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August 25, 2017Photo: Pexels News, Reviews, and Interviews Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie has published a new poem commenting on the current state of America. Scroll.in comments on translations as resistance an…
August 4, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The jury for the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature has been announced! Read about each author on the 2018 jury on Neustadt Prize website. Latin Americ…-
August 3, 2017Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and executive director of the World Literature Today organization at the University of Oklahoma, this week announced the names of nine jurors chosen t…
July 28, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews On Wednesday, PEN America launched an online archive, chronicling 50 years of American literary and cultural history with more than 1,500 hours of audio and video dating…
July 21, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Signature Reads delivers an essay primer for adults that showcases the “6 essay types you should know.” Among the examples is a triptych by Samina Najmi…![By Benjamin D. Maxham active 1848 - 1858 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](/sites/worldliteraturetoday.org/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/blog/friday-lit-links/benjamin-d-maxham-henry-david-thoreau-restored.jpg?itok=eqq8Q7ON)
July 14, 2017By Benjamin D. Maxham active 1848 - 1858 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons News, Reviews, and Interviews Henry David Thoreau was born 200 years ago on July 12, 1817. Via NPR, bi…
June 30, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 Lambda Literary Writers Workshop Retreat fellows have been announced. The annual retreat for emerging LGBTQ voices was established in 2007 and is a one-week imm…
June 23, 2017The Parthenon of Books behind the Museum Fridericianum. Wikimedia News, Reviews, and Interviews A “Parthenon of Books” has been built at the site of Nazi book burning in central…
June 16, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Newly announced US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith shares with NPR why she calls poems her anchor. Israeli author David Grossman and translator Jessica C…
June 9, 2017Sherman Alexie doing a lively reading of his children’s book Thunder Boy Jr. on the ASU Tempe campus. ASU Department of English/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Sherman Alexie has a new…
June 2, 2017Brian Doyle. Photo by Sam Beebe/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews “If we didn’t write poetry after the Holocaust it would be as if Hitler had won, or that the Nazis were right.” Neustadt laureate…
May 26, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews In its annual tradition of celebrating Memorial Day, Poets.org provides remembrance with these poem…
May 19, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Central American writer Claribel Alegría, laureate of the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has won the twenty-sixth “Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamerican…
Check out the following book reviews from our reviews section that feature new anthologies, poetry collections, and works of fiction by Native writers. For more reading ideas, check out our Native Lit…
Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing ed. Allison Hedge Coke (Salt Publishing, 2014) Christopher Felver Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits (University of…
May 5, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 Best Translated Book Award winners were announced last night! Lúcio Cardoso’s Chronicle of the Murdered House, translated from the Portuguese by Margar…
April 28, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The second issue of Latin American Literature Today will launch Sunday, April 30. The issue puts a spotlight on the Caribbean and on queer literature from acros…
Photo: Bequest/Pixabay By a lake, on a train, deep in a canyon, or at home on your back porch: it’s time to catch up on the outstanding global writing publishers have been bringing out since January.…
April 21, 2017Photo: Alice Hampson/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The Best Translated Book Award shortlist for fiction and poetry was announced this week at The Millions. For more, check out revie…
April 18, 2017The Best Translated Book Awards shortlist has been announced and it includes many notable books. Doomi Golo by Boubacar Boris Diop is the first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, a…
April 14, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The International Dublin Literary Award shortlist has been announced! The list includes Neustadt Prize laureate Mia Couto, Neustadt finalist and Puterbaugh Fellow Orhan…
April 7, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The new double issue of Poetry International, edited by Ilya Kaminsky, is out and features works by many Neustadt Prize-affiliated authors including Derek Walco…
March 31, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews The Best Translated Book Award longlists have been announced, and they include many authors and translators who have recently appeared in WLT. For our readers i…-
March 28, 2017Celebrating its tenth iteration, the Best Translated Book Awards announced its longlists for fiction and poetry this morning, highlighting the best international works of literature published in the…
