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.
In the wake of a finalist position in 2020 in the US National Book Award competition, Pilar QUINTANA’s winning streak continues, with her novel Los abismos receiving the distinguished El Alfaguara prize for 2021.
IWP mourns the untimely passing of our friend and alumna CHOI Jeongrye 최정례 (South Korea, ’06), a poet of remarkable imagination and sensitivity, celebrated at home and in translation.
A cornucopia of IWP alumni whose books will be published in English translation in 2021 appears in NYTimes’ “SneakPreview--Globetrotting” section. Featured are Magda CÂRNECI, Slavenka DRAKULIĆ, Mortada GZAR, Ewa LIPSKA, Minae MIZUMURA, Pola OLOIXARAC, Yaara SHEHORI, Véronique TADJO and Jeremy TIANG (as translator).
On NYTimes’ ‘Best of 2020’ is Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to Her Son, the first translated work by novelist and activist Homeira QADERI (’13).
On the occasion of the release of her most recent film, They Planted Strange Trees, documenting the lives of an extended Christian Arab family in the Galilee, a long interview with Hind SHOUFANI (’11) appears in Middle East Monitor (MEMO).
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