The Worlds of João Gilberto Noll: Adam Morris in discussion with Scott Esposito
Join us at City Lights Booksellers on May 18 for a reading from Atlantic Hotel, along with an intriguing conversation delving into modern-day Brazil, Noll’s influences (including Clarice Lispector), his mysterious protagonists, and the challenges of translating his labyrinthine, twisty sentences into English. When: May ...
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Win a Copy of "Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller" by Gudbergur Bergsson from GoodReads!
As you may already know, Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, translated by Lytton Smith, is going to be the second Two Month Review title. This “season” will take place in August and September, but you can get a head start by winning a copy of the book through GoodReads. If you’re a GoodReads user, all you have to ...
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"Bardo or Not Bardo" Wins the Inaugural Albertine Prize!
Antoine Volodine’s Bardo or Not Bardo, translated by J. T. Mahany has won the first ever Albertine Prize—a reader’s choice award celebrating contemporary French fiction. The book had to go through two rounds of public voting, moving from a longlist of ten titles, to a three title shortlist before eventually ...
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Two Voices Salon: Translator Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov
Join us for a conversation with Mongolian translator Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era. Wickhamsmith was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on the book, and he’ll talk about how he became interested in Mongolian ...
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Dick Cluster @ Oakland Public Library
Hear translator Dick Cluster read from Kill the Ámpaya! The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction. When: May 6, 2017, 2:30 pm Where: Oakland Public Library, Temescal branch, 5205 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609 For more information on the event, go ...
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Auto-Fiction @ PEN World Voices
Each of these three authors has written work that falls on the spectrum of memoir – some is more fictionalized, and some stays truer to their authors’ lives and experiences. Each author will be reading from and speaking about their work. With Bae Suah, Marcelino Truong, and Oddný Eir. For more information on this ...
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Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition @ PEN World Voices
Residents open their homes for readings by authors and a party in their legendary gallery. With Moustafa Bayoumi, Rita Mae Brown (US), Farah Jasmine Griffin (US), Abeer Hoque (Nigeria/Bangladesh/American), Thomas Meinecke (Germany/US), Haroon Moghul, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Karolina Ramqvist, Idra Novey, Igor Stiks (UK), Han ...
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