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.
Programs
Every year, with support from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, IWP organizes a number of programs that aim to make a connection between literary communities overseas and distinguished American writers. These programs have ranged from symposia and conferences through reading and study tours, to writing workshops, taught both on the UI campus and abroad.
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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.
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In the first issue of the independent, English-language Iraq Literary Review, edited by Baghdad-based critics Soheil Najm (IWP 2009) and Sadek. R. Mohamed: 100+ pages of criticism, poetry, fiction, translations…
