Han Kang describes the process of writing her books The Black Deer and Love of Yeosu. She reads a passage from Love of Yeosu in Korean. Still shots of her books and biographical objects such as personal photographs follow. The scene changes to...
U Pe Myint describes his former career as a doctor and his present work as an author, editor, and translator. Myint discusses the cultural diversity of Myanmar and the role of Buddhism in Burmese culture.
Hinemoana Baker introduces herself in the language of her ancestors, the Māori, the original ethnic group of New Zealand. She relates a lamentable story that is frequently spoken out loud by the Māori and the non-Māori alike and yet has gone...
Rogelio Saunders, a Cuban, reads from his essay “The Second Realization.” The title derives from his classification of two moments of globalization in human history – the more recent phenomena of international relations and when Columbus...
UI Professor Emerita Linda Kerber will introduce panelists at the first ICPL panel of the 2012 residency, "Spectral Gender."
The roles that men and women may play within a society have been a fertile literary ground for millennia. In an...
Discussion and readings center on books that inspire writers. The panel includes four authors involved with the Writing University at The University of Iowa. They talk about "the works that have bound them."