Senior Airman Deng Deng, Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, September 2009. As one of the “Lost Boys” of the Sudan, Deng was allowed to immigrate to the United States and participate…

What an exciting week for WLT! As you know (or will find in the links below), we recently announced the jurors of the 2014 Neustadt Festival. You can expect the Neustadt Prize finalists annou…

In my travels around the global literary scene, the question of a writerly identity has never seemed more precarious, conflicted, and urgent than with writers from Africa. More often…

We’ve got a little bit of everything for you this week, from remembering the late Nigerian literary giant Chinua Achebe to taking a look at the most popular translated novels of all time.  New…

Photo by Angela Radulescu/Flickr   In tribute to Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who passed away this Thursday at the age of 82, we’ve opened the vault to share these compelling and inspiring words…

Photo by Stuart C. Shapiro/Wikimedia Twice-nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1994 and 2004), and a juror for the prize in 1974, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe died on Thur…