{"id":284616,"date":"2011-05-02T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/05\/02\/pen-world-voices-in-rochester-events\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:23:53","slug":"pen-world-voices-in-rochester-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/05\/02\/pen-world-voices-in-rochester-events\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN World Voices in Rochester [Events!]"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case we haven’t mentioned this before, tonight we’re co-hosting a special event with Writers & Books and PEN<\/span> World Voices featuring three international authors: Najat El Hachmi, Marcelo Figueras, and Carsten Jensen. <\/p>\n

All the info can be found here,<\/a> but in short, this event starts at 7pm at Writers & Books (740 University Ave.). <\/p>\n

What we’re going to do is have each author read for 10-15 minutes from their book, then I’ll ask a few questions, then we’ll move onto the next one. At the end, we’ll have some time for audience (and more general) questions. <\/p>\n

I’m really looking forward to this, especially after meeting all three of them and reading bits of all their works. In brief:<\/p>\n

Marcelo Figueras<\/b> is the author of five novels, including Kamchatka<\/em>, which just came out from Grove and is the story of a 10-year-old boy’s experiences during the Argentine coup of 1976. It’s a tense story, but told through the eyes of a child, it’s also very fun and funny, and overall charming. This was made into a movie in 2002 and was Argentina’s official selection for that year’s Oscars. <\/p>\n

Najat El Hachmi<\/b> was born in Morocco, but moved to Barcelona as a child and writes in Catalan. All of which is naturally fascinating. Can’t wait to hear her take on Catalan literature and the reasons for writing in this language . . . Also, The Last Patriarch<\/em> just came out from Serpent’s Tail and is worth che cking out.<\/p>\n

Carsten Jensen<\/b> has had a few books published in English, most recently, We, the Drowned<\/em> which is out from HMH<\/span> in Charlotte Barslund and Emma Ryder’s translation. K.E. Semmel reviewed this for us,<\/a> and said that it is “a tour de force, a colossus, that gives Americans an opportunity to witness the gears of a great writer at work, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.”<\/p>\n

As is tradition, here’s the piece from this morning’s local news about the event:<\/p>\n

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