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March 4, 2016Sponsored by World Literature TodayThe University of OklahomaNorman, OklahomaApril 6–8, 2016 Featuring Francophone Writer Alain Mabanckou Norman, OK, March 4, 2016 – Since…
January 4, 2016WHAT: This Thursday, January 7, students from Norman High School will compete in the national recitation contest known as Poetry Out Loud. World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’…
December 7, 2015The editors of World Literature Today are proud to announce their nominations for Pushcart Prize XLI, the next “best of the small presses” anthology. The nominees include six author…- November 25, 2015A cover feature on NSK Neustadt Prize laureate Meshack Asare featuring Asare’s keynote address and Prize lecture and nominating juror Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s tribute, “Meshack Asare in the Pantheon of An…
November 4, 2015The following is a clip from the Colorado Academy monthly newsletter. Four students from the school were selected to attend the 2015 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture. Says Hea…
Dubravka Ugrešić Announced as 2016 Winner of Prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature
October 23, 2015Dubravka Ugrešić. Photo by Judith Jockel. Novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić has been named the 24th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature.…
September 2, 2015NEWS RELEASE Kate PetersSenior PR Director, COHN303-839-1415 [email protected] Robert Con DavisExecutive Director, World Literature Today405-325-453…- September 2, 2015A Cover Feature on Poetry Inspired by post-1950 Visual Art featuring poems by Lauren Camp, Lola Créïs, Hedy Habra, Wafaa S. Jdeed, Circe Maia, Tatiana Oroño, Rita Mockus, Ravi Shankar, Ramó…
July 13, 2015A Warm Welcome to WLT’s New Book Review Editor, Rob Vollmar Rob Vollmar and Marla Johnson The editors of World Literature Today each have a colored editing pencil: mine is purple, o…
July 6, 2015Last week, we said farväl to our beloved book review editor, Marla Johnson, who retired after working at World Literature Today since 1992. For more than twenty years, Marla worked (…
June 4, 2015Source: DU VideoManager On May 27, WLT celebrated the release of its May 2015 issue at a standing-room-only launch party at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Watch guest editors Ad…
May 27, 2015An international, nine-member jury of accomplished writers have selected the shortlist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, with their sole criterion for nominating finalists being di…
May 18, 2015The 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature jury panel features nine writers: Alison Anderson, United States/Switzerland Porochista Khakpour, Iran/United States Valeria Luiselli, Mexico/Unit…
April 14, 2015Photo: H. Grunert / www.nobelprize.org When it was announced on Monday that Nobel laureate Günter Grass had passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven, we asked…
March 30, 2015Tomas Tranströmer delivering his acceptance speech for the Neustadt Prize in June 1990. When news broke late last week that Nobel Prize laureate Tomas Tranströmer had died in St…
February 25, 2015From February 25 to March 10, we are inviting readers to tell us what they like most about WLT. In 25 words or less, tweet us some love with the hashtag…
February 9, 2015Assia Djebar. Photo by Irmeli Jung. The editors and staff of World Literature Today were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Algerian-born novelist, translator, and filmmaker Assia…- January 22, 2015A cover feature on Iranian exile lit featuring Moniro Ravanipour, Omid Fallahazad, Mohsen Emadi, and Mana Neyestani, guest-edited by Persis Karim plus Roberto Fernández Retamar’s reading rec…
- December 16, 2014The editors of WLT are delighted to announce that the following slate of six authors have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize XL anthology: Poetry Julia Fiedorczu…
- December 11, 2014A cover feature on 2014 Neustadt Prize winner Mia Couto (Mozambique) and A special section on flash nonfiction featuring Brian Doyle, Josey Foo, Vikram Kapur, Lia Purpura, and Dmitry Samarov pl…
October 24, 2014Asare is the first African writer to be awarded the biennial $25,000 Prize World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today…
September 24, 2014Norman, Oklahoma, Sept. 24, 2014 – The 2014 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture, featuring writers and scholars from Africa, Europe and the United States, will take place on the…- September 22, 2014A special section on post-Wende central European lit (1989–2014) Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), an excerpt from The End of Days, tr. Susan Bernofsky Tomas V…
September 1, 2014In conjunction with our November 2014 cover feature—which will focus on central European literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall—the editors of WLT invited 25 writers to nominate one bo…
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