SIMON, Daniel

2017 Visitor
2017 50th Anniversary Guest
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  • United States

Daniel Simon (USA) is Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of World Literature Today. He is a translator, the editor of a major anthology of Nebraska poetry, and the author of poetry collections Cast Off (2015) and After Reading Everything (2016). Simon teaches at the University of Oklahoma in the Department of English and in the Department of International & Area Studies. 

Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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