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.
Publications
91st Meridian
The program's online literary journal 91st Meridian publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, often bilingually, and with a distinct bias in favor of world literature.
91st Meridian Books
91stM Books, the IWP's book series, appears in the catalog of Autumn Hill Books, an independent publishing house based in Iowa City.
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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…
