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.
We are delighted to note that Sridala SWAMI’s new poetry collection, Run for the Shadows, appeared in late December 2021.
We are delighted to see several IWP alumni on the just-out 2022 PEN America Literary Awards longlists, whether as translators—Jeremy TIANG, Piotr SOMMER—or as authors: Alejandra COSTAMAGNA, Najwan DARWISH, Mortada GZAR, LO Yi-Chin, Marie SILKEBERG.
In Jeune Afrique, Umar TIMOL discusses biases inherent in recent literary prizes awarded to African writers.
Among the twelve distinguished inaugural honorees of the International Writers programme, established in 2021 by the Royal Society of Literature to “recognise the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English,” is Dubravka UGREŠIĆ.
An enthusiastic review in NYTimes of In Case of Emergency, newly translated, by the Iranian novelist Mahsa MOHEBALI.
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