In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."
The second issue of the English-language Iraq Literary Review has reached us courtesy its co-editor, the Baghdad-based poet, translator and critic Soheil Najm (IWP '09). It opens with an editorial thumbnail that outlines the changes in the Iraqi literary scene since Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, and features a mix of poetry, prose, literary commentary and literary history, concluding by a small “Arab” and a “World” portfolio.
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