Monday, December 31, 2012

The items below were posted to the original IWP website as "happenings" in 2012.

Blogger and "Youth Hero" Nay Phone Latt (IWP '12, Burma) profiled in Sampsonia Way.

Orhan Pamuk (IWP '85, Turkey) and Kim Young-ha (IWP '03, South Korea) longlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize!

Check out some highlights from Between the Lines 2012!

Poet, essayist and activist Meena Kandasamy (IWP '09) is the lead-off quote in a recent Atlantic piece about the complexity of gender politics in India's social media.

On October 25th IWP has launched the WhitmanWeb, a multilingual, multimedia gallery featuring Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' in 9 languages.

Congratulations to Mo Yan (IWP '04, China), the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature!

The first half of the Life of Discovery 2012 exchange between the IWP and the China Writers' Association has come to a close. The second half of the program will take place in the U.S. this fall.

The IWP's 2011 Annual Report is now available for viewing as a PDF or SWF file.