On behalf of women in Afghanistan, and despite their grim situation, Homeira QADERI rejects a defeatist stance.
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Fantasy writer and feminist, the “queen of Argentine sci-fi” Angélica GORODISCHER has moved on to a higher plane.
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On the longlist for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, we note the names of IWP alums and colleagues KIM Soom, Meena KANDASAMY, Pilar QUINTANA and Russell VALENTINO.
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We are pleased to note that Sridala SWAMI’s new poetry collection, Run for the Shadows, appeared in late December 2021.
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Several IWP alumni appear on the just-out 2022 PEN America Literary Awards longlists, whether as translators—Jeremy TIANG, Piotr SOMMER—or as authors: Alejandra COSTAMAGNA, Najwan DARWISH, Mortada GZAR, LO Yi-Chin, Marie SILKEBERG.
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In Jeune Afrique, Umar TIMOL discusses biases inherent in recent literary prizes awarded to African writers.
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Among the twelve distinguished inaugural honorees of the International Writers programme, established in 2021 by the Royal Society of Literature to “recognise the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English,” is Dubravka UGREŠIĆ.
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An enthusiastic review in NYTimes of In Case of Emergency, newly translated, by the Iranian novelist Mahsa MOHEBALI.
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Meena KANDASAMY speaks about reading & translating the writings of Tamil Eelam’s women fighters, and about braiding feminism and decolonialization across genres, media, and continents (including Iowa).
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To mark PEN International’s centennial, Words Without Borders has published a sampler of works by writers committed to freedom of expression. Algerian novelist and scholar Med MAGANI is among them.
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