International Writing Program alumni

Czech writer and playwright (1967–2011)

Chinese film director

Award-winning and bestselling Bengali poet and author (1934-2012)

British-Hungarian writer

Polish writer (1938–2017)

South African novelist (1933–2017)

Iranian academic (1936–2008)

South Korean writer

Hungarian writer (born 1945)

Romanian writer (1924–2014)

Chinese writer

Finnish poet and author (1939–2021)

Indonesian writer, activist, and poet

Ugandan poet (1931–1982)

Albanian poet

Israeli writer and screenwriter

Nigerian novelist and poet

Soviet and Russian writer, poet, translator, screenwriter (1918–2000)

Slovak author

Irish poet

Israeli writer (1920–2016)

Chinese author (1920–2008)

Hungarian film director, screenwriter and theater director

Polish writer and screenwriter (1952–2020)

Kenyan writer

Romanian poet, publicist and politician (1943–2010)

Russian writer (born 1937)

Icelandic-German writer and translator (born 1976)

Irish playwright and novelist (born 1955)

Russian author

Chinese screenwriter

Senegalese writer

Journalist & writer

Nigerian author (1934-2016)

Iranian writer

Chinese writer

writer and President of Liberia (1937-2009)

Chinese author and poet (1936-2014)

Finnish journalist and writer

Tibetan author

Polish journalist (1905-1996)

Georgian writer and translator

Zimbabwean writer

German screenwriter, film director and writer (1931–2022)

Finnish writer

German-Icelandic writer (1935-2013)

Trinidad and Tobago writer (1923–1994)

Nigerian writer

Taiwanese writer

Bosnian writer, translator

Iraqi-Israeli Hebrew poet

Estonian poet (born 1971)

Norwegian writer and playwright (1935-2018)

Israeli writer (1921–2015)

Haitian novelist and poet

Montenegrin writer

Slovakian poet and novelist

Israeli writer (1926–2016)

South African comedian

Hungarian poet and translator