Worldviews in Literature: An Anthology responds to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s 2012 global initiatives for study of world literature for a “New Humanism” along with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s directive for world literature “to discover what is universal across national literatures.” Worldviews includes fifteen authors from the East and West and reflects on UNESCO themes and universal worldviews in these works that unite authors across national, historic, geographic, religious, and cultural divides. Organized by genres of fiction, drama and poetry, the book includes “Themes and Worldview” essays on each author that provide historical and cultural context and thematic links across readings. A recent English translation of Buddhist scholar Dharmanand Kosambi’s play, Bodhisattva, along with focus on UNESCO “themes for a new humanism” and film suggestions strengthen the text’s humanities’ focus.