With equal measure of grief and ire we are receiving the news that, on 7/1/23, our colleague Victoria Amelina died from the injuries sustained in a Russian missile attack on civilians in the city of Kramatorsk. May the earth be light for her.
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Our colleague, the Ukrainian novelist and human rights activist Victoria Amelina, is hospitalized with critical injuries sustained in the recent Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk.
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Open Letters has just published a new edition of the best stories by the recently deceased but still the funniest of all IWP alums, Dubravka Ugrešić.
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A cornucopia of IWP alums on WordsWithoutBorders’ June 2023 list of noteworthy new titles in translation: Giovanna Rivero’s debut novel Fresh Dirt from the Grave; Owlish, by Hong Konger Dorothy Tse, and Xu Zechen’s Beijing Sprawl, co-translated by Jeremy Tiang.
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A fine (and expertly translated) interview with the distinguished poet Ra Heeduk in Korean Literature Now.
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At Canada’s 2023 Atlantic Book Awards, the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award went to El Jones for Abolitionist Intimacies, her cross-genre book about the movement to abolish prisons.
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David Anuar’s translations into Spanish of twelve poets from the 2022 residency appear in Iowa Literaria #5.
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A re-published, still superb! interview about Pinocchio, fatherhood, and exclamation marks with Edward Carey in the May 2023 issue of Ploughshares.
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An excerpt from Laksmi Pamuntjak’s novel Anna dan Partner Anaknya, in Bahasa + English translation, appears in the most recent issue of Words Without Borders.
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Two new books, in Afrikaans, by Tom Dreyer: the 2022 story collection Kodachrome and the 2023 poetry collection Nou in Infrarooi (2023).
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