In spring 2021 the editors invited twenty-one writers to nominate a single book, published since the year 2000, that had had a major influence on their own work. We published the longlist…
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Tranströmer receiving the Neustadt Prize at the University of Oklahoma in 1990 A Review of Tomas Tranströmer’s Tolkningar (Bonniers, 1999)“When Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015), one of Sweden…
January 13, 2025Author photo by Germán Nájera The 2025 Puterbaugh Lit Fest will return to the University of Oklahoma March 3–4 when Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and essayist Guadalupe Nettel visits the…
December 19, 2024Translators nominated for Best Literary Translations 2026 (top row, left to right): Vonani Bila, David Boyd, Whitney DeVos, Kit Maude; (bottom row) Valeria Meiller, Lola R…
December 2, 2024Top row (left to right): Santiago Acosta, Chantha Nguon, Rina Garcia Chua. Bottom row: Erica N. Cardwell, Leila Guerriero, Pádraig Ó Tuama Even as the editors of World Literature Toda…
According to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans for the period July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, there were more than ten thousand instances of bans in US schools where students’ access to…
A review of Don Quixote de la Mancha, trans. Samuel Putnam (Viking, 1949) Don Quixote is the most frequently translated book in the history of literature [but], claims Mr. Putnam, has remained for En…
November 6, 2024Next Wednesday, November 13 at 4:00 pm cst, the University of Oklahoma’s Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies will host the Oklahoma premiere of The Dawn Is Too Fa…
October 22, 2024World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday that Cherie Dimaline will be the next winner of the…
The year is coming to a close, but there are still new books yet to anticipate. Here are a few November and December releases that have caught our collective eye, plus one you can preorder for January…
“Back to the Essay” “In this same spirit of valuing possibility and innovation, the current editors are now equipping WLT to engage with this century much as Roy House equipped it for the last. . . .…
October 3, 2024Photo by J.-F. Paga (Grasset) World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the 2024 Neustadt Internation…
September 27, 2024The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Middle East Studies; Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and World Literature Today will sponsor a talk and Q&A with Dr.…
Cardenal reading in Pablo Neruda’s La Chascona, 2009 / Photo by Roman Bonnefoy / Wikipedia A review of Ernesto Cardenal’s Homage to the American Indians, trans. Monique Altschul & Car…
June 19, 2024On November 18, 2023, World Literature Today and Latin American Literature Today partnered with Rocío Durán-Barba and the “RESISTIR Groupe” of Latin American PEN Centers to host a h…
Photo courtesy of Sholeh Wolpé “Much of the most interesting postrevolutionary fiction being written in Persian is by women, and Shahrnush Parsipur is one of the bright lights among them. First is…
May 15, 2024Lucy Coleman and Madeline Jones, winners of the 2024 Student Translation Prizes World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and…
April 15, 2024The survey is now closed, but we'd still love to hear from you. Here's a link to our contact page. * * * Every few years, we formally ask readers to take a few minutes to tell us about themselves…
Photo courtesy of Victor Adewale / OlongoAfrica “This distinguished Nigerian playwright’s account [Wole Soyinka’s The Man Died] of his prolonged season in hell as a detainee of the Federal Governm…
April 9, 2024The first US anthology celebrating the breadth of literary translators’ work debuts today (April 9, 2024). Best Literary Translations is a new annual featuring the year’s best poetry, short fiction, a…
Photo courtesy of Søren Solkær, Black Sun #149, Rome, Italy We could not resist sharing this remarkable photograph. Søren Solkær (b. 1969) is a Danish photographer. After completing his d…
“This article began with a zombie. Had it not been for the zombie, I wouldn’t have opened the way I did, nor said what I am about to say, nor compared what I am about to compare. I would have written…
Photos by Parker Buske [The gallery may take up to a minute to load. In the interim, check out our Flickr to see more photos of the festival] Over the course of three days (October…
“Between the political mentality and the pure intellect there are inevitable differences. The political mind seeks to dominate the relative or the accidental, as the navigator, expert in winds and the…
November 15, 2023For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These journals, as they reach a wider public, will contribute most eff…
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