Do yourselves a favor and go watch The Middleman, a French-Belgian miniseries co-written and co-directed by Etgar KERET and Shira Geffen, on The Criterion Channel as of June 2021.
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On June 14th, Asia Society will host an evening of readings in support of the Burmese writers killed or arrested following the military coup earlier this year. Among the presenters will be US Poet Laureates Joy Harjo and Robert Hass, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek (Austria), poets Brenda Hillman, David St. John, and Christopher MERRILL (USA), Esther DISCHEREIT (Germany), Kinga TÓTH (Hungary), and many more. Register here.
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New books by alumnae Enza Garcia ARREAZA (Cosmonauta) and Pilar QUINTANA (Los Abismos) are reviewed in the May 2021 (18) issue of Latin American Literature Today.
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الأول , the tenth novel by Sahar KHALIFEH (IWP’78), published in Beirut in 2010, has just appeared in English translation from Hoopoe Press in Cairo as My First And Only Love. Read a review at WLT.
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We mark the passing of one of IWP’s early participants, the Yugoslav/Macedonian poet, translator, editor, and co-organizer of the Struga Poetry Evenings, Bogomil GJUZEL.
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The Octopus Has Three Hearts is the fiction debut of the imaginative poet and teacher, Vancouver-based Rachel ROSE.
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Among the 2021-2 Cullman Fellows at the New York Public Library are Josephine ROWE, Madeleine THIEN and Lewis HYDE.
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The story “Red_Bati” has landed Dilman DILA a spot on the British Science Fiction Association 2021 awards shortlist.
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Hind SHOUFANI, the co-writer and editor of the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated short The Present, in which a Palestinian father and daughter try to cross Israeli checkpoints, speaks about the project here. On Netflix through April 2021.
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Opening the new International Writers Series at Washington University in St Louis (moderator Matthias GOERITZ) is the German-Jewish poet and multimedia artist Esther DISCHEREIT. Register here for her reading on 4/14/21, 1-2pm CDT.
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