On October 9, 2017, World Literature Today sat down with six writers (in three groups of two) during the 25th anniversary “Returning the Gift: Native & Indigenous Literary Festival” held…
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November 21, 2017Seth Michelson / Courtesy of Washington & Lee UniversityIn October 2017 nonprofit press Settlement House released Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention…
November 8, 2017World Literature Today intern Reid Bartholomew sat down with Chad Reynolds, one of the co-founders of children’s lit publisher Penny Candy Books, and Hanan Awad, a Palestinian American st…
October 18, 2017Malka Older / Photo by Allana TarantoIn Null States, the second installment of Malka Older’s three-part book series, Older again typifies the tru…
September 27, 2017Jacqueline Williams (Aunt Ester) and Alfred H. Wilson (Solly Two Kings) in the 2015 Court Theatre production of Gem of the Ocean / Photo by Michael BrosilowRiley Keene Temple dis…
September 11, 2017Stanley Gazemba was working as a gardener when his first book, The Stone Hills of Maragoli, was published and won the 2003 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Kenya’s to…
July 17, 2017Usha Akella’s poetry is known for an undertone of spirituality within a contemporary voice. Here she discusses the impact of travel on her work, poetry as a verb, and the distance between…
April 18, 2017Brian Turner / www.brianturner.org Brian Turner is an American writer and the author of Here, Bullet. He served seven years in the US Army and was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovi…
January 18, 2017Google Deep Dream illustration by David Futrelle.Due to space constraints, the following excerpts from our Alan Moore interview in the January issue had to be cut. That interview…
November 28, 2016Jorge Edwards. Photo: Miguel Lucena, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos (Madrid, Spain)Jorge Edwards (b. 1931, Santiago de Chile) has had one of the more extensive careers of Latin American writers…
November 9, 2016Emmanuel Iduma. Photo by Dawit L. PetrosEmmanuel Iduma’s The Sound of Things to Come was first published as Farad in Nigeria. Its unusual style and ambition instantly se…
September 21, 2016Alison Anderson and David Shook. Shook photo by Travis ElboroughThree years ago, in a post published on Words Without Borders, Alison Anderson asked, “Where Are the Women in Translation?” Two…
August 22, 2016A diagnostic nuclear radiologist, Amit Majmudar was named the first poet laureate of Ohio (2015–2017). He has published three books of poetry, including 0˚, 0˚ (2009), which was a finalist fo…
May 18, 2016Jack Wolf, “Yellow spider mum,” 2009Franca Mancinelli (Italy) and Ming Di (China/USA) met at the International Translation Workshop organized by the Center of Slovenian Literature in Nove…
April 27, 2016An in-class haiku translation project (2013) / Photo courtesy of Kimiko HahnRecently, the Poetry Society of America announced award-winning poet Kimiko Hahn as its newly elected presiden…
April 5, 2016Westpark, “parkverbot,” 2009Alice Sant’Anna (b. 1988) is a prize-winning critically and internationally acclaimed poet from Rio de Janeiro who follows in the path of Brazil’s “marginal generation” poe…
March 28, 2016A Conversation with Donald MolosiIn January The Mantle published We Are All Blue, a collection of two plays by the Botswana actor and playwright Donald Molosi, including an introduction b…
January 13, 2016Gisela HeffesAfter translating Ischia (2000), the novel by Argentine writer Gisela Heffes, I sat down with her to discuss how the novel—about a young female narrator on a journey…
November 11, 2015Stephanie Malia HomThe University of Toronto Press released Stephanie Malia Hom’s The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy in February 2015. T…
November 4, 2015Michael Cunningham by Richard Phibbs.Courtesy of FS&G.What happens after “ever after”? Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours and A Home at the End of the…
September 29, 2015Left: Rocío Cerón, photo by Francisco Cañedo. Right: Anna Rosenwong, photo by Jesse Chan Norris.Anna Rosenwong’s translation of Rocío Cerón’s Diorama won the 20…
September 1, 2015Isabel ColeIn October 2015 Two Lines Press will publish The Sleep of the Righteous, Isabel Fargo Cole’s translation of Der Schlaf der Gerechten, by Wolfgang Hil…
July 29, 2015Illustrations by Andrea Dezsö, from The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated and edited by Jack Zipes (Princeton University Press, 2014). Reproduced by permission…
June 8, 2015Ann Morgan. Photo © Steve Lennon.What if New York Review of Books blogger Tim Parks is right that international literature is becoming homogenized? It’s a scary thought. And on the cusp of th…
May 27, 2015The following interview took place before a large audience at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival on January 24, 2014.Photo © Nancy CramptonChard deNiord: I’d like to begin with t…
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