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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 |

Winners of the translation prize

News and Events

Winners of the Inaugural World Literature Today Translation Prize

June 14, 2018 |

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Friday Lit Links — Week of June 15

June 15, 2018 |

A photo shot from overhead of a crowd gathered in a square for a protest.

Friday Lit Links — Week of June 8

June 08, 2018 |

A photographic close-up of nearly ripe bananas

Gary Brower and the Islands of the Dislocated

June 06, 2018 |

A photograph of a broken television with no screen in a room tagged with graffiti on the walls

Six Microfictions

June 04, 2018 |

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Friday Lit Links — Week of June 1

June 01, 2018 |

A photo of a young boy holding his hand up towards a camera, partially obscuring his own face

Three Poems from Nigeria

May 30, 2018 |

A photo of a metal statue of the character Don Quixote.

Friday Lit Links — Week of May 25

May 25, 2018 |

Photos of the nine 2019 NSK Jurors laid out in a nine panel grid

News and Events

Jury Announced for the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

May 24, 2018 |

A double exposure of a bombed out alley as seen through a doorway

The Holocaust Has Moved Hands

May 24, 2018 |

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