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2004-5: The Year of Arts and Humanities
November 2004
On November 18th,
alumna Khin Lay Nyo (2001) represented IWP
and the IV program as a panelist for the Myanmar-United States
Friendship Exchange discussion"Education in the United
States:Value for Myanmar?" Khin Lay, joined by 2
panelists representing the Eduard Mason and Humphrey programs,
spoke before an audience of USG alumni and individuals interested
in studying in the US.
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September 2004
2003 IWP alumnus Paddy
Woodworth (woodworth@ireland.com) has had a busy
year. He is preparing a book proposal on habitat restoration,
but keeps getting diverted. He edited the human rights report Dispatches
(http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/news.html)
and is currently editing a supplement on bird migration
for The Irish Times. He covered the Madrid
bombings in March for The Irish Times, the
BBC, the London Times, and Irish national
TV and radio. His article ÎSpain Changes Course'
appears in the current edition of the World Policy
Journal (http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/articles/wpj04-2/Woodworth.html).
It assesses the policies of the conservative administration
which was in power when the bombings occurred, and
the dramatic elections which put the Socialist Party
in government four days later, leading to Spain 's
withdrawal from Iraq. On September 9 th he gave
one of the keynote papers to the Association of Contemporary
Iberian Studies, "The War against Terrorism: the Spanish
Experience from ETA to Al Qaeda", and he has also lectured
in University College Dublin, Dublin City University
and Griffith College. He spoke to the Humanist Association
of Ireland, defending, with limited success, the principle
that agnosticism is preferable to atheism, and will
next month oppose the motion that "God Loves the Irish" in
a debate organised by the Dubliner magazine. He
did the DVD commentary for the English language version
of the controversial Julio Medem film The Basque
Ball with Medem biographer and film scholar Rob
Stone, which received an excellent review from Channel
Four. He will have a chapter in The Politics
of Contemporary Spain, edited by Sebastian Balfour,
due to be published in December by Routledge, and has
written the prologue to a new edition of John Millington
Synge's Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara,
due from Serif in 2005. Most importantly, he
travelled to Texas in pursuit of Whooping Cranes and The
Alamo, and on South Padre Island he and his partner
of 15 years, Trish Long, decided to marry. The ceremony,
which they wrote themselves, was conducted by Connemara
shaman and street theatre maestro Páraic Breathnach,
beside Cois Abhainn, their house beside a river in
Ireland 's Wicklow mountains.
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August 2004
MEMORIALS
IWP remembers poet and friend Donald
Justice, 1925-2004.
Click
here to listen to the .mp3 of Donald Justice's last
IWP reading.
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June 2004
THE KALA-MERRILL PROJECT
The Kala Translation
Project commences with the publication of a collection of poems
by American poet and writer, Christopher Merrill. The collection,
translated by Malaysian poet and essayist Eddin Khoo (IWP
2003), will be published in May 2004. This first visit to rumahYKP
is part of their series of events hosted by Kala in their efforts
to bridge relationship and understanding with our society.
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February 2004
Congratulations to Gregory
Norminton on his new novel, Arts and Wonders. The
photo was taken by Paddy Woodworth at Daunts
in London. A sample from Arts and Wonders can be
read at: www.gregorynorminton.co.uk
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October 2003
October
Newsletter
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September 2003
Congratulations to
former IWP member Edward Carey and Elizabeth
McCracken on their marriage. We wish them many years
of happiness.
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July 2003
Turkish novelist Orhan
Pamuk, a veteran of the University of Iowa International
Writing Program (IWP), is the 2003 recipient of the IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award, the world's most lucrative prize for
a single work of fiction published in English. The award
of ¥100,000 honored the novel My Name is Red ,
translated into English by Erdag Goeknar, and published by
Farber and Farber in the UK and A.Knopf in the US.
Peter Nazareth remembers:
"Orhan
Pamuk was in the IWP in 1985. He was very focused on his
writing. He used to sleep until noon and do his writing
in the afternoon. At night, he used to go downtown with
his best (and maybe only) friend from the IWP, Harry from
Ireland; apparently this is how he got material for his
writing (that is, from being downtown). He seemed to enjoy
playing table tennis in the Mayflower, where all the writers
lived. His wife, a doctor, joined him for a short period.
He was friendly but reserved, though from another perspective,
this indicates that he knew exactly what he wanted to do:
write."
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January 2002
IWP Gets new digs
IWP to move to
new building. momentarily down
 You'll
need Quicktime to
view the clip.
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