Stephanos STEPHANIDES

2016 Resident

Europe
Southern Europe
Cyprus

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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For her novel Liebe um Liebe, Dragica RAJČIĆ is among this year's recipients of the significant Schweitzer Literaturpreis.
The PEN America Literary Grants for 2021 have been awarded: among them, to Natascha Bruce for Owlish and the Music-Box Ballerina, her translation, from the Chinese, of a novel by Dorothy TSE. A honorary shout-out also to IWP friend Ekaterina PETROVA, the recipient of a grant for her translation, from the Bulgarian, of a novel by Jana Boukova.
In the wake of a finalist position in 2020 in the US National Book Award competition, Pilar QUINTANA’s winning streak continues, with her novel Los abismos receiving the distinguished El Alfaguara prize for 2021.
IWP mourns the untimely passing of our friend and alumna CHOI Jeongrye 최정례 (South Korea, ’06), a poet of remarkable imagination and sensitivity, celebrated at home and in translation.
A cornucopia of IWP alumni whose books will be published in English translation in 2021 appears in NYTimes’ “SneakPreview--Globetrotting” section. Featured are Magda CÂRNECI, Slavenka DRAKULIĆ, Mortada GZAR, Ewa LIPSKA, Minae MIZUMURA, Pola OLOIXARAC, Yaara SHEHORI, Véronique TADJO and Jeremy TIANG (as translator).

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