IWP News

IWP Distance Learning instructor Margaret ROSS awarded a 2013-2014 Fulbright Research Grant.
The German poet, fiction writer and scholar Anja KAMPMANN (IWP '10) is the 2013 winner of the MDR literary prize, awarded annually by a jury comprised of literary critics and audiences. Her story "Jsem--Ich werde ihnen erzaehlen," about a nomadic oil rig driller drifting away from his identity and language, was praised for giving "a grand poetic language to a pressing subject matter."
Distance Learning instructor Nick TWEMLOW profiled in Poets & Writers as part of National Poetry Month.
Nihad SIREES (IWP '05, Syria) in NYTimes on the culture of women singers in Aleppo, vanishing under the onslaught of the civil war.
Rodrigo Garcia LOPES (IWP '12, Brazil) has a new CD.
Christopher MERRILL on The New Face of War
A new interview with Etgar KERET (IWP '01, Israel)
Ghassan ZAQTAN (IWP '01, Palestinian Territories) shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize
Josephine ROWE (IWP '11, Australia) longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
4 new poems from Ranjit Hoskote (IWP '95, India) introduced by Chandrahas Choudhury (IWP '10, India).

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Our congratulations to Fall Residency alumni Sebastian Barry and Mircea Cărtărescu, both of whom appear on this year's Dublin Literary Award shortlist.
Jennifer Feeley’s translation of Tongueless, Lau Yee-wa’s thriller sketching Hong Kong’s slide toward linguistic totalitarianism, is forthcoming from Feminist Press.
In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."
Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.
We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.