International PEN's Free the Word! Festival
The second annual Free the Word! festival has been a great success, due in no small part to the work of Sarah Sanders, Caroline McCormick, Sharmilla Beezmohun, and everyone else from International PEN who helped organize and run these events. I was able to attend three of the discussions, all of which took place in the ...
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Cavafy reviewed in the Times
U of R’s own James Longenbach reviewed a new translation of Cavafy in the Times this weekend: “A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.” With this sentence the novelist E. M. Forster introduced the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy to the ...
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Suzane Adam and Becka Mara McKay—Laundry
Where: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55408 Israeli author Suzane Adam is joined by her translator Becka Mara McKay for a reading from her novel Laundry and a conversation about the translation process. Laundry is a novel of psychological suspense that focuses on family ...
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The Second Life of Literature: Collaboration and Cultural Intervention in Translation
Where: Yale University Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT A panel discussion in conjunction with the publication of Can Xue’s novel Five Spice Street, a Margellos World Republic of Letters book. Jonathan Brent, Yale University Press Karen Gernant, Southern Oregon University Alyson Waters, Yale ...
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Can Xue reading from Five Spice Street
Where: Yale University Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT Can Xue reading from her novel Five Spice Street with translators Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping, and editor Jonathan Brent. Free and open to the ...
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Pluriverse
Readers of English, thank your gods: the breadth of Ernesto Cardenal’s amazing poetic career is now available for your consumption thanks to New Directions and the recently published Pluriverse. Spanning fifty-six years, the book presents Cardenal in all his guises: revolutionary, spiritualist, chronicler of man’s ...
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European Book Club in May: Stefano Benni's Margherita Dolce Vita
Registration is open for next month’s European Book Club, in which Italy is the focus country, and the title being discussed is Stefano Benni’s Margherita Dolce Vita, which was translated by Anthony Shugaar and published by Europa Editions. Stefano Benni’s enormously popular and distinctive mix of the ...
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