Courtney Sina MEREDITH

2016 Resident

Oceania

Australia and New Zealand

New Zealand

English

Courtney Sina MEREDITH (poet, playwright, fiction writer, musician; New Zealand) published her award-winning play Rushing Dolls in 2012; a poetry collection, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick, appeared the same year. A new book of short stories, Tail of the Taniwha, is available in August 2016. Her writing has been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, French and Bahasa Indonesia. Her participation is made possible by Creative New Zealand.

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Sally Greer

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A lively talk with poet, journalist, translator, and now award-winning Indonesian novelist Laksmi Pamuntjak (IWP '06) at the 2018 Frankfurter Buchmesse.
A rich review in The Hindu of Samay Ki Kasak , the recent Hindi translation of poet, translator, editor and painter Sukrita Paul Kumar's (IWP '02) most recent poetry collection.
Оскорбленные чувства ['Feelings that offend'], the most recent novel of IWP alumna Alisa GANIEVA (IWP '12, '18), was launched in Moscow this summer. Alisa, who is among the 2018 jury members for the distinguished Neustadt Prize for International Literature, will be returning to Iowa this fall as a visiting writer at Grinnell College.
Over on the NYRB Daily blog, Panashe CHIGUMADZI (IWP '17) asks "Whatever's Happening to Interracial Love?"
At a recent TED_X talk, Bina SHAH (IWP '11) explains "Why Pakistan Needs Feminism."

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