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Iowa City Book Festival. Iowa City Book Festival. The dates of the festival are October 14-20 2024. Nicolas Medina Mora. Book Festival Attendees Survey The Iowa Humanities Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities provide support. Support the Festival. View previous recordings

Iowa City Book FestivaltttIowa City Book FestivalOctober 14-20th, 2024Schedule of EventsThe 2024 schedule is coming soon.At this time, there are no events scheduled.Presenters 2024Dave EggersDave Eggers has written many books including The Eyes and the Impossible. The Circle. The Monk of Mokha. Heroes of the Frontier. A Hologram for the King. And What Is the What. Eggers is the founder and co-founder 826 Valencia, an international youth writing center, as well as McSweeney's independent publishing company. Eggers has won the American Book Award and the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in Education. He also received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the TED Prize. He is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters.tttForrest GanderBe With, Forrest Gander’s book, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. Core Samples from the World, which was concerned with the way in which we are translated and revised when we encounter the foreign, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.Gander is the author of many other poetry books, such as Redstart: An Ecological Poetics, Science & Steepleflower and As a Friend, The Trace, and also writes essays (A Faithful existence) and translates. Recent translations of Coral Bracho's It Must Be a Misunderstanding, Shuri Kido's Names and Rivers, and Then Come back: The Lost Neruda Poems are among the most recent. Pinholes in the Night, Essential Latin American Poems (selected by Raul Zurita) and Panic Cure, Poems for the 21st Century: Poems of Spain are his most recent anthologies.Gander's works have been published in over a dozen languages. He has been a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow, as well as receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. He was given the Library of Congress Witter Bynner fellowship in 2011. Gander taught at Harvard University as the Briggs Copeland Poet before moving to Brown University, where he became The Adele Kellenberg Seaver professor of literary arts and comparative literature. He taught courses like Poetry & Ethics and Latin American Death Trip.