Azar Nafisi, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Milani Awarded for Book on Iranian Women’s Struggle for ‘Freedom of Movement’” (UVA Today, 13.08.12): Past winners of the award include: Simin Behbahani, Iran’s national poet, who Milani called “a distinguished voice of dissidence”; Mehrangis Kar, a prominent Iranian lawyer, celebrated human rights activist and writer; Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, one of the founding members of One Million Signatures campaign, a grassroots campaign fighting discriminatory Iranian laws; and Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Milani Awarded for Book on Iranian Women’s Struggle for ‘Freedom of Movement’” (UVA Today, 13.08.12): Past winners of the award include: Simin Behbahani, Iran’s national poet, who Milani called “a distinguished voice of dissidence”; Mehrangis Kar, a prominent Iranian lawyer, celebrated human rights activist and writer; Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, one of the founding members of One Million Signatures campaign, a grassroots campaign fighting discriminatory Iranian laws; and Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran.

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« Vasco Graça Moura, o poeta, tradutor e ensaísta português que é Presidente do Centro Cultural de Belém e um editor de consultoria do Interlitq, foi citado em “Não lemos Camões? Não somos portugueses” (Pedro Tadeu, DN-opiniao, 21.08.12): Vasco Graça Moura defendeu, aqui no DN, nas duas últimas semanas, a adoção pelo sistema de ensino de uma lista de obras de grandes autores de Língua Portuguesa que todos tivessem de conhecer. Nomeou-os “cânones literários” e, segundo ele, essa escolha não deveria incluir autores do século XX, nem mesmo o Prémio Nobel da Literatura, José Saramago, ou o poeta mais glorificado da nossa contemporaneidade, Fernando Pessoa, por ainda não ter passado tempo suficiente para podermos considerá-los verdadeiros clássicos

Elena Poniatowska, the Mexican author and journalist who is a Vice-President of Interlitq, has been cited in “University of Rochester Professor Wins Latin American Studies Association Book Award” (Valerie Alhart, University of Rochester, 22.08.12): Beth Jörgensen says she became intrigued by the difference between fiction and nonfiction literature while studying the work of Elena Poniatowska, one of the most highly regarded contemporary Mexican writers. “Boundaries that once seemed clear cut were challenged by her writing in the 1980s and 90s when literary theory questioned the fictive nature of all language and all writing,” says Jörgensen. When exploring this problem in the context of Spanish-American literature, Jörgensen found relatively little criticism that focused on what defines and distinguishes nonfiction writing. “That missing scholarship inspired me to look more carefully at Mexican nonfiction,” she says »