IWP News

Reading Tour alum Felix DE LA CONCHA was comissioned by the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Poet and Whitman translator Sholeh WOLPÉ gives a shoutout to the volume Seven New Generation African Poets, featuring among others T J Dema (IWP '12).
Sholeh WOLPÉ writes on translating "Song of Myself" into Persian for the WhitmanWeb.
Sukrita KUMAR (IWP '02) writes in The Hindi about the Sufi poet Khusrau and the rich history of mutual influences between Muslim and Hindu cultures.
Adil JUSSAWALLA's (IWP '77) Trying to Say Goodbye is among eight books of poetry that won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2014.
"Has It Been a Good Year for Turkish Literature Lovers?" asks Today's Zaman, and answers in the affirmative. On its list are IWP alumnae Buket UZUNER (IWP '96) and Maureen FREELY (IWP'14).
Fabienne KANOR (IWP '11) is the 2014 recipient of the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe et du Tout-Monde (awarded this year in Havana) for her novel Faire l'aventure.
Mani RAO's (IWP '05 and '09) New and Selected Poems is now available from Poetrywala.
Christopher MERRILL remembering Tomaž ŠALAMUN (IWP '70) via Huffington Post.
Book Wings 2015 will feature a collaboration between theatres in Iowa City and Cape Town, South Africa.

Upcoming Events

A fall harvest of book reviews coming in: of The Others by Sarah BLAU (translated from the Hebrew by Daniella Zamir); of LO Yi-Chin’s Farewell, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy TIANG; of Véronique TADJO’s In the Company of Men…
A fascinating interview with IWP’s Senior Advisor, professor Peter Nazareth, retired from UI’s English Department in spring 2021, after nearly five decades of teaching.
Word reaches us that poet HU Xudong 胡续冬, who also taught comparative and world literatures at Peking University (Beida), specializing in Latin American literatures, passed away unexpectedly. RIP, Hu Xudong…
We note with sadness the passing of Hiroshi SAKAGAMI 坂上弘, whose long novelistic career garnered him major literary and cultural honors. A former president of the Japan Writers’ Association, he was until his retirement also the director of Keio University Press.
The poetic documentary Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores, written and co-produced by Takako ARAI and creatively subtitled into English by a class of UI students of Japanese, will be screened at the prestigious Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, on-line 10/7-14/2021.