Among the newly inducted fellows of the Royal Society of Literature are alums Lorna Goodison and Han Kang, as well as IWP’s 2023 Ida Beam honoree Yiyun Li.
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In the most recent LARB, a thoughtful posthumous review appears of Hana Andronikova’s small but significant body of work.
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Just completed: “Sense of Belonging,” a bilingual Iowa City + Paris-based podcast series commissioned by Walid Rachedi and produced by NFW grad students in both cities, with support of the US Embassy in Paris.
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Word has just reached us of the sudden death, in his hometown Gdańsk, of the novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright Paweł Huelle. RIP.
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Congratulations to novelists Mansoura Ez-Eldin and Taleb Al-Refai for placing on the 2023 finalist list of the prestigious Prix de la littérature arabe. -
Samuel Kolawole’s first novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, is announced for a July 2024 release.
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On the 2023 longlist for the Sheikh Zayed Prize (Children’s Literature) is Estabraq Ahmad.
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A recent essay appeared on Scroll.in about the distinguished poet Jayanta Mahapatra as a reader.
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One of the two 2023-4 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature has been awarded to our UI colleague, Associate Professor Kendall Heitzman, for his translation of the story collection Nails and Eyes by IWP alum Kaori Fujino. Congratulations to both!
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