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Mission
The mission of World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma's bimonthly magazine of international literature and culture, is to serve the international, state, and university communities by achieving excellence as a literary publication, a sponsor of literary prizes, and a cultural center for students. ...MORE
History
World Literature Today was founded as Books Abroad in 1927 by Roy Temple House, a scholar of vision from the University of Oklahoma. He devised as the journal's logo a full-rigged ship with the motto Lux a Peregre—"Light from Abroad" or (as we choose to interpret it) "The Light of Discovery." ...MORE
Awards & Prizes
See our growing list of awards, prizes and recognitions dating back to 1998. ...MORE
Accolades
“WLT literally does contain the world.”—Sima Rabinowitz, NewPages.com, June 2009
“An excellent source of writings from around the globe
by authors who write as if their lives depend on it.”
—Chris Dodge, Utne Reader, January 2005 ...MORE
