IWP News

Word has just reached us of the sudden death, in his hometown Gdańsk, of the novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright Paweł Huelle. RIP.
“I regret that poems can’t serve as witnesses in military tribunals; they can only testify in the court of history,” writes Iya Kiva in an essay for the project “War Is… Ukrainian Writers on Living Through Catastrophe.”
Congratulations to novelists Mansoura Ez-Eldin and Taleb Al-Refai for placing on the 2023 finalist list of the prestigious Prix de la littérature arabe.
Samuel Kolawole’s first novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, is announced for a July 2024 release.
On the 2023 longlist for the Sheikh Zayed Prize (Children’s Literature) is Estabraq Ahmad.
A recent essay appeared on Scroll.in about the distinguished poet Jayanta Mahapatra as a reader.
One of the two 2023-4 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature has been awarded to our UI colleague, Associate Professor Kendall Heitzman, for his translation of the story collection Nails and Eyes by IWP alum Kaori Fujino. Congratulations to both!
Halloween is the release day of Edward Carey’s stage-and-gore novel Edith Holler.
An interview with alum Ma Thida in her role as the current Chair of the PEN Writers in Prison Committee has appeared on The First Person Substack.
Amazingly, Pilar Quintana aces yet another National Book Award spot—this time as a 2023 Translated Literature finalist, for The Abyss, translated by Lisa Dillman.

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Word has just reached us of the sudden death, in his hometown Gdańsk, of the novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright Paweł Huelle. RIP.
“I regret that poems can’t serve as witnesses in military tribunals; they can only testify in the court of history,” writes Iya Kiva in an essay for the project “War Is… Ukrainian Writers on Living Through Catastrophe.”
Congratulations to novelists Mansoura Ez-Eldin and Taleb Al-Refai for placing on the 2023 finalist list of the prestigious Prix de la littérature arabe.
Samuel Kolawole’s first novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, is announced for a July 2024 release.
On the 2023 longlist for the Sheikh Zayed Prize (Children’s Literature) is Estabraq Ahmad.