IWP News

Whiti HEREAKA's (IWP '13) novel Bugs received an honor award from the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
Bina SHAH ('11) discusses her experience as a fall resident in this new video.
John BANVILLE (IWP ‘80) is the first Irish author to win the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.
Taleb AL REFAI (IWP '12) shares his experience teaching creative writing at the American University of Kuwait, based on a U.S. curriculum, in Al-Jarida.
Bina SHAH's (IWP '11) "Pakistan Unveiled" column in Sampsonia Way receives Golden Quill Award for "Best Continuing Blog Series."
Kyoko YOSHIDA's (IWP '05) very funny short story collection, Disorientalism, will be launched at the 2014 Sidney Book Festival.
Josephine ROWE (IWP '11, Australia) awarded 2014-2016 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
The Debaters, a play by Chris MLALAZI (IWP '12) about a hypothetical presidential debate in an unnamed African country, just went into rehearsal in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Billy Karanja KAHORA (IWP '10, Kenya), shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing.
The distinguished Romanian poet and translator Nina CASSIAN (IWP '86) died in New York, where she had sought political asylum in 1985.

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Between July 18 and July 25, the 2020 digital iteration of the Cathay Arts Festival will include free access to two dance performances by Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, one of them the career retrospective of its founder, the poet, dancer, and choreographer LIN Hwai-min (IWP’70).
Etgar KERET (IWP ‘01) is among the thirty international storytellers commissioned for New York Times’ extravagantly designed “COVID Decameron” issue.
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, the first English-language international pandemic anthology, features writing by IWP alumni Eavan BOLAND (’79), Eduardo HALFÓN (’11), Shenaz PATEL (’16) and Gábor SZÁNTÓ (’03), among many other colleagues.
The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, the 8th poetry volume of Ranjit HOSKOTE (IWP ‘ 95), a distinguished poet, essayist, translator, scholar, and curator based in Mumbai, has just come out from Arc Publications (UK).
In the Summer 2020 issue of World Literature Today, Gianni SKARAGAS (IWP '08) writes about returning home to Greece in the time of the pandemic to be "a son to his mother."