PEN American
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January 25, 2019 |
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... -
May 20, 2016 |
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... -
May 15, 2015 |
2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams.... -
May 8, 2015 |
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... -
March 27, 2015 |
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... -
January 23, 2015 |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...
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January 9, 2015 |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...
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September 26, 2014 |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...
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June 20, 2014 |
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...
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