World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Ibrahim Nasrallah as the 29th laureate of the prestigious…
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September 4, 2025The University of Oklahoma’s Romanoff Center for Russian Studies and World Literature Today invite you to a free zoom conversation scheduled for Sept. 16, 2025, from 5:00-7:00pm…
August 13, 2025World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adul…
June 19, 2025*** To watch the archived video, visit Ananke's YouTube channel ***On June 30, Ananke and World Literature Today will co-host a special Zoom…
June 11, 2025Top row (left to right): Elif Batuman (photo by Valentyn-Kuzan), Ibrahim Nasrallah, Jesmyn Ward (photo by Beowulf Sheehan); second row: Mathias Énard (photo by Marc Melki), Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ro…
May 30, 2025Winning poster design by Abigail Tharp As part of an annual collaboration sponsored by World Literature Today and the University of Oklahoma’s School of Visual Arts, three OU students have…
May 13, 2025The 2025 Student Translation Prize Winners, Fabienne Rink (left) and Fion Tse World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature a…
May 7, 2025Top row (from left): Alejandro Puyana, Threa Almontaser, Maya Arad. Middle row (from left): Polina Barskova, Beena Kamlani, Iheoma Nwachukwu. Bottom row (from left):…
April 1, 2025Over the next eight days—between now and Giving Day (April 8)—your gift will help World Literature Today (WLT) further its mission: to serve students and readers everywhere with…
March 25, 2025(Left to right) Lea Goldberg, Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā, and Almog BeharGoldberg photo courtesy of the Gnazim Institute / Behar photo by Noa Brezner On Wednesday, April 2 at noon cdt,…
March 18, 2025A special zoom event featuring Angelina Muñiz-Huberman and her translator, D. P. Snyder, will take place at noon CDT on Wednesday, March 26. Co-sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Schu…
March 4, 2024Lucy Coleman (left) and Lala Mammadova World Literature Today (WLT) is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural University of Oklahoma (OU) Student Translation Pr…
January 13, 2025Author photo by Germán Nájera The 2025 Puterbaugh Lit Fest will return to the University of Oklahoma March 3–4 when Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and essayist Guadalupe Nettel visits the…
December 19, 2024Translators nominated for Best Literary Translations 2026 (top row, left to right): Vonani Bila, David Boyd, Whitney DeVos, Kit Maude; (bottom row) Valeria Meiller, Lola R…
December 2, 2024Top row (left to right): Santiago Acosta, Chantha Nguon, Rina Garcia Chua. Bottom row: Erica N. Cardwell, Leila Guerriero, Pádraig Ó Tuama Even as the editors of World Literature Toda…
November 6, 2024Next Wednesday, November 13 at 4:00 pm cst, the University of Oklahoma’s Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies will host the Oklahoma premiere of The Dawn Is Too Fa…
October 22, 2024World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday that Cherie Dimaline will be the next winner of the…
October 3, 2024Photo by J.-F. Paga (Grasset) World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the 2024 Neustadt Internation…
September 27, 2024The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Middle East Studies; Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and World Literature Today will sponsor a talk and Q&A with Dr.…
June 19, 2024On November 18, 2023, World Literature Today and Latin American Literature Today partnered with Rocío Durán-Barba and the “RESISTIR Groupe” of Latin American PEN Centers to host a h…
June 18, 2024Top row (left to right): Samira Ahmed (photo by Erielle Bakkum), Hatem Aly; second row: Lulu Delacre, Cherie Dimaline; third row: Martine Leavitt, Kyo Maclear; fourth row: Malinda Lo (photo by Sharo…
June 5, 2024Top row (left to right): Nidhi Chanani, Kate Rafiq; second row: Guadalupe García McCall, Varian Johnson; third row: Magdalena Mora, Sabaa Tahir; fourth row: Susan Fletcher, Danny Ramadan, Lauren Tam…
May 15, 2024Lucy Coleman and Madeline Jones, winners of the 2024 Student Translation Prizes World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and…
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April 9, 2024The first US anthology celebrating the breadth of literary translators’ work debuts today (April 9, 2024). Best Literary Translations is a new annual featuring the year’s best poetry, short fiction, a…
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