The Legend in My Heart (2016), a feature-length documentary directed by Kaitlyn Busbee, with an original score by David Gompper, which covers IWP’s 2014 tour to China to work with differently-abled communities, won the “Best Student Feature Film” award at the 2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival.
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The award-winning Malaysian journalist, editor and writer Rehman RASHID (IWP '01) passed away on June 3rd, 2017, in Kuala Lumpur. R.I.P.
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Samuel Kolawole (IWP '15) receives first-ever VCFA Emerging Writer Scholarship for the MFA in Writing and Publishing program.
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Australian poet Ali Cobby ECKERMANN (IWP '14) has been named a recepient of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.
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A rememberance of Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) by Peter NAZARETH (IWP '73), professor of English and Senior Advisor to the IWP can be found here.
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Poet, translator, editor, academic, and member of IWP's Advisory Board, Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) passed away on 2/19/17 in Iowa City after a long illness. He embodied a connection to the best of Iraq's long literary and political history.
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The third novel of Peter KIMANI (IWP '07), Dance of the Jakaranda, is just out from Akashic Press, to fine reviews.
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Jayanta MAHAPATRA (IWP '76) received the distinguished Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry at the 2017 Jaipur Literary Festival. Among finalists was also Joy GOSWAMI (IWP '01); among jurors was Sukrita PAUL KUMAR (IWP '02).
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No Knives in the Kitchens of this City by Khaled Khalifa (IWP'07), detailing the run-up to Syria's hellish civil war, is reviewed in the New York Times.
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For his comic novel Raden Mandasia Si Pencuri Daging Sapi [Raden Mandasia the Beef Thief] Yusi Aveanto PAREANOM (IWP '16) received the 2016 Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Best Indonesian Prose award. An extract of the novel was translated into English by the author together with Laura Moser in IWP's International Translation Workshop.
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