Idea Vilariño in Paris, ca. 1954 | Photo by Michel Sima, from Idea: la vida escrita, by Ana Inés Larre Borges (2007) | Source: elmalpensante.comTranslator’s note: Idea Vilar…
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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…- June 19, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsIsraeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust.Jo…
June 15, 2015Dissipating CloudcoverStormbreak distancesunseen …- June 5, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe Need Diverse Books has stirred up debate on featuring more minorities in literature, speci…
June 4, 2015Source: DU VideoManager On May 27, WLT celebrated the release of its May 2015 issue at a standing-room-only launch party at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Watch guest editors Ad…
May 27, 2015The following interview took place before a large audience at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival on January 24, 2014.Photo © Nancy CramptonChard deNiord: I’d like to begin with t…
May 22, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe jury for the 2016 Neustadt Prize has been announced! Discover the panel of nine writers w…
May 11, 2015Poets attending the 2015 Festival Internacional de Poesía in Granada, Nicaragua. Photo: Arnulfo AgüeroIn her spellbinding The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (2002), Gioconda…
May 1, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Scholar a…
April 29, 2015Although A. A. Milne is best known for everyone’s favorite honey-obsessed bear, he also wrote several collections of poetry for children and adults. In honor of National Poetry Month, here’s a little…
April 27, 2015Introspection is one of the key elements of growing up and moving forward. Though the process can be anywhere from melancholy to enlightening, the importance is in the journey. Coming just in time for…
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…
April 21, 2015Zack Rogow and students from the Norman Public Schools | Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art | April 2, 2015. Photos: Daniel SimonIn a recent essay for WLT, Hungarian writer Zsolt Láng muses on writ…
April 16, 2015Photo by Silvestri Matteo/UnsplashApril means three things: national poetry month, radiant nature, and beautiful poems inspired by it. If you know and love acclaimed naturalist writer Mary Oliver, che…- April 14, 2015Photo: H. Grunert / www.nobelprize.org. The Winter 2000 issue of WLT featured “To Be Continued . . .”, the English translatio…
April 14, 2015Photo: H. Grunert / www.nobelprize.orgWhen it was announced on Monday that Nobel laureate Günter Grass had passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven, we asked lo…
March 30, 2015Tomas Tranströmer delivering his acceptance speech for the Neustadt Prize in June 1990.When news broke late last week that Nobel Prize laureate Tomas Tranströmer had died in Stoc…
March 27, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun WilliamsNews, Reviews, and Interviews Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conver…
March 25, 2015Shortly after my mother died, while napping near an open window of my apartment on Avenue Foch, I felt—or thought I felt—a hand touch mine. It was warm, large, and familiar. Then I heard my mother’s v…
March 18, 2015Since Horace’s original, many poets have written their version of an Ars Poetica. The best known is Archibald MacLeish’s. Can MacLeish’s poem cast light on the art of a different literary genre,…- March 12, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews March 8 was International Women’s Day. This list gives a brief background into the 13 women who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its start in 1901.…
- February 6, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsUp at Words Without Borders this week, Suzanne Jill Levine remembers all of the times she sat down to dinner with Pablo Neruda over his lifetime.…
September 11, 2014Rioseco and Wray in the Puerto Madero harbor neighborhood of Buenos Aires.When I sat down with Chilean poet Marcelo Rioseco recently, we discussed topics of translation, poetry,…- January 22, 2015A cover feature on Iranian exile lit featuring Moniro Ravanipour, Omid Fallahazad, Mohsen Emadi, and Mana Neyestani, guest-edited by Persis Karim plusRoberto Fernández Retamar’s reading…
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