We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
Iowa Digital Library International Writing Program Collection
The IWP is among the best known institutions at the University of Iowa and the premier institution of its kind in the world. In its more than 40-year history, the program has welcomed over 1400 writers from over 120 countries. The UI's School of Library and Information Science has preserved and catalogued IWP's large audio-visual archives so as to make them available to scholars and the public. Click here to enter the IWP Digital Collection. A noteworthy cluster in this archive is the Peter Nazareth Interview Collection, focusing on writers from Africa For information about holdings in IWP's paper archives, write to iwp@uiowa.edu Other Audio/Visual documentation
- Video "Community of the Imagination" (dir. Gerald Krell, 1974), featuring writers in residence at IWP in 1973
Print interviews with IWP Alumni
- Kseniya Golubovich a Russian writer
- Minae Mizumura, Japanese novelist and essayist
- Partaw Naderi a poet from Afghanistan
- Mazen Sa'adeh a Palestinian novelist and screenwriter
- Fedosy Santaella a fiction writer from Venezuela
- Suchen Christine Lim a Singaporean novelist
Paul Engle Conferences:
- Lost in Translation (2001)
- New Media (2004)
- 40th Anniversary: Gallery of images (2007)
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