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August 21, 2018
We will be hosting a launch party to celebrate our forthcoming music issue at the historic Norman train depot on Friday, Sept. 14, 6-8pm. The event will coincide with the 2nd Friday Art Walk taking p... -
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, sec... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
January 26, 2018 |
Photo by Simon Hurst Editorial note: When George Evans and Daisy Zamora passed along word this morning that Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) had died, we immediately reflected on her legendary statur... -
January 9, 2018 |
Jenny Erpenbeck. Photo © Katharina Behling Norman, Okla. – The 2018 Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature and Culture (March 7–9) will mark the 50th anniversary of the world-famous Puterbau... -
December 4, 2017 |
The editors of World Literature Today are proud to officially present our annual shortlist of Pushcart and BAE nominations for 2017. The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction,... -
November 30, 2017 |
Norman, Okla. – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, executive director of World Literature Today and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, will be recognized with the Hispanic Arts Coun... -
November 17, 2017 |
World Literature Today is hiring! Are you a guru of strategic communication and lover of literature? WLT is searching for a marketing specialist with experience in various... -
November 9, 2017 |
Haitian-American writer wins $50,000 “American Nobel” NORMAN, OKLA. (Friday, Nov. 10, 2017) – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-... -
September 12, 2017 |
Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s book Mestizos Come Home! has won the 2017 International Latino Book Award for “Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book.” The prize was announced at a ceremony held on S... -
September 5, 2017 |
Nine nominees chosen for the $50,000 literature award known as “The American Nobel” NORMAN, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s a... -
August 3, 2017 |
Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announced the names of nine jurors chosen t... -
April 18, 2017 |
The Best Translated Book Awards shortlist has been announced and it includes many notable books. Doomi Golo by Boubacar Boris Diop is the first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, a... -
March 28, 2017 |Celebrating its tenth iteration, the Best Translated Book Awards announced its longlists for fiction and poetry this morning, highlighting the best international works of literature published in the...
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February 8, 2017 |
The World Literature Today team. From left to right: Terri Stubblefield, Jen Rickard Blair, Merleyn Bell, R.C. Davis, Michelle Johnson, Kay Blunck, Rob Vollmar and Daniel Si... -
January 31, 2017 |
For the past decade, World Literature Today has been proud to collaborate with Beijing Normal University to bring out an annual Chinese edition of the magazine as well as a biannual journal... -
December 1, 2016 |
Norman, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will be honored this month with a Governor’s Media in the... -
November 30, 2016 |
The editors of World Literature Today are pleased to announce their nominations for Pushcart Prize XLII, the annual anthology that features the best of the small-press publishing wor... -
November 28, 2016 |
In its November 2016 issue, World Literature Today honors women writers, and Barnes & Noble has responded with an unprecedented campaign to feature the magazine in all of its stores in e... -
October 29, 2016 |
Biennial $25,000 prize recognizes a storied literary career exploring history, race relations and feminism in America Marilyn Nelson. Photo by Curt Richter. Norman, Okla. (October 29, 2016)... -
October 24, 2016 |
The 2016 Neustadt Festival of International Literature & Culture featuring Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić starts this Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman.... -
October 19, 2016 |
George Lynn Cross (left) interviewing Roy Temple House as part of his weekly broadcast on radio station WNAD, ca. 1947 (courtesy of the OU Western History Collections). Dr. Cross (1905–98),...
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