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On the Map 2021: Interview with Khosiyat RUSTAMOVA, Uzbekistan

On the Map 2021: Interview with Khosiyat RUSTAMOVA, Uzbekistan

Type
Video
Year
2021

Khosiyat RUSTAMOVA (poet, journalist, editor; Uzbekistan) has since the mid-1990s published ten poetry volumes; her poetry has been translated into some 30 languages. She herself translates poetry from the Russian, the Turkish, and the Azerbaijani into...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Fahri ÖZ, Turkey

On the Map 2021: Interview with Fahri ÖZ, Turkey

Type
Video
Year
2021

Fahri ÖZ (translator, scholar, poet; Turkey) has translated into Turkish many British and American 19th and 20th c poets, and is currently bringing into Turkish Walt Whitman’s and Emily Dickinson’s collected works. He is the co-editor of a collection of...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Sarah BLAU, Israel

On the Map 2021: Interview with Sarah BLAU, Israel

Type
Video
Year
2021

Sarah BLAU שהרה בלאו (fiction writer, playwright; Israel) has had her short stories published in many anthologies in Israel and abroad. Among her novels are [The Book of Creation] (2007), [Those Well-Raised Girls] (2012), [Stake] (2014) and The Others...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Edwige DRO, Côte d’Ivoire

On the Map 2021: Interview with Edwige DRO, Côte d’Ivoire

Type
Video
Year
2021

Edwige DRO (translator, activist, writer; Côte d’Ivoire) is a co-founder of the collective Abidjan Lit and the founder of 1949, “a library of women’s writings from Africa and the black world.” She has facilitated, judged, and translated for many writing...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Muthi NHLEMA, Malawi

On the Map 2021: Interview with Muthi NHLEMA, Malawi

Type
Video
Year
2021

Muthi NHLEMA (fiction; Malawi) writes speculative fiction. His novella Ta O’reva was shortlisted for Best Novella at the inaugural 2017 Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction; other work has also won his country's leading literary prize, FMB-MAWU...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Imam BAKSH, Guyana

On the Map 2021: Interview with Imam BAKSH, Guyana

Type
Video
Year
2021

Imam BAKSH (storyteller, children’s book writer, teacher; Guyana) is the author of two award-winning Young Adult novels, The Dark of the Sea and Children of the Spider. His children’s stories, too, have been frequently recognized; he has been a featured...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Diana DEL ÁNGEL, Mexico

On the Map 2021: Interview with Diana DEL ÁNGEL, Mexico

Type
Video
Year
2021

Diana DEL ÁNGEL (fiction writer, journalist, poet, scholar, activist; Mexico) is the author of Vasija [Vessel] (2013), Procesos de la noche [Processes of the night] (2017) and Barranca [Ravine] (2018), as well as of critical writing in print and digital...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Mae YWAY, Myanmar

On the Map 2021: Interview with Mae YWAY, Myanmar

Type
Video
Year
2021

MAE YWAY မယ်ယွေး (poet, scriptwriter, publisher; Myanmar) has been publishing her writing in periodicals and collections since 2010. The first volume of her poetry, [Courier], appeared in 2013; [You & I] appeared in 2016. In 2017, she founded the poetry...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Dominika SŁOWIK, Poland

On the Map 2021: Interview with Dominika SŁOWIK, Poland

Type
Video
Year
2021

Dominika SŁOWIK (fiction writer; Poland) is the author of two novels, Atlas Doppelganger (2015), finalist for the 2016 Gdynia Literary Prize, and Zimowla (2019), which won the national award Paszport Polityki 2020 alongside other honors; Samosiejki, a...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Salha OBAID, UAE

On the Map 2021: Interview with Salha OBAID, UAE

Type
Video
Year
2021

Salha OBAID (fiction; UAE) published her first story collection, [Alzheimer],in 2010; it was followed by [Postman of Happiness] (2012) and [iPad of Life in the Manner of Zorba] (2014); the collection [An Implicitly White Lock of Hair] (2015) won the 2016...

On the Map 2021: Interview with Gabrielė LABANAUSKAITĖ, Lithuania

On the Map 2021: Interview with Gabrielė LABANAUSKAITĖ, Lithuania

Type
Video
Year
2021

Gabrielė LABANAUSKAITĖ (poetry, drama, fiction; Lithuania) teaches drama theory and creative writing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. A “text producer,” she works across media, often in collective forms, also organizing poetry and stage...

