From left, prose winner Samantha Vila, writer Gunter Silva, poetry winner Brian Sneeden, & poet Phoebe Giannisi
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May 7, 2019Photo: Jen Rickard-Blair NORMAN, Okla. (May 7, 2019) –World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, an…
April 12, 2019The Youth Strike for Climate Protest, London, March 15, 2019 / Photo: David Holt / Flickr Looking ahead to our summer 2019 issue, with its cover focus devoted to “The Global Literature of Climate Cha…
March 21, 2019Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto It is already well known that the city of Beira and the entire central reg…
December 13, 2018The editors of World Literature Today are delighted to announce our annual shortlist of Pushcart nominations for 2018. The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction, creative non…
December 11, 2018As the year’s news of rising nationalistic strains and attacks against the press continued, the urgent need for translation became ever more apparent. More and more, translation across borders embo…
November 2, 2018The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has named its 2018 National Translation Award winners. Third-Millennium Heart (Action Books) by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated from the…
October 22, 2018On Oct. 10, the Nebraska Library Commission announced Daniel Simon as the winner of a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. Simon’s book Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017 (2017),…
October 9, 2018Photo by Marshall W. Johnson World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Margarita Engle as the winne…
September 13, 2018The Neustadt Lit Fest, a legendary celebration of international literature and culture, will take place Oct. 9-11 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Headlined by Edwidge Danticat, winner of…
August 21, 2018We will be hosting a launch party to celebrate our forthcoming music issue at the historic Norman train depot on Friday, Sept. 14, 6-8pm. The event will coincide with the 2nd Friday Art Walk taking p…
July 10, 2018The 2019 NSK Nominees (top, left-to-right) Margarita Engle (Photo: Sandra Rios Balderrama), René Colato Laínez, Ana Maria Machado, (middle, left-to-right) Isabel Minhós Martins, Hilary McKay…
June 28, 2018The winning design in the 2018 Neustadt Lit Festival poster design competition by Jill Craighead University of Oklahoma students Jill Craighead, Mikayla Baldwin, and Jacob Cullum have won first, seco…
June 14, 2018The winners of the WLT Translation Prize. From left to right: translator Allana C. Noyes, Argentine author Fabián Casas, translator Mattho Mandersloot, and Dutch writer Jamal Ouariach…
May 24, 2018World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, has announced who the jury members will be to select the finalists for the renowned NSK N…- March 23, 2018World Literature Today magazine and the University of Oklahoma are pleased to announce Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s Mestizos Come Home! has been recognized as a finalist in the 20th an…
January 26, 2018Photo by Simon Hurst Editorial note: When George Evans and Daisy Zamora passed along word this morning that Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) had died, we immediately reflected on her legendary statur…
January 9, 2018Jenny Erpenbeck. Photo © Katharina Behling Norman, Okla. – The 2018 Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature and Culture (March 7–9) will mark the 50th anniversary of the world-famous Puterbau…-
December 4, 2017The editors of World Literature Today are proud to officially present our annual shortlist of Pushcart and BAE nominations for 2017. The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction,…
November 30, 2017Norman, Okla. – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, executive director of World Literature Today and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, will be recognized with the Hispanic Arts Coun…
November 17, 2017World Literature Today is hiring! Are you a guru of strategic communication and lover of literature? WLT is searching for a marketing specialist with experience in various…
November 9, 2017Haitian-American writer wins $50,000 “American Nobel” NORMAN, OKLA. (Friday, Nov. 10, 2017) – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-…
September 12, 2017Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s book Mestizos Come Home! has won the 2017 International Latino Book Award for “Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book.” The prize was announced at a ceremony held on S…
September 5, 2017Nine nominees chosen for the $50,000 literature award known as “The American Nobel” NORMAN, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s a…
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 t…
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