Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto
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July 1, 2016Photo: Frankieleon/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT…
April 15, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced! The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won t…
August 21, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams.News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on in…-
March 27, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun WilliamsNews, Reviews, and Interviews Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conver…
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February 17, 2015Mia Couto photographed by Shevaun Williams, October 2014.The Mia Couto short-story collection I’m currently translating, entitled Estórias Abensonhadas (working title: Selected S…
- December 11, 2014A 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…
November 21, 20142014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia CoutoNews, Reviews, and InterviewsLast weekend, PEN International asked the international literary community to stand in solidarity a…
October 24, 2014Asare is the first African writer to be awarded the biennial $25,000 PrizeWorld Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today a…
September 24, 2014Norman, 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…- November 8, 2013Welcome back to another edition of Friday Links! Last week, we were busy celebrating the 2013 Neustadt Festival with our amazing jurors and visiting authors. We also announced the next Neustadt laurea…
November 1, 2013Mia 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 int…- July 16, 2013NEWS RELEASEFor immediate releaseAllyse Sanchez303-839-1415, ext. [email protected] Con DavisExecutive Director, World Literature Today40…
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