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@worldlittoday.bsky.social“They take the pages and burn the ink,
But the words—oh, the words—
Are fire in our hearts,
Grains of dust in the wind. . . .”
From “Banned Books,” by Nâzım Hikmet, translated by Zoë Mjøen.
@worldlittoday.bsky.social“Stambo’s stories are about nothing, and yet they are somehow about everything that matters.”
Admir Skodo reviews this collection of stories about Bulgarian immigrants to New York.
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialIt's International Translation Day, which means we're open for submissions to the World Literature Today Student Translation Prize! We want to read your prose and poetry. All the details are here: worldliteraturetoday.org/translation-....
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialToday is International Translation Day, and in this new essay, translator Charlotte Goff considers what she learned about love translating Nao-Cola Yamazaki’s Beautiful Distance, where a love that shows rather than tells is at the heart of the story.
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@worldlittoday.bsky.socialHappening Soon: Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Neustadt Prize lecture. We hope you’ll join us at 11 a.m. in the Meacham Auditorium of the University of Oklahoma’s Memorial Union! You’ll find details about this and all other Neustadt Lit Fest events here:
www.neustadtprize.org/the-2026-neu...
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialHappening soon: At 10:30 a.m. on September 30, Ibrahim Nasrallah will read his poetry in Arabic with English versions by Nancy Roberts, with Callen Clarke improvising a taqsim performance on the oud. Come join us in OU's Meacham Auditorium for this free event!
www.neustadtprize.org/the-2026-neu...
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialCongratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo, winner of the 2027 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature! Kathy Neustadt made the announcement tonight at the Neustadt Lit Fest after a jury of 9 writers and illustrators chose Acevedo.
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialHappening soon: Neustadt Night at the Union, featuring Nancy Barcelo, Neustadt Prize laureate Ibrahim Nasrallah, and Kathy Neustadt, who will announce the winner of the 2027 NSK Neustadt Prize. Join us! Full festival schedule here: www.neustadtprize.org/the-2026-neu....
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialHappening soon: A do-not-miss reading by these 9 children’s and young-adult book authors!
Kavita Ramchandran
Phil Bildner
Kyle Lukoff
Lola Schaefer
Cynthia Levinson
Hannah V. Sawyerr
Elisa Stone Leahy
Daniel Nayeri
Bao Phi
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialHappy release day to NSK Neustadt Prize juror Daniel Nayeri’s pantoum picture book, Drawn Inward, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller!
@worldlittoday.bsky.social“Nature—specifically animals and the violence they endure at the hands of humans—serves as a parallel to females and the violence they encounter from men.”
Nicole Yurcaba reviews Monika Herceg’s Closed Season, in English translation by Marina Veverec.
@worldlittoday.bsky.social“I wanted women to have agency and at the same time to have the freedom that photography brought to me.”
Renee H. Shea interviews visual artist Spandita Malik.
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialGreen Feather Book Company is at the Neustadt Lit Fest with a great collection of books by festival participants. Come out to the festival and get your book signed! Here's the schedule: www.neustadtprize.org/the-2026-neu...
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialHappening soon: A panel on Middle East Politics and Culture! It’s part of the Neustadt Lit Fest, which runs Sept. 28–30. You can find the full schedule here: www.neustadtprize.org/the-2026-neu...
All events are free. Join us!
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialJoin us for the opening of the Neustadt Lit Fest (12:30pm), followed by a literary roundtable (12:45) on the work of Ibrahim Nasrallah. All events are free. You’ll find the full festival schedule here:
www.neustadtprize.org/the-2026-neu...
@worldlittoday.bsky.socialThe Neustadt Lit Fest begins Monday morning and continues through Wednesday! Neustadt Prize laureate Ibrahim Nasrallah + more than a dozen other writers, translators, and scholars will participate. Use the link here to plan your festival experience: www.neustadtprize.org/the-2026-neu....
@worldlittoday.bsky.social“My sisters and I are thrilled to raise the NSK Prize amount as a signal to the world about the importance of children’s and young adult literature.”
Kathy Neustadt announced the increase of the award amount from $35,000 to $50,000.
@worldlittoday.bsky.social“Bruegel opens a window to another time. It’s a goal of mine to do the same, to capture what this moment was like.”
J. R. Patterson interviews Joe Sacco, one of the world’s greatest comic journalists, in our September issue.
@worldlittoday.bsky.social“Jelly, Baby is an unblinking look at living in a body the world sees as broken while still hungering for beauty and connection.”
Alton Melvar M. Dapanas reviews Therese Estacion’s nonfiction debut.
@worldlittoday.bsky.social“Lowly Creatures is a distinctly millennial ecocriticism, poking fun at the well-meaning millennials who perform activism by purchasing “ethical” products or by romanticizing working-class lives . . .” – Lauren Bo
