Global Voices: Writers from the International Writing Program

Writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program will read from their work and take questions from the audience on Sep 14th.

Alan Cherchesov is a fiction writer from Russia at work on his fourth novel. The recipient of a number of literary prizes, he was a finalist for the 2001 and 2006 Russian Booker Awards. Solvi Bjorn Sigurdsson is a novelist, poet, and translator from Iceland. His “Diabolical Comedy,” a modern take on “The Divine Comedy,” has been translated into Finnish, Swedish and Danish. All are welcome at this event