Table of Contents

EDITOR'S NOTE

COVER FEATURE
NSK Neustadt Prize Laureate
Virginia Euwer Wolff

• ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: [Excerpt] "A Case of Time-Release Insight: The 2011 NSK Prize Lecture," Virginia Euwer Wolff
• ESSAY:"The Courage to Be Compassionate: A Tribute to Virginia Euwer Wolff," Suzanne Fisher Staples
• READING LIST: "Children's Literature Favorites" by featured authors from the January issue of WLT

INTERVIEWS

• "Poetic Journeys: A Conversation with Nathalie Handal," Kaitlin Bankston
• "A Brief Conversation with Laleh Khadivi"
• "Eva Stachniak," Ania Spyra

ESSAYS

• "Post-3/11 Literature: Two Writers from Fukushima" Takeshi Kimoto
• "The Single, Shared Text? Translation and World Literature," Valerie Henitiuk
• "Burmese Poetry: Tectonic Shifts," James Byrne
• "The State of Zapotec Poetry: Can Poetry Save an Endangered Culture?," Clare Sullivan
• "Poetry Is Liberty: The Macondo Writers’ Workshop in Mexico," Wendy Call

FICTION

• "In the Palace of the Dragon King," Hiromi Kawakami
• "Past-Bitterness-Recalling and Present-Sweetness-Realizing Meal," Qiu Xiaolong

POETRY

• Four Poems, Nathalie Handal
• Seven Poems, Feliciano Sánchez Chan
• Zapotec Poetry: Bilingual recordings and an artists' gallery
• "Zodiac 9," Moikom Zeqo
• Six Burmese Poets

READING LIST

• WLT’s Apocalypse Reading List
• 10 Top Japanese Authors of the Past Decade
  (2000–2010)

IN EVERY ISSUE

• LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
• WHAT TO READ NOW: Sri Lanka
• CITY PROFILE: Hargeisa, Somalia
• INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: "He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Rise of the Police Procedural"
  by J. Madison Davis
• OUTPOST: Kesennuma, Japan

WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW