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February 23, 2018
February 16, 2018A detail from the cover to Black Panther Vol 3 #1, art by Mark Texeira and Joe Quesada. Marvel Comics. News, Reviews, and Interviews…
February 9, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Claribel Alegría, Central American poet and 2006 Neustadt Prize laureate, recently passed away. The New York Times recalls how Alegría…
February 2, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards will now recognize works in translation, opening its doors to global voices for the first time in the history of the award. The prize for this ne…
January 26, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists are out and congratulations are in order! Kapka Kassabova has been nominated for her book Border: A Journey…
December 15, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews In case you missed it, WLT’s annual list of 75 notable translations is now on the blog and we invite you to share what books you would add to the list by tweeti…
December 8, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The “Silence Breakers” who have spoken out publicly and anonymously about sexual assault and harassment were named Time’s 2017 Pers…
December 1, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Buenas noticias for the Hispanic community in Los Angeles! The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) will be taking Les Figues Press under its wing to hel…
November 17, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Congratulations to forthcoming WLT contributors Seth Michelson and Derick Mattern who were announced this week as recipients of 2018 NEA Literature Translation…
November 10, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Autostraddle’s list of 8 speculative fiction short collections featuring queer characters lists Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, an editor’s pick…
November 3, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Zadie Smith will be awarded the 2017 Langston Hughes Medal in Harlem on November 16. She is the New York Times best-selling author of White Teeth, …
October 27, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Tillman Miller interviewed Sokunthary Svay, the first voice of what she hopes is a new generation of Cambodian American literature. Rediscover the Khvoshchinskaya sister…
October 13, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews This week marks the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Writing Program in Iowa! Today at noon, WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon will lead a pane…
October 6, 2017Photo by Tanisha Pina News, Reviews, and Interviews Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has written eight books which have been translated into over 40 lan…
September 29, 2017International Translation Day also marks the inaugural launch of the World Literature Today Translation Prize! The prize is open for entries through January 1, 2018. News, Reviews, and Inter…
September 22, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews In this week’s episode of the American Scholar’s Smarty Pants podcast, former Poet Laureate of the UK Andre Motion talks about his work, Jennifer Choi unearths…
September 15, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards longlist for Young People’s Literature includes previous NSK Prize jurors Mitali Perkins and Rita Williams-Garcia! Visit the National Book Award…
September 8, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists have been announced! Via the New Yorker, 2018 Neustadt Prize finalist Edwidge Danticat writes a…
September 1, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Indiaeducationdiary.in provides a rundown of the Mountain Echoes Literary Festival in Thimphu, Bhutan. The New Yorker engages with the work of Norwegian autho…
August 25, 2017Photo: Pexels News, Reviews, and Interviews Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie has published a new poem commenting on the current state of America. Scroll.in comments on translations as resistance an…
August 18, 2017Photo: Valerie Ram/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Restless Books, a nonprofit publisher, has an Indiegogo campaign up, offering rewards for donors, including signed copies of books. Reviewing D…
August 11, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews PEN America pushes for information on the Chinese government’s imprisonment of poet and artist Liu Xia. 2014 Neustadt Juror Rabih Alameddine and NSK Juror Hayan Charara…
August 4, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The jury for the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature has been announced! Read about each author on the 2018 jury on Neustadt Prize website. Latin Americ…
July 28, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews On Wednesday, PEN America launched an online archive, chronicling 50 years of American literary and cultural history with more than 1,500 hours of audio and video dating…
July 21, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Signature Reads delivers an essay primer for adults that showcases the “6 essay types you should know.” Among the examples is a triptych by Samina Najmi…
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