Ramon Lim Book Talk: Self and the Phenomenon of Life

Ramon Lim Book Talk: Self and the Phenomenon of Life

Type
Video
Year
2017

A reading by Ramon Lim, M.D., followed by a Q&A, at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa. October 23, 2017. Sponsored by the International Writing Program.

Dr. Raymond Lim and his wife, Dr. Victoria Lim, are long-time supporters of the IWP, in...

On the Map 2017: Panashe CHIGUMADZI

On the Map 2017: Panashe CHIGUMADZI

Type
Video
Year
2017

Panashe CHIGUMADZI (novelist, essayist; South Africa/Zimbabwe) is the author of the novel Sweet Medicine, which won the 2016 K. Sello Duiker Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times,The Guardian, Die Zeit, and elsewhere. A founding...

On the Map 2017: Ramsha ASHRAF

On the Map 2017: Ramsha ASHRAF

Type
Video
Year
2017

Ramsha ASHRAF (poet, playwright; Pakistan) has a collection of poetry, Enmeshed (2015), publishes poems on her blog Escritura 415 and elsewhere, and contributes to literary magazines. At the Foundation University’s Rawalpindi campus she teaches writing...

On the Map 2017: Santiago GIRALT

On the Map 2017: Santiago GIRALT

Type
Video
Year
2017

Santiago GIRALT (playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, fiction writer; Argentina) writes plays, screenplays, and novels, and directs films. In 2017, he was awarded the National Arts Fund Bi-Centennial Grant in Literature. His first novel, [Nelly R, the...

On the Map 2017: Tilottama MAJUMDER

On the Map 2017: Tilottama MAJUMDER

Type
Video
Year
2017

Tilottama MAJUMDER তিলোত্তমা মজুমদার (fiction writer, poet; India) won the Ananda Puroshkar, given for excellence in Bengali literature, for her novel Basudhara (2003); more than ten titles have followed. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into...

On the Map 2017: Wipas SHRITHONG

On the Map 2017: Wipas SHRITHONG

Type
Video
Year
2017

Wipas SRITHONG วิภาส ศรีทอง (fiction writer; Thailand) has published three novels, many short stories, and collections of English-language and concrete poetry. His debut novel Kon Krae [The Dwarf] won the 2012 S.E.A. Write Award for Novels; his subsequent...

On the Map 2017: Yvonne OUWUOR

On the Map 2017: Yvonne OUWUOR

Type
Video
Year
2017

Yvonne Adhiambo OWUOR (fiction writer; Kenya) is an author, lecturer, and arts curator. Her first novel, Dust, was published by Knopf in 2014, and received the 2015 TBC Jomo Kenyatta Literature Award. In 2003, she won the Caine Prize for African Writing...

On the Map 2017: Fatena ALGHORRA

On the Map 2017: Fatena ALGHORRA

Type
Video
Year
2017

Fatena ALGHORRA (poet, journalist; Belgium) has four books of poetry: two were translated, one winning a prize for best Arabic translation into Italian. A fifth volume will appear in Arabic and in Dutch. Her work appears in the anthology Fifty Years of...

On the Map 2017: Ghada AI ABSY

On the Map 2017: Ghada AI ABSY

Type
Video
Year
2017

Ghada AL-ABSY غادة العبسي (fiction writer; Egypt), a physician, is the author of several novels and short story volumes, among them حشيشة الملاك [Angelica] and الفيشاوي [Al-Fishawi]. The collection أولاد الحور [The Sons of Nymphs] won the 2014 Organization...

On the Map 2017: Hajar BALI

On the Map 2017: Hajar BALI

Type
Video
Year
2017

Hajar BALI (playwright, fiction writer, poet; Algeria) was, until 2016, a professor of mathematics at the University of Sciences and Technology in Algiers. Her collection of plays, Rêve et vol d’oiseaux [Dream and Birdflight] appeared in 2010; a collection...

On the Map 2017: Lava DARWESH (Iraq)

On the Map 2017: Lava DARWESH (Iraq)

Type
Video
Year
2017

Lava Omer DARWESH لاڤە عمر دەروێش (poet, translator; Iraq) graduated from the American University of Iraq with degrees in Business and English Literature. In her native city of Sulaimani she started a Freedom Writers Club and a Book Lovers Club; her poems...

Flowers for Othello

Flowers for Othello

Type
Video
Year
2017

A collaborative performance.

