Peter Nazareth talks with Slovenian writer Andrej Blatnik about the role of the writer and of writing in the midst of the dramatic political changes in Eastern Europe in the late 20th century.
Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
Marjan Strojan, a Slovenian writer, participated in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in 2005. He is the author of four poetry collections. “In Our Small Room, Imperceptibly” first appeared in The Iowa Review’s Fall...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...
IN CLASS Marketing students add real-life boardroom experience to their resumes. -- Mercury Rising: Unsettled by escalating global temperatures and worldwide pollution, UI student activists campaign for environmental responsibility right here at...
Peter Nazareth interviews Andrej Blatnik for the first 13 minutes of the interview; they discuss Tito's influence on the former Yugoslavia. In the latter half of the program, ÍÀroslav Stemakh describes his interest and approach to writing for...
Slovenian/Polish poet and translator Milosz Biedrzycki and Pakistani fiction writer H.M. Naqvi read at Prairie Lights as part of the Iowa International Writing Program
In this interview International Writing Program director, Christopher Merrill discusses his ancestors who wrote, what playing sports has taught him about the craft of writing and his passion for writing that developed when he was 14 years old....
Beyond describing the necessary qualities in translating poetry--"honesty, musical ears, investigating for the right things behind things"--Nadia Abduljabbar's talk goes into the difficulties of translating cultural experiences and expectations...
Niq Mhlongo's talk is titled "Still Searching for the Gleam: The Unreal Realities of Joburg City in a Post-Apartheid South African Novel," referring to Johannesburg's lure into fantasies of comfort, convenience, pleasure, and fortune, and discusses...