THE INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM (IWP) brings to the University of Iowa outstanding authors from every continent. Each fall, 25-35 writers gather in Iowa City to work on their own projects, to give readings and lectures, to travel in the US, and to interact with American audiences and the literary community. It is the oldest and largest multinational writing residency in the world, with a tradition of literary excellence that has continued for more than four decades.
For 2010, they have selected 35 writers from all over the world, including 16 from Asia:
Ian Rosales CASOCOT (fiction writer; the Philippines)
CHO Yong Mee (poet, essayist; South Korea)
Chandrahas CHOUDHURY (fiction writer; India)
Najwan DARWISH (poet, critic; Palestine)
Ofir TOUCHE GAFLA (fiction writer; Israel)
Andrea HIRATA (novelist; Indonesia)
HON Lai Chu (fiction writer, novelist; Hong Kong)
Anisul HOQUE (fiction writer, playwright, poet; Bangladesh)
JIN Renshun (fiction writer, screenwriter; China)
KIM Sa-in (poet, critic, editor; South Korea)
H. M. NAQVI (fiction writer; Pakistan)
O Thiam Chin (fiction writer; Singapore)
Edgar Calabia SAMAR (novelist, poet; Philippines)
Farangis SIAHPOOR (filmmaker; Iran)
XU Zechen (novelist, fiction writer; China)
YING Feng-Huang (fiction writer, literary critic; Taiwan, ROC)
The principal design of the International Writing Program (IWP) is to introduce talented individuals to American life; to enable these individuals to take part in American university life; and to provide writers with time, in a setting congenial to their efforts, for the production of literary work.
The program starts on August 28th, and will end tentatively on November 16, 2010.
More information here.
