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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IWP alums and friends at the 2023 PEN World Voices Festival: Han Kang, Jennifer Croft, Jennifer Shyue.
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Work by our recent colleague Lyuba Yakimchuk is included in the collection In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine, to appear from Arrowsmith Press in spring 2023.
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Among the 2024 jurors for the prestigious Neustadt Award are IWP alum Fabienne Kanor, the program’s friends and collaborators Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Sholeh Wolpé and our colleague, the poet Romeo Oriogun.
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