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October 12, 2021Photo by Wayne S. Grazio / Flickr In spring of the year I turned twenty I looked for a river river calm and wide that I believed to be my past incarnation. Since childhood, I’ve seen it m…
August 17, 2021Postcard for One City One Book Hong Kong 2020, which featured Xi Xi’s My City The Shanghai-born Hong Kong writer Xi Xi (b. 1937) was the 2019 winner of the Newman Prize…
June 3, 2021“A Fisherman at Lake Dian.” Photo by Yu Jian. Reading Glasses I am no longer young, a half-blind Homer, wearing reading glasses to see the world. The calendar shows t…
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…
April 27, 2021On the Yangtze River, through the Wu Gorge / Photo by Perfect Zero / Flickr Summer Elegy …
March 2, 2021Michael Berry is a professor of Asian languages and cultures and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA. He has published extensive works on addressing the richness…
December 4, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Literature in translation makes up 13% of the New York Times Notable Books for 2015 list. WLT contributor Claire Messud shares her reading hig…- August 14, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsMark your calendars for the National Book Festival held in Washington D.C., which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. The theme for this year is a quote from Thomas Je…
July 10, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsBuzzfeed’s list of Asian-American writers features 2016 Neustadt jurors Wang Ping and Porochista Khakpour.Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård was recently featured on an e…- June 5, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe Need Diverse Books has stirred up debate on featuring more minorities in literature, speci…
May 22, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe jury for the 2016 Neustadt Prize has been announced! Discover the panel of nine writers w…
May 19, 2015Painting from the General Yue Fei Memorial Temple, Hangzhou | Photo by ChrisjtseIt is puzzling that the closer China relates to the West, the more the West looks at everything Chinese as “other.” Of c…
April 10, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsSome controversy surrounded the publication announcement of Harper Lee’s new work, Go Set A Watchman, and some wondered if she was manipulated into signing a cont…
March 27, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun WilliamsNews, Reviews, and Interviews Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conver…
December 15, 2014A Review of Ancestral Intelligence, by Vera Schwarcz (Atrium House, 2013)Photo by Eki Ramadhan1Where thought could not be free,Death was a more welc…- May 23, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsFollowing success at this year’s London Book Fair, where Korean literature was the main theme and focus, The Korea Times notes that K-Lit is now…
March 14, 2014Photo by Matt Douma. Neustadt juror Krys Lee is one of two authors honored with an American Academy of Arts and Letters, read more about Neustadt Prize-related news in the Neustadt Lit Links.This…
January 15, 2014The 3D printed cover to Chang-rae Lee's book On Such a Full SeaThis week we said goodbye with sadness to both Amiri Baraka and Juan Gelman, two poets who recently passed away. But we als…
December 18, 2013From left: K. Anis Ahmed, Eliot Weinberger, and Pankaj Mishra at the Hay Festival Dhaka, November 14, 2013.A foreignness defined only by place of production or setting…
October 29, 2012Mo Yan. Photo by Jonathan Stalling.Shortly after China woke up to the news on October 11 that a Chinese national had won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, a storm of discussion raged throughout C…- October 26, 2012This week, the buzz in literary news seemed all about translation—the process, the difficulties, and the benefits. Don't forget that the November issue is right around the corner! Subscribe today…
- October 19, 2012This week was full of exciting new discoveries and announcements. Below you'll find links to excerpts of 2012 Nobel Laureate Mo Yan's writing, a new short story from the archives of David Foster Walla…
- October 12, 2012When it was announced yesterday that Mo Yan is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, it echoed the case made by WLT executive director Robert Con Davis-Undiano, who deliver…
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