No Knives in the Kitchens of this City by Khaled Khalifa (IWP'07), detailing the run-up to Syria's hellish civil war, is reviewed in the New York Times.
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For his comic novel Raden Mandasia Si Pencuri Daging Sapi [Raden Mandasia the Beef Thief] Yusi Aveanto PAREANOM (IWP '16) received the 2016 Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Best Indonesian Prose award. An extract of the novel was translated into English by the author together with Laura Moser in IWP's International Translation Workshop.
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H.M.Naqvi (IWP '10) regrets the sparsity of translators from the Urdu, and points to the great Qurratulain Hyder (IWP '79) as an instance of an Urdu author turning to self-translation to amend this lack.
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A super interview with Ukamaka OLISAKWE (IWP '16) on Iowa Now.
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WANG Anyi (王安忆) (IWP '83) is the 2017 recipient of the distinguished Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.
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In Dhaka Tribune, Wasi AHMED (Bangladesh, IWP '16) has a few things to say about his IWP 2016 cohort.
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To Live, by the Chinese novelist YU HUA (IWP '03), has been included in the 2016-7 Big Read, organized by the National Endowment of the Arts.
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The Legend in my Heart, documenting a 2014 IWP tour to disability communities in China, is official selection at the 2016 Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival.
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An essay in Haaretz tracks the marriage and joint lives in Jaffa of Zahiye KUNDUS and Antonio UNGAR (both IWP '05).
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Han KANG's (IWP '98) The Vegetarian wins the Man Booker International prize for fiction.
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