Mia Couto

Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto

March 21, 2019 | Mia Couto

Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto It is already well known that the city of Beira and the entire central reg...
The “Brexit delusion,” the evolution of the book, and more

July 1, 2016 | WLT

Photo: Frankieleon/Flickr News, 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 contri...
Literary award prizewinners, the state of translation in Myanmar, and more

April 15, 2016 | WLT

News, 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 the fict...
Drinkable books, gender disparity, and more

August 21, 2015 | Laura Hernandez

Mia 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 inte...
Literary prizes, Chinese poetry, bookish hotels, and more

March 27, 2015 | Jen Rickard Blair

Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams News, Reviews, and Interviews Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conversa...
(Re)interpretation: On Translating Mia Couto

February 17, 2015 | Eric M. B. Becker

Mia Couto photographed by Shevaun Williams, October 2014. The Mia Couto short-story collection I’m currently translating, entitled Estórias Abensonhadas (working title: Selected...
Coming in the January Issue of WLT

December 11, 2014 | The Editors of WLT

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...
Building linguistic worlds, inclement weather resources, and more

November 21, 2014 | Kaitlin Hawkins

2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto News, Reviews, and Interviews Last weekend, PEN International asked the international literary community to stand in solidarit...
Meshack Asare Announced as the 2015 Winner of the Prestigious NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

October 24, 2014 | WLT

Asare is the first African writer to be awarded the biennial $25,000 Prize World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today...
2014 Neustadt Festival to Celebrate World Literature, with a Spotlight on Contemporary Africa

September 24, 2014 | WLT

Norman, 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...
The Neustadt Prize and Festival, a memorial for Seamus Heaney, and a best books list from 1898

November 8, 2013 | Kaitlin Hawkins

Welcome 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...
Noted Mozambican Author Mia Couto Wins 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

November 1, 2013 | WLT

Mia 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 i...
The 23rd Biennial Neustadt International Prize for Literature Nominees Announced

July 16, 2013 | WLT

NEWS RELEASEFor immediate release Allyse Sanchez303-839-1415, ext. [email protected] Robert Con DavisExecutive Director, World Literature Today405-3...