Interviews
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Photo: Nina Subin Happiness, Aminatta Forna’s fourth novel, is a complex love letter to London that examines with great delicacy how the city both shelters and challenges the people—and animals... -
PHOTO: Melissa Lukenbaugh / Courtesy of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship I had the privilege of having a conversation with the poet Clemonce Heard while he was enjoying a piece of orange-peel c... -
View of the Kukupalong refugee camp near Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. Photo: Russell Watkins / UK Department of International Development Mayyu Ali is a young Rohingya poet, writer, and human... -
PHOTO: Zhang Tuo Alai is a prolific and versatile writer in contemporary China, having published poetry, short fiction, novels, and essays for more than thirty years. His novels Red P... -
Photo by Decado/Pixabay The following interview accompanies the excerpt from Auntie Nabat’s Bread that appears in the Winter 2019 issue of WLT. Poet, playwright, and journalis... -
Photo: Shevaun Williams Edwidge Danticat writes about death, even the most brutal, with a lyricism that reminds us of a primal paradox—within the deepest violence and loss, the life-force reass... -
In her densely layered, often two-sided canvases, Australian artist Helen Johnson invites viewers into an ongoing critique of Australia’s colonial legacy. With exhibits in London, Los Angeles, an... -
Photo: Kake/Flickr Born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now dividing his time between Lagos and Berlin, Emeka Ogboh is an artist exploring migration, globalization, and colonialization through sound and... -
Photo: Iva Krakovic Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia, and Mother of All Questions, the short-story collection Every Moving Th... -
Youssouf Amine Elalamy with one of his handmade graphic cards he created to accompany the written text in Tqarqīb ennāb Born in Morocco in 1961, Youssouf Amine Elalamy is a writer and... -
Photo: Scott Campbell. Courtesy of Joy Harris Literary Agency I’m sure it wasn’t coincidental, when I phoned Alice Walker at her northern California home in August, to find her gardening... -
Manuel with Alice / Courtesy of alicewalkersgarden.com In conjunction with Erik Gleibermann’s interview with Alice Walker that headlines the November issue of World Literature... -
Sergio Chejfec sits in front of an art installation of his writing titled Dissemination of a Novel. Photo: Valerie Mejer Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine writer based in New York City. Bor... -
Photo: Ulf Andersen Author of the noir novel Dragonfish, Vu Tran teaches English and fiction at the University of Chicago. Also a contributor to the collection of essays Th... -
Photo: Carrie Lou Performing as Lusterlit, Susan Hwang and Charlie Nieland alternate lead vocals and harmonies while supporting each other on guitar, bass, synth, traditional Korean... -
Photo: Claus Gretter/chrisabani.com Chris Abani is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter whose awards include the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, a Hurston/Wright Lega... -
photo: Kodansha (Kiyoshi Mori) Masatsugu Ono is a Japanese writer based in Tokyo and the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The water-covered grave), whi... -
photo: shevaun williams / shevaun williams & associates I had the privilege of sitting down with Marilyn Nelson the day before she was awarded the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Liter... -
photo: joe mazza Kathleen Rooney is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including the novel O, Democracy! and the novel in poems Robinson Alone. With E... -
photo: hayley madden Born to an English mother and a Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah Lowe is the author of Chick (2013), which celebrates the multicultural life of London and i... -
Maureen Freely is currently the president of English PEN and a writer, translator, and the head of the Department of English at the University of Warwick. Freely is the English translator of five n... -
Emmy Pérez is a Chicana poet and writer. She grew up in Santa Ana, California, and graduated from the University of Southern California. She later attended Columbia University where she... -
Jia Pingwa is a globally renowned Chinese writer who has lived through and written about major changes in Chinese society since 1978 when China launched the reform and opening-up policy. Bo... -
Photo: Eleni Kefala For more, read a poem by Eleni Kefala Eleni Kefala has published two volumes of poetry, Mními kai parallayés (2007; Memory and variations),... -
Photo © Donna Lee Born in Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee is a major poet with four collections, including The City in Which I Love You (1990), From Blos...
