In its recently launched summer issue, World Literature Today — the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture — presents a historic cover featu…
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July 6, 2021
June 24, 2021WLT is joining the BookTube world! The show is WLT Book Buzz, hosted by two former interns who now work in children’s book publishing. After watching Laura Hernandez and B…
June 15, 2021Left column (top to bottom): Boubacar Boris Diop, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya; Middle left column: Michális Ganás, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jean-Pierre Balpe; Middle right column:…
May 20, 2021Mariah Rust and Xin Xu recently were named the recipients of the fourth annual translation prize for students sponsored by World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Consistent w…
May 4, 2021Left column (top to bottom): R. O. Kwon, Matthew Shenoda. Center left: Carlos Labbé, Fowzia Karimi, Jennifer Croft. Center right: Carlos Pintado, Hamid Ismailov, Eleni…
March 19, 2021WLT is helping co-sponsor the three-day “Reflecting on the Past, Facing the Future” symposium (April 8–10) in Norman and Tulsa, which will commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa Race…
March 10, 2021Photo by Wendy Call Best Translations: An Annual Anthology an independent project endorsed by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Call for…
March 7, 2023On Thursday, March 23, 2023, noted French American scholar and translator Alice-Catherine Carls will deliver a public talk called “Translation as a Laboratory for Life” on the University of Oklahoma (…
December 9, 2020Photo by Wendy Call / www.wendycall.com Extended Deadline for Applications: Monday, February 1, 2021 Call for Applications: Two series co-editors, one with expertise…
November 30, 2020Photo: Quarantine portrait. Tulsa, Oklahoma. March 22, 2020, by Joseph Rushmore. This photograph accompanied the publication of Rilla Askew's "Cataclysm" in the Summer 2020 issue of…
October 20, 2020Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smi…
September 10, 2020World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced today that the 2020 Neustadt Lit Festival will be held entirel…
August 12, 2020The Neustadt International Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious global literary awards, has entered its 50-year anniversary at the University of Oklahoma. Often referred to as “the Amer…
May 18, 2020From left to right, prose winner Jamie Lauer and writer Pía Barros, poetry winner Russell Karrick, poet Lucía Estrada. Jamie Lauer and Russell Karrick recently were named as the recipients of…
May 14, 2020Top row (left to right): Laurie Halse Anderson, Eric Gansworth, Meg Medina. Middle row: Linda Sue Park, Mitali Perkins, Jason Reynolds. Bottom row: Cynthia Leitich Smith, Laurel Snyder,…
April 14, 2020Top Row (left to right): Jonathan Auxier, Monica Brown, Tanita S. Davis. Middle row: Adib Khorram, Sonia Patel, Randy Ribay. Bottom row: Cynthia Weill, Tanaya Winder, Janet Wong.…
March 27, 2020World Literature Today has been working for more than 90 years to keep the lines of communication open among nations, even when all other channels were closed. In times of social distress, li…
December 10, 2019In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pieces by tran…
December 9, 2019You Will Grow Together in Your Rage, illustration by Meg Lionel Murphy. This piece originally accompanied Barbara Jane Reyes, “Three Tracks from Brown Girl Mixtape” from th…
October 16, 2019Photo by J. Foley Opale World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Wednesday evening tha…
October 11, 2019Eleven internationally acclaimed writers will read from their work and sign books beginning at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Scholars Room (Room 315) of Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave.,…
October 1, 2019Margarita Engle will deliver the keynote address for the Neustadt Lit Fest at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center, 560 Parrington Oval, on the University of Oklaho…
September 17, 2019Today the New Yorker announced the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. With such a wealth of talent on display, we don’t envy the judges’ task. To aid you, the r…
September 13, 2019The prize-winning poster design by OU student Marley Smith NORMAN, OKLA. (Friday, September 13, 2019) – University of Oklahoma students Marley Smith, Abby Merz, and Sadie Gor…
August 21, 2019World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, recently was awarded the 2019 APEX Grand Award for Publication Excellenc…
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