The items below were posted to the original IWP website as "happenings" in 2022.
Among the 12 distinguished new members of the International Writers programme at the Royal Society of Literature is Dubravka UGREŠIĆ.
Christopher KLOEBLE’s Das Museum der Welt is just out from HC India in Rekha Kamath Rajan’s English translation as Museum of the World.
Among the ten distinguished Outstanding Young Man of the Year awardees for 2022 honored by the eponymous Manila-based foundation is Kristian Sendon CORDERO. Congratulations, Kristian!
The Paris-based bilingual podcast-centric story platform Frictions, co-founded by Walid HAJAR RACHEDI, is out with the issue “Toutes Identités Confondues/All Identities Combined.”
Among Brittle Papers’ “100 Notable African Books of 2022” are titles by IWP alumni and friends Niyi OSUNDARE, T.J. DEMA, Niq MHLONGO and Chinelo OKPARANTA.
Congratulations to Fall 2022 alum Mohamad KHEIR and his translator Robin Moger on making the shortlist of the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
John BANVILLE on his newest novel The Singularities, on what’s wrong with Irish writing today and on the grandeur of English.
The third novel of Sara JARAMILLO KLINKERT [Where the Whales Sing] has been awarded the 2022 Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca for best Spanish-language (Castilian) fiction.
We mourn the passing of the Malayalam-language Indian poet, novelist, journalist and critic Rajeevan THACHOM POYIL.
The distinguished Hong Kong journalist and political commentator LEE YEE 李怡 , who resettled in Taiwan after the 2020 Security Law crackdown on Apple Daily, passed away in Taipei on 10/5/2022. RIP.
In the video “How to Talk About War,” Christopher Merrill (IWP) and journalist Jacki Leyden talk with novelist Victoria Amelina and Roman Avramenko, Executive Director of Truth Hounds, about documenting war crimes in Ukraine...and about the culture that is being destroyed.
Forthcoming in November 2022, Abolitionist Intimacies, "a poetic vision of intimacy, care, and human liberation, sketching out abolitionist futures beyond policing, prisons, and cages...” by El JONES.
On the distinguished shortlist of the 2022 International Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan KARUNATILAKA!
The Romanian poet, essayist, novelist, and literary critic Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU has been awarded this year’s Premio FIL de Literatura 2022, Guadalajara Book Fair’s distinguished and well-endowed lifetime achievement award.
Manila Times covers Kristian CORDERO’s Savage Mind Bookstore, “a cultural oasis in the Bicol region.”
The poet, translator, and teacher Maung Tha Noe died on July 12. The poet and translator ko ko thett has written a beautiful obituary for him. Rest in peace.
An informed, original, and wide-ranging take on Nollywood, his "national cinema," by the Nigerian poet and intellectual property lawyer Tade IPADEOLA.
The 2022 Aleksandar Tišma International Literature Prize goes to the Canadian-Serbian novelist David ALBAHARI.
On the 2022 shortlist for the distinguished Prix Apollinaire for French and Francophone poetry: Habib TENGOUR’s La Sandale d’Empédocle.
Homeira QADERI will be among the 2022 recipients of the MESA Global Academy scholarship.
ko ko thett is the co-editor of Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring, a new collection of “witness essays and poems from Burma/Myanmar 1988-2021.”
Bejan MATUR and Vivek SHANBHAG are participating in the newly reopened Civitella Ranieri arts residency in Umbria (Italy).
Translator, scholar, poet, writer Edmund “Mike” KEELEY, who at UI devised the very first translation workshop, died at his home in Princeton. RIP.
Rave reviews for The Night, Rodrigo BLANCO CALDERÓN’s first translation into English.
An interview with and a story by Kateryna BABKINA provides some historical context for today’s young Ukrainians.
A WWB interview with Kristian Sendon CORDERO on literary entrepreneurship in the Philippines, on translating “major” lit into “minor” languages, and on Prairie Lights Books as inspiration.
On behalf of women in Afghanistan, and despite their grim situation, Homeira QADERI rejects a defeatist stance.
Fantasy writer and feminist, the “queen of Argentine sci-fi” Angélica GORODISCHER has moved on to a higher plane.
On the longlist for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, we note the names of IWP alums and colleagues KIM Soom, Meena KANDASAMY, Pilar QUINTANA and Russell VALENTINO.
Several IWP alumni appear on the just-out 2022 PEN America Literary Awards longlists, whether as translators—Jeremy TIANG, Piotr SOMMER—or as authors: Alejandra COSTAMAGNA, Najwan DARWISH, Mortada GZAR, LO Yi-Chin, Marie SILKEBERG.
We are pleased to note that Sridala SWAMI’s new poetry collection, Run for the Shadows, appeared in late December 2021.
An opinion piece by Mohib ZEGHAM about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan has appeared in The Dallas Morning News.
Mohib ZEGHAM M.D. (Afghanistan, IWP ’12) was recently awarded Afghanistan’s highest governmental medal, “Sayed Jamal u-Din Afghan,” for his literary and civic activities.