World Literature Today
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| Area of Expertise | Poetry, prose, commentaries, reviews |
| language | English |
| publishing company | University of Oklahoma , United States |
| First edition | January 1927 |
| Frequency of publication | 6 times a year |
| Editor-in-chief | Daniel Simon (interim) |
| executive Director | Robert Con Davis-Undiano |
| Article archive | World Literature Today |
| ISSN (print) | 0196-3570 |
World Literature Today is a bi-monthly magazine published by the University of Oklahoma . It was founded in 1927 by Roy Temple House under the name Books Abroad . Ernst Erich Noth was its editor from 1949 to 1959 , and the US-based poet Emma Kann was one of the staff until 1969. In January 1977 the magazine was renamed World Literature Today . Poetry, prose, commentaries and reviews appear in it without geographical restrictions. World Literature Today also funds the biennial Neustadt International Prize for Literatureand the annual Puterbaugh Conferences on World Literature .