News, Reviews, and Interviews
Nobel laureate Günter Grass passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven. We have a tribute to Grass written by longtime WLTcontributor Theodore Zi…
Deji Olukotun
April 17, 2015- December 20, 2013This week, we published a special interview with Deji Olukotun, the inaugural PEN Freedom to Write Fellow, and one of the nine Neustadt 2013 jurors. In the interview (linked below), Deji spoke about c…
December 12, 2013A Q&A with Deji Olukotun See the full interactive infographics at PEN.org. Deji Olukotun is PEN’s inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, and he’s helping to lay a universal foundation at all PEN…
June 18, 2013NEWS RELEASEFor immediate release Allyse Sanchez 303-839-1415, ext. 4[email protected] Robert Con DavisExecutive Director,…
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Darlington Chibueze Anuonye and his mother, July 2005, on the occasion of Anuonye’s primary school graduationDarlington Chibueze Anuonye, a writer…
For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These journals, as…
