We regret the passing of professor Kole Omotoso, among the early IWP participants from Africa, described in one obit as “writer, scholar, and pop culture icon. “
We regret the passing of professor Kole Omotoso, among the early IWP participants from Africa, described in one obit as “writer, scholar, and pop culture icon. “
In Khaled Khalifa’s latest novel, No One Prayed Over Their Graves , Aleppo as it once was emerges from under the rubble of a century of disasters, natural and man-made..
Among the openers announced for the 2023 Berlin Literaturfestival is 2022 Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka.
She Is the Earth, Ali Cobby Eckermann’s “verse novel,” is just out from Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation.
With equal measure of grief and ire we are receiving the news that, on 7/1/23, our colleague Victoria Amelina died from the injuries sustained in a Russian missile attack on civilians in the city of Kramatorsk. May the earth be light for her.
Our colleague, the Ukrainian novelist and human rights activist Victoria Amelina, is hospitalized with critical injuries sustained in the recent Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk.
Open Letters has just published a new edition of the best stories by the recently deceased but still the funniest of all IWP alums, Dubravka Ugrešić.
A cornucopia of IWP alums on WordsWithoutBorders’ June 2023 list of noteworthy new titles in translation: Giovanna Rivero’s debut novel Fresh Dirt from the Grave; Owlish, by Hong Konger Dorothy Tse, and Xu Zechen’s Beijing Sprawl, co-translated by Jeremy Tiang.
A fine (and expertly translated) interview with the distinguished poet Ra Heeduk in Korean Literature Now.
At Canada’s 2023 Atlantic Book Awards, the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award went to El Jones for Abolitionist Intimacies, her cross-genre book about the movement to abolish prisons.
We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.
Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.
Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.
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