In its recently launched summer issue, World Literature Today — the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture — presents a historic cover featu…
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June 15, 2021Left column (top to bottom): Boubacar Boris Diop, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya; Middle left column: Michális Ganás, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jean-Pierre Balpe; Middle right column:…
May 4, 2021Left column (top to bottom): R. O. Kwon, Matthew Shenoda. Center left: Carlos Labbé, Fowzia Karimi, Jennifer Croft. Center right: Carlos Pintado, Hamid Ismailov, Eleni…
March 19, 2021WLT is helping co-sponsor the three-day “Reflecting on the Past, Facing the Future” symposium (April 8–10) in Norman and Tulsa, which will commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa Race…
(Photos courtesy of the U.S. Embassy Tirana) Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, World Literature Today presented the 2020 Neustadt Festival 100 percent online. In the lead-up to the festival, U.S…
October 20, 2020Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smi…
September 10, 2020World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced today that the 2020 Neustadt Lit Festival will be held entirel…
May 14, 2020Top row (left to right): Laurie Halse Anderson, Eric Gansworth, Meg Medina. Middle row: Linda Sue Park, Mitali Perkins, Jason Reynolds. Bottom row: Cynthia Leitich Smith, Laurel Snyder,…- (Photos: Joseph Legaspi, OU's Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, and Margarita Engle and Lilliam Rivera) Over the course of three days (October 15–17, 2019), WLT’s most recent fest…
Valentine’s Day, 1947Margarita’s parents met when her father, an artist from Los Angeles, California, traveled to Trinidad, Cuba, after seeing photos in the January 1947 issue of National Geograph…
October 16, 2019Photo by J. Foley Opale World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Wednesday evening tha…
October 11, 2019Eleven internationally acclaimed writers will read from their work and sign books beginning at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Scholars Room (Room 315) of Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave.,…
October 1, 2019Margarita Engle will deliver the keynote address for the Neustadt Lit Fest at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center, 560 Parrington Oval, on the University of Oklaho…
What recent book has captured your interest? I just started reading Ocean Vuong’s love letter to his mother, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. What poetry. With whateve…
August 21, 2019World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, recently was awarded the 2019 APEX Grand Award for Publication Excellenc…
July 21, 2019From left to right: Top: Emmanuel Carrère, Jorie Graham, Jessica Hagedorn. Middle: Eduardo Halfón, Ismail Kadare, Sahar Khalifeh. Bottom: Abdellatif Laâbi, Lee Mara…
We asked our readers, “What work of fiction, poetry, theater, or nonfiction has had the most profound impact on your understanding of climate change?” Here's what you said: “We need a new vo…
With a two-week driving vacation ahead of her this summer, Managing and Culture Editor Michelle Johnson is already setting aside books for the trip—plus a few to read poolside when she returns.…-
June 11, 2019Norman, Okla. (June 11, 2019) – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week annou…
November 2, 2018The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has named its 2018 National Translation Award winners. Third-Millennium Heart (Action Books) by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, trans…
October 22, 2018On Oct. 10, the Nebraska Library Commission announced Daniel Simon as the winner of a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. Simon’s book Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017 (2017), w…
October 9, 2018Photo by Marshall W. JohnsonWorld Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Margarita Engle as the winner…
September 13, 2018The Neustadt Lit Fest, a legendary celebration of international literature and culture, will take place Oct. 9-11 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Headlined by Edwidge Danticat, winner of…
July 10, 2018The 2019 NSK Nominees (top, left-to-right) Margarita Engle (Photo: Sandra Rios Balderrama), René Colato Laínez, Ana Maria Machado, (middle, left-to-right) Isabel Minhós Ma…
June 28, 2018The winning design in the 2018 Neustadt Lit Festival poster design competition by Jill CraigheadUniversity of Oklahoma students Jill Craighead, Mikayla Baldwin, and Jacob Cullum have won first, second…
