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International colloquia on current cultural topics; Life of Discovery, a multi-year artist exchange program with members of Chinese minority groups; Between the Lines, a program bringing high school students from Arabic-speaking countries and Russia to Iowa to practice creative writing alongside American students
Paul Hamilton Engle (October 12, 1908 – March 22, 1991), was an American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright.He is remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa.
With Engle as director and Nieh Engle as assistant director and then associate director, the International Writing Program grew into a recognized residency for literary artists. As an active editor, Nieh Engle sought to introduce little-known Chinese literary trends emerging even in the middle of the Cultural Revolution.
Choe Jeongrye was born in 1955 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do. [2] [3] She graduated with a doctorate degree in Korean poetry from Korea University.[4] [5] She participated in the (International Writing Program) (IWP) as a poet at University of Iowa in 2006 and stayed one year at University of California, Berkeley as a visiting writer in 2009.
For 10 years he was the book critic for the daily radio news program The World. Merrill's honors include a Chevalier from the French government in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . He held the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross before becoming the director of the International Writing Program at ...
In September, however, a British judge handed the two young demonstrators who attacked Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” with tomato soup long custodial sentences of two years, and 20 months ...
Zhang was born in 1982 in Jinan, Shandong.She is an only child. Her father was a professor of Shandong University, and he was very keen on literature. [2]Zhang is an alumnus of Shandong Experimental High School, Shandong University and National University of Singapore.
A 20-year-old California man was detained for allegedly planning a mass shooting at a government building in a parallel and coordinated attack with the teenage girl who gunned down two people at a ...