IWP News

Poet Jayanta Mahapatra (IWP '76, India) on reading, writing, and what keeps him going.
A poetry reading and Q&A with the deaf community was part of Chris Merrill's recent visit in Kuwait.
Blogger and "Youth Hero" Nay Phone Latt (IWP '12, Burma) profiled in Sampsonia Way.
Orhan Pamuk (IWP '85, Turkey) and Kim Young-ha (IWP '03, South Korea) longlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize!
Poet, essayist and activist Meena Kandasamy (IWP '09) is the lead-off quote in a recent Atlantic piece about the complexity of gender politics in India's social media.
On October 25th IWP has launched the WhitmanWeb, a multilingual, multimedia gallery featuring Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' in 9 languages.
Congratulations to Mo Yan (IWP '04, China), the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature!
Check out some highlights from Between the Lines 2012!
The first half of the Life of Discovery 2012 exchange between the IWP and the China Writers' Association has come to a close. The second half of the program will take place in the U.S. this fall.
The IWP's 2011 Annual Report is now available for viewing as a PDF or SWF file.

Upcoming Events

Najwan Darwish’s “A Violet Darkness” in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation from the Arabic, is the Poem-a Day for 9/19/24.
Among the 2024 recipients of the Premio Argentores, given for “the best of the previous year’s authorial production” is Cynthia Edul, for her documentary play “El punto de costura.”
In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.
Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.
An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.