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October 24, 2014 |
Asare is the first African writer to be awarded the biennial $25,000 Prize World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today... -
September 24, 2014 |
Norman, Oklahoma, Sept. 24, 2014 – The 2014 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture, featuring writers and scholars from Africa, Europe and the United States, will take place on the... -
September 22, 2014 |
A special section on post-Wende central European lit (1989–2014) Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), an excerpt from The End of Days, tr. Susan Bernofsky Tomas V... -
September 1, 2014 |
In conjunction with our November 2014 cover feature—which will focus on central European literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall—the editors of WLT invited 25 writers to nominate one bo... -
July 24, 2014 |Celebrating the First 10 Years of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature featuring contributions from all six laureates and a retrospec...
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July 14, 2014 |
Photo by Bengt Oberger In honor of Nadine Gordimer, who passed away yesterday at the age of ninety, we reprint here her testimonial from our Winter 1996 issue, devoted to “South... -
April 18, 2014 |
When news broke yesterday about the death of Gabriel García Márquez, the entire staff of World Literature Today paused to reflect on the legacy of a writer who not only redrew t... -
April 7, 2014 |A cover feature on Argentine/Spanish writer Andrés Neuman, the 2014 Puterbaugh Fellow, plus highlights from the 2014 Puterbaugh Festival and A special section on translation featuring Eric A...
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March 6, 2014 |
Photo by Luis Angel. Award-winning Argentinean-Spanish writer and translator Andrés Neuman will visit the University of Oklahoma as the marquee writer for the 2014 Puterbaugh Festival of Internationa... -
March 5, 2014 |
We need your help! Our March 2013 cover featuring the photography of Phil Borges is competing among some very big mainstream magazines, but we're hopeful that—with your vote—we can win. Cast... -
December 4, 2013 |Our official list of Pushcart nominees from the 2013 issues of WLT is complete, and we've published all the pieces online for your reading convenience. The Pushcart Prize annually honors the...
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November 1, 2013 |
Mia Couto, laureate of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. NORMAN, OKLA., Nov. 1, 2013 – Mozambican author António Emílio Leite Couto (Mia Couto) has been chosen by a jury of nine i... -
July 16, 2013 |NEWS RELEASEFor immediate release Allyse Sanchez303-839-1415, ext. [email protected] Robert Con DavisExecutive Director, World Literature Today405-3...
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June 18, 2013 |
NEWS RELEASEFor immediate release Allyse Sanchez 303-839-1415, ext. [email protected] Robert Con DavisExecutive Director,... -
May 23, 2013 |
The 2013 Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature and Culture was an inspiring success, and we’ve compiled moments throughout the week that capture the impact that Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengi... -
April 5, 2013 |
This Monday marks a week into poetry month and the opening of the 26th Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature and Culture. Continuing the poetry month celebration, we have a fun find that tie... -
March 18, 2013 |
Photo by Jonathan Stalling Two weeks ago, at the 2013 conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in Boston, I spoke on the panel “Looking Out: American Journals on the World Stag... -
January 16, 2013 |
Don’t miss this chance to submit to PEN’s awards for translated literature. PEN is still accepting submissions for the $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the $3,000 PEN Translation Prize, and... -
December 12, 2012 |
The creation of the animated book trailer for Mo Yan’s Sandalwood Death was a labor of love carried out over nearly two years. I conceived of the idea within months of learning that the novel... -
November 8, 2012 |
We are pleased to officially present the WLT shortlist of Pushcart Prize nominations for 2012. The Pushcart Prize annually honors the best poetry, short fiction, or essays published in small... -
November 7, 2012 |Left: WLT intern Alyssa Boutelle's illustration of a quote from the September issue of WLT. Right, a screenshot of the new WLT Pinterest. We’ve been pinning away in our new...
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October 18, 2012 |
The annual Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture attracted its highest attendance ever this year. Celebrating the works of 2012 Neustadt Prize laureate Rohinton Mistry, the festiva... -
July 16, 2012 |Since the early 2000s, World Literature Today has been gingerly dipping a toe into the fast-flowing waters of the World Wide Web. In the early years, we started out by hosting a basic webs...
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