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Going the Distance: Three Summer Reads

July 16, 2018 |

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Friday Lit Links — Week of July 13

July 13, 2018 |

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Postmodern Idylls Framed for Family: Reading Karl Ove Knausgård’s Autumn

July 11, 2018 |

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News and Events

Finalists Announced for 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

July 10, 2018 |

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Tracy K. Smith’s Poetry and the Erasures of American History

July 09, 2018 |

The cover to Zhu Zhu's The Wild Great Wall juxtaposed with a photo of the author

Translating Zhu Zhu: Poetry as Lifeline

July 03, 2018 |

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On the Border of Understanding

July 02, 2018 |

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Friday Lit Links — Week of June 29

June 29, 2018 |

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News and Events

Three OU Students Receive 2018 Neustadt Design Awards from World Literature Today

June 28, 2018 |

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Writing beyond English: The Challenges of Inventing Non-English Worlds in English-Language Novels

June 27, 2018 |

lucy says (WLT Translation Prize Runner-Up - Poetry)

June 26, 2018 |

The Silence of Reason (an excerpt) (WLT Translation Prize Runner-Up - Fiction)

June 26, 2018 |

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Friday Lit Links — Week of June 22

June 22, 2018 |

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Not Just Another Stagecoach Western

June 20, 2018 |

Photos of translator Mandersloot and Ouariachi juxtaposed

Zopor (WLT Translation Prize Winner - Fiction)

June 19, 2018 |

Translation prize winner Allana C. Noyes juxtaposed with poet Fabián Casas

Three Poems from Argentina (WLT Translation Prize Winner - Poetry)

June 19, 2018 |

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