Norman, Okla., Oct. 11, 2012 —Mo Yan, a Chinese novelist, essayist, and short story writer with multiple connections to the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.…

Norman, Okla., September 29, 2012 – Naomi Shihab Nye, the author and editor of thirty-three books, has been named laureate of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. The NSK Prize is a…

  Since the early 2000s, World Literature Today has been gingerly dipping a toe into the fast-flowing waters of the World Wide Web. In the early years, we started out by hosting a basic webs…

WLT is delighted to announce its participation in the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program (CSP), a project to bring archival and current content together on a single platform. Effective July 1,…

The results are in!We're delighted to announce the readers' choice winners and runners-up from the shortlist of staff favorites in essays, poetry, short fiction, interviews, and book reviews from…

The March/April 2012 issue of World Literature Today will feature the work of New York Times Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid (1968-2012). In this issue, …

Poet Nathalie Handal has collaborated with New York-based filmmaker Bob Madey to create a video version of her poem "The Courtyard of Colegiata del Salvador," found in the January 2012 issue of Wo…

Pia Tafdrup is one of the major contemporary Danish poets working today, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the author of more than twenty books, several of w…