News, Reviews, and Interviews
The Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced and recent WLT contributor and Puterbaugh Fellow Alain Mabanckou is among the finalists.
The 2017 Oklahoma Bo…
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March 17, 2017
March 10, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The #Read4Refugees campaign is encouraging a worldwide “read-in” for refugees and is gaining momentum with the support of Jodi Picoult, Junot Díaz, Yann Martel, Sherman…
March 3, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced the 2017 recipients, and recent WLT contributors Marina Carr and Carolyn Forché are among the winners. Australian a…
February 24, 2017Little Free Library design competition Judges’ Choice winner. Owlie by Bartosz Bochynski, FUTUMATA / London, England News, Reviews, and Interviews PEN America announced its 2017 literary award winne…
February 17, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews AWP 2017 came to a close last weekend with a candlelight vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House, and the conference itself featured dozens of panels on wor…
February 10, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews We’re delighted to announced that WLT has been shortlisted for the London Book Fair International Excellence Award in Translation! Follow WLT @worldli…
February 8, 2017The World Literature Today team. From left to right: Terri Stubblefield, Jen Rickard Blair, Merleyn Bell, R.C. Davis, Michelle Johnson, Kay Blunck, Rob Vollmar and Daniel Si…
February 3, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Bharati Mukherjee, a 2008 Neustadt Prize juror and chronicler of the Indian-American immigrant experience, passed away this week at the age of 76. In tribute, we rememb…
January 27, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews This week, George Orwell’s 1984 saw a resurgence in interest after presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway described some of th…
January 20, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Last Friday, President Obama spoke about the indispensable role that books played during his presidency and throughout his life. The 2…
January 13, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Electric Literature rounds up a farewell to “Reader-in-Chief” President Obama, recalling each and every one of President Obama’s book recommendations, reading lists, b…
January 6, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Literary Hub examines the “Murakami effect” and how the dominance of English affects how authors reach an international audience. NPR’s Juan Vidal named five of the ye…
December 16, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Obama administration speechwriter Jonathan Reiber writes about “the end of a literary presidency” in this Literary Hub article. Guernica interviews K…
December 9, 2016Munro’s Books in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: ThreeFishSleeping/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Quartz examines the “giant influence” that Fidel Castro had on Latin American lite…
December 2, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in transla…
December 1, 2016Norman, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will be honored this month with a Governor’s Media in the…
November 28, 2016In its November 2016 issue, World Literature Today honors women writers, and Barnes & Noble has responded with an unprecedented campaign to feature the magazine in all of its stores in e…
November 18, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Award winners have been announced! Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Daniel Borzutzky have won for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectively.…
November 11, 2016Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival. News, Reviews, and Interviews Via PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, a…
November 4, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews American poet, children’s book author, and translator Marilyn Nelson is the laureate of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Literature! After accepting the 2016 Neustadt P…
October 29, 2016Biennial $25,000 prize recognizes a storied literary career exploring history, race relations and feminism in America Marilyn Nelson. Photo by Curt Richter. Norman, Okla. (October 29, 2016)…
October 24, 2016The 2016 Neustadt Festival of International Literature & Culture featuring Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić starts this Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman.…
October 21, 2016Photo by Steve Halama/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for t…
October 19, 2016George Lynn Cross (left) interviewing Roy Temple House as part of his weekly broadcast on radio station WNAD, ca. 1947 (courtesy of the OU Western History Collections). Dr. Cross (1905–98),…
October 14, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Bob Dylan (a 2012 finalist for Neustadt Prize) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for having created new poetic expressions within the great America…
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