The items below were posted to the original IWP website as "happenings" in 2013.
Lyonel TROUILLOT (IWP '94, Haiti) wins le Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde!
Oscar RANZO (IWP '13, Uganda), in dialogue with Taban LoLIYONG (IWP '88, Sudan), on how to make Ugandan literature bloom.
Bina SHAH (IWP '11, Pakistan) editorializes about romance, love and God in Pakistan.
Khaled KHALIFA (IWP '07, Syria) wins Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature!
A new WWB interview with IWP friend and colleague Aron AJI, on translating from the Turkish.
Poet Zeyar LYNN (IWP '13, Burma) and English poet and translator James Byrne speak with Ilya Kaminsky about poetry from Burma in this Poetry Foundation podcast.
Patrícia PORTELA (IWP '13) a finalist for the Portuguese Writers Association's Prize for Best Novel/Novella of 2012.
Karim ALRAWI (IWP '13) wins inaugural Prize for Best New Fiction for his novel Book of Sands.
In the "Recovery" issue of the excellent Canberra-based journal AXON, co-curator Alvin PANG (IWP '02) features IWP alums Marjorie EVASCO ('02), Joel TOLEDO ('11) and Zeyar LYNN ('13), plus IWP friend Pauline FAN.
Krakow, Poland designated the 7th UNESCO City of Literature.
Already a major film, Rajeevan THACHOM POYIL’s (IWP '04) political crime novel Undying Echoes of Silence, set against the social conflicts of 1950 rural Kerala, now translated into English.
Glaydah NAMUKASA (IWP '08) has a new story in Words Without Borders.
Arzee the Dwarf by Chandrahas CHOUDHURY (IWP '10) to be published in the U.S. by New York Review Books.
Lidija DIMKOVSKA (IWP '05) among winners of 2013 EU Prize for Literature.
Book Wings Russia playwright Anthony MARRA longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction.
The English translation of Nothing More to Lose by Najwan DARWISH (IWP '10, Palestinian Territories) in the New York Review of Books.
IWP's 1st Community Engagement Fellow, Patrícia PORTELA (Portugal), blogs about the residency at Seeds of Culture.
IWP Program Advisor Peter Nazareth (IWP '73, Uganda) cited by former Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki for his "timeless influence" on the world of letters.
IWP's Christopher MERRILL talks to Iowa Public Radio about the 2013 fall residency (interview at 24:45).
Chris MLALAZI (IWP '12) in The Guardian on his most recent novel, set in Zimbabwean politics of the 1980s.
2014 NEA translation award recipient George O'Connell on falling for poetry translation at UI.
Between the Lines Russia profiled in the St. Petersburg Times.
Chinelo OKPARANTA in Granta on the IWP's recent reading tour in Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan.
In The New Republic, Orhan PAMUK (IWP '85) talks to Pankaj Mishra about Taksim, Erdogan, Turkey, Europe, and his new novel.
Anthony MARRA longlisted for The Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.
Laird HUNT on 2012 IWP reading tour of the two Congos at the New York Times Opinionator.
Alisa GANIEVA (2012) and Maya KUCHERSKAYA (2008) nominated for the Russian Booker.
Ghassan ZAQTAN (IWP '01, West Bank) & Ilya KAMINSKY (IWP visitor, '11) nominated for the 23rd Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by DUNG Kai Cheung (IWP '09, Hong Kong) longlisted for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards. Read an extract here.
Oonya KEMPADOO's (IWP '11, Grenada) novel All Decent Animals is on Oprah Winfrey's 2013 summer reading list!
Victoria Stewart's play PLANET X (Book Wings Russia 2013) on stage at Live Girls! Theater in Seattle.
The Examined Life Journal (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine) is accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction until August 15, 2013.
Pandora ('12), Nu Nu YEE ('00), and Thida MA ('05) among nominees for 50 outstanding women of Myanmar.
IWP reading tour participant Natasha TRETHEWEY appointed to a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate.
The IWP's 2012 Annual Report is now available for viewing as a PDF file.
Narlan MATOS Teixeira's new book, Elegy to the New World, nominated for the Portugal/Telecom International Award.
Maxim AMELIN (IWP Visitor '09, Russia) receives Alexander Solzhenitsyn Award for his poetic experiments and his role as an educator.
A Q&A about MO Yan's post-Nobel publications and publicity with translator Howard Goldblatt.
A compact but strong survey of the novels of KIM Young-ha (IWP '05, South Korea) appears in L. A. Review of Books.
Jen SILVERMAN (IWP Life of Discovery writer) awarded 2013 Yale Drama Series Prize.
Carlos GAMERRO (IWP '08, Argentina) wins 2013 English PEN grant for translation
IWP director Christopher MERRILL talks to IPR about travel and poetry in the Middle East.
IWP reading tour participant Chinelo OKPARANTA shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing.
Nihad SIREES (IWP '05 Syria) has won the 2013 Coburgian Rückert Prize.
Distance Learning instructor Nick TWEMLOW profiled in Poets & Writers as part of National Poetry Month.
IWP Distance Learning instructor Margaret ROSS awarded a 2013-2014 Fulbright Research Grant.
The German poet, fiction writer and scholar Anja KAMPMANN (IWP '10) is the 2013 winner of the MDR literary prize, awarded annually by a jury comprised of literary critics and audiences. Her story "Jsem--Ich werde ihnen erzaehlen," about a nomadic oil rig driller drifting away from his identity and language, was praised for giving "a grand poetic language to a pressing subject matter."
Nihad SIREES (IWP '05, Syria) in NYTimes on the culture of women singers in Aleppo, vanishing under the onslaught of the civil war.
Rodrigo Garcia LOPES (IWP '12, Brazil) has a new CD.
Christopher MERRILL on The New Face of War
A new interview with Etgar KERET (IWP '01, Israel)
Ghassan ZAQTAN (IWP '01, Palestinian Territories) shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize
Josephine ROWE (IWP '11, Australia) longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
4 new poems from Ranjit Hoskote (IWP '95, India) introduced by Chandrahas Choudhury (IWP '10, India).
Between the Lines alumna Rawan Yaghi (BTL Arabic '12, Gaza) wins scholarship to Oxford.
Lin-Hwai-min (IWP '70, Taiwan) awarded 2013 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for his lifetime contribution to modern dance.
Book Wings 2013 (China) playwright Dan O'Brien wins Kennedy Playwriting Prize.
Alumnus U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY (IWP '74, India) named a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.
Alumna Ogochukwu PROMISE (IWP '09), novelist, cultural enterpreneur, painter and social activist, speaks about literary affairs in Nigeria in an interview with Vanguard.
A poetry reading and Q&A with the deaf community was part of Chris Merrill's recent visit in Kuwait.
Novelist Jana Beňová (IWP ‘12), the 2012 recipient of the European Union Independent Publishers’ Award from Slovakia, talks about her work, and about her time at the IWP.
The Venezuelan journalist and novelist Milagros Socorro (IWP '12) has a few words to say (in Spanish) about her time in Iowa City.
Poet Jayanta Mahapatra (IWP '76, India) on reading, writing, and what keeps him going.