News, Reviews, and InterviewsKendrick Lamar dominated Pulitzer Prize headlines this week, but some other familiar faces to WLT readers appeared as well, including Patri…
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April 20, 2018
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…
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…
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, 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…
February 23, 2018photo: pixabay / evgeni tcherNews, Reviews, and Interviews Kathleen Rooney creates a playlist for largehearted b…
February 16, 2018A detail from the cover to Black Panther Vol 3 #1, art by Mark Texeira and Joe Quesada. Marvel Comics.News, Reviews, and Interviews…
February 9, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsClaribel Alegría, Central American poet and 2006 Neustadt Prize laureate, recently passed away. The New York Times recalls how Alegría w…
February 2, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe National Book Awards will now recognize works in translation, opening its doors to global voices for the first time in the history of the award. The prize for this new…
January 26, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists are out and congratulations are in order! Kapka Kassabova has been nominated for her book Border: A Journe…
December 15, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn case you missed it, WLT’s annual list of 75 notable translations is now on the blog and we invite you to share what books you would add to the list by tweeting…
December 8, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe “Silence Breakers” who have spoken out publicly and anonymously about sexual assault and harassment were named Time’s 2017 P…
December 1, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsBuenas noticias for the Hispanic community in Los Angeles! The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) will be taking Les Figues Press under its wing to help…
November 17, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsCongratulations to forthcoming WLT contributors Seth Michelson and Derick Mattern who were announced this week as recipients of 2018 NEA Literature Tran…
November 10, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsAutostraddle’s list of 8 speculative fiction short collections featuring queer characters lists Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, an editor’s pick f…
November 3, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsZadie Smith will be awarded the 2017 Langston Hughes Medal in Harlem on November 16. She is the New York Times best-selling author of White Teeth, On…
October 27, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsTillman Miller interviewed Sokunthary Svay, the first voice of what she hopes is a new generation of Cambodian American literature.Rediscover the Khvoshchinskaya sisters,…
October 13, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews This week marks the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Writing Program in Iowa! Today at noon, WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon will lead a p…
October 6, 2017Photo by Tanisha PinaNews, Reviews, and InterviewsKazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has written eight books which have been translated into over 40 langua…
September 29, 2017International Translation Day also marks the inaugural launch of the World Literature Today Translation Prize! The prize is open for entries through January 1, 2018.News, Reviews, a…
September 22, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews In this week’s episode of the American Scholar’s Smarty Pants podcast, former Poet Laureate of the UK Andre Motion talks about his work, Jennifer Choi unear…
September 15, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe National Book Awards longlist for Young People’s Literature includes previous NSK Prize jurors Mitali Perkins and Rita Williams-Garcia! Visit the National Book Awards…
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