2010 PEN World Voices Festival
The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will bring together more than 130 writers from across the globe for an exciting week of cross-cultural literary exchange, April 26–May 2, 2010. A stellar line-up of established and emerging authors will take the stage in venues across New York City for ...
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WHAM Morning News: The Sixth Time's the Charm
For the sixth time in under three years, Chad has appeared on the preeminent local morning news show in Rochester, NY—clearly breaking/setting a record of some sort. In today’s video, Chad’s talking about Open Letter hitting the three-year mark, and our celebration on Monday, April 26, (featuring 10 ...
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The Brige of the Golden Horn
“Since their beginning, stories have pretended to take place far away. Faraway and once-upon-a-time are code words for Here and Now.” When these words from John Berger’s introduction are applied to this moving novel by Turkish playwright and actress Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, they ring inordinately true. The Bridge of the ...
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French Bilingual Reading tonight in NYC
I’d also like to mention, while the podium’s mine, that in an hour in NYC the French Publishers’ Agency will be hosting April’s instance of its monthly reading series, French Night, at the Cornelia Street Cafe in the West Village. It’s a cozy scene that draws translators and other Francophiles ...
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Foreignization and Neologism
A shorter post today: what are blogs for if not indulging (à livre ouvert, as they say) parbaked ruminations? Removing this one from deep freeze and tossing it to the hive mind. Two summers back at Banff, an author was defending her insistence on using foreign words in her novel, which her American editor objected to. I ...
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Leaving Tangiers: Exile & Migration in the Modern Moroccan Novel
19 University Place, Room 222, New York, NY Leaving Tangiers: Exile & Migration in the Modern Moroccan Novel with Tahar Ben Jelloun Limited seats available. Please RSVP to ...
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Sofi Oksanen, Christos Tsiolkas, and Tommy Wieringa
Where: First Congregational Church of Berkeley, Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley, CA PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE BERKELEY SATELLITE EVENT presented by Berkeley Arts & Letters, The Believer, and the Center for the Art of Translation SOFI OKSANEN, TOMMY WIERINGA, and CHRISTOS TSILOKAS in ...
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