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Announcing WLT’s 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 13, 2018 |

A collage of some of the titles featured in this year's list

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World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018

December 11, 2018 |

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The Land of Regal Elephants

December 07, 2018 |

The cover to The Freedom Factory juxtaposed with a photo of its author, Ksenia Buksha

What We Translate When We Translate Literature: On Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory

December 04, 2018 |

Poet Meena Alexander

Meena

November 26, 2018 |

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Destigmatizing Mental Illness, One Poem at a Time

November 20, 2018 |

Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

11 Books for Tolerance & Understanding

November 16, 2018 |Alan Levenson, Daniel Simon

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Spider Babies Blowing

November 13, 2018 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

The BBC’s Top 100 Foreign Films: An Appreciation of Theo Angelopoulos’s Landscape in the Mist

November 06, 2018 |

Author Tankred Dorst standing in front of a painting of a road winding up a mountain

Cultural Cross Sections

White Asparagus: Remembering Tankred Dorst

November 05, 2018 |

The covers to Third Millennium Heart and Compass juxtaposed

News and Events

2018 ALTA National Translation Award Winners

November 02, 2018 |

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Day of the Dead: A One-Act Real Life and Death Play, A Conversation with Playwright Robert Con Davis-Undiano

October 31, 2018 |

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In Gandhi’s Name

October 30, 2018 |

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World Series Reads

October 23, 2018 |

The cover to Nebraska Poetry juxtaposed with a photo of editor Daniel Simon

News and Events

Daniel Simon Wins 2018 Nebraska Book Award

October 22, 2018 |

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Mrs. Black (an excerpt)

October 19, 2018 |

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