Celebrating its tenth iteration, the Best Translated Book Awards announced its longlists for fiction and poetry this morning, highlighting the best international works of literature published in the p…
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March 24, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews These 14 authors who have received NEA grants share the life-changing impact of the National Endowment for the Arts.The UK has a new prize for women in translation c…
March 17, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced and recent WLT contributor and Puterbaugh Fellow Alain Mabanckou is among the finalists. The 2017 Okla…
March 10, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe #Read4Refugees campaign is encouraging a worldwide “read-in” for refugees and is gaining momentum with the support of Jodi Picoult, Junot Díaz, Yann Martel, Sherman Al…
March 3, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced the 2017 recipients, and recent WLT contributors Marina Carr and Carolyn Forché are among the winners. Australian…
February 24, 2017Little Free Library design competition Judges’ Choice winner. Owlie by Bartosz Bochynski, FUTUMATA / London, EnglandNews, Reviews, and Interviews PEN America announced its 2017 literary awar…
February 17, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews AWP 2017 came to a close last weekend with a candlelight vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House, and the conference itself featured dozens of panels on…
February 10, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews We’re delighted to announced that WLT has been shortlisted for the London Book Fair International Excellence Award in Translation!Follow WLT @world…
February 8, 2017The World Literature Today team. From left to right: Terri Stubblefield, Jen Rickard Blair, Merleyn Bell, R.C. Davis, Michelle Johnson, Kay Blunck, Rob Vollmar and Daniel Sim…
February 3, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Bharati Mukherjee, a 2008 Neustadt Prize juror and chronicler of the Indian-American immigrant experience, passed away this week at the age of 76. In tribute, we rem…
January 27, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews This week, George Orwell’s 1984 saw a resurgence in interest after presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway described some of…
January 20, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsLast Friday, President Obama spoke about the indispensable role that books played during his presidency and throughout his life. The…
January 13, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsElectric Literature rounds up a farewell to “Reader-in-Chief” President Obama, recalling each and every one of President Obama’s book recommendations, reading lists,…
January 6, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Literary Hub examines the “Murakami effect” and how the dominance of English affects how authors reach an international audience. NPR’s Juan Vidal named five of…
December 16, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Obama administration speechwriter Jonathan Reiber writes about “the end of a literary presidency” in this Literary Hub article. Guernica inter…
December 9, 2016Munro’s Books in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: ThreeFishSleeping/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews Quartz examines the “giant influence” that Fidel Castro had on Latin American li…
December 2, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in tran…
December 1, 2016Norman, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will be honored this month with a Governor’s Media in the…
November 28, 2016In its November 2016 issue, World Literature Today honors women writers, and Barnes & Noble has responded with an unprecedented campaign to feature the magazine in all of its stores in ev…
November 18, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Award winners have been announced! Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Daniel Borzutzky have won for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectivel…
November 11, 2016Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival.News, Reviews, and InterviewsVia PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, and…
November 4, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews American poet, children’s book author, and translator Marilyn Nelson is the laureate of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Literature! After accepting the 2016 Neu…
October 29, 2016Biennial $25,000 prize recognizes a storied literary career exploring history, race relations and feminism in AmericaMarilyn Nelson. Photo by Curt Richter.Norman, Okla. (October 29, 2016) –…
October 24, 2016The 2016 Neustadt Festival of International Literature & Culture featuring Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić starts this Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman.H…
October 21, 2016Photo by Steve Halama/UnsplashNews, Reviews, and Interviews The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for…
