IWP News

Blogger and "Youth Hero" Nay Phone Latt (IWP '12, Burma) profiled in Sampsonia Way.
Orhan Pamuk (IWP '85, Turkey) and Kim Young-ha (IWP '03, South Korea) longlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize!
Poet, essayist and activist Meena Kandasamy (IWP '09) is the lead-off quote in a recent Atlantic piece about the complexity of gender politics in India's social media.
On October 25th IWP has launched the WhitmanWeb, a multilingual, multimedia gallery featuring Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' in 9 languages.
Congratulations to Mo Yan (IWP '04, China), the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature!
Check out some highlights from Between the Lines 2012!
The first half of the Life of Discovery 2012 exchange between the IWP and the China Writers' Association has come to a close. The second half of the program will take place in the U.S. this fall.
The IWP's 2011 Annual Report is now available for viewing as a PDF or SWF file.
The newest release from 91st Meridian Books: How to Write an Earthquake, a trilingual French-Creole-English e-anthology of poetry and prose responding to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
The Norwegian Writers' Association has awarded its 2011 free expression award to Ma Thida (IWP 2005). She is its first-ever recipient from Burma.

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Just completed: “Sense of Belonging,” a bilingual Iowa City + Paris-based podcast series commissioned by Walid Rachedi and produced by NFW grad students in both cities, with support of the US Embassy in Paris.
Word has just reached us of the sudden death, in his hometown Gdańsk, of the novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright Paweł Huelle. RIP.
“I regret that poems can’t serve as witnesses in military tribunals; they can only testify in the court of history,” writes Iya Kiva in an essay for the project “War Is… Ukrainian Writers on Living Through Catastrophe.”
Congratulations to novelists Mansoura Ez-Eldin and Taleb Al-Refai for placing on the 2023 finalist list of the prestigious Prix de la littérature arabe.
Samuel Kolawole’s first novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, is announced for a July 2024 release.