The IWP & The Moscow Art Theatre will present Book Wings, a collaborative literary and theatrical performance on Fri. March 9th, 2012 in Theatre B of the University of Iowa's Theatre Arts building.
Paul and Hualing Nieh Engle Gallery
- Paul Engle's biography, bibliography, and an array of texts by, for and about him.
- "Revolution on Campus" Paul Engle's three defenses of academic creative writing [PDF]
- Hualing Engle's bibliography and CV [PDF]
- Extracts from Nieh Hualing Engle's memoir Three Lives [PDF]
- From Hubel to the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame: A 2009 interview with Hualing Nieh Engle in the literary magazine Full Tilt (Taiwan)
- Directed by the Hong Kong director Angie Chen, the feature-length documentary about the life of Hualing Nieh Engle premiered in March 2012, at the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Paul and Hualing Nieh Engle: Shared work
- Among the Engles' accomplishments was "The Chinese Weekend,"[PDF] organized in September 1979 at the University of Iowa, the first formal meeting between Chinese writers from Taiwan and from the Mainland since 1949.
- "Co-translation: the Writer's View": An extended dialogue on the process of joint translation, illustrated with examples from "Joy of Meeting" (Li Yü, 937-978) and "West Ch'ang-an Street" (Pien Chih-lin, 1932)
IWP as Recollected by its Alumni
- Over the years the many IWP alumni have reminisced over their time in Iowa City with the Engles
- Excerpts from Sunil Gangyopadhyay (IWP, '81) Memories of Light and Shade
The WW and the IWP in Paul Engle's correspondence
- Paul Engle was a notorious correspondent, and much of his personal creative history is reflected in the thousands of letters he dispatched over the decades. Many can be found in the Engle Collection in the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and finding aid.
Two recent essays about Paul Engle [PDFs]
- "Remembering Paul Engle" [PDF] by Mike Chasar. Reprinted courtesy The Writer's Chronicle
- "Middle Man: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writer's Workshop" [PDF] by Loren Glass in The Minnesota Review, 2009
A play: Leaner than Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle (2011)
- Playwright Lisa Schlesinger has dramatized Paul and Hualing Engles' life and work in 12 scenes.
Happening Now... (more)
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Nigerian playwright, novelist, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka gave a public lecture on November 6 as part of the closing festivities of the 2011 IWP residency.
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The newest release from 91st Meridian Books: How to Write an Earthquake, a trilingual French-Creole-English e-anthology of poetry and prose responding to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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The Norwegian Writers' Association has awarded its 2011 free expression award to Ma Thida (IWP 2005). She is its first-ever recipient from Burma.
