WLT  Weekly

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Fiction

WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

May 18, 2022 | Ilija Trojanow
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News and Events

World Literature Today Announces 2022 Student Translation Prize Winners

May 17, 2022 | The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

“A Multiplicity of Voices”: Diane Glancy Meets English 4000

May 11, 2022 | Mary E. Adams, Lauren Fee, Caleb Fisher, Grace Lewis, Carley Nail, Katelynn Nelson, Kaylee Sadler
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Culture

The Life of Isabel Allende On-screen

May 11, 2022 | Alexandra McManus
WLT staff members with Rep. Merleyn Bell
News and Events

State of Oklahoma Recognizes World Literature Today Legacy, 400th Issue with Citation

May 10, 2022 | WLT
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Essay

Between Ukraine and America in a Time of War

May 10, 2022 | Liliana M. Naydan
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News and Events

WLT Book Buzz Episode #6: Latinx Authors—Growing up, Food, Immigration, and Beautiful Illustrations

May 05, 2022 | WLT
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Essay

GOD-IS | Collage in Motion

May 05, 2022 | Layla Benitez-James
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Creative Nonfiction

Bones

May 04, 2022 | Lauren K. Watel
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Poetry

Pasternak in Oklahoma

May 02, 2022 | Todd Fuller
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News and Events

WLT Hosts 400th-issue Launch Party May 6

May 02, 2022 | WLT
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Book Reviews

Motherhood, Grief, and a Call to Action in Anna Starobinets’s Look at Him

April 27, 2022 | Emily D. Johnson
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Interviews

Turning the Ocean Inside: A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir

April 25, 2022 | Carlina Perna
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Interviews

New African Novels: A Conversation with Eloghosa Osunde and Okwiri Oduor

April 21, 2022 | Anderson Tepper
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Book Reviews

Aliens Are Us: Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings

April 19, 2022 | Erik R. Lofgren
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Poetry

Two Bilingual Poems from Spain

April 18, 2022 | Juan Lamillar