Nine nominees chosen for the $50,000 literature award known as “The American Nobel” NORMAN, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’…
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August 3, 2017Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announced the names of nine jurors chosen to…
April 18, 2017The Best Translated Book Awards shortlist has been announced and it includes many notable books. Doomi Golo by Boubacar Boris Diop is the first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, a…-
March 28, 2017Celebrating 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…
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…
January 31, 2017For the past decade, World Literature Today has been proud to collaborate with Beijing Normal University to bring out an annual Chinese edition of the magazine as well as a biannual journal,…
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 30, 2016The editors of World Literature Today are pleased to announce their nominations for Pushcart Prize XLII, the annual anthology that features the best of the small-press publishing wor…
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…
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 19, 2016George Lynn Cross (left) interviewing Roy Temple House as part of his weekly broadcast on radio station WNAD, ca. 1947 (courtesy of the OU Western History Collections). Dr. Cross (1905–98), a…
June 14, 2016Nominees for the $25,000 children’s literature award selected by jury panel of their peersNORMAN, Okla. (June 14, 2016) – World Literature Today, the University of Okla…
May 16, 2016World Literature Today congratulates its May 2016 contributor and South Korean author Han Kang for winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literar…
March 29, 2016Later this week, World Literature Today editor in chief Daniel Simon will travel to LA to attend the 2016 gathering of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), the largest lit…
March 4, 2016Sponsored by World Literature TodayThe University of OklahomaNorman, OklahomaApril 6–8, 2016 Featuring Francophone Writer Alain Mabanckou Norman, OK, March 4, 2016…
January 4, 2016WHAT: This Thursday, January 7, students from Norman High School will compete in the national recitation contest known as Poetry Out Loud. World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s…
December 7, 2015The editors of World Literature Today are proud to announce their nominations for Pushcart Prize XLI, the next “best of the small presses” anthology. The nominees include six authors…- November 25, 2015A cover feature on NSK Neustadt Prize laureate Meshack Asare featuring Asare’s keynote address and Prize lecture and nominating juror Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s tribute, “Meshack Asare in the Pantheon of An…
November 4, 2015The following is a clip from the Colorado Academy monthly newsletter. Four students from the school were selected to attend the 2015 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture.Says Head…
Dubravka Ugrešić Announced as 2016 Winner of Prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature
October 23, 2015Dubravka Ugrešić. Photo by Judith Jockel.Novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić has been named the 24th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature.…
September 2, 2015NEWS RELEASEKate PetersSenior PR Director, COHN303-839-1415 [email protected] Con DavisExecutive Director, World Literature Today405-325-4…- September 2, 2015A Cover Feature on Poetry Inspired by post-1950 Visual Artfeaturing poems by Lauren Camp, Lola Créïs, Hedy Habra, Wafaa S. Jdeed, Circe Maia, Tatiana Oroño, Rita Mockus, Ravi Shankar, R…
July 13, 2015A Warm Welcome to WLT’s New Book Review Editor, Rob VollmarRob Vollmar and Marla JohnsonThe editors of World Literature Today each have a colored editing pencil: mine is purple, our…
July 6, 2015Last week, we said farväl to our beloved book review editor, Marla Johnson, who retired after working at World Literature Today since 1992. For more than twenty years, Marla worked (…
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