Stephanos STEPHANIDES

2016 Resident

English

Stephanos STEPHANIDES (poet, memory-fiction writer, translator, filmmaker; Cyprus) is professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus. In 2005 he published Blue Moon in Rajasthan and Other Poems; in 2008 he won the first prize for video poetry for Poets in No Man’s Land at the Nicosia International Film Festival. His poetry has been published in a dozen languages; he has served as a judge for the 2000 and the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His participation is made possible by an anonymous donation to the IWP.

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Mar 05, 7:00 pm Trilingual Reading of Chuck Miller's Poetry at Shambaugh House

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Out of nearly 450 novel titles, the shortlist of ten finalists for the distinguished Vargas Llosa Biannual Award given by the Universidad de Guadalajara contains The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (IWP '13) and Los sueños de la serpiente by Alberto Ruy Sánchez (guest, IWP '09).
In an interview with EuropeNow, Vladimir POLEGANOV (IWP '16) talks about the limits of realist fiction, and the strengths of writing residencies.
Congratulations to our friend and former colleague Kelsi VANADA, the recipient of the 2018 Translation Prize from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for her rendering, from the Swedish, of poems by Marie SILKEBERG (IWP, '15).
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.

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