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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In the travel journal Off Assignment, journalist and novelist Milagros SOCORRO (Venezuela, IWP '12) recalls a snowy day in Iowa City, and one woman's special gesture.
A powerful opinion piece in NYTimes on the Dalits' role in India's upcoming elections by activist and novelist Meena KANDASAMY ('09).
Yvonne Adhiambo OUWUOR's new novel Dragonfly Sea is reviewed in NYTimes. Ouwuor, a 2005 and 2017 IWP alumna, is the author, previously, of the epic Dust.
Congratulations to novelist and essayist Beaudelaine PIERRE (IWP '07) for making the final list in the Many Voices 2018 competition at New Rivers Press.
In a New York Times op ed, publisher and novelist Ameena HUSSEIN ('05) offers a sharp analysis of and context for the 2019 Easter terror bombings in her native Sri Lanka.

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