Among Financial Times’ ‘25 Most Influential Women of 2023’ is the Nigerian novelist, poet, and festival organizer Lola Shoneyin.
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The Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish: “We Can’t Begin to Comprehend the Loss of Art.”
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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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