The items below were posted to the original IWP website as "happenings" in 2017.
The Jamaican-British poet, novelist, and professor Kei MILLER (IWP'07) is among the five recipients of the 2018 Sagba Caribbean Awards for Excellence.
A long interview with Christopher Merrill on cultural diplomacy, IWP, writing, inner life, and much else, in the December 2017 Los Angeles Review of Books.
Leri Price's English rendering of No Knives in the Kitchen of This City , the 2013 novel by Khaled Khalifa (Syria, IWP '07) is on the 2017 shortlist of The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Panashe Chigumadzi (IWP ’17) explores the history of South Africa’s racism involving soap in the New York Review of Books.
Ali Cobby Eckermann (IWP ’14) discusses her childhood, poetry, and winning the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize.
Sara Baume (IWP '15) speaks about her latest work, A Line Made by Walking, which is on the shortlist for the 2017 Goldsmith Prize.
After Durban is named Africa's first UNESCO City of Literature, ZP Dala (IWP '16), a key leader of Durban's representative committee, discusses how her time in Iowa City encouraged her to take action.
Etienne Van Heerden (IWP '90) has been shortlisted for Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the 2017 South African Literary Awards (SALA) committee.
On the long-list for the 2017 Nigeria Prize for Literature are, count'em, four IWP alumni: Seun LARI-WILLIAMS (IWP ' 80 ), Tanure OJAIDE (IWP ' 85 ), Ogaga IFOWODO (IWP ' 00) and Obari GOMBA (IWP '16).
The work of Can Xue (IWP '92), in particular the recent novels Frontier and Vertical Motion (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping) is surveyed in The New Yorker.
The Inheritance from Mother, the most recent novel by Minae Mizumura (IWP '04), translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter, is reviewed in N Y Times.
The Legend in My Heart (2016), a feature-length documentary directed by Kaitlyn Busbee, with an original score by David Gompper, which covers IWP’s 2014 tour to China to work with differently-abled communities, won the “Best Student Feature Film” award at the 2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival.
The award-winning Malaysian journalist, editor and writer Rehman RASHID (IWP '01) passed away on June 3rd, 2017, in Kuala Lumpur. R.I.P.
Samuel Kolawole (IWP '15) receives first-ever VCFA Emerging Writer Scholarship for the MFA in Writing and Publishing program.
A remembrance of Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) by Peter NAZARETH (IWP '73), professor of English and Senior Advisor to the IWP can be found here.
Australian poet Ali Cobby ECKERMANN (IWP '14) has been named a recipient of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.
The third novel of Peter KIMANI (IWP '07), Dance of the Jakaranda, is just out from Akashic Press, to fine reviews.
Poet, translator, editor, academic, and member of IWP's Advisory Board, Saadi SIMAWE (IWP '90) passed away on 2/19/17 in Iowa City after a long illness. He embodied a connection to the best of Iraq's long literary and political history.
Jayanta MAHAPATRA (IWP '76) received the distinguished Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry at the 2017 Jaipur Literary Festival. Among finalists was also Joy GOSWAMI (IWP '01); among jurors was Sukrita PAUL KUMAR (IWP '02).