On the Map 2019: CHAN Ping-chiu 陳炳釗 (Hong Kong)

On the Map 2019: CHAN Ping-chiu 陳炳釗 (Hong Kong)

Type
Video
Year
2019

CHAN Ping-chiu 陳炳釗 (drama; Hong Kong) is the founder the experimental theater group Sand & Bricks for young artists, the artistic director of the On & On Theatre Workshop, an educator, and a widely awarded veteran stage director and playwright. In 2013, he...

On the Map 2019: CHAN Lai-kuen  陳麗娟 (Hong Kong)

On the Map 2019: CHAN Lai-kuen 陳麗娟 (Hong Kong)

Type
Video
Year
2019

CHAN Lai-kuen  陳麗娟 (poetry, essays; Hong Kong), whose blog handle is “Dead Cat,” is a poet, a public speaker, and teacher. Her three books include [There Were Cats Singing], the winner of the Recommendation Prize at the 11th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for...

On the Map 2019: Sam MENGHESTEAB (Eritrea)

On the Map 2019: Sam MENGHESTEAB (Eritrea)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Samuel MENGHESTEAB ሳሙኤል መንግስትኣብ (fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry; Eritrea) is the author of the Tigrigna story anthology Seb ziseanet seb, and a regular contributor to Tigrigna-language magazines. He teaches adult and youth theater and literary programs...

On the Map 2019: Yamkela TYWAKADI (South Africa)

On the Map 2019: Yamkela TYWAKADI (South Africa)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Yamkela TYWAKADI (fiction, nonfiction, South Africa) is a novelist, publisher, performer, and the founder of Blank Page Edu, a company that develops mobile apps and board games. Often working in South Africa’s native languages, she has published 15 books...

On the Map 2019: Soukaina HABIBALLAH (Morocco)

On the Map 2019: Soukaina HABIBALLAH (Morocco)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Soukaina HABIBALLAH (poetry, fiction, screenwriting; Morocco) has four poetry collections and one novel [The Barracks] (2016), with a second novel forthcoming in 2019. Habiballah has received many awards including, in 2015, the Buland Al Haidari Prize for...

On the Map 2019: Martha MUKAIWA (Namibia)

On the Map 2019: Martha MUKAIWA (Namibia)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Martha MUKAIWA (nonfiction, fiction, journalism; Namibia) is an arts and travel journalist, and activist for black Namibians, women, and the LGBTQIA+ community. She has written for The Namibian, Quartz, Matador Network, and The Africa Report, among other...

On the Map 2019: Tade IPADEOLA (Nigeria)

On the Map 2019: Tade IPADEOLA (Nigeria)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Tade IPADEOLA (poetry, translation, prose; Nigeria) received the 2013 Nigeria Prize for Literature for his poetry collection The Sahara Testaments, which has been translated into four languages; in 2009 he won the Delphic Laurel for his poem “Songbird.” A...

On the Map 2019: Ben SOHIB (Indonesia)

On the Map 2019: Ben SOHIB (Indonesia)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Ben SOHIB (fiction, nonfiction; Indonesia) is known for his popular novels The Da Peci Code (2006) and Rosid dan Delia [Rosid and Delia] (2008); adapted to film as Tiga hati, dua dunia, dan satu cinta  [Three Hearts, Two Worlds, and One Love], which...

On the Map 2019: Batsirai CHIGAMA (Zimbabwe)

On the Map 2019: Batsirai CHIGAMA (Zimbabwe)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Batsirai CHIGAMA (poetry, fiction; Zimbabwe) has been a teacher of performance and creative writing workshops for over two decades. Her first poetry collection, Gather the Children, won the 2019 Outstanding First Creative Published Work from the National...

On the Map 2019: Manuel BECERRA (Mexico)

On the Map 2019: Manuel BECERRA (Mexico)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Manuel BECERRA (poetry; Mexico) is the author of five books of poetry, including Instrucciones para matar un caballo [Instructions for Killing a Horse] (2013). A winner of six national poetry awards, he has had fellowships from the Foundation for Mexican...

On the Map 2019: Amira-Géhanne KHAFALLAH (Algeria)

On the Map 2019: Amira-Géhanne KHAFALLAH (Algeria)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Amira-Géhanne KHALFALLAH (fiction, nonfiction, drama; Algeria) is a journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and playwright. Her plays Les draps [Sheets] and Shams et les poissons du désert  [Shams and the Desert Fish] have been published; her debut novel Le...

