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International Writing Program participant wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Thursday, October 10, 2024
Sara Epstein Moninger
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, a 1998 participant in the University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP).

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Marie Antoinette

Sunday, October 13, 2024 2:00pm
Theatre Building
Marie Antoinette By David Adjmi Directed by Mary Beth Easley Protests! Sieges! Chants of “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” echo throughout the streets. Revolutionary unrest stirs the country as Queen Marie and King Louis XVI begin to face the repercussions of their cavalier reign. Tony Award winner and University of Iowa Theatre Arts alum, David Adjmi, composes a contemporary take on the historic French Revolution which follows Marie’s nightmarish personal journey from idolized monarch to social...

Iowa City Book Festival | Stuart Dybek

Monday, October 14, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
The Iowa City Book Festival presents Stuart Dybek, who will read from his work. “Masterful . . . Like Proust, Dybek has a deserved reputation as a superb cartographer of memory.” ―Trevor Quirk, The Los Angeles Review of Books Dybek is the author of five books of fiction — Ecstatic Cahoots, Paper Lantern, I Sailed with Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods — as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Dybek is the recipient...

Iowa City Area High School Choir Concert with the University of Iowa University Choir

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Iowa City Area High School Choir Concert with the University of Iowa University Choir This concert is free and open to the public.   
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