Fifty years ago this week, Books Abroad editor Ivar Ivask traveled to Menton, France, to announce the establishment of the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature, the forerunner…
The Editors of WLT
September 13, 2019
August 1, 2019Earlier this summer, the editors of WLT invited more than two dozen writers to nominate one book, published since 1969, that most influenced their extraliterary commi…
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…
January 25, 2019PEN America has announced the finalists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. With so many great books, authors, and translators included, we’ve put together this roundup of WLT’s covera…
January 18, 2019Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash In an American age characterized by fragmentation and political division, it takes the passage of a literary icon like Mary Oliver to remind us how we have been bound toge…
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 4, 2017The editors of World Literature Today are proud to officially present our annual shortlist of Pushcart and BAE nominations for 2017. The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction,…
May 5, 2017Cardoso’s magnum opus offers a glimpse into the hidden world of postwar Brazil’s upper echelon. Editor’s note: When a publisher brings forth a much-needed translation of a classic…
November 30, 2016The editors of World Literature Today are pleased to announce their nominations for Pushcart Prize XLII, the annual anthology that features the best of the small-press publishing wor…
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…
December 15, 2015As 2015 comes to a close, we again look back to the year in translation. The end of 2015 marked two new beginnings: a new independent publisher, Spurl Edition, released its first translation in Novem…
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…
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…- December 23, 2014Literary translation again filled the news in 2014. There were firsts to celebrate—the earliest-known Arabic stories were finally translated into English, and Deep Vellum Publishing, a new translation…
- 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…
May 28, 2014Photos by Gil Jain / Western History Collections / The University of Oklahoma The editors and staff of World Literature Today join in mourning the passing while celebrat…
December 10, 2013The 2013 calendar year was packed with literary translation news. At least two new publishers entered the field: Frische & Co. published its first e-books, and New Vessel Press brought out its fi…- April 1, 2013April is National Poetry Month, and WLT will be celebrating. The Academy of American Poets began the month-long event in 1996. The Academy’s website suggests several ways to participate, rang…
December 18, 2012The list-making season is upon us, and some of our favorite news sources have turned to surveying the literary year. On November 27, the New York Times released its 100 Notable Books of 2012.…
