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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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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