Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017) / Courtesy of IMDB
“When Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale appeared in 1986, readers regarded it as interesting science fictio…
The Editors of WLT
May 23, 2022Top Row (left to right): William Alexander, Raúl Colón, Veera Hiranandani. Middle row: Jessica Kim, Trung Le Nguyen (credit: Laura Duholm), Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. Bottom row: Lawrence Schimel…
May 17, 2022The 2022 Student Translation Prize Winners, Emily Graham and Aziza Kasumov. Aziza Kasumov and Emily Graham were recently named the recipients of the fifth annual translation prize for students sponso…
December 2, 2021Photo by Parée / Flickr The editors of World Literature Today are delighted to announce our annual shortlist of Pushcart nominations for 2021. Pushcart Prize XLVII will honor the be…
November 23, 2021Photo by Ann Arbor 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, reviews of Bl…
September 22, 2021Photo by Connie Smothermon In the lead-up to National Punctuation Day (September 24), we asked writers and translators to comment on their favorite mark of punctuation. Is it th…
There’s never enough space to cover them all, but in an effort to account for as many titles as possible, here are thirteen 2021 translations for your reading list, including novels, nonfiction, p…
August 2, 2021Have you read the work of the ten jurors who will be selecting the next laureate of the Neustadt Prize? (You can read more about them on the Neustadt website.) We’ve put together a short list with so…
June 28, 2021Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate a single book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with…
June 24, 2021WLT is joining the BookTube world! The show is WLT Book Buzz, hosted by two former interns who now work in children’s book publishing. After watching Laura Hernandez and Bunmi Ishol…
May 20, 2021Mariah Rust and Xin Xu recently were named the recipients of the fourth annual translation prize for students sponsored by World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Consistent wi…
March 31, 2021Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate one book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a bri…
March 22, 2021When we heard the news yesterday that Adam Zagajewski had passed away at the age of seventy-five in Kraków, Poland, we immediately thought not only of his exceptional poetry and essays but also o…
March 10, 2021Photo by Wendy Call Best Translations: An Annual Anthology an independent project endorsed by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Call for an Africa…
March 7, 2023On Thursday, March 23, 2023, noted French American scholar and translator Alice-Catherine Carls will deliver a public talk called “Translation as a Laboratory for Life” on the University of Oklahoma (…
December 9, 2020Photo by Wendy Call / www.wendycall.com Extended Deadline for Applications: Monday, February 1, 2021 Call for Applications: Two series co-editors, one with expertise in Asian…
November 30, 2020Photo: Quarantine portrait. Tulsa, Oklahoma. March 22, 2020, by Joseph Rushmore. This photograph accompanied the publication of Rilla Askew's "Cataclysm" in the Summer 2020 issue of Worl…
October 12, 2020Ani Kokobobo is associate professor and chair of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Kansas and editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal. She received her…
October 5, 2020Janet Wong is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former lawyer who switched careers to become a children’s author. Her dramatic career change has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show,…
October 1, 2020Monica Brown is the author of the Lola Levine chapter book series, Sarai chapter book series, and many award-winning picture books, including Waiting for the Biblioburro (illus. John Parra…
September 29, 2020Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest. He’s the author of After the Shot Drops and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes. His latest book, Patro…
September 25, 2020Adib Khorram is an author, graphic designer, and tea enthusiast. Iranian American, he was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. A theater kid in high school, he went on to study design and tech…
September 15, 2020Cynthia Weill is director of the Center for Children’s Literature at the Bank Street College of Education. She is trained as an art historian and has worked as an educator and in hum…
September 8, 2020Sonia Patel writes out of her experience as a first-generation Indian-American born in New York and raised in Hawaii, an experience lushly and brilliantly explored in her debut novel, Rani Pate…
September 2, 2020Poet, writer, and educator Tanaya Winder is an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe and has ancestors from the Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Navajo, and Black tribes. She grew up on t…
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