The Best Translated Book Awards shortlist has been announced and it includes many notable books. Doomi Golo by Boubacar Boris Diop is the first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, a…

Photo: Comfreak/Pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews Archivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled…

News, Reviews, and Interviews  The AWP Conference continues through this weekend! Catch WLT’s editor in chief this afternoon and evening, and be sure to attend our poetry reading “Crossing t…

2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams.…

News, Reviews, and Interviews This year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tomas Tranströmer receiving the Neustadt Prize, and we were saddened to hear he passed away last week. Read his poem “Okl…

UPDATE: PRAESA (Project for the Study of Alternative Educations) has received the 2015 ALMA award. Watch the videos below to see the announcement and to learn more about this organization in South Afr…

Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams News, Reviews, and Interviews  Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conversa…

We’ll be taking a two-week summer break from our Friday Lit Links, returning on Friday, July 18th. In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter @worldlittoday to keep up with all the latest literary…

News, Reviews, and Interviews The jurors for the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s literature have been announced! Read the announcement on the Neustadt Prize w…

The newly released translation of Yuri Mamleyev's The Sublimes can be ordered with a 3D printed nylon doll. T. S. Eliot once described the month of April as the “cruellest month,” but we can…

Andrés Neuman autographing a book after opening night. Photo by Laura Hernandez We’ve been buzzing on the WLT Facebook and Twitter accounts all week with exciting reports from the 2014 Puter…

Photo by Fake Plastic Breno/Flickr This week’s lit links run the gamut of news: from new intellectual discussions to a campaign that wants to put poetry on the moon, we’ve got this week covered.…

Recent issues of WLT have featured Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh), Marina Carr (Ireland), and Julia Franck (Germany) on the cover. Two weeks ago, in a post on Words Without Borders, Alis…

A brand new month means all kinds of new beginnings in the world of literature. Enjoy the links this week, and don't forget to come back next week for your dose of literary news! News, Reviews…