PEN: The Great Global Book Swap
Where: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., New York City Imagine you are invited to a great global book swap and have to bring just one beloved book originally written in a foreign tongue: what would it be? Join five eminent writers who have trotted the globe and lived everywhere from Ireland to India, Latvia to Sudan, for a ...
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Pluriverse: An Afternoon with Ernesto Cardenal with Jonathan Cohen
Where: Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York City Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal shares his poems and talks about his life with his English-language translator, Jonathan Cohen. This is a rare New York appearance for the 86-year-old Cardenal, who is the author of more than 35 books, many of them translated into English, ...
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Amy Dooling
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Dooling presents Translating Ding Ling: Gender and Canon Formation in Modern Chinese Literature. Part of Boston University’s Lecture Series in Literary Translation. All lectures are free and open to the public. A discussion will follow the ...
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PEN: Lunchtime Literary Conversations
Where: La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews, New York City Since her debut on the French literary scene more than a decade ago, Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb has published a novel a year. Her edgy fiction, unconventional thinking, and public persona have combined to transform her into a worldwide literary sensation. ...
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PEN: Translating America
Where: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., New York City The quest for authenticity and idiosyncrasy would seem to place American writers beyond translation. Yet their popularity abroad—equaled only by loathing for our foreign policy—has sometimes dwarfed their readership at home and reshaped the global literary landscape. ...
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PEN: Writing Wrongs, Righting Wrongs
Where: High Line near 17th St., 10th Ave. Square, New York City (Rain location: Westbeth Center for the Arts) Two sets of on-stage conversations between authors who integrate key themes of coming-of-age: Missing Persons: Authors consider missing men, women, children, telling stories of individual lives—and of ...
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PEN: WikiLeaks
Where: The Cooper Union, Great Hall, 7 E. 7th St. , New York City All interesting conversation begins after the dinner-hour, and the WikiLeaks roundtable, which starts promptly at 9:15 p.m., is no exception. Spend the best part of the evening at one of the most anticipated (and controversial) events of the Festival with a ...
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