A rememberance of Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) by Peter NAZARETH (IWP '73), professor of English and Senior Advisor to the IWP can be found here.
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Poet, translator, editor, academic, and member of IWP's Advisory Board, Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) passed away on 2/19/17 in Iowa City after a long illness. He embodied a connection to the best of Iraq's long literary and political history.
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The third novel of Peter KIMANI (IWP '07), Dance of the Jakaranda, is just out from Akashic Press, to fine reviews.
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Jayanta MAHAPATRA (IWP '76) received the distinguished Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry at the 2017 Jaipur Literary Festival. Among finalists was also Joy GOSWAMI (IWP '01); among jurors was Sukrita PAUL KUMAR (IWP '02).
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No Knives in the Kitchens of this City by Khaled Khalifa (IWP'07), detailing the run-up to Syria's hellish civil war, is reviewed in the New York Times.
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For his comic novel Raden Mandasia Si Pencuri Daging Sapi [Raden Mandasia the Beef Thief] Yusi Aveanto PAREANOM (IWP '16) received the 2016 Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Best Indonesian Prose award. An extract of the novel was translated into English by the author together with Laura Moser in IWP's International Translation Workshop.
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H.M.Naqvi (IWP '10) regrets the sparsity of translators from the Urdu, and points to the great Qurratulain Hyder (IWP '79) as an instance of an Urdu author turning to self-translation to amend this lack.
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A super interview with Ukamaka OLISAKWE (IWP '16) on Iowa Now.
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WANG Anyi (王安忆) (IWP '83) is the 2017 recipient of the distinguished Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.
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In Dhaka Tribune, Wasi AHMED (Bangladesh, IWP '16) has a few things to say about his IWP 2016 cohort.
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