Paul and Hualing Nieh Engle Gallery

Paul Engle's biography, bibliography, and an array of texts by, for and about him.
"Revolution on Campus" Paul Engle's three defenses of academic creative writing [PDF]

A trailer for One Tree Three Lives (Hong Kong, 2012)

Directed by the Hong Kong director Angie Chen, the feature-length documentary about the life of Hualing Nieh Engle premiered in March 2012, at the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
A Q&A with Angie Chen about the making of the film at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club (June 2013).

Paul and Hualing Nieh Engle: Shared work

1966 TV documentary "The Iowa Workshop," with Paul Engle featured prominently, as instructor, and Nieh Hualing briefly, as student.
Among the Engles' accomplishments was "The Chinese Weekend,"[PDF] organized in September 1979 at the University of Iowa, the first formal meeting between Chinese writers from Taiwan and from the Mainland since 1949.
"Co-translation: the Writer's View": An extended dialogue on the process of joint translation, illustrated with examples from "Joy of Meeting" (Li Yü, 937-978) and "West Ch'ang-an Street" (Pien Chih-lin, 1932)

Over the years the many IWP alumni have reminisced over their time in Iowa City with the Engles
Excerpts from Sunil Gangyopadhyay (IWP, '81) Memories of Light and Shade

Paul Engle was a notorious correspondent, and much of his personal creative history is reflected in the thousands of letters he dispatched over the decades. Many can be found in the Engle Collection in the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and finding aid.

Playwright Lisa Schlesinger has dramatized Paul and Hualing Engles' life and work in 12 scenes.

Marking May as the “Short Story Month,” Words Without Borders highlights some of its stellar past publications, the Dagestani-Russian novelist Alisa Ganieva’s bitterly comic “A Village Feast” among them.
Ilya Kaminsky’s informed and elegant preface to Kiss the Eyes of Peace, a new selection of Tomaž Šalamun’s poems from 1964-2014, is excerpted on today’s LitHub.
Raoul DeJong, in Jake Goldwasser’s translation, on the literary politics of Surinamese Netherlands, in the most recent issue of Words Without Borders.
The Spring 2024 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review features writing by Kwame Dawes and Géhanne-Amira Khalfallah.
Our congratulations to Fall Residency alumni Sebastian Barry and Mircea Cărtărescu, both of whom appear on this year's Dublin Literary Award shortlist.