The lovely poem-a-day for May 14, 2020, “Journey,” is by the nomadic Lidija DIMKOVSKA (IWP ’05), translated from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Patricia Marsh Štefanovska.
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Over at Harvard Review, poet Mary jo Bang glosses her translations from the German of Matthias Gőritz (IWP ’03).
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Alumni Usha K R (‘11) and Vivek Shanbhag (’16) in conversation earlier this year at the Bangalore International Center about fictional renderings of their hometown.
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On LitNet, novelist and physiotherapist ZP Dala (South Africa, ’16) writes about touching people with her words, and with her hands, in the time of COVID.
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The word is reaching us that the luminous Irish poet Eavan BOLAND (IWP '79, '09) has just died at home in Dublin. May the earth be light for her.
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A wide-ranging NYTimes Opinion piece on the use of pandemics--in novels, in history, and in the now--by Orhan PAMUK (IWP '85).
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Daily life splinters from Berlin by Esther DISCHEREIT (Germany, ’17) are translated into English at LiteraryTranslations2020_cross-language infections.
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In the guise of a book review, a hard-hitting essay in Dawn on authoritarian populisms in Asia, Europe, and the US by Harris KHALIQUE (Pakistan, '15, '19).
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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).
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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."
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