IWP News

The Cedar Rapids Gazette previews Global Express, a collaborative theatre event between the UI Theatre Department and the IWP.
Mohib ZEGHAM (IWP '12) has just published his 3rd novel, titled [The Sadist].
Verena TAY's (IWP '07) flash fiction piece Verdict was published in the Junoesq Literary Journal.
Sölvi Björn SIGURÐSSON's (IWP '10) novel The Last Days of My Mother is now available.
Poet and translator Natalie HANDAL (IWP Reading Tour '11) in Guernica on translating the rising star of Palestinian literature Najwan Darwish (IWP '10).
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).
Gerður KRISTNÝ (IWP '14) discusses her upcoming residency in The Reykjavík Grapevine Magazine.
A thoughtful piece in LARB on cultural gaps between US and Denmark--weapons culture in particular--by Mathilde CLARK (IWP 06).
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).