A giant of Indian English poetry, the author, translator, and scholar Jayanta Mahapatra, passed away on August 27, 2023. Here is a lovely interview with him by poet Sridala Swami.
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Featured in Interlink’s “Celebrating Women in Translation Month”: novels in translation by alum and colleague Iman Humaydan and “the Virginia Wolf of Palestinian literature” Sahar Khalifeh.
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“Disrupting Home” is the 2023 theme of the upcoming Nairobi-based Macombo Literary Festival, co-organized by Yvonne Adhiambo Ouwuor.
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“Quiet Night” by Fujino Kaori, translated from the Japanese by Heather D. Davis, appears in the most recent Guernica.
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Poet and scholar Mohammad Rafiq died unexpectedly in Bangladesh. Some of his poems were essential reading among those resisting the 1980s military dictatorship. R.I.P.
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After last year’s Booker winner from IWP ranks, the longlist for the 2023 Booker includes the distinguished Irish novelist Sebastian Barry.
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The directorial debut of Luiza Fazio is now up on YouTube.
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The distinguished Kosovo-born Serbian/Canadian/Jewish novelist and translator David Albahari died in Belgrade on 7/30/2023. R.I.P.
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We regret the passing of professor Kole Omotoso, among the early IWP participants from Africa, described in one obit as “writer, scholar, and pop culture icon. “
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In Khaled Khalifa’s latest novel, No One Prayed Over Their Graves , Aleppo as it once was emerges from under the rubble of a century of disasters, natural and man-made..
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