PEN American

The 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Shortlist: A Salute

January 25, 2019 | The Editors of WLT

PEN America has announced the finalists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. With so many great books, authors, and translators included, we’ve put together this roundup of WLT’s covera...
Han Kang wins the Man Booker International Prize, the most commonly used words by poets, and more

May 20, 2016 | WLT

Photo by kl801/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews South Korean writer Han Kang—featured on the cover of the current issue of WLT—has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her no...
PEN awards, plantable books, and more

May 15, 2015 | Laura Hernandez

2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams....
Translated lit, Mark Twain letters, and more

May 8, 2015 | Laura Hernandez

News, Reviews, and Interviews Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is serving as the co-curator for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, a weeklong literature event that happened this week in Ne...
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...
Overlooked classics, happy birthday Asymptote, and more

January 23, 2015 | Kaitlin Hawkins

News, Reviews, and Interviews This week, author Valeria Luiselli sat down with NPR to talk about why she chooses to have her work translated, despite being bilingual. (Luiselli’s fort...
Learning to love Finnish, the best poems of 2014, and more

January 9, 2015 | Kaitlin Hawkins

News, Reviews, and Interviews In an announcement before the holidays, the Anton Chekhov Foundation revealed that it is working to translate over 500 of Chekhov’s earliest works into E...
Banned Books Week, Read Russia anthology, and more

September 26, 2014 | Kaitlin Hawkins

This week, readers everywhere (us included) celebrated Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read and authors whose books have been challenged, banned, and censored because of their conte...
The space between languages, Twitter auto-translate, and more

June 20, 2014 | Kaitlin Hawkins

News, Reviews, and Interviews The jurors for the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s literature have been announced! Read the announcement on the Neustadt Prize w...