Don Juan: His Own Version
Peter Handke’s latest novella to be published in English translation is narrated by a chef who operates and lives in an inn in the Île-de-France region outside Paris, near the ruins of the Port-Royal-des-Champs convent. Experiencing a period of solitude due to lack of business (all his neighbors — his potential ...
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Reading and Conversation with Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Where: The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, 500 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450 Chicago, Illinois Free, open to the public The Italian Cultural Institute has the great pleasure of hosting the internationally best- selling author Valerio Massimo Manfredi, who will present his latest novel, “The Ides of March,” ...
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Best Translated Book Award Photo
Here’s a picture from this month’s Best Translated Book Award, with some of the winners and several judges. A good time was had by ...
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Reading and Conversation with Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Where: The Townsend Hotel, 100 Townsend Street, Birmingham, MI $35 adult, $28 members, $10 student Reading, Q&A and signing with hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. More info at: ...
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Reading the World Conversation Series: Helen Anderson & Konstantin Gurevich
Where: Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, Թ, Rochester, NY Open Letter editor E.J. Van Lanen will discuss the difficulties, joys, and controversies of re-translating Ilf and Petrov’s The Golden Calf, a revered Russian comedic classic, with the novel’s translators, and Rush Rhees Librarians, ...
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As a Counterbalance to the International Poetry Post . . .
Congrats to Polish poet Tomasz Rozycki for winning the 3 Quarks Daily 2010 Prize in Arts & Literature. Rozycki won for Scorched Maps, a poem that was posted on PEN America with some commentary about the poem’s origins. (And translated by Mira Rosenthal.) Here’s the actual poem and opening of the ...
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The Possibility of International Poetry
The Poetry Foundation website posted a fascinating conversation last week between author/editor/translator Ilya Kaminsky and reviewer Adam Kirsch. The reason for this interview was the recent release of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (full review forthcoming), and the main topic is the possibility, or ...
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