The Iowa City Book Festival is organized by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature. Iowa City is one of six Cities of Literature in the world, and the festival celebrates books and writing, bringing together the writers, readers, and institutions that helped to earn that designation.
The Guardian covers the debut novel Ponti by Sharlene TEO (IWP '17).
Asako I & II, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's film based on a novel by SHIBASAKI Tomoka (IWP '16) will be competing in this year's Cannes film festival.
On 3/23/18 the poet, journalist, and activist Harris KHALIQUE (IWP '15) received the prestigious Award for Pride of Performance for poetry from the President of Pakistan.
X, a radio play inspired by the young Malcolm X's visit to Uganda, which IWP's Senior Advisor Peter Nazareth wrote in early 1960s for BBC, has just re-appeared in the February 2018 issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal.
The Israeli novelist Galit CARLIBACH (IWP '16) has just published the comic novella It's Me, Iowa !, set in a world suspiciously resembling the IWP...
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