IWP News

Pandora ('12), Nu Nu YEE ('00), and Thida MA ('05) among nominees for 50 outstanding women of Myanmar.
IWP reading tour participant Natasha TRETHEWEY appointed to a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate.
The IWP's 2012 Annual Report is now available for viewing as a PDF file.
Narlan MATOS Teixeira's new book, Elegy to the New World, nominated for the Portugal/Telecom International Award.
Maxim AMELIN (IWP Visitor '09, Russia) receives Alexander Solzhenitsyn Award for his poetic experiments and his role as an educator.
A Q&A about MO Yan's post-Nobel publications and publicity with translator Howard Goldblatt.
A compact but strong survey of the novels of KIM Young-ha (IWP '05, South Korea) appears in L. A. Review of Books.
Jen SILVERMAN (IWP Life of Discovery writer) awarded 2013 Yale Drama Series Prize.
Carlos GAMERRO (IWP '08, Argentina) wins 2013 English PEN grant for translation
IWP director Christopher MERRILL talks to IPR about travel and poetry in the Middle East.

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A lively talk with poet, journalist, translator, and now award-winning Indonesian novelist Laksmi Pamuntjak (IWP '06) at the 2018 Frankfurter Buchmesse.
A rich review in The Hindu of Samay Ki Kasak , the recent Hindi translation of poet, translator, editor and painter Sukrita Paul Kumar's (IWP '02) most recent poetry collection.
Оскорбленные чувства ['Feelings that offend'], the most recent novel of IWP alumna Alisa GANIEVA (IWP '12, '18), was launched in Moscow this summer. Alisa, who is among the 2018 jury members for the distinguished Neustadt Prize for International Literature, will be returning to Iowa this fall as a visiting writer at Grinnell College.
Over on the NYRB Daily blog, Panashe CHIGUMADZI (IWP '17) asks "Whatever's Happening to Interracial Love?"
At a recent TED_X talk, Bina SHAH (IWP '11) explains "Why Pakistan Needs Feminism."