On the Map 2019: Efe DUYAN (Turkey)

On the Map 2019: Efe DUYAN (Turkey)

Type
Video
Year
2019

Efe DUYAN (poetry, translation; architecture; Turkey) teaches architectural history and theory at Mimar Sinan Arts University. He has authored three poetry collections, most recently Sıkça sorulan sorular [Frequently Asked Questions] (2016), and publishes...

Faisal Oddang

On the Map 2018: Faisal ODDANG (Indonesia)

Type
Video
Year
2018

Faisal ODDANG (fiction writer, poet, essayist; Indonesia) is the author of three novels and two poetry anthologies. Puya ke puya [From One Heaven to Another] won the 2014 Jakarta Art Council novel competition, and in 2015 Tempo Magazine’s Best Novel prize...

Iva PEZUASHVILI

On the Map 2018: Iva PEZUASHVILI (Georgia)

Type
Video
Year
2018

 

Iva PEZUASHVILI (novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker; Georgia) is the author of two story collections, most recently [The Book of Tbilisi] (2017). A filmmaker by training, he has written and/or directed a number of short films, animated series, and season...

Adriana BORJA ENRIQUEZ

On the Map 2018: Adriana BORJA ENRIQUEZ (Ecuador)

Type
Video
Year
2018

 

Adriana BORJA ENRÍQUEZ (fiction writer, poet; Ecuador) works as a psychologist, with a focus on human rights, gender-based violence, and refugee rights. Her short stories and poetry have been widely anthologized in South America and Europe.  A winner of...

Dan Coman

On the Map 2018: Dan COMAN (Romania)

Type
Video
Year
2018
Dan COMAN (fiction writer, poet; Romania) has published four books of poems and three novels. Winner of the 2004 Mihai Eminescu Award for the poetry collection anul cârtiței galbene [The Year of the Yellow Mole], Coman has also received the 2004 Romanian...
Yamila BEGNE

On the Map 2018: Yamila BEGNE (Argentina)

Type
Video
Year
2018

Yamila BÊGNÉ (fiction writer; Argentina), a teacher of creative writing, is the author of three experimental story anthologies, most recently Los Límites del control  [Limits of Control] (2017) and a non-fiction writer. A recipient of a 2006 Letters and...

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On the Map 2018: Salah BADIS (Algeria)

Type
Video
Year
2018

Salah BADIS صلاح باديس (poet, translator, journalist; Algeria) is a founding member of Nafha magazine, a journalist and music editor, and a musical and cultural researcher for print and radio. Salah’s first poetry volume,ضجرالبواخر  [Ship Weariness], was...

On the Map 2018: Tehila HAKIMI

Type
Video
Year
2018

Tehila HAKIMI תהילה חכימי (poet, fiction writer; Israel) writes poetry, fiction and graphic novels. Her poetry volume מחר נעבוד [We’ll Work Tomorrow] (2014) received the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature, and, alongside her graphic novel במים [In the...

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On the Map 2018: Usman ALI (Pakistan)

Type
Video
Year
2018

Usman ALI (playwright; Pakistan) researches physical and non-verbal theater, and is the founder of Ali's Theatre at the Mandibhauddin campus of the University of Sargodha. His English-language plays The Prisoners, The Guilt, The Last Metaphor, The Odyssey...

Baatsuri Bayaz

On the Map 2018: Bayasgalan BATSUURI (Mongolia)

Type
Video
Year
2018

Bayasgalan BATSUURI  Баясгалан Батсуурийн (poet, translator; Mongolia) has published 12 books of translation from English to Mongolian. Her English-language poetry collection Rain of the 13th Month came out in 2009; her poetry is widely anthologized. The...

Roberto Echeto

On the Map 2018: Roberto ECHETO (Venezuela)

Type
Video
Year
2018

Roberto ECHETO (poet, fiction writer, essayist; Venezuela) has published three story anthologies, a novel, and two books of essays. A founding member and faculty at the Instituto de Creatividad y Comunicación in Caracas, he writes and edits for journals...

On the Map 2016: Hensli RAHN SOLÓRZANO (Venezuela)

On the Map 2016: Hensli RAHN SOLÓRZANO (Venezuela)

Type
Video
Year
2016

"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...

On the Map 2016: Yaroslava PULINOVICH (Russia)

On the Map 2016: Yaroslava PULINOVICH (Russia)

Type
Video
Year
2016

"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...

On the Map 2016: Yusi PAREANOM (Indonesia)

On the Map 2016: Yusi Avianto PAREANOM (Indonesia)

Type
Video
Year
2016

"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...