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When we heard the news of Robert Bly’s passing yesterday, our thoughts turned not only to his poetry but to his prolific career as a translator. In these pages alone,…
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March 24, 2021Nawal in Stockholm / Courtesy of the author It is a herculean task to attempt to capture essence of the writer, physician, and global activist Nawal El Saadawi. There is so much to say, t…
October 3, 2017This poster was published in a special issue of Rocinante in 1971. The entire issue was dedicated to Valdivia on the second anniversary of her death.Click here to read five poems by Rita…
September 20, 2017This view of Saturn’s rings from the “ringscape finale” series was among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth (September 13, 2017) / Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute…
July 20, 2017Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died of breast cancer on July 15 at the age of 40. A professor at Stanford University, Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal…
May 1, 2017Mexican novelist and short-story writer Jorge López Páez died on Friday, April 28, at the age of ninety-four. Ernesto Reséndiz Oikión offers a tribute.Jorge López Páez. Photo: CNL-INBA Archiv…
June 27, 2016Jorge Luis BorgesBecause June 14 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), I received a couple of calls, asking if I would be interested in answering some questio…- 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…
February 9, 2015Assia Djebar. Photo by Irmeli Jung.The editors and staff of World Literature Today were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Algerian-born novelist, translator, and filmmaker Assia D…
December 22, 2014in memoriam Kenny Kahn From the archive of Eugenia Huerta Bravo.A trio of important Mexican writers was born in 1914: Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, and Efraín Huerta. In the English-langu…
September 5, 2014Oklahoma writer Dorothy Alexander remembers fellow poet Jim Spurr, a true “everyman poet.”Jim Spurr left this earthy existence on Sunday, August 31, 2014, after having one of the best days of…
April 18, 2014When news broke yesterday about the death of Gabriel García Márquez, the entire staff of World Literature Today paused to reflect on the legacy of a writer who not on…
September 25, 2013Walter Neustadt Jr. (left) and Álvaro Mutis at the Neustadt banquet, University of Oklahoma, October 18, 2002The editors and staff of World Literature Today were greatly sad…
September 3, 2013Photo Burns Library, Boston College/FlickrIn tribute to Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), who passed away Friday in Dublin, Ireland, World Literature Today opened its archives to pay its respects to…
March 23, 2013Photo by Angela Radulescu/Flickr In tribute to Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who passed away this Thursday at the age of 82, we’ve opened the vault to share these compelling and inspiring…- March 22, 2013Photo by Stuart C. Shapiro/WikimediaTwice-nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1994 and 2004), and a juror for the prize in 1974, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe died…
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