Dany Laferrière was elected to the French Academy in 2013. Edwidge Danticat won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2018 and is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant.…
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World Literature Today’s director, RC Davis-Undiano, has written a play that is soon to be performed on the University of Oklahoma campus.…
Ọlábísí Àjàlá on his scooter / WikipediaNigerian journalist Mashood Ọlábísí Àjàlá (1934–1999), whose name became synonymous with the word “traveler”…
Photo by DRasa / Adobe StockThis somber but inventive essay was adapted from an address Edith Bruck gave in 2018, and as the world marks…
Mario Meléndez / Photo by Marco UgarteRegarded as one of the most original voices of the new Latin American poetry, Mario Meléndez (b. 1971) is a…
Edited by John Zheng, Conversations with Lenard D. Moore (University Press of Mississippi, 2024) collects sixteen interviews conducted over…
