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April 14, 2020Top Row (left to right): Jonathan Auxier, Monica Brown, Tanita S. Davis. Middle row: Adib Khorram, Sonia Patel, Randy Ribay. Bottom row: Cynthia Weill, Tanaya Winder, Janet Wong. World Literature…
March 27, 2020World Literature Today has been working for more than 90 years to keep the lines of communication open among nations, even when all other channels were closed. In times of social distress, li…
December 10, 2019In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pieces by trans…
December 9, 2019You Will Grow Together in Your Rage, illustration by Meg Lionel Murphy. This piece originally accompanied Barbara Jane Reyes, “Three Tracks from Brown Girl Mixtape” from the Autumn…
October 16, 2019Photo by J. Foley Opale World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Wednesday evening that Ismail Kada…
October 11, 2019Eleven internationally acclaimed writers will read from their work and sign books beginning at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Scholars Room (Room 315) of Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave.,…
October 1, 2019Margarita Engle will deliver the keynote address for the Neustadt Lit Fest at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center, 560 Parrington Oval, on the University of Oklahoma Nor…
September 17, 2019Today the New Yorker announced the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. With such a wealth of talent on display, we don’t envy the judges’ task. To aid you, the re…
September 13, 2019The prize-winning poster design by OU student Marley Smith NORMAN, OKLA. (Friday, September 13, 2019) – University of Oklahoma students Marley Smith, Abby Merz, and Sadie Gorham have…
August 21, 2019World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, recently was awarded the 2019 APEX Grand Award for Publication Excellence…
July 21, 2019From left to right: Top: Emmanuel Carrère, Jorie Graham, Jessica Hagedorn. Middle: Eduardo Halfón, Ismail Kadare, Sahar Khalifeh. Bottom: Abdellatif Laâbi, Lee Maracle, Hoa Nguyen. World Literat…-
June 11, 2019Norman, Okla. (June 11, 2019) – Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announ…
May 22, 2019From left, prose winner Samantha Vila, writer Gunter Silva, poetry winner Brian Sneeden, & poet Phoebe Giannisi We are proud to announce Samantha Vila and Brian Sneeden as the re…
May 7, 2019Photo: Jen Rickard-Blair NORMAN, Okla. (May 7, 2019) –World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, an…
April 12, 2019The Youth Strike for Climate Protest, London, March 15, 2019 / Photo: David Holt / Flickr Looking ahead to our summer 2019 issue, with its cover focus devoted to “The Global Literature of Climate Cha…
March 21, 2019Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto It is already well known that the city of Beira and the entire central reg…
December 13, 2018The editors of World Literature Today are delighted to announce our annual shortlist of Pushcart nominations for 2018. The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction, creative non…
December 11, 2018As the year’s news of rising nationalistic strains and attacks against the press continued, the urgent need for translation became ever more apparent. More and more, translation across borders embo…
November 2, 2018The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has named its 2018 National Translation Award winners. Third-Millennium Heart (Action Books) by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated from the…
October 22, 2018On Oct. 10, the Nebraska Library Commission announced Daniel Simon as the winner of a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. Simon’s book Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017 (2017),…
October 9, 2018Photo by Marshall W. Johnson World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Margarita Engle as the winne…
September 13, 2018The Neustadt Lit Fest, a legendary celebration of international literature and culture, will take place Oct. 9-11 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Headlined by Edwidge Danticat, winner of…
August 21, 2018We will be hosting a launch party to celebrate our forthcoming music issue at the historic Norman train depot on Friday, Sept. 14, 6-8pm. The event will coincide with the 2nd Friday Art Walk taking p…
July 10, 2018The 2019 NSK Nominees (top, left-to-right) Margarita Engle (Photo: Sandra Rios Balderrama), René Colato Laínez, Ana Maria Machado, (middle, left-to-right) Isabel Minhós Martins, Hilary McKay…
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