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One of the world’s longest-published literary magazines, now in its 99th year. Your passport to great reading. Online at https://worldliteraturetoday.org/.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · Mar 7
Hello, Bluesky community! We're a magazine dedicated to international literature and culture published at the University of Oklahoma. We publish fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and more—including many translations. We look forward to connecting with you here.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 6h
“Almallah’s poetry not only resists the reduction of shattered Palestinian lives to mere numbers, but it also invites the reader to reflect on what writing can truly do in times of extreme devastation.” – Khalid Lyamlahy

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 9h
Congratulations to all writers and translators on the 2025 National Translation Awards shortlists!
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 1d
🎉 We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2025 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose!

2025 marks the 27th year for the NTA, and the 11th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose.

View the lists here: literarytranslators.org/the-2025-nat...
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 12h
Who will be the next winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature? Join us for a reception and be among the first to find out when Kathy Neustadt makes the announcement at the Neustadt Night at the Oklahoma Memorial Union!

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 1d
“Because genuineness constantly eludes the characters, questioning where reality lies, Y entonces Teresa is one of the most brilliantly controlled novels I’ve read.” – Will H. Corral

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 1d
“It all eventually leads to the lean, brisk prose of Giraud’s heartbreaking, elegiac, therapeutic, cathartic closure.”

Robert Allen Papinchak reviews Brigitte Giraud’s searingly personal, loosely autobiographical Prix Goncourt winner, Live Fast.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai, who has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature! WLT’s pages have reviews of English translations of three of his works, most recently Elaine Margolin’s review of Chasing Homer, translated into English by John Batki.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 2d
“An unflinching, pragmatic gaze inhabits these quietly ferocious poems.”

Dan Disney reviews a book that “understands that, directly or otherwise, factories produce graves.”

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 2d
Save the date for this discussion of the work of Cherie Dimaline, our 2025 NSK Prize winner. Her 2017 book The Marrow Thieves was named one of the Best YA Books of All Time by Time magazine!

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 2d
“As one might expect from such an original writer, Alqasmi resists a predictable resolution for this memorable and evocative novel.”

Gretchen McCullough reviews an “unusual tale about hunters of wild honey in the mountains.”

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 3d
“Jacaranda’s archite𝑥ture fills in the gaping memories with the buried truths that imperil trusted friendships, vindicate familial intimations, and appease consciences.” – Sarah Davies Cordova

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 3d
Up on the WLT Weekly today, Mahdiyeh Ezzati analyzes Fereshteh Molavi’s 2019 novel, Thirty Shadow Birds, in the context of the Iranian diaspora.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 4d
“With verse not atypically American in its kaleidoscope of reference and history, writers like Stefanescu come from ancient nesting dolls, breathing the blue flame poetry from worlds we learn of by reading . . .” – Candice Louisa Daquin

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 4d
Save the date, Oct. 20, for the opening event of the Neustadt Lit Fest: 3:30–4:30pm in the Meacham Auditorium of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. In addition to welcoming NSK Neustadt Prize winner Cherie Dimaline, there will be a Round dance.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 4d
“Fisher’s translation of Pioneer Summer provides those who do not read Russian with a much-needed glimpse behind Putin’s toxic homophobia and xenophobia to see what other Russians read and how some Russians would love.” – Julie Cassiday

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 7d
“By choosing to examine the powers that bind us, we can empower ourselves.”

Amber M. Durst looks at 10 international new and upcoming horror novels for fall.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 7d
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 7d
“The Book of Records asks each of us how we might go on with our lives when our expectations and usual way of life are swept away in the blink of an eye.”

Miho Kinnas reviews Madeleine Thien’s fourth novel.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 7d
“As a dyed-in-the-wool, first-page-to-last reader, I could not disagree more with Bayard’s theses; yet I have been amused, bemused, and invigorated by this book, despite the sense that the joke, inevitably, is on me.” – Warren Motte

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 8d
“It is a chance to trade urgent memos, pass along communiqués, and pour out our souls to each other before swiftly taking leave, once more, into the fray.”

Nour Eldin H. reviews this bilingual anthology of Arab poetry.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 8d
“What makes LeBor’s book particularly valuable is the way he deploys sources that are often forgotten or neglected.”

George Gömöri reviews Adam LeBor’s new book.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 9d
The Activist, the Scholar, the Thwarted Poet? Take a break from the serious study of the art of the review and enjoy a laugh with this humor piece from our September issue, in which Radhika Oberoi creates a taxonomy of book reviewers.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 9d
Any one of these writers is reason enough to join us for this reading of prose and poetry, but all nine together is a can’t-miss event. Come listen, meet the writers, and get your books signed!

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 9d
“For Peixoto, poetry is the medium that allows us to slow down, reflect, and gather the threads that constitute our being.”

Irene Marques reviews José Luís Peixoto’s Homecoming.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 10d
Up on the WLT Weekly today, Gretchen McCullough pays tribute to the prolific Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, best known as a leftist writer who began his career in the 1960s, during the reign of President Nasser.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 10d
“Though The Emperor of Gladness attempts to crystallize charity and compassion in a world besot by violence, racism, cruelty, and indifference, it loses its way by embracing hypertrophic metaphors.” – Keith Garebian

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