The items below were posted to the original IWP website as "happenings" in 2019.
Muhamed "Nabo" ABDELNABI (Egypt, IWP '13) has been awarded France's 2019 Prix de la littérature arabe for his 2016 novel, published last year in the UK as In the Spider's Room.
Behind the 2018+ 2019 Nobel Prizes for Literature given to novelists Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk are translators--one key among them Jennifer CROFT, novelist as well as translator from the Polish, Ukrainian, and Spanish. Congratulations!
On fish-paste English and cheddar-English: a long interview at LARB (Los Angeles Review of Books) about language, politics, and language politics with Burmese poet and worker KO KO THETT (IWP '16).
"Resisting English": at NYRB, Adam Kirsch reviews three decades of the translated work of the Japanese novelist and essayist Minae MIZUMURA (IWP '03).
Just out in Beirut, the intriguingly titled ['Laughter as Destructive History'] by the Iraqi poet, translator, and editor Soheil NAJM (IWP '07).
Death is Hard Work, the fifth title of the Syrian novelist Khaled KHALIFA (IWP '07), published by FSG in Leri Price's translation, is on the long list of the 2019 National Book Awards, in the Translated Literature category.
In the travel journal Off Assignment, journalist and novelist Milagros SOCORRO (Venezuela, IWP '12) recalls a snowy day in Iowa City, and one woman's special gesture.
A powerful opinion piece in NYTimes on the Dalits' role in India's upcoming elections by activist and novelist Meena KANDASAMY ('09).
Yvonne Adhiambo OUWUOR's new novel Dragonfly Sea is reviewed in NYTimes. Ouwuor, a 2005 and 2017 IWP alumna, is the author, previously, of the epic Dust.
Congratulations to novelist and essayist Beaudelaine PIERRE (IWP '07) for making the final list in the Many Voices 2018 competition at New Rivers Press.
In a New York Times op ed, publisher and novelist Ameena HUSSEIN ('05) offers a sharp analysis of and context for the 2019 Easter terror bombings in her native Sri Lanka.
Ahead of her appearance at the 2019 PEN Voices festival, a funny piece on one of Iceland's literary heroes by Gerdur KRISTNY (IWP '14).
A fascinating interview about his new bookshop venture in Bikol with Kristian Sendon CORDERO (Philippines, IWP '17).
Chris Merrill reminisces on friend W. S Merwin (1927-2019).
Journalist, essayist and poet Harris KHALIQUE (IWP '15) has been appointed the Secretary General of Pakistan's Human Rights Commission.
Out of nearly 450 novel titles, the shortlist of ten finalists for the distinguished Vargas Llosa Biannual Award, given by the Universidad de Guadalajara, contains The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Venezuela, IWP '13) and Los sueños de la serpiente by Alberto Ruy Sánchez (Mexico, guest, IWP '09).
An interview in LARB with Moshe SAKAL (Israel, IWP '11) about The Diamond Setter, his first novel to be translated into English.
With Indonesia the featured country of the 2019 London Book Fair, Laksmi PAMUNTJAK (IWP '06) was one of the keynote speakers.
Among the 2019 recipients of the distinguished Wyndham-Campbell awards, selected to “call attention to literary achievement” and allow writers to “focus on their work independent of financial concerns" is Kwame DAWES (IWP '86).
The London Book Fair names Jeremy TIANG (Singapore, IWP '11) "Literary Translator of the Fair," a first ever so honored.
In an interview with EuropeNow, Vladimir POLEGANOV (IWP '16) talks about the limits of realist fiction, and the strengths of writing residencies.
Congratulations to our friend and former colleague Kelsi VANADA, the recipient of the 2018 Translation Prize from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for her rendering, from the Swedish, of poems by Marie SILKEBERG (IWP, '15).