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.
A lively talk with poet, journalist, translator, and now award-winning Indonesian novelist Laksmi Pamuntjak (IWP '06) at the 2018 Frankfurter Buchmesse.
A rich review in The Hindu of Samay Ki Kasak , the recent Hindi translation of poet, translator, editor and painter Sukrita Paul Kumar's (IWP '02) most recent poetry collection.
Оскорбленные чувства ['Feelings that offend'], the most recent novel of IWP alumna Alisa GANIEVA (IWP '12, '18), was launched in Moscow this summer. Alisa, who is among the 2018 jury members for the distinguished Neustadt Prize for International Literature, will be returning to Iowa this fall as a visiting writer at Grinnell College.
At a recent TED_X talk, Bina SHAH (IWP '11) explains "Why Pakistan Needs Feminism."
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