IWP Advisory Committee

Hualing Nieh Engle IWP Co-Founder, Fiction USA	Rhustom Barucha Dramaturgy, Nonfiction India	Edward Carey Fiction United Kingdom
Lan Samantha Chang Fiction USA	Bei Dao Poetry China	Ferida Durakovic Poetry Bosnia
Ed Folsom Professor of English USA	Helon Habila Fiction, Nonfiction Nigeria	Robin Hemley Nonfiction USA
Ilya Kaminsky Poetry USA/Russia	Eddin Khoo Poetry Translation Malaysia	Marzanna Kielar Poetry Poland
Maksym Kurochkin Playwriting Russia	Roberta Levitow Drama/Theatre USA	Minae Mizumura Fiction Japan
Charles Mulekwa Playwriting Uganda	Charles Simic Poetry, Essays, Translation USA	Cole Swensen Poetry USA
Downing Thomas Dean, International Programs USA	Etienne van Heerden Fiction South Africa	Eliot Weinberger Non-fiction, Translation USA

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...and the winner of Argentine’s 2023 Premio de novela Sara Gallardo is Derroche [Waste] by Maria Sonia Cristoff.
Yamila Bêgné and María Sonia Cristoff are among the finalists for the 2023 Premio Nacional de Novela Sara Gallardo, awarded by Argentine’s Ministry of Culture.
On the just-out longlist of the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature are Khaled Khalifa’s No One Prayed Over Their Graves (trs. Leri Price, from the Arabic) and Pilar Quintana’s Abyss (trs. Lisa Dillman, from the Spanish).
A giant of Indian English poetry, the author, translator, and scholar Jayanta Mahapatra, passed away on August 27, 2023. Here is a lovely interview with him by poet Sridala Swami.
Featured in Interlink’s “Celebrating Women in Translation Month”: novels in translation by alum and colleague Iman Humaydan and “the Virginia Wolf of Palestinian literature” Sahar Khalifeh.