News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt Festival has been announced! WLT will invite Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić to the OU campus Oct. 26-28.Katrina Dodson won the 2…
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October 2, 2015Jenny Erpenbeck is shortlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize.News, Reviews, and Interviews Young-adult books are often challenged. This article from the Los Angeles Times lists the 10 m…
July 3, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsNational Book Award winner and Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie will publish his first picture book in May 2016. WLT featured Alexie on the cover of the July 2010…
April 24, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2015 Pulitzer Book Prizes were announced this week. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr received the Pulitzer for fiction. A list of other winners is…
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