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We are delighted to announce that Gisèle Sapiro has been awarded the Biguet Prize (in sociology) of the Académie française for her book Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur mondial? Le champ littéraire transnational (Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, Hautes études Collection...

In Memoriam - Prof. Aleksandra Vrane š - We are deeply saddened to inform you that our beloved friend and first institutional affiliate of IWL from Serbia, Professor Aleksandra Vraneš, a member of the University of Belgrade and the State University of...

A generous award from the Balzan Foundation is giving IWL the opportunity to bring a group of participants from five regions not yet well represented among our affiliates: Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and South/Southeast Asia...

Each year, the Milan-based Balzan Prize Foundation awards four prizes in emergent fields of scholarship, two in natural sciences and two in humanities or social sciences. This year, one of the four fields was World Literature, and the foundation has...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded for the first time to a French female author: Annie Ernaux. Since her first novel, Les Armoires vides (1974 / Cleaned Out 1990), Annie Ernaux has explored forms of symbolic violence that are experienced...

The 13th IWL returns to its headquarters at Harvard from July 5 through July 27, 2023. We've assembled a great group that includes Homi Bhabha (Harvard), David Damrosch (Harvard), Jérôme David (U of Geneva), Simon Gikandi (Princeton), Emily Greenwood...

David Damrosch's Around the World in 80 Books that saw us through the pandemic last year in blog form has now turned into a book published by Penguin (USA) and Pelican (UK). Below you can find a glowing review by Peter Conrad in The Guardian and the link...

Lizy Mostowski (ABD Comparative Literature current student): “The Institute for World Literature was a rewarding experience that not only exposed me to new texts and modes of analyses helpful to my area of study; participation in the Institute also...

Essays are invited for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of World Literature on the theme of World Literature in and for Pandemic Times. Essays can discuss works that are set in plagues or epidemics (whether Covid-19 or earlier epidemics, real or...

Want to know all about the 2020 IWL summer session? Check out the reports by Sarah Agath and Sandra Tausel, two grad students from the University of Innsbruck who participated in our 10th IWL summer session. You can download their reports here: