Poet and scholar Mohammad Rafiq died unexpectedly in Bangladesh. Some of his poems were essential reading among those resisting the 1980s military dictatorship. R.I.P.
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After last year’s Booker winner from IWP ranks, the longlist for the 2023 Booker includes the distinguished Irish novelist Sebastian Barry.
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The directorial debut of Luiza Fazio is now up on YouTube.
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The distinguished Kosovo-born Serbian/Canadian/Jewish novelist and translator David Albahari died in Belgrade on 7/30/2023. R.I.P.
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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. “
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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..
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Among the openers announced for the 2023 Berlin Literaturfestival is 2022 Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka.
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She Is the Earth, Ali Cobby Eckermann’s “verse novel,” is just out from Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation.
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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.
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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.
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