Oscar RANZO (fiction writer; Uganda) is the author of the novel Cross-Pollination (2012) and the children’s books The Little Maid (2012), The Wise Milkboy (2013) and The Jewels of Amuria (2013). He is the coordinator of the Child Sacrifice Prevention Program, which is based on his book Saving Little Viola, and the founder, in 2012, of the Oasis Book Project, which aims to increase the profile of Ugandan literature. He participates courtesy of the U.S. Embassy in Kampala.
Just out, The Bitch, by Pilar QUINTANA (Colombia, IWP ‘11), translated from the Spanish. Ms. Quintana is also among the current mentors for IWP’s Women’s Creative Mentorship Professionalization Project.
Cultural entrepreneurship at its most admirable:Kristian Sendon CORDERO (IWP ’17), book seller, beer brewer, publisher, gardener, Bikol translator, screenplay author and poet extraordinaire on his Savage Mind in Naga City (The Philippines).
Between July 18 and July 25, the 2020 digital iteration of the Cathay Arts Festival will include free access to two dance performances by Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, one of them the career retrospective of its founder, the poet, dancer, and choreographer LIN Hwai-min (IWP’70).
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