo : yvo luna Naomi Foyle (naomifoyle.com/wp), editor of A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry, discusses curating the project,... -
January 3, 2018 |
On October 9, 2017, World Literature Today sat down with six writers (in three groups of two) during the 25th anniversary “Returning the Gift: Native & Indigenous Literary Festival” held... -
December 11, 2017 |
On October 9, 2017, World Literature Today sat down with six writers (in three groups of two) during the 25th anniversary “Returning the Gift: Native & Indigenous Literary Festival” held... -
November 27, 2017 |
On October 9, 2017, World Literature Today sat down with six writers (in three groups of two) during the 25th anniversary “Returning the Gift: Native & Indigenous Literary Festival” held... -
November 21, 2017 |
Seth Michelson / Courtesy of Washington & Lee University In October 2017 nonprofit press Settlement House released Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention... -
November 8, 2017 |
World Literature Today intern Reid Bartholomew sat down with Chad Reynolds, one of the co-founders of children’s lit publisher Penny Candy Books, and Hanan Awad, a Palestinian American s... -
October 18, 2017 |
Malka Older / Photo by Allana Taranto In Null States, the second installment of Malka Older’s three-part book series, Older again typifies the truism... -
September 27, 2017 |
Jacqueline Williams (Aunt Ester) and Alfred H. Wilson (Solly Two Kings) in the 2015 Court Theatre production of Gem of the Ocean / Photo by Michael Brosilow Riley Keene Temple d...
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