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March 2017

Exorcising Cuba’s Future: A Conversation with Yoss

By David Shook

Yoss. Photo: Restless Books When we were together in Cuba in early 2015, I took a photo of Yoss tenderly holding a kitten we encountered in Old Havana. When I later asked him about life during Cuba’s...
March 2017

Dystopian Lit Rising: A Conversation with Michelle Pretorius

By Maggie Messitt

Michelle Pretorius It’s 2010 in Unie, South Africa, and Constable Alet Berg is in search of her rise from disgrace. Banished from Jo’burg’s Special Forces Unit to a rural community, Berg finds hersel...
January 2017

An Interview with Nadia Villafuerte

By Julie Ann Ward
January 2017

Northampton Calling: A Conversation with Alan Moore

By Rob Vollmar

Alan Moore. Photo: Joe Brown Alan Moore is the most celebrated comics writer living but doesn’t write comics anymore. For the past decade, he’s been working instead on his second novel, Jerusalem...
January 2017

“Voices from the Debris Fields”: A Conversation with Carolyn Forché

By Chard deNiord

Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house...
January 2017

“Emulating the Language of the Sacred”: A Conversation with Carolyn Forché

By Chard deNiord

Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house...
January 2017

“An Inexhaustible Responsibility for the Other”: A Conversation with Carolyn Forché

By Chard deNiord

Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house...
November 2016

“The Most Important Way to Love and Peace Is Justice”: A Conversation with Samar Yazbek

By Stephanie Papa

Photo: Jean-Luc Bertini/Pasco and Co. In March 2011, after peaceful protests began to emerge across Syria, pushing for government reform, Samar Yazbek witnessed what was a passive, civil uprising bec...
November 2016

“Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me”: A Conversation with Lidija Dimkovska

By Michelle Johnson

Lidija Dimkovska. Photo by Tihomir Pinter It’s 1984 and two twelve-year-old sisters are playing a sidewalk game in communist Yugoslavia, only these sisters are unique: they are conjoined twins, joine...
November 2016

A Q&A with Wang Anyi

By Ping Zhu

Q: Would you like to be called a “woman writer” or just a “writer”? A: When I was young, I didn’t like the title “woman writer”; but now I’ve accepted it, because th...
September 2016

How to Become Globalized Without Losing Your Mind: A Conversation with Alain Mabanckou

By Rokiatou Soumaré

Alain Mabanckou. Photo by Shevaun Williams. During his visit to the University of Oklahoma in April, Alain Mabanckou sat down with Rokiatou Soumaré—a graduate student in OU’s Department of Modern Lan...
September 2016

Son Jarocho, Rock and Roll, and Bridges between Cultures: A Conversation with Agustín del Moral Tejeda

By Dolores Flores-Silva

Illustration: Alec Dempster Agustín del Moral Tejeda was born in Las Choapas, Veracruz, in 1956. An accomplished writer, journalist, editor, translator, and activist, he currently lives and works in...
September 2016

New Voices in Vietnamese American Literature: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan

By Aimee Phan

Viet Thanh Nguyen (photo by Bebe Jacobs), Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan (photo by Julie Thi Underhill), respectively. Viet Thanh Nguyen became the first Vietnamese American writer to win the Pulitzer P...
September 2016

“Every Poet Has to Be Lonely”: A Conversation with Tomasz Różycki and His Translators

By Major Jackson, Mira Rosenthal

Tomasz Różycki Photo: Slav Zatoka Tomasz Różycki rose to both critical and popular prominence as an important voice of his generation in Poland when his fifth book, Twelve Stations, won the...
September 2016

Urban Reality and Classical Antiquity: A Conversation with Luis Alberto de Cuenca

By Diego Doncel

Luis Alberto de Cuenca (b. 1950, Madrid) is perhaps the one Spanish poet today who has influenced most of the younger generations of poets. He recently received the National Poetry Award for his late...
May 2016

Violence and Being Human: A Conversation with Han Kang

By Krys Lee

South Korean writer Han Kang photographed by Baik Dahum. Born in South Korea in 1970, Han Kang made her literary debut as a poet in 1993. She has since published novels and short fiction and won the...
May 2016

Prayer Flags and Kinship Rivers: A Conversation with Wang Ping

By Amy Lantrip

Wang Ping. Photo by Sara Rubinstein Wang Ping emigrated to the US from China in 1986 and is currently a professor of English at Macalester College. She is a writer, poet, translator, photographer, an...
May 2016

WLT’s 10 Sidebar Shorts with Han Kang

By WLT

Han Kang. Photo by Baik Dahum. What are you currently reading? Victor I. Stoichita’s A Short History of the Shadow What’s u...
May 2016

“You Write in the Breeze of Knowledge, Not in Light of It:” A Conversation with Hasan Ali Toptaş

By Hülya Yıldız

Hasan Ali Toptaş. Photo: buyukkeyif.com Hasan Ali Toptaş is one of the most exciting contemporary writers of Turkish literature. His short stories and novels have won prestigious national awards. His...
May 2016

“Building an Architecture for the Wanderer”: A Conversation with Nathalie Handal

By Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Nathalie Handal. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Groundbreaking poet, playwright, and editor Nathalie Handal is one of our most diverse contemporary writers, and as the Washington Independent Re...
March 2016

“Catalog of an Impossible Library”: A Conversation with David B.

By Brian Evenson

Born in 1959, David B. (B. is short for Beauchard) began working in comics and illustration around 1985. In 1990, with a group of six other artists, he co-founded L’Association, the most influential p...
March 2016

From Catalan Poetry to Fortuny Gowns: A Conversation with Pere Gimferrer

By Adrian Nathan West

Photo: Mary Evans/Oscar Elias/Iberfoto Pere Gimferrer i Torrens is a poet, novelist, translator, and critic with some fifty books to his name. Despite countless awards and the praise of such writer...
January 2016

The Young Literary Scene in Kosovo: A Conversation with Ragip Luta

By Peter Constantine

Orllan. Photo by Ragi Pluta. Kosovo is a young and vibrant country striving to prevail in a harsh new Balkan reality. Ragip Luta is the director of Kosovo’s Festival of Literatu...
January 2016

An Exile from the Sea with the Desert in His Mouth: A Conversation with Iossif Ventura

By Adam J. Goldwyn

Photo by Jean-Marie Muggianu (Flickr.com/jmmuggianu) Born in Chania, Crete, in 1938, Iossif Ventura is a prominent Greek-Jewish poet and translator, a member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society, and the...
January 2016

Writing Yourself into the World: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli

By Nichole L. Reber

Valeria Luiselli. Photo by Alfredo Pelcastre. It may have been fate that one of Mexico’s most magnificent recent literary exports led me to another one. Finding Sergio Pitol, whose first English tran...

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