Photo: PixabayKenny Fries muses on the invisibility of people with disabilities in conversations about diversity in publishing.David Schuman of the Kenyon Review covers Aminatta Forna’s lates…
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June 14, 2018The winners of the WLT Translation Prize. From left to right: translator Allana C. Noyes, Argentine author Fabián Casas, translator Mattho Mandersloot, and Dutch writer Jama…
June 15, 2018Writing for NPR, Karen Grigsby Bates remembers Anthony Bourdain’s humanizing influence and voice on behalf on marginalized groups.This week Pierce Alquist, writing for Book Riot, published a…
This year’s fiftieth-anniversary Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature & Culture set a new high-water mark in the cultural life of the University of Oklahoma, in a series already disting…
Photos: Shevaun Williams & AssociatesThe 2018 Puterbaugh Festival (March 7–9) marked the fiftieth anniversary of the renowned Puterbaugh tradition at the University of Oklahoma. German novelist, p…
June 8, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Rivka Galchen gives a fascinating account of the Oklahoma teacher strike of 2018. Galchen’s father was a professor at th…
June 1, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna’s new novel Happiness is getting rave reviews. Forna recently contributed to our November 2017 issue a…
May 25, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker International Prize has been awarded toPolish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, which will be reviewed in our J…
May 24, 2018World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, has announced who the jury members will be to select the finalists for the renowned NSK Ne…
May 22, 2018Are you on the edge of your seat waiting for the announcement of the 2018 Man Book International Prize winner? Ease back and brush up on the shortlist with reviews and interviews of the translators an…
May 18, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsArabLit has put together a collection of five poignant quotes from Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, who lives in Gaza, that poi…
May 11, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews This October brings the 25th Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the honoree this year is Haitian American writer Edw…
May 4, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsOur new issue on speculative fiction includes an extensive list of international fiction in the genre. Carmen Maria Machado and Sof…
April 27, 2018Photo by Cayla1 on Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews Our May/June issue is online and hurtling through the global postal consortiums as…
April 20, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsKendrick Lamar dominated Pulitzer Prize headlines this week, but some other familiar faces to WLT readers appeared as well, including Patri…
April 13, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews A rare document from the life of Marcel Proust has been uncovered and will make its public debut at the Paris International Rare Book and Fine Art…
Michael AndreasenThe Sea Beast Takes a Lover Penguin, 2018 Yoshio AramakiThe Sacred EraTrans. Baryon Tensor PosadasUniversity of Minnesota Press, 20…
April 6, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews This past Wednesday would have been Maya Angelou’s ninetieth birthday. Read It Forward asked several authors—among them Ca…
The winter break was one of long reads: Exit West, If Beale Street Could Talk, Manhattan Beach, Little Fires Everywhere. After a busy four months of editing and…
March 30, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna, writing for the PBS NewsHour, analyzes the power of crafting one’s own narrative in the face of suff…- March 23, 2018World Literature Today magazine and the University of Oklahoma are pleased to announce Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s Mestizos Come Home! has been recognized as a finalist in the 20th an…
March 23, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews The sixth edition of Life and Legends magazine is now out, and the theme is contemporary Indian poetry. The magazin…
March 16, 2018photo : pixabayNews, Reviews, and Interviews This month, the Poetry Coalition will kick off the series Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Po…
March 9, 2018photo: shevaun williams & associatesNews, Reviews, and Interviews World-renowned novelist Jenny Erpenbeck is being honored this week at the 2018 Puterbaugh…
March 2, 2018photo: pixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsIn her latest blog post, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman shares the PEN International Women’s Manifesto, which was ratified at PEN’s…
