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Dec 4, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | James Fawcett |Madeline Meyers |Michelle Johnson |Daniel Simon
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. For those wishing to explore the human heart and mind, for those that love to read about love, for the “hopefully” romantics: here are some throwbacks, classics, and recent releases from all around the world. Regency LoversJo BakerLongbournVintage, 2014Food, Family, and a Spoonful of RomanceLaura EsquivelLike Water for ChocolateTrans.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Daniel Simon
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday that Cherie Dimaline will be the next winner of the renowned NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Awarded in alternating years with the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the NSK Prize recognizes outstanding literary merit in literature worldwide.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Daniel Simon |Thich Nhat Hanh |Albert Camus
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. In the summer of 2022 I (James Fawcett) walked from Denver to Durango on the Colorado Trail. I started the walk alone and eighteen years old, having just finished my freshman year of college.
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May 9, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Daniel Simon |Daria Shchukina |Rob Vollmar
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. As Mother’s Day in the US approaches, we celebrate our mothers, the most incredible and important people, who have given us all tenderness and warmth since our first breath. On this special day, we can once again express gratitude for the unconditional love, selflessness, and self-sacrifice they shower upon us.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Daniel Simon
The volcano is perhaps no longer just the symbol of social or warlike violence but the metaphor of a realecological time bomb to come. —Charif Majdalani, “Dancing at the Foot of a Volcano”For more than a decade and a half, World Literature Today has been taking the pulse, so to speak, of writers’ responses to the planetary climate crisis.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Daniel Simon |Rob Vollmar
In an interview up at the Booker Prizes, 2023 International Booker Prize–winning translator Angela Rodel describes the work of author and translator as a “duet.” Here we offer seventy-five duets in another year with many more to celebrate. We hope you’ll add those we’ve missed on our social media channels using the hashtag #2023InTranslation.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Daniel Simon
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. A [literary] journal is the most elegant way to conspire. —J. G.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Michelle Johnson |Daniel Simon
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. A deadly curse, mythical creatures, and a murder investigation: in Juhani Karila’s English-language debut, Fishing for the Little Pike, a young woman has much to contend with on her annual pilgrimage to catch a pike in Lapland, Finland. Lola Rogers translated this wildly imaginative novel published by Restless Books in September 2023. Michelle Johnson: Fishing for the Little Pike unfolds in Lapland, in northern Finland.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Karlos Hill |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Daniel Simon |Jennifer Croft
On August 9, 2023, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon spoke with Wilhelm K. Meya, chairman and CEO of The Language Conservancy (TLC) about the nonprofit’s remarkable work of helping to revitalize Indigenous languages. Their conversation, which took place over Zoom, has been edited for clarity and length.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Daniel Simon
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will award the 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature to Gene Luen Yang, the legendary graphic novelist. On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Yang will receive the $35,000 prize, a silver medallion and a certificate at a ceremony at OU.
