A long interview with Christopher Merrill on cultural diplomacy, IWP, writing, inner life, and much else, in the December 2017 Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Leri Price's English rendering of No Knives in the Kitchen of This City , the 2013 novel by Khaled Khalifa (Syria, IWP '07) is on the 2017 shortlist of The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
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Panashe Chigumadzi (IWP ’17) explores the history of South Africa’s racism involving soap in the New York Review of Books.
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Ali Cobby Eckermann (IWP ’14) discusses her childhood, poetry, and winning the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize.
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Sara Baume (IWP '15) speaks about her lastest work, A Line Made by Walking, which is on the shortlist for the 2017 Goldsmith Prize.
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After Durban is named Africa's first UNESCO City of Literature, ZP Dala (IWP '16), a key leader of Durban's representative committee, discusses how her time in Iowa City encouraged her to take action.
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Etienne Van Heerden (IWP '90) has been shortlisted for Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the 2017 South African Literary Awards (SALA) committee.
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On the long-list for the 2017 Nigeria Prize for Literature are, count'em, four IWP alumni: Seun LARI-WILLIAMS (IWP ' 80 ), Tanure OJAIDE (IWP ' 85 ), Ogaga IFOWODO (IWP ' 00) and Obari GOMBA (IWP '16).
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The work of Can Xue (IWP '92), in particular the recent novels Frontier and Vertical Motion (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping) is surveyed in The New Yorker.
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The Inheritance from Mother, the most recent novel by Minae Mizumura (IWP '04), translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter, is reviewed in N Y Times.
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