IWP News

IWP Program Advisor Peter Nazareth (IWP '73, Uganda) cited by former Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki for his "timeless influence" on the world of letters.
IWP's Christopher MERRILL talks to Iowa Public Radio about the 2013 fall residency (interview at 24:45).
Chris MLALAZI (IWP '12) in The Guardian on his most recent novel, set in Zimbabwean politics of the 1980s.
Between the Lines Russia profiled in the St. Petersburg Times.
Chinelo OKPARANTA in Granta on the IWP's recent reading tour in Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan.
In The New Republic, Orhan PAMUK (IWP '85) talks to Pankaj Mishra about Taksim, Erdogan, Turkey, Europe, and his new novel.
2014 NEA translation award recipient George O'Connell on falling for poetry translation at UI.
Anthony MARRA longlisted for The Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.
Laird HUNT on 2012 IWP reading tour of the two Congos at the New York Times Opinionator.
Alisa GANIEVA (2012) and Maya KUCHERSKAYA (2008) nominated for the Russian Booker.

Upcoming Events

The Guardian covers the debut novel Ponti by Sharlene TEO (IWP '17).
Asako I & II, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's film based on a novel by SHIBASAKI Tomoka (IWP '16) will be competing in this year's Cannes film festival.
On 3/23/18 the poet, journalist, and activist Harris KHALIQUE (IWP '15) received the prestigious Award for Pride of Performance for poetry from the President of Pakistan.
X, a radio play inspired by the young Malcolm X's visit to Uganda, which IWP's Senior Advisor Peter Nazareth wrote in early 1960s for BBC, has just re-appeared in the February 2018 issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal.
The Israeli novelist Galit CARLIBACH (IWP '16) has just published the comic novella It's Me, Iowa !, set in a world suspiciously resembling the IWP...