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International Writing Program (IWP) Shambaugh House Reading Series

Aug 31, 2018

05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Shambaugh House

430 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52245

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Iowa City’s best multi-lingual reading series with bagels! Voices from around the world fill historic Shambaugh House, IWP HQ.
IWP Fall Residents Reading Aug. 31:
Adriana BORJA ENRÍQUEZ (fiction writer, poet; Ecuador) works as a psychologist, with a focus on human rights, gender-based violence, and refugee rights. Her short stories and poetry have been widely anthologized in South America and Europe.  A winner of the International Poetry and Theater Castello di Duino Competition in 2013 and 2017,  she has also received first place awards from the House of Ecuadorian Culture and other awards. Borja Enrìquez participates in the IWP Fall Residency courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State.
Jacqueline GOLDBERG (poet, fiction writer, essayist, journalist; Venezuela) is the author of six books of prose, 10 children’s books, and 20 volumes of poetry. Her novel Las horas claras [The Clear Hours] received the 2012 prize of Fundación para la Cultura Urbana, was the Venezuelan Booksellers’ Book of the Year, a finalist for the Critic’s Award Novel for 2013, and was re-published in Mexico in 2018. Goldberg frequently speaks at literature and at food festivals. Her participation is made possible by the U.S. Embassy in Caracas.

 

 

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