IWP News

Novelist Jana Beňová (IWP ‘12), the 2012 recipient of the European Union Independent Publishers’ Award from Slovakia, talks about her work, and about her time at the IWP.
The Venezuelan journalist and novelist Milagros Socorro (IWP '12) has a few words to say (in Spanish) about her time in Iowa City.
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!

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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.