The work of two IWP alumni is on the shortlist for the 2020 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize: the poetry volume Jonahwhale by Ranjit HOSKOTE (IWP '95) and Paper Asylum, a collection of haibuns by Rochelle POTKAR (IWP '15).
The work of two IWP alumni is on the shortlist for the 2020 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize: the poetry volume Jonahwhale by Ranjit HOSKOTE (IWP '95) and Paper Asylum, a collection of haibuns by Rochelle POTKAR (IWP '15).
A thoughtful critical essay about the place of English in the poetry of CHANDRAMOHAN (IWP '18) at Round Table India, a blog "for an informed Ambedkar age."
Read the eloquent tribute to the "linguistic nomad," poet and translator Pierre JORIS (IWP '87), on the occasion of receiving the tri-annual Prix Batty Weber, Luxembourg's national literary award.
Superb reviews for The Play of Dolls, Kunwar Narain's classic 1971 story collection, translated from the Hindi by Apurva Narain and Johnny Vater, recently a research assistant at IWP.
An exhibit about the IWP, co-curated by SHIBASAKI Tomoka (IWP 2016) and TAKIGUCHI Yūshō (IWP 2018) for the Hachinohe Book Center, was recently covered by Japan's most prominent newspaper, the Asahi Shinbun.
On the long-running Indian culture blog The Middle Stage, Chandrahas CHOUDHURY (IWP '10) casts a new light on women and/in books in India's 19th c literary landscape.
"The Rose" by Soukaina HABIBALLAH (IWP'19), translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, graces the front page of Words Without Borders on this Valentine's Day 2019...
A new book of poems, this time in an English translation, by the prolific Ester DISCHEREIT (IWP '17).
Kristian Sendon CORDERO (IWP '17) co-edited a special issue of Words Without Borders on writing in the Philippines. Its range of poetry in the country's many languages includes Filipino work of Genevieve ASENJO (IWP '12).
Muhamed "Nabo" ABDELNABI (Egypt, IWP '13) has been awarded France's 2019 Prix de la littérature arabe for his 2016 novel, published last year in the UK as In the Spider's Room .
Marking May as the “Short Story Month,” Words Without Borders highlights some of its stellar past publications, the Dagestani-Russian novelist Alisa Ganieva’s bitterly comic “A Village Feast” among them.
Ilya Kaminsky’s informed and elegant preface to Kiss the Eyes of Peace, a new selection of Tomaž Šalamun’s poems from 1964-2014, is excerpted on today’s LitHub.
Raoul DeJong, in Jake Goldwasser’s translation, on the literary politics of Surinamese Netherlands, in the most recent issue of Words Without Borders.
The Spring 2024 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review features writing by Kwame Dawes and Géhanne-Amira Khalfallah.
Our congratulations to Fall Residency alumni Sebastian Barry and Mircea Cărtărescu, both of whom appear on this year's Dublin Literary Award shortlist.
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