Carlos GAMERRO (IWP '08, Argentina) wins 2013 English PEN grant for translation
Soheil NAJM
has published four books of poetry, [‘Breaking the Phrase’] (1994), [‘Your Carpenter O Light’] (2002), [‘No Paradise Outside the Window’] (2008), and the anthology Flowers in Flame (2008). In addition, he has translated selections of work by Nikos Kazantzakis, Alasdair Gray, Ted Hughes, and José Saramago. Najm is currently the editor of the Althaqafa Alajnabia ["Foreign Culture"] journal in Baghdad. He participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.
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June 2013
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IWP director Christopher MERRILL talks to IPR about travel and poetry in the Middle East.
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IWP reading tour participant Chinelo OKPARANTA shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing.
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Nihad SIREES (IWP '05 Syria) has won the 2013 Coburgian Rückert Prize.
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IWP Distance Learning instructor Margaret ROSS awarded a 2013-2014 Fulbright Research Grant.
