The work of Can Xue (IWP '92), in particular the recent novels Frontier and Vertical Motion (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping) is surveyed in The New Yorker.
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The Inheritance from Mother, the most recent novel by Minae Mizumura (IWP '04), translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter, is reviewed in N Y Times.
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The Legend in My Heart (2016), a feature-length documentary directed by Kaitlyn Busbee, with an original score by David Gompper, which covers IWP’s 2014 tour to China to work with differently-abled communities, won the “Best Student Feature Film” award at the 2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival.
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The award-winning Malaysian journalist, editor and writer Rehman RASHID (IWP '01) passed away on June 3rd, 2017, in Kuala Lumpur. R.I.P.
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Samuel Kolawole (IWP '15) receives first-ever VCFA Emerging Writer Scholarship for the MFA in Writing and Publishing program.
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Australian poet Ali Cobby ECKERMANN (IWP '14) has been named a recepient of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.
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A rememberance of Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) by Peter NAZARETH (IWP '73), professor of English and Senior Advisor to the IWP can be found here.
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Poet, translator, editor, academic, and member of IWP's Advisory Board, Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) passed away on 2/19/17 in Iowa City after a long illness. He embodied a connection to the best of Iraq's long literary and political history.
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The third novel of Peter KIMANI (IWP '07), Dance of the Jakaranda, is just out from Akashic Press, to fine reviews.
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Jayanta MAHAPATRA (IWP '76) received the distinguished Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry at the 2017 Jaipur Literary Festival. Among finalists was also Joy GOSWAMI (IWP '01); among jurors was Sukrita PAUL KUMAR (IWP '02).
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