Excerpts from the forthcoming volume of poems Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan DARWISH, in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation from the Arabic and superbly introduced, can be read at The Paris Review blog.
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Read and watch a lovely remembrance of Marvin BELL, Iowa’s first Poet Laureate, devoted friend of IWP, a mensch.
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One of the four 2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Big Other magazine, recognizing “innovative writers who shape the conversation about literary art, about language, form, structure, style,” goes to the distinguished Chinese novelist Can Xue 残雪.
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Fiction writer and journalist THAWDA Aye Lei forwards a call for solidarity and protest by 125 independent Myanma writers against the military’s overthrow on 2/1/21, of a democratically elected government and the subsequent massive detentions. A call for release of those detained and for a reinstatement of Myanmar's democratically elected government has also been issued by PEN International.
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For her novel Liebe um Liebe, Dragica RAJČIĆ is among this year's recipients of the significant Schweitzer Literaturpreis.
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The PEN America Literary Grants for 2021 have been awarded: among them, to Natascha Bruce for Owlish and the Music-Box Ballerina, her translation, from the Chinese, of a novel by Dorothy TSE. A honorary shout-out also to IWP friend Ekaterina PETROVA, the recipient of a grant for her translation, from the Bulgarian, of a novel by Jana Boukova.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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