Photo by Shevaun Williams
Ananda Devi’s principal English-language champion makes a case that “publishing Devi is an act of resistance, of amplifying a voice, an entire nation and popu…
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Photos by Parker Buske and Michelle Johnson The 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest, hosted by World Literature Today, took place on the University of Oklahoma campus October 21–23. Nine public events—featuring m… -
As one of the world’s preeminent writers, Devi’s work tests readers’ ethics while crossing corporeal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries. Here, a professor of global francophone literat… -
Photo of Port-Louis by joël BEHR / Stock.adobe.com In this essay by Devi’s principal English-language translator, he asks: When will we stop reducing Devi to the labels of Mauritian writer… -
Photo by Shevaun Williams It is perhaps not a coincidence—or else it is a very felicitous one—that, in the very same month of my receiving the Neustadt Prize, my first and last books came o… -
Photo by Shevaun Williams As the juror who nominated Devi for the Neustadt Prize, Fabienne Kanor made a passionate case for her work when the jury convened on the University of Oklahoma…
January 2025
World Literature Today is excited to unveil a fresh redesign of the print edition. Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, winner of the 2024 Neustadt Prize, headlines the cover feature in a special section profiling her life and work. The issue includes additional marquee essays by Margarita Engle on book banning and Eun-Gwi Chung on 2024 Nobel laureate Han Kang, while the book review section highlights brand-new work by Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk, Jon Fosse, and Han Kang and dozens more. The latest issue of WLT remains your indispensable passport to great reading from across the globe!