Lit Lists
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December 13, 2016 |
In our fifth annual list of “75 Notable Translations,” we again offer an admittedly incomplete collection of the year’s English translations. And again, we invite you to share your favorites from the... -
December 9, 2016 |
Munro’s Books in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: ThreeFishSleeping/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Quartz examines the “giant influence” that Fidel Castro had on Latin American lite... -
December 2, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in transla... -
November 18, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Award winners have been announced! Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Daniel Borzutzky have won for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectively.... -
November 11, 2016 |
Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival. News, Reviews, and Interviews Via PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, a... -
November 4, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews American poet, children’s book author, and translator Marilyn Nelson is the laureate of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Literature! After accepting the 2016 Neustadt P... -
November 1, 2016 |
In a particularly gloomy United States election year that “has taken some dark—sometimes very dark—turns” and has recently inspired Canadians to join in a social media campaign to “Tell America It’s G... -
October 21, 2016 |
Photo by Steve Halama/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for t... -
October 14, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Bob Dylan (a 2012 finalist for Neustadt Prize) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for having created new poetic expressions within the great America... -
October 7, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Award finalists have been announced! WLT contributor Viet Thanh Nguyen and NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Jacqueline Woodson are among the t... -
September 30, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Via the Boston Review, Rafia Zakaria presents a new series titled Reading Other Women that will focus on “reading as self-making.” The third annual Festival Alb... -
September 23, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In this PBS News Hour interview, the newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, talks about being a “feisty fighter for freedom” and the first woman and African... -
September 16, 2016 |
Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Awards longlist is now online, and the finalists will be revealed on October 13. Chicano author Rud... -
September 9, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Three Percent has announced the judges for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award, and the guidelines for eligibility and submissions are online as well. WLT cont... -
September 2, 2016 |
Interior of the DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Zorro2212/Wikimedia News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners have been ann... -
August 26, 2016 |
Photo by Syd Wachs/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get your print or digital copy, or read the entire issue on the website for only $1.25 a month.... -
August 18, 2016 |
Photo by Eli Samuelu/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews For #WITmonth, Words Without Borders lists 31 women authors in translation to read now. A “working-class academic” reports to VI... -
August 12, 2016 |
From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191 News, Reviews, and Interviews In this Big Think video, NSK Neustadt Pri... -
August 5, 2016 |
The Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews International visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympics can leave a little of their count... -
July 29, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow. PEN America has ann... -
July 22, 2016 |
Radio Atlas use subtitles to translate various forms of audio. News, Reviews, and Interviews Radio Atlas is a new project that aims to translate sound art without destroying the poetry of its deliver... -
July 15, 2016 |
Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re... -
July 1, 2016 |
Photo: Frankieleon/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT contri... -
June 24, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P... -
June 17, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature jury and finalists were announced this week. For the first time ever, the finalists are all women. Author Alexander...
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