The items below were posted to the original IWP website as "happenings" in 2016.

No Knives in the Kitchens of this City by Khaled Khalifa (IWP'07), detailing the run-up to Syria's hellish civil war, is reviewed in the New York Times.

WANG Anyi (王安忆) (IWP '83) is the 2017 recipient of the distinguished Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

For his comic novel Raden Mandasia Si Pencuri Daging Sapi  [Raden Mandasia the Beef Thief] Yusi  Aveanto PAREANOM (IWP '16) received the 2016 Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Best Indonesian Prose award. An extract of the novel was translated into English by the author together with Laura Moser in IWP's International Translation Workshop.

H.M.Naqvi (IWP '10) regrets the sparsity of translators from the Urdu, and points to the great Qurratulain Hyder (IWP '79) as an instance of an Urdu author turning to self-translation to amend this lack.

A super interview with Ukamaka OLISAKWE (IWP '16) on Iowa Now.

In Dhaka Tribune, Wasi AHMED (Bangladesh, IWP '16) has a few things to say about his IWP 2016 cohort.

To Live, by the Chinese novelist YU HUA (IWP '03), has been included in the 2016-7 Big Read, organized by the National Endowment of the Arts.

An essay in Haaretz tracks the marriage and joint lives in Jaffa of Zahiye KUNDUS and Antonio UNGAR (both IWP '05).

 The Legend in my Heart, documenting a 2014 IWP tour to disability communities in China, is official selection at the 2016 Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival.

Yu-Mei BALASINGAMCHOW (IWP '15) speaks on her identity as a Singaporean writer with the Ploughshares blog.

Ali Cobby ECKERMANN (IWP '14) is featured in the May issue of Poetry Magazine.

Marie SILKEBERG (IWP '15) and co-translator Kelsi VANADA won Asymptote's Close Approximations Contest for their translation of Silkeberg's "The Cities."

Helon HABILA (IWP '04) talks about his work, the current situation in Nigeria, and the obligations of an African writer.

Sara BAUME's (IWP '15) short story Green, Mud, Gold is featured in Granta's 135th issue.

Atlantic Books will publish Meena KANDASAMY’s (IWP '09) second book — When I Hit You, or A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife — in Spring 2017.

U Pe Myint (IWP '98) is Burma's new Minister of Information.

Daddy's Boy by Shandana MINHAS (IWP '13) is now available through HarperCollins India.

Bernice CHAULY (IWP '14) is featured in World Literature Today.

Evan Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State, writes about cultural diplomacy and the International Writing Program for the Harvard International Review.

Karen VILLEDA's (IWP '15) translation of "1 am" by Mina Loy appears in Letras Libres magazine.

Tropicalia: Poems and Translations, from Mookie KATIGBAK-LACUESTA (IWP '15) and Frances CANNON, is now available through Vagabond Press.

Dr. Cirilo F. BAUTISTA (IWP '68) recently received a National Artist award in the Philippines. Read more in PhilStar.

Rachel ROSE's (IWP '15) forthcoming book, Gone to the Dogs: Riding Shotgun With K9 Cops, will be published by Thomas Dunne Books.

Rochelle POTKAR's (IWP '15) first book of poetry, Four Degrees of Separation, is now available from PoetryPrimero.

Gerður KRISTNÝ (IWP '14) explores her inspiration as a writer and how stories have impacted her own life as a feminist in a short documentary by Megan Roethlein.

Roland RUGERO's (IWP '13) Baho! is the first Burundian novel to be translated into English. Read an excerpt on Sunday Times Books.

The novel KTN Kottor:Ezhuthum Jeevithavum [KTN Kottor:His Writing and Life] has garnered Rajeevan THACHOM POYIL (IWP ’04) the 2014 Best Novel Award from the Kerala State Academy for Literature.

Roua SGHAIER's (BTL '11) The Memory of the Pavement was honored with the 2015 Arab Creativity Award in Literature.

Meena KANDASAMY (IWP '09) speaks on the rights of Dalits in India with The News Minute.

Choreographer LIN Hwai-min's (IWP '70) dance performance "Rice" is reviewed on the LA Times.

R. Raj RAO (IWP '96) speaks on his translation of Lakshmi TRIPATHI's autobiography, Me Hijra, Me Laxmi, at the 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival.

Congratulations to Nell REGAN (IWP '11), the recent recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh fellowship.

The AlMultaqa award, led by Taleb AL REFAI (IWP '12) and the American University of Kuwait, is now accepting entries. Read more about the award's reception in The Guardian.

The Korea Times reviews RA Hee-duk's (IWP '07) latest book of poetry, Wild Apple, which is available in English.

The Guardian covers Dorit RABINYAN's Borderlife, which was barred from Israel’s high school curriculum.