IWP News

Bernice CHAULY (IWP '14) is featured in the latest issue of Esquire Malaysia.
Motti LERNER's (IWP '00) Hard Love is opening at the Beckett Theatre in NYC on September 29.
Karim ALRAWI's (IWP '13) Book of Sands, winner of the inaugural HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, has been reviewed by the Toronto Star.
S. DIWAKAR's (IWP '02) Hundreds of Streets to the Palace of Lights: Short Stories is now available
"Literature: Better Than Politics at Fostering Cultural Understanding" via Iowa Public Radio.
Three IWP alumni are among the five recipients of the 2015 Mao Dun Prize, China's most prestigious literary award: Wang Meng (IWP '80), Su Tong (IWP '01) and Bi Feiyu (IWP '06).
Over at Guernica Amanda Lee KOE (IWP '13) assesses the foundations, and prospects of her native Singapore @50.
Two poems by Natasha TINIACOS (IWP '14), translated from the Spanish by Kelsi Vanada, appear in the most recent issue of Berfrois.
Yvonne Owour ADHIAMBO's (IWP '05) Dust has been shortlisted for the Financial Times/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards.
Jeremy TIANG (IWP '11) received a NEA grant for translation of fellow alum LO Yichin (IWP '07). Another NEA grant goes to UI colleague Aron AJI. Congratulations.

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ko ko thett is the co-editor of Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring, a new collection of “witness essays and poems from Burma/Myanmar 1988-2021.”
Bejan MATUR and Vivek SHANBHAG are participating in the newly reopened Civitella Ranieri arts residency in Umbria (Italy).
Translator, scholar, poet, writer Edmund “Mike” KEELEY, who at UI devised the very first translation workshop, died at his home in Princeton. RIP.
Rave reviews for The Night, Rodrigo BLANCO CALDERÓN’s first translation into English.
A WWB interview with Kristian Sendon CORDERO on literary entrepreneurship in the Philippines, on translating “major” lit into “minor” languages, and on Prairie Lights Books as inspiration.