World Literature in the Making

First published in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation blog

As we are approaching the end of the 2019 International Writing Program’s Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, we’d like to give you a glimpse of what’s been happening in the translation world of Iowa City over the past three months.

As many of our readers must know, if not a nebula, only closer to home, the International Writing Program (IWP) is a hub that unites world literatures, building conversations and post-conversations on the topic under the skies of Iowa City. Since 1967, the IWP has hosted over fifteen hundred writers from more than 150 countries in affiliation with University of Iowa. The IWP Fall Residency, which runs from late August to mid-November, anchors down established and emerging contemporary creative writers including poets, fiction writers, dramatists, and non-fiction writers, providing a truly international literary experience to the writers as well as to the literary community in Iowa City.

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