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The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow.
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June 24, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P…
March 18, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks details the “translation paradox.” Recent WLT contributor Gabeba Baderoon has been annou…
December 18, 2015This will be our last roundup of literary news and fun finds until we return from the holiday break. Thank you for reading along with us this year. We’ll see you in January, when we’ll be kicking of…
October 9, 2015Demonstration for Raif Badawi outside the Embassy of Saudi-Arabia, Helsinki, Finland. Raif Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage this week. Photo by Amnesty International/Flickr.…
May 15, 20152013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams.…- May 8, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is serving as the co-curator for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, a weeklong literature event that happened this week in Ne…
May 1, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Scholar and t…
April 24, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The 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 i…- January 30, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews To celebrate the start of political relations between the United States and Cuba, Restless Books has begun a new blog series asking Cuban writers what it…
- June 27, 2014We’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…
May 9, 2014The Great Reading from Book Riot's Literary Tourism: Norman, Oklahoma piece. Photo: Wikimedia Commons This week, several of the links below examine the political pasts of countries around the world t…- May 2, 2014It was another great week, filled with announcements from various literary prizes. Below, we’ve provided links to announcements about the Best Translated Book Awards, the Lambda Literary Prize, and Or…
April 25, 2014This week was full of celebrations, once again. Though we said goodbye to Gabriel García Márquez, literary readers, writers, and publishers around the globe celebrated his exceptional life. We also c…
April 4, 2014Photo by Diane Cordell/Flickr This week was a mix of news, commentary, and fun. Below, you’ll find stories on the very first ebook and a new reading list for poetry skeptics. And don’t forget to chec…
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 we…
February 7, 2014From Art Made from Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed New partnerships and discoveries are at the heart of this week’s lit links. Two new poems authored by Sappho…
January 31, 2014What a week! The links below are full of the excitement, pleasure, and sadness that marked this week’s literary news. Most notably, find information about the death of José Emilio Pacheco, who passed…
January 15, 2014The 3D printed cover to Chang-rae Lee's book On Such a Full Sea This week we said goodbye with sadness to both Amiri Baraka and Juan Gelman, two poets who recently passed away. But we also h…- January 3, 2014We’re back! We hope you had a wonderful holiday and a great start to 2014. Below, catch up on all the literary news and tidbits you might have missed while celebrating. News, Reviews, and Inte…
- December 20, 2013This week, we published a special interview with Deji Olukotun, the inaugural PEN Freedom to Write Fellow, and one of the nine Neustadt 2013 jurors. In the interview (linked below), Deji spoke about c…
- December 13, 2013This week, we said goodbye to a towering worldwide figure: Nelson Mandela. As a champion of peace, equality, and worldwide education, he touched the lives of many people around the world. A heartfelt…
December 12, 2013A Q&A with Deji Olukotun See the full interactive infographics at PEN.org. Deji Olukotun is PEN’s inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, and he’s helping to lay a universal foundation at all PEN…- December 6, 2013This week was all about new works and translations emerging out of the blue. First, new stories by J. D. Salinger appeared on a filesharing site and subsequently went viral. Then, previously unknown t…
- November 22, 2013Hollywood celebrities pass away in groups of three, they say; in the literary world, this phenomenon seems to happen in pairs. This past week, we said goodbye to two more literary figureheads: first,…
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