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Assistant Professor Bruna Dantas Lobato has won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel.

Luke Bryson ’25 received an honorable mention for his short story, “The Last 2,500 Miles of Cataract Jack,” in the 2024 annual ACM Nick Adams Short Story Contest for his stories short story.

Shuchi Kapila, professor of English, will hold the Maxeiner/Baumann-Payne Endowed Chair and Nicole Eikmeier, assistant professor of computer science, will be the first recipient of the new Luebke-Sproehnle Endowed Junior Faculty professorship.

Grinnell College Museum of Art and Writers@Grinnell welcome Belinda Tang & Ada Zhang to read from their debuts books: A Map for the Missing and The Sorrows of Others on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, at 8 p.m. in the Grinnell College Museum of Art (GCMoA).

The Writers@Grinnell series continues with award winning authors of fiction, non-fiction, visual narratives, and comics, Benjamin Percy and Aubrey Hirsch, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, at 8 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101.

Writers@Grinnell continues with author, Tom Montgomery Fate, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at 8 p.m. in HSSC A2231 Auditorium.

The Writers@Grinnell series continues with award winning authors, Vauhini Vara and Beth Nguyen on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, at 8 p.m. in the Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room A2231 - Auditorium.

November Brown ’23 was announced as a finalist of the 51st annual ACM Nick Adams Short Story Contest for her short story “Soft Machines.”

The 2023 Armando “Mando“ Alters Montano ’12 Memorial Lecture and film screening will be given by award-winning journalist, educator, author, and documentary filmmaker Julian Rubinstein on Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. in Rosenfield Center, Room 101.

Award winning author, Willard Spiegelman, continues the Writer@Grinnell series with a Reading at 4:15 p.m. on Friday, April 21, 2023 in HSSC A2231 - Auditorium.