IWP News

The Library Foundation of Los Angeles recently hosted a trilingual reading and discussion of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" featuring Christopher MERRILL, Luis Alberto AMBROGGIO, Sholeh WOLPÉ, and Sahba MOTALLEBI.
Suchen Christine LIM's The River's Song has been awarded a Blue Star from Kirkus Reviews.
The Sound of the Sundial by Hana ANDRONIKOVA (IWP '07) is now available in English.
Paddy WOODWORTH (IWP '03) remembers his time as a Fall Resident in a new piece from The Irish Times.
The Asahi Shimbun remembers Japanese poet Hiroshi OSADA (IWP '71), who passed away on May 3, 2015.
Kyoko NAKAJIMA's (IWP '09) Katazuno has won the Kawai Hayao “Monogatari” Story Prize.
IWP alumni Mircea Cartarescu ('90), Maria Sonia Cristoff ('11), Helon Habila ('04) and H.M. Naqvi ('10) will be featured participants of this year's Internationales Literaturfestival, held in Berlin in September.
Luisa VALENZUELA (IWP '69) and Carlos GAMERRO (IWP '08) are heading the relaunched Argentinian Centre of PEN International.
The shortlist for the 2015 Chautauqua Prize includes Bilal TANWEER's (IWP '12) "The Scatter Here is Too Great."
The Playwright's Purpose, by Motti LERNER (IWP '00), is now available for purchase on Lulu.com.

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ko ko thett is the co-editor of Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring, a new collection of “witness essays and poems from Burma/Myanmar 1988-2021.”
Bejan MATUR and Vivek SHANBHAG are participating in the newly reopened Civitella Ranieri arts residency in Umbria (Italy).
Translator, scholar, poet, writer Edmund “Mike” KEELEY, who at UI devised the very first translation workshop, died at his home in Princeton. RIP.
Rave reviews for The Night, Rodrigo BLANCO CALDERÓN’s first translation into English.
A WWB interview with Kristian Sendon CORDERO on literary entrepreneurship in the Philippines, on translating “major” lit into “minor” languages, and on Prairie Lights Books as inspiration.