Among the winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction: “The Mad People of Paris” by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
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The special portfolio of Kuwaiti literature in The Common's #25 includes “The Kitchen” by Estabraq Ahmad.
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On his delicious Substack, Etgar Keret cooks up an alphabet soup of fiction, commentary, and video & audio clips.
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Ajit Baral, Daisy Rockwell, and Aron Aji are among the board members of SALT, a new initiative at the University of Chicago “to promote English-language translation of literature written in the languages of South Asia.”
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On the lively Café Dissensus blog, Umar Timol writes about “reading Camus at 18 and 52.”
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We mourn the passing of the distinguished Yugoslav novelist, essayist, and thinker Dubravka Ugrešić, the recipient, among many other honors, of the 2016 Neustadt Prize. It has been a point of pride for us to say that we have hosted her. Rest in peace.
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Between 4/4-13, 2023, Mircea Cărtărescu will tour the US to read from his novel Solenoid, in Sean Cotter’s translation.
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On the list for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction, open to “any woman writing in English, regardless of nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter…for a full-length novel published in the UK between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023,” is IWP‘s longstanding colleague Jennifer Croft.
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The just-out March 2023 issue of World Literature Today features pieces on or by alumni Adisa Bašić, Tanure Ojaide, Orhan Pamuk, Alexander Skidan, and Buket Uzuner.
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Among its 30 top bestsellers for January 2023, Beijing’s Open Book list features four titles by Yu Hua, and one each by Mo Yan, Chi Zijian, and Feng Jicai.
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