Jen SILVERMAN (IWP Life of Discovery writer) awarded 2013 Yale Drama Series Prize.
Amina ZAYDAN is a literary editor for the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. Her first novel, [‘Fooling Around n’ Stuff Like That’], was published in 2003; her second novel, [‘Red Wine’], won the 2007 Naguib Mafouz Medal for Literature, and is now being translated into English. Her short story “It Happened Secretly” was included in the Best Mediterranean Short Stories Collection (1995). She participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.
Jen SILVERMAN (IWP Life of Discovery writer) awarded 2013 Yale Drama Series Prize.
Carlos GAMERRO (IWP '08, Argentina) wins 2013 English PEN grant for translation
IWP director Christopher MERRILL talks to IPR about travel and poetry in the Middle East.
IWP reading tour participant Chinelo OKPARANTA shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing.
Nihad SIREES (IWP '05 Syria) has won the 2013 Coburgian Rückert Prize.

