CHIGAMA, Batsirai

2019 Resident

Africa
Eastern Africa
Zimbabwe

English

Batsirai CHIGAMA (poetry, fiction; Zimbabwe) has been a teacher of performance and creative writing workshops for over two decades. Her first poetry collection, Gather the Children, won the 2019 Outstanding First Creative Published Work from the National Arts Merits Awards in Zimbabwe. She participates courtesy the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

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We mourn the passing of the distinguished Yugoslav novelist, essayist, and thinker Dubravka Ugrešić, the recipient, among many other honors, of the 2016 Neustadt Prize. It has been a point of pride for us to say that we have hosted her. Rest in peace.
Between 4/4-13, 2023, Mircea Cărtărescu will tour the US to read from his novel Solenoid, in Sean Cotter’s translation.
On the list for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction, open to “any woman writing in English, regardless of nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter…for a full-length novel published in the UK between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023,” is IWP‘s longstanding colleague Jennifer CROFT.
The just-out March 2023 issue of World Literature Today features pieces on or by alumni Adisa Bašić, Tanure Ojaide, Orhan Pamuk, Alexander Skidan, and Buket Uzuner.
Among its 30 top bestsellers for January 2023, Beijing’s Open Book list features four titles by Yu Hua, and one each by Mo Yan, Chi Zijian, and Feng Jicai.

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