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December 2, 2021 |
Photo by Parée / Flickr The editors of World Literature Today are delighted to announce our annual shortlist of Pushcart nominations for 2021. Pushcart Prize XLVII will honor... -
August 17, 2021 |
Postcard for One City One Book Hong Kong 2020, which featured Xi Xi’s My City The Shanghai-born Hong Kong writer Xi Xi (b. 1937) was the 2019 winner of the Newman Prize for C... -
May 11, 2021 |
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was shown as the premiere when the Forest Theatre in Gdańsk opened in 1911 / Photo by magro_kr / Flickr Anna Frajlich, who recently added to he... -
December 9, 2019 |
You Will Grow Together in Your Rage, illustration by Meg Lionel Murphy. This piece originally accompanied Barbara Jane Reyes, “Three Tracks from Brown Girl Mixtape” from the Aut... -
October 23, 2019 |
Georg Rafisch, “headless,” 2015 / Flickr When I lived in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome, I made a point of stopping in San Francesco a Ripa whenever I was running errands. The church hous... -
May 10, 2016 |
Deborah Kass’s OY / YO sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo by DUMBOID, March 4, 2016. Whenever I start to translate a Yiddish poem, I worry about capitalization. As in a lot of... -
November 13, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the Korea Herald, translator Sora Kim-Russell points to a “dark, earthy humor” buried under the angst and sorrow in Korean literature. Ukr... -
August 28, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The new issue of Poetry International is now available. The double issue features poems by current Neustadt nominee Carolyn Forché; Neustadt laureates Tomas Tranströmer a... -
March 18, 2015 |
Since Horace’s original, many poets have written their version of an Ars Poetica. The best known is Archibald MacLeish’s. Can MacLeish’s poem cast light on the art of a different literary genre,... -
January 22, 2015 |A cover feature on Iranian exile lit featuring Moniro Ravanipour, Omid Fallahazad, Mohsen Emadi, and Mana Neyestani, guest-edited by Persis Karim plus Roberto Fernández Retamar’s reading re...
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December 16, 2014 |The editors of WLT are delighted to announce that the following slate of six authors have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize XL anthology: Poetry Julia Fiedorczu...
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December 11, 2014 |A cover feature on 2014 Neustadt Prize winner Mia Couto (Mozambique) and A special section on flash nonfiction featuring Brian Doyle, Josey Foo, Vikram Kapur, Lia Purpura, and Dmitry Samarov pl...
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October 31, 2014 |
Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt feather. Photo by Vanesssa Rudloff. Thank you to all of our readers who supported the 2014 Neustadt Festival last week! It was a wonderful celebration of Mia Couto an... -
August 22, 2014 |News, Reviews, and Interviews After years of civil war and conflict, Afghan refugees are beginning to return home and bring with them waves of migrant literature. The 2014 PEN/Heim Fu...
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August 15, 2014 |News, Reviews, and Interviews All of us wish a huge congratulations to the recently named NEA Literary Translation Fellowships, including past WLT contributors Wendy Call, Al...
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March 25, 2014 |
The following four titles are new translations released this month and are ready to jump onboard your spring or summer reading lists. Stories Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, ... -
December 20, 2013 |This 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...
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July 23, 2013 |
Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky In May, Columbia University Press released the collection In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means. With eighteen essays from contribu... -
September 7, 2012 |This week is filled with new events that are sure to fill up your calendar, including those scheduled for this year's Neustadt Festival. You'll also find some indispensable advice from two writers in...
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August 3, 2012 |This week was a mix of delight and sadness—we said "hello" to recently-discovered material from both Katherine Mansfield and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but we also said "goodbye" to a beloved writer and cri...
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