Iowa City Book Festival Presentations

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.

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Among the 2020 finalists for the distinguished Neustadt International Prize for Literature are two IWP alumni: Sahar KHALIFEH (Palestinian Territories, IWP ’78) and Eduardo HALFÓN (Guatemala/USA; US Study Tours ’11). Congratulations!
On the shortlist of ALTA’s National Translation Award for 2020 (prose) is God’s Wife by Amanda MICHALOPOULOU (IWP ’19), translated from the Greek by Patricia Felisa Barbeito.
On 10/15/2020, the Al Quds/Jerusalem-based Palestinian poet Najwan DARWISH (IWP ‘10) and his translator will be launching Najwan’s new English-language collection, Embrace. (Registration for the Zoom event and a small fee required.)
Nine contemporary American stories were rendered into Russian by a collective of young Kazakhstani translators, working with editor Yuriy SEREBRIANSKY (IWP ’17) at the Translation Laboratory, hosted by American Space & Makerspace Almaty.
High as the Waters Rise, the English translation of the award-winning debut novel of the German poet Anja KAMPMANN (IWP’ 10) covers 'the fallout of capitalism’s dependence on oil' ‘in rich imagery and exquisite language.’ Watch her and her translator in conversation on Tues 9/29/20, 5pm CST.

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