World Literature Today

World Literature Today is an international literary and culture journal produced by the University of Oklahoma. The magazine's declared objective is to publish worldwide non-academic essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, and book reviews. Roy Temple House, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, created it in 1927 as Books Overseas. The journal was renamed World Literature Today in January 1977. The inaugural issue of World Literature Today (WLT) was 32 pages long and released in 1927. By the 50th year, the editions had grown to more than 250 pages. WLT transitioned from a quarterly to a bimonthly publication in 2006.

The editors of World Literature Today have fostered debate over the yearly awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the magazine's inception. In 1940, the publication held a "Super-Nobel" election in which contributors and other specialists were asked to vote for the writer they thought had made the most significant contribution to world literature in the first third of the twentieth century, regardless of whether that writer had won the Nobel Prize. Thomas Mann, who earned the Nobel Prize in 1929 and was a frequent writer of World Literature Today, received the honor. WLT is the greatest worldwide literary and culture magazine out there, and it includes interviews, essays, poetry, fiction, and book reviews. It's a terrific way to get a feel of what's going on in literature throughout the world, in a variety of global languages.

Website: worldliteraturetoday.org