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The Cedar Rapids Gazette previews Global Express, a collaborative theatre event between the UI Theatre Department and the IWP.
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Mohib ZEGHAM (IWP '12) has just published his 3rd novel, titled [The Sadist].
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Verena TAY's (IWP '07) flash fiction piece Verdict was published in the Junoesq Literary Journal.
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Sölvi Björn SIGURÐSSON's (IWP '10) novel The Last Days of My Mother is now available.
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Poet and translator Natalie HANDAL (IWP Reading Tour '11) in Guernica on translating the rising star of Palestinian literature Najwan Darwish (IWP '10).
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The literary section of the excellent Caravan magazine, edited by Chandrahas CHOUDHURY (IWP '10), alerts us to a bilingual collection of poetry by Nikola MADZIROV (IWP '08).
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Gerður KRISTNÝ (IWP '14) discusses her upcoming residency in The Reykjavík Grapevine Magazine.
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A thoughtful piece in LARB on cultural gaps between US and Denmark--weapons culture in particular--by Mathilde CLARK (IWP 06).
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The long list for the International Dylan Thomas Prize includes Reading Tour alums Daniel ALARCON and Joshua FERRIS as well as Kei MILLER (IWP '07) and Meena KANDASAMY (IWP '09).
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Niq MHLONGO's (IWP '08) "Goliwood Drama" is listed as a best short story of South Africa’s democracy.
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In the wake of a finalist position in 2020 in the US National Book Award competition, Pilar QUINTANA’s winning streak continues, with her novel Los abismos receiving the distinguished El Alfaguara prize for 2021.
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IWP mourns the untimely passing of our friend and alumna CHOI Jeongrye 최정례 (South Korea, ’06), a poet of remarkable imagination and sensitivity, celebrated at home and in translation.
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A cornucopia of IWP alumni whose books will be published in English translation in 2021 appears in NYTimes’ “SneakPreview--Globetrotting” section. Featured are Magda CÂRNECI, Slavenka DRAKULIĆ, Mortada GZAR, Ewa LIPSKA, Minae MIZUMURA, Pola OLOIXARAC, Yaara SHEHORI, Véronique TADJO and Jeremy TIANG (as translator).
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On NYTimes’ ‘Best of 2020’ is Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to Her Son, the first translated work by novelist and activist Homeira QADERI (’13).
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On the occasion of the release of her most recent film, They Planted Strange Trees, documenting the lives of an extended Christian Arab family in the Galilee, a long interview with Hind SHOUFANI (’11) appears in Middle East Monitor (MEMO).
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