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The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow.
PEN America has ann…
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July 29, 2016
July 22, 2016Radio Atlas use subtitles to translate various forms of audio. News, Reviews, and Interviews Radio Atlas is a new project that aims to translate sound art without destroying the poetry of its deliver…
July 15, 2016Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re…
July 1, 2016Photo: Frankieleon/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT contri…
June 24, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P…
June 17, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature jury and finalists were announced this week. For the first time ever, the finalists are all women. Author Alexander…
June 10, 2016Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia Commons News, Reviews, and Interviews NPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguistic thea…
June 3, 2016Photo by Wolfram Burner/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massac…
May 27, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Via Utne Reader, 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić shares about the experience of being a finalist—and then winner—for a big literary prize, her st…
May 20, 2016Photo by kl801/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews South Korean writer Han Kang—featured on the cover of the current issue of WLT—has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her no…
May 13, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Deepak Unnikrishnan is the inaugural winner of the Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize. Polish poet and Neustadt laureate Adam Zagajewski has won the 2016 Leopo…
May 6, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The winners for the Best Translated Book Awards have been announced! WLT contributing editor David Shook’s press Phoneme has taken home the BTBA in poetry for…
April 28, 2016Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. Painted by Evert A. Duyckinick, based on a drawing by George Richmond News, Reviews, and Interviews In this interview with Saikat Majmudar, he discusses his new novel…
April 22, 2016Photo: Comfreak/Pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews Archivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled…
April 20, 2016Photo by Guillermo Galan/Flickr Keeping tabs on the poets in your city or state can be a daunting task, but poets all over the world? To help with that, we’ve put together this short but powerful lis…
April 15, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced! The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won the fict…
April 1, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The AWP Conference continues through this weekend! Catch WLT’s editor in chief this afternoon and evening, and be sure to attend our poetry reading “Crossing t…
March 25, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article on Literary Hub, Ayelet Tsabari shares why she has chosen to write in English instead of Hebrew. Recently featured in WLT, poet and n…
March 18, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks details the “translation paradox.” Recent WLT contributor Gabeba Baderoon has been annou…
March 11, 2016Photo by Lubos Huska/Pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews The Quietus interviews Deborah Smith on her work translating Korean author Han Kang and her progress on launching a new publishing…
March 4, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt Festival has been announced! WLT will invite Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić to the OU campus Oct. 26-28. Katrina Dodson won the 201…
February 26, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Via the New Yorker, the story behind Salvadoran writer Jorge Galán’s choice to flee his country after the publication of his recent novel Noviembre. W…
February 19, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Author Aleksandar Hemon reflects on the deadly error in dehumanizing millions of refugees. In this review of Inongo vi Makomè’s book Natives, Aaron Bady discus…
February 12, 2016Valzhyna Mort. Photo: Tyler Christian News, Reviews, and Interviews In this radio interview with OU’s NPR affiliate, recent Neustadt juror Valzhyna Mort details her passion for poetry and the power…
February 5, 2016Image: MyBookmark/Etsy News, Reviews, and Interviews This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership. Slovenian author Al…
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