Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Karoline Kamel, Péter Závada, and an MFA Candidate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (TBA)
Karoline Kamel (nonfiction and fiction writer, journalist, filmmaker; Egypt) is a Cairo-based journalist and the author of the novel Victoria (2022). She has published stories with a focus on the concerns of women and other social issues in several literary magazines, and is currently writing a second novel, Claiming Life, which tells the intersecting stories of three women born in different decades. Her first feature film, The Lottery, is presently in the editing process. Her residency was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Péter Závada (poet, playwright, translator, teacher; Hungary) is the author of the poetry collection Wreck in Lee (2017), for which he won the Horváth Péter Literary Scholarship, in addition to four other books of poetry. He is also a recipient of the Öarkény István Playwriting Scholarship (2016), the Móricz Zsigmond Literary Scholarship (2017), and the Cogito Prize for Young Philosophers (2023). Several of his plays have been produced to acclaim in Budapest, Nyitra, and Dresden, and The Kertész Street Shaxpeare Carwash won the Critic’s Choice Award for the best Hungarian theatre production of the year in 2021. At an early age, Závada was part of the highly successful rap group Akkezdet Phiai. He currently holds a full-time position as a senior lecturer in the Eötvös Loránd University Department of Aesthetics. His residency is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.