Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Vlora Konushevci (Kosovo), Keren Margalit (Israel), and Ndongolera C. Mwangupili (Malawi).
Vlora Konushevci (poet, translator, and essayist; Kosovo) is the author of the poetry collection Lavdi Vetes and the editor-translator of the bilingual anthologies Poetry Without Borders (Albanian–Serbian) and Magma (Albanian–English). Her poetry and translations appear in The Common, Songs of Eretz, and European Literature Network. A winner of multiple literary awards and a contributor to Kosovo’s cultural press, she also works as a certified translator for national and international institutions. Her participation is made possible thanks to the University of Iowa’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate College.
Keren Margalit (screenwriter, director; Israel) was born in Jerusalem in 1971. She created the award-winning series Yellow Peppers, later adapted by the BBC as The A Word. She holds a B.A. in Humanities with a focus on Literature from the Open University of Israel and is a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Her credits include Sleeping Bears, The Deer, and In Treatment. She is known for her emotionally rich, character-driven storytelling. Her participation is courtesy of Fulbright Israel (USIEF).
Ndongolera C. Mwangupili (poet, fiction writer, scholar, culturalist; Malawi) is the author of Fragments of my Broken Voice a poetry book; Sons of the Hills, a novel that is in the secondary school curriculum in Malawi, and A Gift to the People: Sr. Beatrice Chipeta’s Legacy, a biography. His works also appear in Southern Humanities Review and Florilege. Others have been widely anthologized including in The Caine Prize for African Writing 2024: Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories. Mwangupili is currently working on a novel, set to reflect on the social reality in his country. His participation is made possible thanks to the generous support of Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr. and other donations made to the International Writing Program.
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