News, 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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September 15, 2017
September 8, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists have been announced!Via the New Yorker, 2018 Neustadt Prize finalist Edwidge Danticat writes…
September 1, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Indiaeducationdiary.in provides a rundown of the Mountain Echoes Literary Festival in Thimphu, Bhutan. The New Yorker engages with the work of Norwegia…
August 25, 2017Photo: PexelsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsPuterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie has published a new poem commenting on the current state of America. Scroll.in comments on translations as resistance a…
August 18, 2017Photo: Valerie Ram/FlickrNews, Reviews, and InterviewsRestless Books, a nonprofit publisher, has an Indiegogo campaign up, offering rewards for donors, including signed copies of books.Reviewing David…
August 11, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews PEN America pushes for information on the Chinese government’s imprisonment of poet and artist Liu Xia.2014 Neustadt Juror Rabih Alameddine and NSK Juror Hayan Chara…
August 4, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe jury for the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature has been announced! Read about each author on the 2018 jury on Neustadt Prize website.Latin American…
July 28, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsOn Wednesday, PEN America launched an online archive, chronicling 50 years of American literary and cultural history with more than 1,500 hours of audio and video dating b…
July 21, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsSignature Reads delivers an essay primer for adults that showcases the “6 essay types you should know.” Among the examples is a triptych by Samina Najmi f…
July 14, 2017Give credit where credit is due. Though this may be difficult to do if one does not know where to give said credit. Many modern languages spoken have roots in multiple other languages, English being a…![By Benjamin D. Maxham active 1848 - 1858 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](/sites/worldliteraturetoday.org/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/blog/friday-lit-links/benjamin-d-maxham-henry-david-thoreau-restored.jpg?itok=MY0e-iN0)
July 14, 2017By Benjamin D. Maxham active 1848 - 1858 [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsHenry David Thoreau was born 200 years ago on July 12, 1817. Via NPR, biogr…
June 30, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2017 Lambda Literary Writers Workshop Retreat fellows have been announced. The annual retreat for emerging LGBTQ voices was established in 2007 and is a one-week immer…
June 23, 2017The Parthenon of Books behind the Museum Fridericianum. WikimediaNews, Reviews, and InterviewsA “Parthenon of Books” has been built at the site of Nazi book burning in central Germany…
June 16, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsNewly announced US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith shares with NPR why she calls poems her anchor.Israeli author David Grossman and translator Jessica…
June 9, 2017Sherman Alexie doing a lively reading of his children’s book Thunder Boy Jr. on the ASU Tempe campus. ASU Department of English/FlickrNews, Reviews, and InterviewsSherman Alexie has a new wor…
June 2, 2017Brian Doyle. Photo by Sam Beebe/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews“If we didn’t write poetry after the Holocaust it would be as if Hitler had won, or that the Nazis were right.” Neustadt laureate Ada…
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May 19, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsCentral American writer Claribel Alegría, laureate of the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has won the twenty-sixth “Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana”…
May 5, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2017 Best Translated Book Award winners were announced last night! Lúcio Cardoso’s Chronicle of the Murdered House, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret…
April 28, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe second issue of Latin American Literature Today will launch Sunday, April 30. The issue puts a spotlight on the Caribbean and on queer literature from across…
April 26, 2017It’s that time of the year again, National Poetry Month! Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 27, and in celebration, we offer these five poems to read, share, and carry in your pocket for later as we cel…
April 21, 2017Photo: Alice Hampson/UnsplashNews, Reviews, and InterviewsThe Best Translated Book Award shortlist for fiction and poetry was announced this week at The Millions. For more, check out reviews…
April 14, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The International Dublin Literary Award shortlist has been announced! The list includes Neustadt Prize laureate Mia Couto, Neustadt finalist and Puterbaugh Fellow Or…
April 7, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe new double issue of Poetry International, edited by Ilya Kaminsky, is out and features works by many Neustadt Prize-affiliated authors including Derek Walcott…
March 31, 2017News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe Best Translated Book Award longlists have been announced, and they include many authors and translators who have recently appeared in WLT.For our readers in N…
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