Over on Asymptote, in English and Cantonese, the long poem " The Man Who Lost His Shadow," by Hong Kong poet and editor Stuart LAU (IWP '17).
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On fish-paste English and cheddar-English: a long interview at LARB (Los Angeles Review of Books) about language, politics, and language politics with Burmese poet and worker KO KO THETT (IWP '16).
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Behind the 2018+ 2019 Nobel Prizes for Literature given to novelists Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk are translators--one key among them Jennifer CROFT, novelist as well as translator from the Polish, Ukrainian, and Spanish. Congratulations!
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"Resisting English": at NYRB, Adam Kirsch reviews three decades of the translated work of the Japanese novelist and essayist Minae MIZUMURA (IWP '03).
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Just out in Beirut, the intriguingly titled ['Laughter as Destructive History'] by the Iraqi poet, translator, and editor Soheil NAJM (IWP '07).
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Death is Hard Work, the fifth title of the Syrian novelist Khaled KHALIFA (IWP '07), published by FSG in Leri Price's translation, is on the long list of the 2019 National Book Awards, in the Translated Literature category.
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In the travel journal Off Assignment, journalist and novelist Milagros SOCORRO (Venezuela, IWP '12) recalls a snowy day in Iowa City, and one woman's special gesture.
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A powerful opinion piece in NYTimes on the Dalits' role in India's upcoming elections by activist and novelist Meena KANDASAMY ('09).
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Yvonne Adhiambo OUWUOR's new novel Dragonfly Sea is reviewed in NYTimes. Ouwuor, a 2005 and 2017 IWP alumna, is the author, previously, of the epic Dust.
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Congratulations to novelist and essayist Beaudelaine PIERRE (IWP '07) for making the final list in the Many Voices 2018 competition at New Rivers Press.
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