Jason Grunebaum and Uday Prakash: A Bilingual Reading of Stories @ Northwestern University
Join the folk at Northwestern University for a bilingual reading of stories by eminent Hindi author Uday Prakash of his 2104 collection The Walls of Delhi (Seven Stories Press), translated by Jason Grunebaum. The reading will be followed by a discussion, moderated by Laura Brueck, engaging both author and translator in a ...
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Towards the One & Only Metaphor
It is an unusual thing to see a press specifically focus on a single author, but that is what Contra Mundum Press has done with Hungarian author Miklós Szentkuthy, and if Towards the One & Only Metaphor is any basis to judge the rest of his work, the decision is one to be celebrated. Though one of those novels (this term ...
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Sant Jordi 2014 / International Books & Roses Day
Join the Catalan Institute of America from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 26th, for a literary crawl through Brooklyn’s DUMBO community in celebration of La Diada de Sant Jordi, also known as “International Books & Roses Day” and UNESCO’s “World Book Day.” The event, which will highlight literature in ...
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Nominations for the 2014 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature
The deadline to nominate people for this year’s Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature (run by Words Without Borders) is coming up fast . . . If you want to nominate someone, you have to fill out the form below and email it to Karen Phillips (karen [at] wordswithoutborders.org) before Friday, May ...
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In Times of Fading Light
The historian John Lukacs observed, “Fictitious characters may represent characteristic tendencies and potentialities that existed in the past” and thus “may serve the historian under certain circumstances—when, for example, these are prototypical representations of certain contemporary realities.” Eugen Ruge’s In ...
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Amanda Michalopoulou @ Brown University
Join the folk at Brown University at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, in Room 108 of the Rhode Island Hall for a reading and discussion with Greek author Amanda Michalopoulou on her novel Why I Killed My Best Friend (translated by Karen Emmerich). The event is free and open to the public. The Rhode Island Hall is located ...
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RTWCS: Latin American Literature Today
Join us at the University of Rochester Tuesday, April 22nd, at 6 P.M. in the Gowen Room (located in Wilson Commons) for a conversation with two of the authors included in Granta Magazine’s “Best Young Spanish-language Novelists” issue—Andrés Neuman (Traveler of the Century, Talking to Ourselves) and ...
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