Poon Yiu Ming 潘耀明 (Hong Kong, IWP '83) is the chief editor of Ming Pao Monthly, a publication that covers academic and cultural topics in East Asia.
We are delighted to see several IWP alumni on the just-out 2022 PEN America Literary Awards longlists, whether as translators—Jeremy TIANG, Piotr SOMMER—or as authors: Alejandra COSTAMAGNA, Najwan DARWISH, Mortada GZAR, LO Yi-Chin, Marie SILKEBERG.
In Jeune Afrique, Umar TIMOL discusses biases inherent in recent literary prizes awarded to African writers.
Among the twelve distinguished inaugural honorees of the International Writers programme, established in 2021 by the Royal Society of Literature to “recognise the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English,” is Dubravka UGREŠIĆ.
An enthusiastic review in NYTimes of In Case of Emergency, newly translated, by the Iranian novelist Mahsa MOHEBALI.
Meena KANDASAMY speaks about reading & translating the writings of Tamil Eelam’s women fighters, and about braiding feminism and decolonialization across genres, media, and continents (including Iowa).
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